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Nicole Meline
ALTER explores the practice of growth. Hosted by Nicole Meline, this cross-genre conversation ignites imagination and explores spiritual and creative growth through bold stories, raw conversations, wondering meditations. Encouragement—an infusion of courage—for the moments you need it most. Join the conversation at nicolemeline.com
An initiation into the lunar new year of the Fire Horse, with its energy of momentum, power, creativity, visibility, leadership. Release the past and open to a new beginning.
Join me for the Fire Horse Initiation ALTER practice live, or via the replay: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/programs/live-fire-horse?category_id=144852
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities. ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a cathartic blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation. Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections. All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Fire horse 2026
Fire horse meditation
Fire horse ritual
Fire horse yoga
Fire horse meaning
7 books that made me ask "where has this been all my life?!" These are powerful initiations into a sisterhood of wise, spiritual, wild women. The books I would give to every women, at any age, but especially to my teenage self forming a relationship to her body. Love letters to your powerful shakti energy yet to be awakened.
Subscribe to Nicole's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NicoleMelineCreative
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*Links to all these books : *** https://www.amazon.com/shop/nicolemeline/list/15MWM09YGG7I7?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_35K7K0JT1SG5NDJ4QC5A
Women Who Run With the Wolves - https://amzn.to/4g20Ckh
The Dangerous Old Woman - https://amzn.to/41sInP6
Untamed - https://amzn.to/4oX2eQl
Awakening Shakti - https://amzn.to/4nuBzZV
The Wisdom of Your Body - https://amzn.to/47GcS8b
Pussy: A Reclamation - https://amzn.to/47j7tDJ
The Dance of the Dissonant Daughter - https://amzn.to/47nMXSl
Blossoms and Bones - https://amzn.to/3VsXm81
Kim Krans' The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck - https://amzn.to/3VsXm81
Additional Books in the same spirit: https://www.amazon.com/shop/nicolemeline/list/15MWM09YGG7I7?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_35K7K0JT1SG5NDJ4QC5A
If you are looking for guidance to heal your body image, relationships, and sensuality, these books are for you.
Explore Nicole's programs, courses, & 1:1 coaching: https://www.nicolemeline.com/programs
Explore the ALTER Together studio and membership at https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities. ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul. The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation. Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections. All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Ready to reclaim your wild feminine power? In this video, I’m sharing the Goddess Energy Book Club — the books I wish I could give my 15-year-old self (and every woman navigating reinvention, reclamation, or redefining aging). Together, we’ll explore stories, memoirs, and spiritual guides that: ✨ Reconnect you to your divine feminine wisdom 🌿 Help release shame and reclaim pleasure as power 🔥 Invite you into a bold, soulful reimagining of faith, body, and identity 🌸 Celebrate aging as initiation — a cocoon, a rebirth, a becoming These are the books that can wake up the goddess within you, spark healing, and inspire creative, courageous living at any age.
What is your story of aging? How has it been shaped, and by whom? What do you WANT your story of aging to be? We get to choose. And our relationship to aging effects how we age, whether we radiate our essence as the years pass and manifest our dreams, dwelling in possibility, or fade into inaction, defeat, and depression.
This is an introduction to the mindset and daily practices for aging to become sage-ing: growing in wisdom, possibility, and radiance. I share how to age powerfully and celebrate the gifts of aging into your fullness.
Resources I share in this episode: The Aging Powerfully Bundle: https://www.nicolemeline.com/aging-powerfully
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Goddess Energy Book List: https://amzn.to/3UK1kZQ
Energize 28-Day Reset: https://www.nicolemeline.com/energize
The Uplift Strength Challenge: https://nicolemeline.myflodesk.com/uplift-challenge-checkout
Trailblazer Running Program: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
The Visionary Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
Explore Nicole's programs, courses, & 1:1 coaching: https://www.nicolemeline.com/programs
A FREE GIFT of 4 introductory ALTER spirited workouts & meditations for you: https://www.nicolemeline.com/gift
Committing to a sadhana—a chosen structure of practice—gives you more freedom and creativity, and builds a strong inner infrastructure for this uncertain time.
