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 25
Manifest Your Soul Mate and Remove Love Blocks with Sanaiyah Gurnamal
In this episode of The EnlightenDXB Podcast, healer and transformational coach Sanaiyah Gurnamal reveals the hidden subconscious patterns that shape our relationships and explains why so many people keep attracting the same partners, despite wanting something different.
Episode 24
Why High Achievers Often Have Father Wounds | Family Constellation Therapy with Katherine Barroeta
In this episode, Katherine Barroeta—Family Constellation and Transgenerational Therapist, Reiki Master, and Holistic Therapist—joins the conversation to explore the hidden family dynamics that shape our lives, relationships, and sense of self.
Episode 23
Close Your Eyes & Press Play | A Sound Healing Experience with Jenny Dunsford
This episode is a little different. Instead of our usual conversation, we invite you into a 30-minute sound healing journey with Jenny Dunsford, a sound and vibrational healing practitioner and Wim Hof Method instructor based in Dubai.
Episode 20
Crystals for Healing Energy Protection and Manifestation with Holly Holistic
Step into the world of crystal healing and holistic wellness in this enlightening conversation with Holly, founder of Holly Holistic. What began as a personal journey of self-discovery and healing—eventually growing from a humble spare bedroom into a thriving wellness brand—has become a trusted space for those seeking balance, energy alignment, and deeper self-awareness.
Episode 19
Why Trauma Makes Some People Stronger (Post-Traumatic Growth Explained) with Phil Quirk
In this powerful episode of the Enlighten DXB Podcast, Erika Masako Welch sits down with Phil Quirk, world-renowned human performance coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis expert, to explore the mindset behind elite performance, resilience, and personal transformation.
Episode 16
Listening to the Body: Healing Beyond Symptoms & Stored Experiences with Anita & Peyman from Wellnest
In this episode, we explore what happens when we begin truly listening to the body and stop accepting pain, fatigue, and disconnection as “normal.” Together with Anita and Peyman from Wellnest, we unpack how modern life pulls us out of body awareness, how emotions can become stored within the body, and why physical symptoms are often meaningful signals rather than problems to suppress.
Episode 14
Conscious Motherhood, Menopause and the Defining Stages of Our Lives with May-Britt Searty
In this illuminating episode of Enlighten DXB, Erika sits down with May-Britt Searty—a naturopath, somatic therapist, and Author of “9 Letters to my Mother”, a book about conscious pregnancy and conscious motherhood.
Episode 12
How Energy Healing Supports ADHD, Anxiety & the Nervous System: Craniosacral Wisdom with Janelle Houston
In this powerful episode of The Enlighten DXB Podcast, Erika Masako Welch sits down with Janelle Houston—a Craniosacral Therapist and Energy Healer based in Dubai—to unpack the often-invisible layers of energetic health, nervous system regulation, and trauma healing.
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.
Episode 01
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.
