The Sacred Womb with Melanie Swan
Episodes
Winter Reflections from Thailand & What's Changing In 2026
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s winter in Chiang Mai — sunlit, yet crisp enough to invite true wintering: slow, quiet, reflective. As I prepare for the Womb Medicine Woman T...
Strength Training in Perimenopause with Charlotte Hewlett
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Support the showMelanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer. For over 20 ...
Killing the Disney Princess Fantasy in Relationships: From Extraction & Control to Sovereign Love
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We dismantle the Disney princess fantasy and show how to move from extraction and control toward sovereign, mutual, love‑centred relationships. We n...
Becoming Sovereign: Inside the Womb Medicine Woman Training
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Become the frequency of this work and guide women home to their true, sovereign nature.I’m truly delighted to share this with you. The Womb Medicine...
Why Money Blocks Are Hard To Budge — and How to Resolve Them at the Root
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women and MONEY! Why are so many women struggling to earn, receive and retain money?!!Women are conditioned—subtly and overtly—to emotionally over...
Dancing With Goddesses Through The Menstrual Cycle — with Agnieszka Drabek-Prime
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves the cyclical wisdom of goddess archetypes into a rich map for navigating life’s transitions — from menstruation to m...
You Just Need To Be In A Calorie Deficit – The F**kery of Peri-Menopause Advice
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The journey through perimenopause is unique for every woman, yet the unsolicited and contrary advice remains universal. This was the inspiration for ...
I Don’t Know – A Poem On Peri-Menopause
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today is my 49th birthday, and peri-menopause is in full swing. My last period lasted 26 hours. As my blood started to flow, I felt love and bliss ema...
Is It ADHD — Or Is It Attachment Trauma?
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you noticed the huge rise in the diagnosis of ADHD?It’s everywhere — in adults, in children, on social media, in therapy rooms. And while it’...
Radical Relating Through The Natural Voice, with Anthony Johnston
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation, Anthony shares the essence of Singing in the Wild, his five-day retreat that I've been on twice (17 years ago and more recen...
Why ‘Letting Go’ Doesn't Work and What Actually Does
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
have you ever tried to ‘let go’ of behaviors that no longer serve you, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns? You're not alone. ...
A Guided Practice To Energise Your Womb Center
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guided practice serves as both a foundational womb healing technique to energise your whole womb center and a diagnostic tool to understand your ...
9 Ways Unresolved Attachment Trauma Affects How We 'Hold Space'
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The phrase 'holding space' is immensely popular with those in therapeutic, healing, coaching, wellness, and women's circles, but what&a...
How To Develop A Genuine Adult Self
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I explore the concept of becoming a genuine adult, what it means to develop emotional maturity and a grounded sense of self, what tha...
Recalibrating Our Attachment Template: Incarnation To Birth
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our attachment template primarily determines how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, and to recalibrate it, we need to work where it was fo...
Menopause, Hormones & Health with Salena Walker
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Salena Walker; Herbalist, Naturapath and Nutritionist joins us to talk about what’s going on during menopause and how we can support ourselves with ...
Healing Emotionally & Spiritually After Abortion
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I want to set up the context for this episode because it’s so important that you know I’m sharing this from a place of love, years of experience w...
What Is Womb Healing?
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To heal our womb means to dissolve all the ‘stuff’ we’ve been holding in there, restore its true purpose and reconnect the whole womb centre wit...
3 Core Issues That Hold Us Back & What To Do About Them
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I explore 3 core issues that I see over and over again in my work, particularly with women. I describe how each particular aspect shows up, the root c...
The Hungry Mother: A Poem On Healing from Narcissistic Parenting
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt an insatiable hunger for love and validation?In this episode, I explore ‘The Hungry Mother,’ a medicine poem that speaks to the...
Reclaiming The Divine Masculine To Restore The Divine Feminine
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls……as many women who are in this movement a...
Debunking 6 Menstrual Cycle Myths
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle? I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our e...
The Root Cause Of Keeping One's Self Small
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with.In this episode, Ki...
It's Time To Shine: A Womb Medicine Poem Guided Practice
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre. It starts with a brief introduc...
The Desecration Of The Word Woman Amidst Inclusivity
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I applaud and welcome a more inclusive, accepting, loving world. To love each other in our unique expression is wonderful, it’s progress, it’s ne...
