The Third Spirit Podcast

In this episode, Eleanor and Hilary discuss how the word 'purpose' shows up in their lives. What is 'purpose'? How do we find our purpose? Is that even the right question?

Hilary describes finding a reason that feels so true that is drives you. Like the force of an orbit, aligned in its own energy.

Eleanor guides a meditation to visualise your inner source of creative energy and listen to it.

Hilary and Eleanor discuss how to find your own pace and make decisions from a soft heart.

They explore their own philosophy around flow in life and how to enhance the quality of your 'presence'. How can we decide to be radically slow in a world that values 'fast'?

At the end of the episode, they lie down and invite you to also be slow with them.

In this special episode Hilary and Eleanor ventured into the forest and created their special 'Spirit Pod' Cubby that is decorated with cyanotype prints of their bodies. You can see this beautiful cubby via instagram via @thethirdspiritpod , @eleanorysabelle , @hilarygreen__

We discussed the joy of achieving this vision and how it feels to build a cubby as a 'flag of friendship' and building an intentional meeting place.

In our shelter, amongst the birds and the autumn leaves, we also cover the idea of breaking 'psychic hexes'. Reflecting on our own experiences of feeling energetically attacked or perceived in a negative way, we offer you tips on how to regain your sense of truth, process your boundaries with love and re align your spirit safely.

So darlings, join us in the Spirit Pod, we will pour you a cacao, break bread and banish the hex together.

In this episode. Hilary and Eleanor discuss the hurdles that shake our sense of self and how we can find a way back to what feels most true to us.

They discuss how to find your truth despite other people's perceptions, taking a chance on things, creating an ecosystem to support yourself and how to love the ecosystem you naturally possess.

Pondering on, they cover having grace for yourself in your inner thoughts such as moving from 'scattered' to 'multifaceted' , reframing competition towards camaraderie and how holding space and gatherings can be a powerful tool to take the human spirit seriously.

Hilary and Eleanor share feelings, nerves and wins, within the course of hosting events. They reflect on the question 'how is designing an event like creating a work of art'.

They discuss how they ran their first event, the practice of teaching and creating spaces as an art form itself and the evolution that is co created by holding space together.

Recorded on a hike to visit Hilary's special Boulder located in Wamoon.

We speak about what we were shedding in the year of the snake and the new energy we are going forward with in this year of the fire horse.

Listen to the end to hear both of our reactions to this special rock, sacred place and our blessing for you.

It is your Earthright.

Set it on fire.

Hilary and Eleanor talk about body in image and sensation in this episode, ranging from practices of life drawing to drawing our own symbols of beauty to define it. We talk about Eleanor's life-drawing and writing event, learning to feel the body as a sensory companion, and an altar of trust building. We touch on themes of compliments, comparison, and the complications of love with this body of a lifetime. 

Questions we explored:

Do you think our sense of beauty is innate or learned?

What happens when women see each other without comparison — just with presence and artistry?

How did life modelling impact your concept of your body?

Tips on how to nurture a positive relationship to your body.

Eleanor and Hilary explore how we make, perceive, and move through time, discovering time as a tool that leads to synchronicity, how finding our rhythm and pace shapes our relationships, involving love, presence, and life itself.

We dive into the theme of memory through playing with cyanotype, capturing moments in sunlight and shadow, and how those images hold more than just what we see, they hold where we were, how we felt, and what our bodies remember. From personal stories to the idea of body memory, exploring the traces we carry of our ancestors and how memory lives in more than just our minds.

Reflections on reflections, Eleanor’s first exhibition ~ Project 88 and realisations on devotion, artistic offerings in nature, doing art for the love of it beyond illusions of originality and platitude. We talk about rest, frustration and boredom being inevitable parts of the process and move to a deep investigation of true authority that devotion calls for.