Alter Together, Energize Reset, Ignite Reset, Uplift Challenge
Evergreen Joy Ranch Retreat (Aspen, Colorado - July 23-27)
A FREE GIFT of introductory ALTER spirited workouts & meditations for you
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This episode explores wisdom from the history of yoga to inspire committing to a sadhana to master the reactive mind, overcome anxiety, and feel more peace and creative freedom.
How to create meaningful gatherings and community.
The Visionary Course & Circle
The Envision Workshop
ENERGIZE & IGNITE Resets
Alter Journeys Retreats
Organifi Green Juice (code: HEARTWARD)
Ka'Chava Protein Powder
Start your ALTER Together Free Trial
A gift of 4 introductory ALTER practices for you
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast!
Connect on Instagram:
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
7 Questions to ask yourself to make a big decision or change
The Visionary Course & Circle: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
The Envision Workshop: https://www.nicolemeline.com/integrate-envision-workshops
ENERGIZE & IGNITE Resets: https://www.nicolemeline.com/programs
Alter Journeys Costa Rica Retreat: https://www.nicolemeline.com/alterjourneys
Organifi Green Juice (code: HEARTWARD)
Ka'Chava Protein Powder
Start your ALTER Together Free Trial: https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter
A gift of 4 introductory ALTER practices for you: https://www.nicolemeline.com/gift
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast!
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
A holiday blessing and year-in-review meditation to integrate the past into wisdom for the future.
Visionary Course
Integrate & Envision Workshops
Integrate Journal & Envision Planner
Amazon Favorites
Sacred Holiday Playlist
Nicole's YouTube
Nicole's Instagram
Learn 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.com/gift
Please rate & review the ALTER Podcast!
7 Principles to meet this moment in the wake of the U.S. election, lead diverse communities, and navigate contentious conversations with love and grace.
Your Dream Year & The Visionary Circle: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
The Integrate & Envision 2025 Workshops: https://www.nicolemeline.com/integrate-envision-workshops
The Integrate Journal & Envision Planner: https://shop.nicolemeline.com/collections/all
Nicole's Amazon Favorites: https://www.amazon.com/shop/nicolemeline
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@NicoleMelineCreative
Connect with Nicole on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
For upcoming events: https://www.nicolemeline.com/newsletter
A free gift of 4 introductory ALTER practices for you: https://www.nicolemeline.com/gift
You're invited to the Trailblazer 12-week training program for your first or your fastest Half Marathon or 5K. Learn more and join: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
For the beginner runner from the couch to a 5K or for the experienced runner looking for fresh motivation and a new perspective on training for your next 13.1 mile personal record.
Trailblazer includes:
- An adjustable, periodized 12-week training plan of workouts, runs, and rest days for each day of the week to prepare you for your race, whether it's your first ever or a new personal record
- 12 Audio Runs designed and coached by Nicole, fusing transportive music with inspiring and instructive coaching for long runs and tempo runs
- A video course with Nicole exploring the training plan and her tips for endurance training, gleaned from 4 Ironman races and several other endurance events.
- Training gear & nutrition recommendations
- An optional add-on of group or personal coaching with Nicole, and strength and mobility workouts designed for runners in the Alter Together digital studio at https://alter.nicolemeline.com
- Walkers welcome! The 5K plan is designed to take you from the couch to the starting line, beginning with walking and building up to running intervals to prepare you for a full-length run. You’re not out of shape; you’re out of practice. Let’s begin.
- Cyclists and full marathoners welcome! The training plan and periodized training principles could also be adjusted for a full Marathon or 50mile or 100mile Century Bike Ride Begin Trailblazer at any time.
- Pick your favorite race to train for anywhere, or set a goal for your own 5K or Half Marathon on a date you choose. This training program will prepare and transform you. Let’s trailblaze!
