Podcast
The EnlightenDXB Podcast is a destination for honest and vulnerable conversations about the Spiritual Warrior’s path. It brings insightful conversations around creating deeper intimacy in one’s life, first and foremost with oneself – which then fertilizes the ground to create deeper intimacy with all relationships in life.
The host, Erika Welch, has been a lifelong seeker and eudaimonia practitioner – the art of ‘living a meaningful life’. She brings her own curiosity and felt experiences, and invites some of the most exciting practitioners, therapists, coaches, thought leaders, and spiritual thinkers, to Dubai to share their knowledge and healing modalities with the wider community.
Meet the Host
Hi, I’m Erika. I’m a Japanese-Canadian Dubai-transplant that has called this place home for the past 15+ years. I’m an empath, a heart-warrior, community builder, entrepreneur, dog-mum, and eudaimonia practitioner – which is someone that seeks “a life lived meaningfully well”. I’ve been a Spiritual Warrior all my life; and I’m bringing this Podcast to life because I’ve met some divine beings along the way, that I want to share with my tribe and wider community – here in Dubai, and abroad. I’m hoping each of these are transmissions that speak to your soul. Take what you love, leave what you don’t. Much love.
Collective Trauma and the Healing Work Wars Demand of Us with Nikola Jurisic
4 November 2024
Nikola is a cultural transfiguration catalyst, who relishes in building values driven systems, organizations and communities at scale. In this episode, we speak into the nuances of collective trauma and ancestral trauma, and how these often intersect – especially where major societal upheavals existed, particularly in times of war.
Listen to this episode
The Healing Medicine Found in Music with Fadi Rifaai
15 October 2024
Pythagoras used to prescribe song and music for various ailments like depression and anxiety. But of course, ancient wisdom would prescribe us song or movement in the form of dance as a healing modality. Erika sits down with Fadi Rifaai in this episode, who is a Singer, Actor and Writer with a particular penchant for communing with God through singing Sufi Poetry.
Listen to this episode
Ancestral & Generational Trauma, the Mother Wound, and the Power of Our Family Stories with MayBritt Searty
16 July 2024
MayBritt Searty is a Family and Systemic Constellations Therapist, a Doctor of Natural Medicine, and a psychosomatic body worker in Dubai. She describes herself as a passionate life-long explorer of alternative ways to doing things, which has led her to becoming a long-time practitioner of cranial sacral therapy, osho therapy, homeopathy, and various other modalities that helped her explore the psychosomatic aspects of illnesses.
Listen to this episode
Connecting with Our Sacred Womb Space and Living to the Rhythm of Our Moon Cycles with Liberty
20 June 2024
Liberty is a certified womb steam practitioner and devoted plant medicine womban. She is a passionate advocate for menstrual cycle awareness and is all about helping women reconnect with their wombs. Liberty is also a certified liquid flow practitioner, which brings transformative and healing experiences in water.
Listen to this episode
Uncovering Our Most Authentic Selves with Desire-based Coaching, Shadow Work, and Parts Work with Riké John
23 May 2024
Erika sits down with one of her favorite IFS (Internal Family Systems) coaches that she’s ever had the pleasure of working with, Riké John. In this episode, Erika and Riké speak into the power of walking the spiritual path and doing the work in sisterhood, shoulder to shoulder, while running a women’s circle together in Dubai.
Listen to this episode
The Wisdom found in Nature and our Bodies, Purification and Medicine Journeys with Roos-Veerle Krijnen
3 May 2024
I sit down with Roos-Veerle Krijnen, a medicine woman and coach that uses the principles of nature as her guide. I’m so grateful to have one of my dearest sisters and friends that have walked this spiritual warrior path with me to talk about everything from the power of radical honesty and meeting each other in the depths, what it means to go through a process of purification, and the lessons nature has for humanity.
Listen to this episode
Somatic Energy & Body Work for Ecstatic Full Body Orgasms with Nathan Marcuzzi
22 April 2024
In this episode, we speak about what it means to be a healer, what’s the difference between energy work and body work, the importance of breath and energetics in healing trauma, and how we can access ecstatic experiences and/or full body energy orgasms – and things that get in the way of joy and pleasure.