The WakeUp Protocol
Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right!
The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught.
Hosted by Nadja Haldimann, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix.
Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true.
This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed.
If you’re waking up... welcome home.
The WakeUp Protocol
019 ~ Erin Hilleary ~ The Art of Being Human: Awakening Through Consciousness, Emotion & Creative Flow
In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Dr. Erin Hileary, a somatic therapist, transpersonal coach, artist, and lifelong explorer of consciousness whose path has been unfolding for more than two decades.
Erin’s journey began back in her Burning Man days, when she first started tuning into energy, intuition, and the unseen patterns shaping a life.
From Reiki and Vipassana meditation, to yoga, bodywork, and a doctorate in consciousness studies, to single motherhood, loss, and the kind of life initiation that asks you to use everything you’ve learned.
Every chapter led her toward ONE embodied realization:
Consciousness isn’t something you study.
It’s something you live.
Together, Nadja and Erin explore what it means to live awake in a world of constant stimulation, distraction, and disembodiment.
They talk about emotional energy as creative fuel, belief systems as reality-shapers, and how learning to listen to the body becomes a direct path to truth, sovereignty, and aligned action.
This episode explores:
✨ Consciousness as awareness and presence
✨ Emotional energy as fuel rather than something to suppress
✨ Somatic wisdom and the body as an access point to truth
✨ Flow state, creativity, and art as spiritual practice
✨ Yin and yang, masculine and feminine balance
✨ What it means to be human in the age of AI
✨ Tantra as devotion to life, not performance
✨ Living an “enlightened lifestyle” rather than chasing enlightenment
Erin’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t come from transcendence or escape. It comes from inhabiting your life fully… body, breath, desire, and choice.
If you’re feeling disconnected from your body, questioning your direction, or sensing that your creativity and presence want more space… this episode is for you.
Connect with Erin
🌿 Website: erinsutra.com
Explore Erin’s Work
🌿 Somatic therapy and transpersonal coaching
🌿 Consciousness studies and embodiment practices
🌿 Retreats, book clubs, and sacred site experiences
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