Perimenopause: No More Bullsh*t!
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Barnard @sacred.womban and I get together for a great chat about Perimenopause!I’m in perimenopause right now (at the time of recording) and sha...
Self-Initiation: Reclaiming The Womb
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through oceans of time, women have been in some form of subjugated position and have looked outside of ourselves for our spiritual path and autonomy o...
The Sacred Womb Book Is Coming!
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast after an 8 month break! I give an update on what’s been happening the last year, details of my move to Thailand and an u...
What Is Dissociation? with Gordon Barclay
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this introduction to dissociation, Gordon talks us through:What is dissociationHow do we know if we’re dissociatingStarting to relate to what we ...
The Last Chapter Of Menstruation
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A medicine poem about the last chapter of menstruation and the myth of the peri-menopause struggle.Send us a textSupport the showMelanie is an experie...
Healing The Mother Line
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a Medicine Poem. The words come with an energy with the intention of shifting consciousness. Become the poem and see where it takes you...Send...
The Women With No Name
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I question if, in 2020 the ‘norm’ of taking the male line name is still relevant, and if so, what’s effect is it having on the empowerment (or n...
8 Ways I Support My Menstrual Health
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These are some of the key ways I support the health and vitality of my menstrual cycle with nutrition.Send us a textSupport the showMelanie is an expe...
The Healing Power Of Reclaiming Your First Period
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our First Period is a portal to our unique gifts, creative sovereignty and cyclical power, and how, as adults we can revisit our first blood, retrieve...
The Toxic Truth About Tampons
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I discuss why tampons are so toxic to our physical and emotional health, the antidote to ‘stuff one in and get on with it’ and some amazing altern...
8 Ways To Use Transitions As Portals To Power
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transitioning from one state of being to another is like being between gears. It’s a natural opportunity to recalibrate and reorganise ready for the...
Eradicating The Abuse Of Women in Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is back on the podcast to talk about her latest initiative; The Yoni Shakti Movement.Their crowdfunding campaign is now complete and...
Sharing Trauma Stories with Structure & Safety with Britt Frank
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this incredibly important topic, Britt describes that sharing our story in the presence of a compassionate and skilful witness can be incredibly po...
The Upgraded, Expanded Sacred Womb Podcast!
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The new, upgraded and expanded Sacred Womb Podcast! Womb Centered Wisdom For The Arc of Womanhood. In this episode I talk about the range of topics I&...
Yoni Steaming 101 with Mama Luna
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emma of Mamma Luna joins us to talk about Yoni steaming: how to set up, herbs to use, when to steam and how she came to make her gorgeous Yoni Steamin...
How I Got My Period Back with Lauren Henry
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I talk to Lauren Henry on how she got her period back naturally after 6 years of amenorrhea with the support of Medical Medium information.Send us a t...
10 Self-Care Rituals For The Full Moon
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Repeating acts of self-care at regular intervals produces a rhythm based on love – and a steady rhythm of love is healing - so here are 10 rituals f...
Prevent Burnout With Menstrual Cycle Tracking
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout is all-too common. Eventually our body reaches a tipping point and says ‘no more’. There is another way! Tracking our cycle keys us into o...
How I Exercise In Tune With The Menstrual Cycle
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For years I thought I just wasn’t very good at sticking to an exercise plan. Then when I started tracking my menstrual cycle, I noticed that I was m...
9 Self-Care Practices For A Juicy Moontime
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Inspiring ways we can take great care of ourselves during our period; inc. FREE guided practice to help you to relax, reset and recalibrate at Moontim...
Vegetarianism To Destabilise The Patriarchy
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anne DeLessio Parson joins us to discuss how the oppression of women and people of colour is also coming with the oppression and treatment of anima...
Womb Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli talks us through the creation of Womb Yoga & how incorporating Yoga Nidra allows us to listen to our bodies and deeply rejuvenat...
How To Chart Your Menstrual Cycle
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I explain how to utilise The Sacred Womb Cycle Tracker to connect with your Womb and essence for the day – so that you can align your outer actions ...
Deepening The Process Of Menstruation
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Western society tends to cling to patterns, expecting each cycle to be the same - as a way of neutralising or diluting The Unknown. Moontime condition...
The Alchemy Of Menopause with Cathy Skipper
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Skipper, Author of The Alchemy of Menopause Workbook discusses how peri-menopause can be used to transform all our life experiences into Wisdom....
