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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.

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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.

Episode 11

From Shadow to Sovereignty: Integrating Light and Dark Archetypes with Laura Deva

In this powerful episode of The Enlighten DXB Podcast, host Erika Masako Welch sits down with transformational guide, psychotherapist, and ISTA faculty member Laura Deva for a soul-stirring conversation on healing, power, and personal transformation.

Episode 10

Ageless Esoteric Wisdom, Kundalini Awakenings and Ceremonial White Magic with Rita Hraiz

In this special (extra long and extra deep) episode with Rita Hraiz, which we recorded at the end of 2024, we dive into the question: How do we deepen into our spiritual practice and connection, and come into alignment with our solar plexus and heart, based on ageless esoteric wisdom? When tragedy and atrocities strike, such as the wars scarring humanity in our present day, how do we strike the balance between being a vessel of love and spiritual enlightenment, and an actor on this material plane trying to do what is “right”?

Episode 09

The Power of Our Vulvas & the Innocence of Pleasure with Alice Hong, Pleasure & Embodiment Coach

In this episode, we get into the juicy topic of our beautiful vulvas. That’s right, this is about two powerful women talking about our beautiful, powerful, wise yonis. And who better to do that with, than Embodied Feminine Leadership Coach, Alice Hong.

Episode 08

Spirituality and Chasing Butterflies: with Daniel Li Ox

In this special episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with the extraordinary Daniel Li Ox—a QiGong Master, ordained Zen Buddhist monk, and the visionary founder of ZenCleanz, a line of powerful fermented detoxification enzymes designed to support fasting and healing. With over five decades of exploring life as a student of ancient wisdoms, Chinese medicine, and spirituality, Daniel brings a playful yet profound perspective to the table.

Episode 07

Collective Trauma and the Healing Work Wars Demand of Us with Nikola Jurisic

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.

Episode 06

The Healing Medicine Found in Music with Fadi Rifaai

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.

Episode 05

Ancestral & Generational Trauma, the Mother Wound, and the Power of Our Family Stories with MayBritt Searty

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.

Episode 04

Connecting with Our Sacred Womb Space and Living to the Rhythm of Our Moon Cycles with Liberty

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.

Episode 03

Uncovering Our Most Authentic Selves with Desire-based Coaching, Shadow Work, and Parts Work with Riké John

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.

Episode 02

The Wisdom found in Nature and our Bodies, Purification and Medicine Journeys with Roos-Veerle Krijnen

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.

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Somatic Energy & Body Work for Ecstatic Full Body Orgasms with Nathan Marcuzzi

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.

Laura Deva

transformational guide, psychotherapist, and ISTA faculty member

Laura Deva is a transformational guide, psychotherapist, and ISTA faculty member devoted to awakening embodied sovereignty and soulful power. With over 15 years of global experience, she weaves deep psychology, sacred sexuality, trauma alchemy, and ancient temple arts into potent spaces of healing and rebirth. Trained in clinical and criminal psychology, and rooted in tantric and shamanic lineages, Laura holds a fierce yet tender container for radical transformation. Whether through her private practice in Geneva or international workshops and rites of passage, she leads seekers home to their bodies, their truth, and their divine essence.

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Rita Hraiz

Spiritual Visionary, Sacred Artist, and Modern Mystic

Rita Hraiz is a spiritual visionary, sacred artist, and modern mystic devoted to awakening the divine feminine and guiding souls back to their truth. As a lifelong student of Ageless Wisdom and a keeper of the Shambhala flame, Rita weaves ancient teachings with modern consciousness to help others embody love, purpose, and radiant presence. Through her transformational work in color alchemy, soul mentorship, and conscious fashion, she empowers seekers to walk the path of beauty, integrity, and inner liberation. Rita is not just a teacher—she’s a mirror, a catalyst, and a voice for the rising light of a new humanity.

