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Alter Ego Podcast: Flowing Through Thresholds

  • Writer: Damchö
    Damchö
  • May 6
  • 1 min read

In this episode of the Alter Ego Podcast hosted by Athena Rosette, Damchö reflects on a life shaped by creativity, devotion, rupture, and transformation.



From early spiritual inquiry to a decade of Buddhist monastic life, and into the explorations of ritual, embodiment, and transgression through Bodhi Unbound, the conversation moves candidly and humorously through the taboos and thresholds that shape identity and becoming.

"Taboo marks the boundary where identity, ritual, and liberation meet."
Portrait of the artist, Damchö wearing a transparent latex hood with openings for eyes and lips. Her eyes are closed, and she wears a burgundy latex catsuit. The colour tones are honeyed and milky, evoking a sense of enclosure and inward transformation.
Damchö wears a transparent latex hood and burgundy catsuit, eyes closed in inward focus. The soft, chrysalis-like tones evoke a suspended state of becoming — quiet, enclosed, and tenderly held.

"Transformation often happens at the very edges of what we think we can bear." 



A conversation across thresholds of ritual, taboo, and becoming.

This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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I live, love and work on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung lands of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

My practice is shaped in relation to this place, and with deep respect for the cultural knowledge that continues to hold it. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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