The Makaranda Podcast
Welcome to The Makaranda Podcast with your host Eleanor Evans Medina. This show is a space designed to share meditations, dharma teachings, & conversations about life, death, and all the spaces in between. Thank you for listening, supporting, and sharing our work! Happy listening!
Episodes
68 episodes
Teaching - Old Souls Don’t Quantum Leap Until They Step Out of the Spiritual Closet
In this teaching, Eleanor explores why so many old souls feel stuck, yearning for transformation yet unable to take the leap. The reason? You’re still hiding parts of yourself. True expansion doesn’t happen until you step out of th...
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23:47
Exercise - Light Activation (v. 1)
What if the light you seek is already within you and all around you? In this powerful meditative exercise, Eleanor Evans Medina guides you through a radiant journey of activation and expansion. As golden light rises from the Earth ...
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13:47
Exercise - Money Work (v. 1)
Money isn’t just a number in your bank account. It’s also not the root of all evil or the solution to all of your problems. It’s an energy you get to be in relationship with every day. In this exercise, Eleanor Evans Medina, relati...
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20:26
Exercise - Manifest Your Dream Home
In this powerful meditative exercise, Eleanor Evans Medina guides you through an intentional practice to align with the energy of your dream home.Through mindful breathwork and vivid imagery, you’ll explore the space that is meant for y...
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16:02
Meditation - Manifest Your Soul Animal (v. 1)
Join us for visualization meditation to welcome your soul animal into your life. This is a manifesting practice or as i like to call it, Godifesting practice by Eleanor Evans Medina gently leads you through breathwork, energetic clearing, and i...
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12:54
Meditation - Manifest Your Dream Partner (v. 2)
Step into a visualization meditation to "manifest" or as I like to say, "Godifest, your dream partner." In this 15 minute pracitce, Eleanor gently leads you through grounding breaths, imagery, and intentionality to align your energy with the lo...
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15:53
Meditation - Three Generations - Dedicated to TK
This meditation by Eleanor Evans Medina guides you through a reflective journey to honor the wisdom and love passed through three generations. Drawing inspiration from the Kelly family, this practice invites you to connect with your breath, emb...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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23:34
Meditation - Morning Breaths
"Morning Breaths" is a meditation to help you bring forward a calm presence within yourself. Eleanor Evans Medina invites you to settle on the Earth and breathe deeply, grounding yourself with mindful awareness. The meditation gently guides you...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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13:23
Meditation - Awaken Your Light - Dedicated to Scarlett
This meditation, "Awaken Your Light," is dedicated to a dear friend, Scarlett. Eleanor Evans Medina leads you through grounding breaths and visualizations to awaken your fullest, most radiant self, even during life’s challenging moments. Ground...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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25:22
Conversation - A Doctors Views on Death with Dr. Elise Sulser
In this episode of The Makaranda Podcast, Eleanor welcomes the insightful Dr. Elise Sulser for an eye-opening conversation. Dr. Elise explores the profound intersection of life and death, discussing how our culture often numbs both...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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43:57
Conversation - A Grandmothers Wisdom with Barbara LaPorte Ipsaro
In this episode of The Makaranda Podcast, Eleanor invites a very special guest, her maternal grandmother, Barbara LaPorte Ipsaro, affectionately known as "MaMere." Together, they dive into the topic of intuition. Eleanor shares how...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:05:06
Meditation - Trusting The Womb Space
This meditation focuses on trusting ourselves. Eleanor Evans Medina guides deep, mindful breathing, centering on the womb space. You can gently rock forward to back or sit still as you ground yourself. It is best to sit outside in nature. Tune ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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22:39
Meditation - For Good Health & Stepping into Eldership - dedicated to the Loyola Blakefield, Class of 1972
Join Eleanor Medina, daughter of Henry Hooper, in a meditation for the Loyola Blake Field class of 1972, guiding them into eldership with a focus on health, wisdom, and spirituality.This is an opportunity for this class to reflect on ho...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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19:38
Meditation - To Be Magnetic
This is a meditation called "To Be Magnetic." Here Eleanor offers this short morning practice to help you start your day. In this meditation, Eleanor guides you to visualize the sun filling every cell of your body with light. This is one way to...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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11:31
Meditation - Infuse the Painful Body with Light
Infuse Pain with Light - This ten-minute meditation focuses on infusing areas of the body in pain with light. Ideally, perform this practice outside in natural light—whether from the sun, moon, or stars—but it can be done anywhere.Elean...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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11:27
Meditation - 1 Minute Reset
This one-minute reset designed to quickly refresh and refocus your energy. Stand up and shake out your hands and feet, allowing your body to move freely. Take a deep breath and find stillness. As you breathe in, visualize spiraling energy upwar...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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1:59
Meditation - Healing the Physical Body
Welcome to a meditation that focuses on healing the physical body through visualization and mindful breathing. Dedicated to Eleanor's parents Henry and Tracy Hooper, who are recovering from injuries, the practice invites participants to visuali...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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23:59
Meditation - Manifest Your Dream Partner (v. 1)
Manifest Your Dream Partner - This meditation guides you to Manifest Your Dream Partner. We center on the themes of connection and love.They keys:1) Relax the body 2) Quieting the mind3) Opening your heart4) Visu...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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22:50
Meditation - From “If only” mind to Presence
Today, we'll spend about ten minutes realigning with presence by quieting the "if-only mind"—the part of our mind that constantly seeks something outside ourselves for fulfillment. This is the, "I would be happy "if _______ were different in my...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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11:20
Meditation - Cord Cutting of an Unhealthy Relationship
Welcome to a guided meditation, focusing on supporting you in a cord-cutting to release an unhealthy relationship. From our perspective, cords are energetic ties that attach between people for various reasons. From time to time, these ties are ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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29:01
Meditation - How to Breathe Mindfully
Mindful breathing is a powerful yet often overlooked tool for self-care and stress relief. In this reflective piece, Eleanor Evans Medina shares her personal journey of reconnecting with breath—from childhood instinct to societal conditioning a...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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12:37
Prophecy - The Eagle and the Condor
Inspired by an ancient tale, Eleanor Medina mindfully invites us to connect with nature and spirit.This is a story meditation where she shares the story of the Eagle, representing intellect and science, and the Condor, representing intu...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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16:46
Meditation - One-minute Meditation
Join us for a one-minute meditation as we take a few deep breaths together. Explore more meditative practices on our website:⬇️⬇️⬇️https://themakarandamethod.com/teachings
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:47
Meditation - Visioning Your Future
Join Kelsey Brown, our QOO (Queen Operating Officer) for a visualization meditation where we travel through nature and encounter our future self. Observe, connect, ask questions, and receive insights.Then return to the present. Take a d...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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17:23
Meditation - Trusting Divine Timing As You Call in a Baby
Welcome to a meditation, a journey of self-connection and trust as you prepare to welcome a baby into your life. In this meditation we invite you to trust yourself, inviting the baby's presence to you. Release tension, let go of timelin...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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24:07