How To Look After Kids AND Honour Your Menstrual Cycle
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The shift in gear during the pre-menstrual phase of our cycle means we need more time + space for ourselves - which can have our kids feeling a loss o...
Menopause: A Transition & Transformation with Bonnie Horrigan
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bonnie joins us to talk about her book, Red Moon Passage in which she details her own reframing and transformation during Menopause that shifted her c...
Daysy: Reliable, Natural Fertility Tracking with Holly Grigg-Spall
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Holly Grigg-Spall joins us to talk about Daysy, The Fertility Calculator. Holly talks us through; What Daysy is, how Daysy works, how to use Daysy, th...
How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control with Holly Grigg-Spall
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hollly Grigg-Spall joins us to discuss her book Sweetening The Pill. She talks through side effects, why we take it and what to do if you want to come...
New Moon Mandalas with April McMurtry
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April McMurtry from The Moon is My Calendar joins us to talk about New Moon Mandalas. Follow along with a pen and paper to create your own Mandala!Sen...
When No Contact With Your Mother Is The Healthiest Option, Bethany Webster
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany Webster joins us to discuss her article Navigating “No-Contact”: When Estrangement from Your Mother is the Healthiest Choice.Bethany talks...
The Blood Tales; Feminine Magic & Erotic Wisdom
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Blood Tales is a one woman show that will transport you to depths of the Mystery carried inside. It’s a rewiring of the shame and disgust. It’...
Heal The Womb; Heal The Woman with Clare Spink
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Fertility Massage Therapy™ ignites our passion by re-awakening our connection to our Womb. Clare joins us to talk about this unique physical & s...
The Moon's Gift: Welcome Girls Into Womanhood with Victoria De Aboitiz
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria De Aboitiz has written a gorgeous book called The Moon's Gift. It's an introductory book that welcomes girls into womanhood. Aimed ...
Chocolates For The Menstrual Cycle with Milly Watson Brown
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Milly takes us through her process of birthing her idea for the chocolates, what's in them and how they can help us to tune in to the difference ...
Miscarriage: 9 Guidelines To Heal Emotionally & Spiritually
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Miscarriages are common and can be very tough; emotionally, physically and spiritually. Here are 9 guidelines to help you process your experience.Send...
How To Relieve Period Pain Naturally
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
3 Key questions to help you relieve period pain; How do you really feel about being a cyclical Being? What Menstrual Products are you using? What do y...
Exploring Our Intimate Sacred Self Using Yoni Delights
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sex, or masturbation is a way to feel our Body, to connect with our Source and to feel our Power.Send us a textSupport the showMelanie is an experienc...
How To Use Yoni Eggs with Lisa Byrd
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Byrd joins us to talk about why and how we can use Yoni Eggs on our path of healing and personal growth. Lisa gives us really clear guidance on:...
Why Do Our Menstrual Cycles Synchronise?
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
'We Bleed together so we can Create together. Heal together. See together. Weave together. Our blood time draws us together and into an altered s...
Your Temple Of Wild Power with Alexandra Pope
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Pope, Co-Founder of Red School explains the essence of Wild Power is that the Menstrual Cycle process, when consciously engaged with, is a S...
The Difference Between The Dark Moon & New Moon
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
‘There’s a lot of confusion around The Dark and New Moon phase. In this episode I talk about the difference and how we can utilise both phases for...
Should I Bleed With The Full Moon Or New Moon?
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I discuss bleeding in tune with The Moon and how we can access our own answers. As we awaken to the sheer magic of our menstrual cycle, many of us won...
The Pill, Are You Sure It's For You? With Jane Bennett
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Bennett joins us to talk about her co-authored book The Pill; Are You Sure It’s For You? Jane talks us through;What the Pill actually doesThe ...
The Parentified Daughter with Bethany Webster
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
‘One of the many manifestations of the mother wound is the pattern of the “parentified daughter.’Bethany WebsterA simple definition of a parenti...
Healing The Mother Wound with Bethany Webster
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
‘What many people do not realise is that the core issue at the center of women’s empowerment is the mother wound’BETHANY WEBSTER‘Difficulty an...
What is The Sacred Womb & Why Is It Sacred?
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that we as women have a physical Womb. But what is our Sacred Womb, and why is it Sacred?Send us a textSupport the showMelanie is an exper...