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Alice Hong

Pleasure & Embodied Feminine Leadership Coach

Alice Hong is an Embodied Feminine Leadership Coach and Tantra teacher. She helps passionate women create lives that turn them ON – in love, life, and business, so that they can have more aliveness, pleasure and financial wealth. She’s supported thousands of women and hundreds of men create greater intimacy, passion and purpose in their lives by connecting to the wild wisdom of their bodies, increasing access to pleasure, and equipping people with tangible tools that align actions with soul purpose, so people can move forward with their lives in a powerful way.

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Daniel Li Ox

QiGong Master, Zen Buddhist Monk

Daniel Li Ox is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, Medical Qi Gong Teacher, and an ordained Zen Buddhist Monk. He is also the Founder of ZenCleanz, a revolutionary detox and cellular nutrition product that helps us cleanse with the power that comes from the enzymes of fruits and plants that have been fermented for three years.

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Nikola Jurisic

Cultural Transfiguration Catalyst

Nikola is a spiritual warrior, cultural transfiguration catalyst and a leading global expert in building values driven systems and organizations at scale. He brings a career of experience working on culture with hundreds of organizations and systems around the world, blending more structured organizational approaches with more intuitive work. He is the Managing Partner of Transfiguration Advisory, where he works with corporations and institutions on broad systemic and cultural change. Prior to building his own consultancy, Nikola lead McKinsey’s culture and change work across more than 90 countries in Eastern Europe, the MIddle East and Africa (EEMA). Nikola is also the Founder of Project Light, a non-profit organization focused on processing collective trauma and supporting the collective healing work within the Balkans, where he was born and raised. He brings a wide range of divergent perspectives, and weaves them together as a self-described ‘free radical’. His top three values are learning, fun and adventure, and excellence. Nikola also takes private one-to-one clients from the executive leadership space.

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Fadi Rifaai

Singer of Sufi Poetry

Fadi Rifaai is a Syrian artist, singer, actor, and writer, who was born and raised in Dubai. Though he has acted in films, he has a particular love of producing art and interacting with the world through his gift in a live format. He has a particular penchant for Sufi poetry and a love of Sufi wisdom, which comes live through his classical singing and sufi sound journeys. Beyond playing curated shows, at various theatres across Dubai, he also plays at deeply healing and transformative retreats – and creates journeys for private events as well. You can connect with him on Instagram. 

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MayBritt Searty

Family Constellations Therapist

May-Britt is an esteemed international therapist with over 30 years of experience in personal development, natural health, and spiritual psychotherapy. Certified in a wide array of therapeutic modalities, she holds expertise in 3-in-1 Kinesiology, Counseling, Coaching, Osho Therapy, Family Constellation, Trauma-Related Systemic Constellation, Kundalini Yoga, and various bodywork techniques, including Cranio-Sacral Therapy. Additionally, she is a trained Naturopath.

Throughout her career, May-Britt has facilitated hundreds of workshops and conducted thousands of one-on-one sessions, impacting lives across the globe. Born in Greenland and raised in Denmark, she has accumulated a wealth of life and work experience from living and working in 12 countries across three continents, including the UK, Bahrain, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Germany, Qatar, and the UAE.

May-Britt’s holistic approach is both transformative and integrative, merging spirituality and psychology to create a nurturing environment where clients can embark on their unique journeys of healing and growth. She intuitively and directly engages with the human energy field, offering guidance and resolution for personal and career issues.

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Liberty Gelderloos

Liquid Flow & Womb Steam Practitioner, Menstrual Cycle Coach

Liberty coaches women, advocating for menstrual cycle awareness. She helps women reconnect with their wombs, and also facilitates womb-healing practices as a certified womb steam practitioner and devoted plant medicine womban. Driven by a passion to empower women, Liberty has been sharing the profound benefits of womb steaming since 2019, bridging the gap between tradition and modern self-care.

Since 2022, Liberty has also been facilitating transformative experiences in water as a Certified Liquid Flow Practitioner, trained through Watsu India, under the Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association (WABA). Liberty’s work aims to create a sanctuary for individuals to simply just be.

