The Third Spirit Podcast

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.

We explored the body as a compass for creative decision and trust making.Nudity emerged as a metaphor for vulnerability and returning to compassion, play and acceptance. Through play and sensation, we uncovered the dialogue between body and mind intelligence. The session closed with visions of future body studies sourced from asking questions and feeling joy in it's sensation00:00 - 06:12 Takes of attitudes when trying new things. Post studio confidence when testing new projects06:13 - 22:00 Reflections on the body and using it as a tool to make creative decisions. Methods in filling your cup through attention, people, space, food, objects.22:00 - 32:09 Body intelligence and mind intelligence deep dive. Detecting feelings through sensation. The use of play in allowing this to happen.32:10 - 43:10 Nudity, vulnerability and an undeniable return to trust in body.43:11 -  51:00 The story of body, seeing it as an opportunistic tool to sense the world and new experiences. Giving your body curiosity and joy. Body studies.51:00 - 1:11:21 Personal body studies and visions for future body experiments.

In this episode, we dive into our understandings of spirit, its essence in our past projects and in the natural world. We explore the Earth as a living organism, talk about driving on compressed dinosaur and discuss narratives around the earth-human dynamic. We share stories of connecting with nature in Australia, the magic of seasons, and end with prompts to find your own spirit tree and boulder, anchoring spirit in all of life.00:00 - 15:26 Introducing our podcast name; ‘The Third Spirit”, reviews of our first podcast and finding our ‘sound’. 15:26 - 27:08 Hilary’s Spirit Vessels and her intention with them - moving from focusing on the outcome to appreciating creativity as a beautiful act of allowing your spirit to take form.27:08 -  35:15 Keeping the belief alive that the earth is a living organism, how life right now is its temporary manifesto. Treating earth as it is a friend.35:15 - 44:57 Nature narratives and connection in Australia, choices to engage in nature and respect for ecology, the extraordinary newness of seeing four seasons44:57 - 51:19 Prompts to find your special spirit tree and boulder and reflections of our tree and rock memorise, plans to see each others signature trees and boulders.

We begin by sharing our current art processes, how we met, our favourite bodies of water, and the desire to infuse our life with symbols of spirit and nature. Ending with our wishes to have 88 conversations, how everything we said might be wrong, loving the present moment and how we might have 60 more autumns, how the present moment can give us everything, defining success as a daily life-artistry and life connection, how everything is relationships; that it’s not the message but the messenger, and how we are still figuring out the name of the podcast ~ maybe calling it “spirited out” as we exit00:00- 17:05 Beginning ritual and brainstorming our name, new friendship and current art process updates17:05 -  27:00 Favourite body of water27:00 - 36:00 Connecting with nature on the daily, practices and frame of mind36:00 - 51:17 Hand massage personal reading, tree climbing club, how we met, the spirit of what we do, our love for the spirit of things, translating the essence of spirit with our work51:17 - 1:01 What does it mean to refer to the spirit of something?1:01 - 1:16:47 Finding spirit in artistry, maintaining access to spirit in artistry, defining personal success