Eclectica Hub's Yurt Sessions Podcast

About Eclectica Hub's Yurt Sessions Podcast

Welcome to Eclectica Hub’s Rooted In Remembrance Podcast. A Podcast bought to you by Demi Lee and Annamaria. Eclectica Hub is a Visionary Dance School and an evolving community. A space where we tend to the rites, the ruptures, and the wild ceremonies of becoming. Our Rooted in Remembrance Podcast is where we gather by the metaphorical fire of what’s been forgotten and return to the ancient, the intimate, the unspoken. We speak from the marrow, of birth, of death, of grief, of growth - of what it means to lead with soul. This is for those who remember, or ache to. For those ready to reclaim what the modern world forgot. To break the spell of amnesia. To return to the work of soul. Thank you so much for tuning in and welcome to the world that is Eclectica

Publisher

Eclectica Hub

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2023

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Demi Lee’s Birth Story: The Freebirth of Huski Rose

   In this episode, Demi Lee shares the story of her pregnancy, birth and the profound inner terrain she was asked to move through on her passage into motherhood. We speak about the shamanic dimensions of pregnancy - the way pregnancy can become a womb purge, excavating what can no longer come with you into motherhood. Old fears, grief, trauma, memory and unresolved experiences can arise to the surface, asking to be witnessed, felt, and released before crossing the threshold. For Demi, this meant confronting a long history of experiences connected to the loss of agency in her body, including sexual trauma, Annie’s birth trauma and her own experiences of medical trauma. As she moved through pregnancy, these memories became impossible to ignore. We explore the fears she had to meet through choosing a largely wild pregnancy - declining ultrasounds, blood tests, glucose testing, NIPT, Doppler use and doctors’ appointments - and ultimately choosing to birth her daughter, Huski Rose, at home without medical assistance present. She had midwives available to come to the home if needed, while intentionally planning for them not to be present unless support became necessary. Demi shares the deeply elemental nature of her labour: birthing in front of the fire, moving outside beneath the trees, feeling held by the land and the elements, and sensing the presence of ancestors, her grandmother, trees and plant allies guiding her through the threshold. Birth became not only a physical experience, but an altered, psychedelic and profoundly relational one - between body, earth, memory, and spirit. This is a story about fear, agency and redemption: what it means to meet the memories held in the body, to stay present with uncertainty, and to discover what exists on the other side of the fears we are willing to face. We also speak about the psychedelic realms of birth, the intensity of labour as a rite of passage, and the expansive states that can open when the body is allowed to lead. At its heart, this is not a prescription for how anyone should birth, but one woman’s story of pregnancy, reclamation, remembrance, and the crossing into motherhood. - Join Body As Altar 2026 held in the Northern Rivers, Australia (https://www.eclecticahub.com/thebodyasaltar2026) - Join RITES 2027 Artist Programme held in Melbourne, Australia (https://www.eclecticahub.com/rites2027)

2. 

   24 Aug 2026

   No Ones Getting Out of Here Alive: Let Death Teach You How to Live

   In this this episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria sit down with Alana Ward for a conversation about death - and, perhaps more importantly, about what death asks of the living. No one is getting out of here alive. Everything we love will change. Every season will end. Every body will eventually return to the earth. And rather than making life meaningless, what if remembering this is precisely what makes it sacred? Together, we explore what happens when we stop keeping death at arm’s length and begin building a relationship with our own mortality - how the awareness of impermanence can bring us into deeper humility, courage, presence and reverence for the ordinary moments of our lives. Demi Lee shares the story of being falsely diagnosed with cancer, and the threshold that diagnosis took her across. Faced suddenly with the possibility of her own death, she was forced to confront an uncomfortable question: if my life ended sooner than I imagined, have I actually lived it the way I wanted to? What followed was a reckoning with the places she was still withholding herself from life. The offerings not yet birthed. The words not yet spoken. The risks not yet taken. The strange liberation of realising that, when your time comes, you are the one who will die your own death - and therefore you hold the sacred responsibility to live a life that is actually yours. We speak about legacy, creative courage, using your voice, and the ways remembering death can strip away some of the performance and trivialities that consume us. We also enter the more difficult territory of suicide and suicidal ideation, bringing a conversation often relegated to the shadows into the light. Not romanticising death, nor reducing the complexity of suicide, but asking what it might mean to help someone find a life they can remain in relationship with. This is a conversation about death. But really, it is a conversation about life. About remembering that the breath moving through you right now is temporary. That the people you love are temporary. That this particular incarnation of your life will never happen again. And perhaps there is no greater invitation to live than remembering that one day, we will die. Join us in Body As Altar in Northern NSW (https://www.eclecticahub.com/thebodyasaltar2026)from October 1st - October 4th, 2026. Book Now (https://www.eclecticahub.com/thebodyasaltar2026) using the Discount Code RETURN for $150 discount. Today's Episode is sponsored by Dreamy Moons Tarot (https://dreamymoons.com.au/), offering Tarot Card Decks for those seeking deeper connection, guidance and clarity. Offering Guided Journals - keepers of your deepest dreams and musings. Purchase now (https://dreamymoons.com.au/)using the Discount Code: ECLECTICA

3. 

   12 Jul 2026

   Have We Forgotten How to Die? Returning the Sacred to Dying

   Death has become something to manage, sanitise and hide. But what if dying was never meant to be reduced to a medical event? In this profound conversation, death walker Alana Woodward joins fellow death and grief doula Demi Lee and Annamaria to explore what has been lost through the medicalisation, domestication and colonisation of death - and what becomes possible when we reclaim it as a sacred rite of passage. Together, they question a culture that has become deeply death-phobic; one that often rushes bodies away, strips death of ceremony and leaves families disconnected from one of life's most transformative thresholds. Instead, they invite us into another way: one where death is not simply an ending, but a process. A liminal crossing. A sacred postpartum of the soul. This episode explores the forgotten wisdom of spending time with the body, creating ritual, tending altars, lighting candles, witnessing the dying process and re-villaging death. We speak about the profound role these practices can play in helping us metabolise grief, integrate loss and remain in relationship with those we love as they cross the threshold between worlds. Woven throughout are conversations about ancestral death traditions, the importance of community, the thin veil between life and death, dying at home, and what it truly means to participate in dying rather than avoid it. Because when we restore intimacy with death, we often discover a deeper intimacy with life itself. This is not simply a conversation about death. It is an invitation to remember how to die well, so that we may learn to live more fully. - You can find Alana via here (https://www.instagram.com/alanainwonder/) - Join us in our 4-day Ceremonial Intensive held in Byron Bay 'The Body As Altar' - a Collaboration between Eclectica Hub and InBluem (https://www.eclecticahub.com/thebodyasaltar2026) - Today's episode is sponsored by Dreamy Moons Tarot. (https://dreamymoons.com.au/) Offering Tarot Card Decks for those seeking deeper connection, guidance, and clarity and Guided Journals - keepers of your deepest dreams and musings. Purchase now using the Discount Code: ECLECTICA - Support for Dying at Home: In Victoria, local community palliative care teams, like Eastern Palliative Care (https://www.epcvic.org.au/) and Banksia Palliative Care Service (https://banksiapalliative.com.au/), provide free home-based medical, nursing, and volunteer support. Victorian Palliative Care Advice Service: A free, confidential non-emergency advice line (1800 360 000) that helps patients and families understand symptom management and navigate the palliative care system. Benetas End-of-Life Support Service (https://www.benetas.com.au/home-care-services/end-of-life-program): A private, in-home care program designed to complement community palliative care by providing additional hands-on support.

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5.0 / 5

184 ratings

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