What does modern pilgrimage look like? What is transformational travel? I have always been fascinated by the tradition of pilgrimage—a journey shaped with intention but also intentionally open-ended, unsure of its geographic and spiritual twists. Open to possibility. Inspired by the Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner Music: Homeward - Future of Forestry Ben Sollee - Maidentrip https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/?
Jan 29, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
A meditation to incubate your next year. 'Vision is just a rumor—just a possibility—until it lives in the body.' Inspired by the Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner Join me for Cocoon: 9 day audio meditation journey for transformation: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/S26eL6N5 Join me for Catalyst: 7 day audio meditation journey to spark your creativity: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/cWvSkj6z music: Gentle Mercy - Benny Holloway Bloom - East Fore...
Jan 15, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Vision-casting your 2020. Inspired by the Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/? https://www.instagram.com/altertogether/?hl=en Facebook: @nicolejoymeline nicolemeline.com
Jan 06, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 25
A journey to reflect, review, and integrate your past year. A perfect guide for a reflective inventory of your life at any chosen moment: approaching a birthday, new year, or new season, or transition to a new chapter. Integrate is a map heartward. Soulful reflection as a foundation for the architecture of your next season. Brave questions guide you to excavate your past year in light of core categories—body, spirit, mind, community, romance, family, nourishment, economy, digital engagement, wor...
Dec 31, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 24
How we can make rituals of routines? 'Ceremony and ritual are ways of training our attention to the sacred that's astir in the ordinary. That radical giftedness we're all living in. Of training ourselves to develop razor sharp attention, the finest tuned antennae to where grace is at work, interrupting, disrupting the story of a zero sum game.' - Nicole Meline Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner Year in Review Journal: https://www.nicolemeline.com/shop/integratejournal...
Dec 01, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Gratitude is the greatest drug in the universe.
Nov 28, 2019•17 min
An exploration of how celebrations, ceremony, and rituals enrich our lives. Imagining how to make the holidays 'holy-days' - days of presence, attention, and ritual. 'There's a connection between numbering our days—marking them, noting them, being present to the season we're in—and becoming wise. Celebration, or ceremony, and ritual helps us do that. It's a way of marking the days. In the way a good beat of a live jazz song becomes the backdrop, or the lattice structure, of improvisation. Once y...
Nov 23, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Creative work has a life of its own. Announcing Spring Breakthrough: a gathering of young women becoming soulful leaders, March 15-18, in Palm Springs. Details: https://www.nicolemeline.com/retreats altertogether.com @altertogether @nicolemeline
Oct 20, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 21
A guided meditation to accompany episode 10: Q & A, to drop into our interconnection, and conversation with Wendell Berry's 'The Unsettling of America.'
Sep 22, 2019•13 min•Season 1Ep. 20
A question and response episode—everything from books to music to smoothies. Conversations with Anne Lamott, Annie Proulx, Wendell Berry, Glennon Doyle, The National, The Lumineers, Bon Iver, Wilder Woods, Benny Holloway...and you. Show Notes: https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/2019/9/15/episode-10-q-amp-a-whats-fueling-you
Sep 15, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 19
A guided meditation to accompany episode 9: The Mislead, to drop into the gifts of the swerves of our lives. Show notes website: https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/2019/8/23/meditation-the-whole-catastrophe
Aug 25, 2019•14 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Can't. Yet. Tell. The story's not over. The arc's still unfolding. This week I turned 40. Holy smokes. When I started to imagine this podcast a couple years ago, I imagined this as the first episode: The Mislead. It's close to my heart. Maybe a little too close. Feels dangerously close. Field notes from the moments, the seasons in our lives when the road swerves, the train comes off the tracks, the rugs are pulled, the wheels fall off and the road dead-ends. the unexpected crashes in. The mile-m...
Aug 18, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 17
A guided meditation by Dana Trixie Flynn, to accompany episode 8, '0 to God.'
Aug 14, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
A few years ago, after a bunch of rugs had been pulled, I walked into Dana Trixie Flynn's yoga class in the Flatiron district of New York City. Off the street, through a weirdly corporate lobby, up an elevator, I opened a door with a neon pink Laughing Lotus sign to another world. Bright, playful, almost cartooney murals of gods and goddesses cover the walls of a long hallway into this kind of yoga Disneyland meets church. A huge yoga center by New York City standards that's been going strong fo...
