The Makaranda Podcast

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 tune into the electromagnetic field. Imagine your heart as a magnet, attracting the most aligned people, places, ideas, and experiences to you. F...

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 upwards, and as you breathe out, anchor this energy through your feet into the earth. Continue this breathing pattern to reset and relax, culminating in a final...

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. Eleanor invites you to pay attention to any areas of stuck or tight energy. Direct your inhales to infuse these areas with light and use your exhales to release tension...

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 visualize their bodies as fully healed, here and now. As listeners, you are encouraged to sit or stand comfortably, engage in deep breathing, and perform a bo...

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 mind 3) Opening your heart 4) Visualizing a scene where you are with your dream partner and feel it in the body now 5) Take inspired actions. Allowing these sensations to guide you as your breathe through the heart. Th...

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 life." The "if-only mind" traps us in a cycle of wishing life were different than it is right now. In this meditati...

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 not supporting us anymore, and are sometimes even harmful. When it is time to let this energy go, we can use this cord-cutting practice to release it from t...

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 intuition and spirit. She invites us to envision the unity of the Eagle and the Condor, symbolizing harmony within and without. Eleanor heard this story in the book, “...

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 and, ultimately, to healing. She explores how deep, intentional breathing fosters presence, emotional balance, and well-being. This blog offers insights on M...

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 Music | Ambient Meditation Relaxation - MEDIA MUSIC GROUP Thanks for listening! To stay connected, follow us on Instagram @themakarandamethod and @eleanor.evans.medina Visit our website: www.themakarandamethod.com About Eleanor...

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 deep breath. Trust these versions of us always reside within. Transition back and journal for reflection on the wisdom gained. Explore more meditative practices on...

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 timelines, aligning with divine timing. The song "Grandmother Song" written by Steffy Oren Bach came through during this meditation. Eleanor sings it for yo...

Welcome to a meditation to call forth the artist within. In this brief session, take slow grounding breaths, appreciating colors and textures around you. Embrace your unique perspective as an artist. Whether your eyes are open or closed, be still and receptive to your point of view. Invite your inner artist to come forward, ready to create. Express gratitude for the diverse forms your art can take...

Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast! Immerse yourself in the transformative meditation, where you free yourself from harmful habits. We say the phrase, "May I find freedom within myself." Find a cozy space, close your eyes, and breathe deeply. Explore the intersection of consciousness and imagination as a healing light moves through your body. Release burdens, embrace sensations, and...

Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast, where we invite you to join a transformative meditation inspired by Brené Brown's wisdom. Find comfort, close your eyes, and breathe deeply. Acknowledge there is enough – enough air, food, and Earth's generosity. Visualize a stream of energy, inhaling enough for well-being, exhaling resistance. Open your eyes, express gratitude for your surroundin...

Welcome to a Meditation on Manifesting your Dream Job, guided by Eleanor Medina from The Makaranda Method. Find comfort in a seated position as we explore the power of your noticing your beating heart and aligning that magnetic frequency with what makes you feel alive and joyful. Visualize your dream job. Breathe in the sensation of achievement, believing the job is already yours. Follow intuitive...

Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast, where we take a brief journey to find our center and connect with the present moment. Whether your eyes are open or closed, settle into a comfortable position, allowing your breath to guide you. Tune in to the sensations of stillness, noticing the breath moving through your body. This short, formal seated practice encourages you to be fully present. Thank y...

This is a meditation designed for connecting with your digestion. Find a comfortable spot, tune into the breath, and connect with the body's incredible ability to transform nourishment into energy. You will have an opportunity to offer gratitude for this process of digestion, placing your hand on your belly or heart to feel the sensations. Explore what your gut is telling you and create space...

Dive into a guided, hypnotic meditation designed for relaxation where we focus on the space between the breaths and the thoughts. Settle into a comfortable position, maintaining alertness, and soften your eyes closed. Focus on your breath, allowing each exhale to release tension. Explore the sensations of the breath, from nose to diaphragm, and practice mindful breathing, creating space for life f...

This is a 30-minute meditation that guides you to call in one of your inner children and build a relationship. This meditation is informed by the “Internal Family Systems” model which believes that we all have different “parts” inside of us that make us whole. We are working to get to know an inner child and introduce them to our whole selves. This can be helpful for people of all ages, in all ave...

Join us for a meditation that we created for our friend Day, where we connect with Mother Earth. This session focuses on grounding and spiraling energy from the Earth through the body. The guide, Eleanor Medina gently invites you through mindful breathing, calling the Earth's energy in and releasing tension with each exhale. Tune into sensations, colors, and the wisdom whispered by nature. Aw...

We dreamed about the power of practicing love and sharing that with ourselves, each other, and Mother Earth. Join us for an hour-long meditation where we invite you to sit outside and connect with the Earth to help raise our human vibration to match that of our mother, who gives us everything we need to live, and thrive. Thank you for taking the time to get quiet and share your love with all of us...

Eleanor Medina and Kelsey Brown at The Makaranda Method, co-guided a meditation on Zoom for the change of seasons. They are sharing the recording with you here, and invite you to carve out about an hour of time to slow down and honor the Earth as she shifts into another time of year. Please open a window or go outside so you can be connected with Nature as you sit with us. The quote at the beginni...

Join us for a 15 minute, lightly guided, morning meditation where we include in our awareness all that is happening around us. We invite you to sit in nature to feel her vibration as tune into the sounds all around you. Explore more meditative practices on our website: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://themakarandamethod.com Thanks for listening! To stay connected, follow us on Instagram @themakarandamethod and @ele...

In this 20 minute guided, visualization meditation, we guide you into your imagination and invite you to notice what it feels like to be a flowing river of abundance vs. a stagnant stream.  This practice includes some body based, somatic cues to support you in noticing what arises as you imagine what it is like to make money move. Nature always teaches us how to flow with trust in our path of leas...