Liberty has also curated and created her own line of womb steaming products, from the steam herbs to drinkable teas, and the womb steaming chair. Find out more by visiting sheisliberty.com

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Rike John

Embodied Love & Relationship Coach

Rike is a VITA certified love and relationship coach working with the modalities of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and Authentic Relating, infused by her background in Tantra and modern mystery schools. She works with clients from around the world using various methods such as shadow work, embodiment and somatic practices, as well as inner parts work and practical communication tools and processes for couples and individuals. When you meet her, you realize she’s built for this; she provides a safe space for deep healing – as if it’s in her blood. But she’s lived a few lives already, from working in the corporate world, to the startup world, and then spending several years in tantric and sex positive spaces. She is now based in Dubai, working with clients in-person and online, to help them feel the love, connection and joy that they desire.

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Roos Veerle Krijnen

Personal Coach, Medicine Journey Facilitator, Yogi & Tantrika

For over a decade, Roos has been working with the intelligence of the body and facilitating fungi medicine journey’s to help people connect with their intuition, inner knowing and internal instructions. As soon as you meet her, you’ll see that she’s a deeply rooted and earthy being. Roos pulls from many schools of thought to weave sacred healing spaces infused with her Psychology education and her work in Tantra and Conscious Sexuality, Breathwork and Psychedelics, as well as the Art of Gathering.

She runs medicine journey retreats, tantra retreats, and facilitates 1-on-1 coaching trajectories. Roos works with clients to embrace their naked truth and follow nature’s guiding principles to purify whatever needs to be purified – which ultimately always results in the frequency of pure love.

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Nathan Marcuzzi

Energy & Bodyworker, Breathwork Facilitator

Nathan is a bodyworker and energy healer, travelling the world and educating people on how to access and clear their energy body. He does this through breathwork, de-armouring, and what he calls full-body ecstatic experiences – which uses Kundalini energy to open the body up to greater joy and aliveness. He weaves many modalities together, including sound healing and shamanic journeying.

Nathan has been a lifelong yogi, committed to a hatha yoga and meditation practice since the age of 14. He’s a certified Reiki energy worker, and has studied sacred sexuality through ISTA, rebirthing breathwork, and trauma care practices in a 500 hour kolo informed program. He heals with sound as well as shamanic journeying.

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Erika Masako Welch

Spiritual Warrior & Podcast Host

Erika is a Japanese-Canadian Dubai-transplant that has called the Middle East her home for the past 15+ years. She’s an empath, a heart-warrior, community builder, entrepreneur, dog-mum, and eudaimonia practitioner – which she describes as someone that seeks “a life lived meaningfully well”. Erika has been a spiritual seeker on the spiritual warrior path for most of her life; curious about the human condition, and how to interact and relate more authentically with others, all in the name of creating deeper intimacy. 

Erika is a multi-dimensional being balancing the aliveness of being plugged into the matrix as an entrepreneur and business-woman, while providing safe spaces for her and others to unplug, anchor back into ourselves, and connect into source. She’s studied Neurobiology and Psychology at McGill University, Sustainability and Leadership at the University of Cambridge, and received her Executive MBA from Stanford University. She’s also studied design thinking at the d.school and had a keen interest in researching the intersection of technology and well-being. She has also studied at multiple Mystery Schools including the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) working with coaches and facilitators from around the world exploring various types of shamanism, energy work, body work, tantra and sacred sexuality, and has opened her mind and heart to journey with plant medicines from around the world. 

She’s always been a community builder, serial-connector, and human-first being; she’s been running women’s circles in Dubai for years and is one of the ISTA alumni community leaders in Dubai. She’s worked in over 40 countries, and travelled to over 70; she loves to learn from all cultures and peoples. Erika decided to bring this Podcast to life because she’s met so many divine beings along her healing journey; many of whom she wishes to help amplify their voices and bring their healing gifts to Dubai. EnlightenDXB is all about levelling-up together in community, in tribe; particularly here in Dubai, where the healing community is still in its nascency. Erika works with global practitioners of all kinds to bring their work to this dynamic city.

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