Aug 11, 2019•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 15
A guided meditation in response to episode 7, 'Eat the World' to regenerate twisted plots and reset your nourishment.
Jul 24, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This conversation is about food. Delicious, mouth-watering, energizing, imaginative food. But it's about much more than that. It's about connection. It's about our exchange of energy with the world, which is just another way of saying, food. Input. Output. Fuel, Creation. Food is the way we eat the world. It's this incessant reminder that we are part of a network of ongoing exchange. That we're dependent beings, dependent on air, water, energy, and fuel for both body and spirit. This is the seco...
Jul 21, 2019•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 13
A guided meditation to cultivate your body as an incubator of the future. Join me for Cocoon: 9 day audio meditation journey for transformation: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/S26eL6N5 Join me for Catalyst: 7 day audio meditation journey to spark your creativity: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/cWvSkj6z Learn more about the ALTER Together studio and membership at https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter A gift of 4 introductory ALTER practices for you: https://www.nicolemeline.c...
Jul 14, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Welcome to the vortex. Every place is sacred. All of it is sacred. Anywhere can be a vehicle of revelation. But there are places that buzz with a certain frequency that gets all of us talking like hippies, reaching for those insufficient words like 'cosmic', 'astral,' 'mystic' And the only reason we roll our eyes is when those words or the kind of people who use them seem like they're so heavenly minded they're no earthly good – spiritually superior or unacknowledging of the grit and pain and ir...
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 11
A guided meditation toward wonder and radical attention.
May 15, 2019•8 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver This episode is a conversation with a Mary Oliver's work, an expedition into the wonder her poetry, prose, and way of being stirs. A lens highlighting her practices of the disciplines of creativity, the hustle and flow of working with the muse. The first in an ongoing series of spotlights on sages speaking into and beyond the challenges of our time. Learn more about the ALTER Together studio and membership at https://www.nicolemeline.com...
May 12, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
A guided meditation to celebrate and make peace with your body.
May 01, 2019•9 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This episode explores our embodiment. What it means to live in a body. The mind-body connection. How the body carries, and can clear trauma. Discovering and cultivating athleticism, and movement as medicine and empowerment. The body as a locus of vulnerability, courage, and spiritual life. Learn more about and join the Alter Together Membership: https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline...
Apr 28, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 7
A guided meditation to define your invaluable work.
Apr 17, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 6
You've probably heard the question, 'what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?' But I think a juicier one is: 'What would you do even if you knew you WOULD fail?' Because the process itself feels exhilarating? What flight would be worth a fall? This conversation with Carolyn Williams, the creator of Zephyr cycling studio in Bozeman, Montana is about creating what your heart demands, creating the thing you wish existed, and the courage it takes to do so, the wrestling match with fear and d...
Apr 14, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
A guided meditation to direct you heartward. What is your home frequency?
Apr 07, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 4
'Heartward: Moving from the still center through the noise through darkness through resistance Making space for the heartbeat the ache, the vision however quiet, however fearful THAT IS YOURS. yours. for all of us.' This episode explores meditation, restoration, integration, and waste—the ways we re-connect to the heart, and the cultural pressure these practices face. We (explore) meditation as a spiritual technology of integration, a toolbox for growing through pain, confusion, desire rather th...
Apr 07, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 3
A guided meditation to drop you into your heart. How are you called to alter? To altar? To become? https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/meditation1
Mar 31, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to ALTER, hosted by Nicole Meline. This podcast explores the practice of transformation as a conversation between hustle and flow Altering – changing, growing, becoming And Altaring – offering, surrendering, opening to divine conspiracy Here are adventures in alignment and conspiracy, awake to all the grit, dirt, and complexity of our world, alert to the graces that come alongside the struggle, the hustle. A cocktail of soul food, new rhythms, and street wisdom. Encouragement – an infusi...
Mar 31, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to ALTER. This podcast explores the practice of transformation as a conversation between hustle and flow, altering and altaring. Hosted by Nicole Meline, this cross-genre, culture-shaping journey ignites imagination and explores personal and creative growth through bold stories, raw conversations, wondering meditations. It's the dance of the leader, athlete, artist, entrepreneur committed not just to optimal expression, but to exceptional being. Adventures in alignment and conspiracy, aw...
Mar 15, 2019•4 min