Who might you become through 12-weeks of excavating your strength? Learn more and join: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
Connect with Nicole on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
You're invited to the Trailblazer 12-week training program for your first or your fastest Half Marathon or 5K. Learn more and join: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
For the beginner runner from the couch to a 5K or for the experienced runner looking for fresh motivation and a new perspective on training for your next 13.1 mile personal record.
Trailblazer includes:
- An adjustable, periodized 12-week training plan of workouts, runs, and rest days for each day of the week to prepare you for your race, whether it's your first ever or a new personal record
- 12 Audio Runs designed and coached by Nicole, fusing transportive music with inspiring and instructive coaching for long runs and tempo runs
- A video course with Nicole exploring the training plan and her tips for endurance training, gleaned from 4 Ironman races and several other endurance events.
- Training gear & nutrition recommendations
- An optional add-on of group or personal coaching with Nicole, and strength and mobility workouts designed for runners in the Alter Together digital studio at https://alter.nicolemeline.com
- Walkers welcome! The 5K plan is designed to take you from the couch to the starting line, beginning with walking and building up to running intervals to prepare you for a full-length run. You’re not out of shape; you’re out of practice. Let’s begin.
- Cyclists and full marathoners welcome! The training plan and periodized training principles could also be adjusted for a full Marathon or 50mile or 100mile Century Bike Ride Begin Trailblazer at any time.
- Pick your favorite race to train for anywhere, or set a goal for your own 5K or Half Marathon on a date you choose. This training program will prepare and transform you. Let’s trailblaze!
Who might you become through 12-weeks of excavating your strength? Learn more and join: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
Connect with Nicole on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
How to find peace with your body, and learn to trust yourself. A conversation with the luminous and deeply wise Hillary McBride. One of the many reasons I want to spotlight her is that her work explores similar territory as my new course Energize: 28 days to supercharge your metabolism and nourish your radiance. I created Energize because I wanted to offer a nutrition program that honors and accepts yourself just as you are, while creating new practices of deeper nourishment for your body as well as your mindset and spirit, and healing your body image. A perspective that sees food as an abundant gift to us, and understands our relationship to it as one of energy both practically and spiritually. You can learn all about Energize and join at https://www.nicolemeline.com/energize
In this conversation with Hillary, we go into how we can be growth-oriented while still living in gratitude and contentment with who we are now. That’s a fine line to dance, and maybe you’ve felt that exhaustion or apathy that can be the mark that you’re living in a constant state of dissatisfaction with yourself, which is a common subtext to a lot of wellness and personal development culture. So we explore how to celebrate and accept what is, even as we practice growth.
Hillary is such a special and powerful voice for our moment. She is that rare form of a public intellectual, translating high level academic scholarship in psychology into the language of the public square and social media.
Her books:
“The Wisdom of Your Body”
“Practices for Embodied Living”
should be manuals for how to relate to your body — this topic most of us receive no formal eduction about growing up, and often toxic ideas modeled by family members or peers. So much wisdom in these books, and in her work, as you’ll hear.
I first heard Hillary on The Liturgists podcast, along with some other great conversations she’s had on the “We Can Do Hard Things" and “For the Love”, and as you’ll hear, her voice itself is good medicine, and her wisdom is vast.
Connect with Hillary:
Website: https://hillarylmcbride.com
Instagram: @hillaryliannamcbride
Connect with Nicole on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities. ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul. The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation. Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections. All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Ignite your energy, reconnect to your heart, and up-level your habits to intentional and sustainable practices that support your wellness and creativity. Join me for the IGNITE 7-day reset for your body and spirit, including a daily meditation, movement practice, and energizing nutrition and metabolism strategies: nicolemeline.com/ignite
ENERGIZE 28-days to supercharge your metabolism and mindset: nicolemeline.com/energize
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
A conversation about the new class of Semaglutide weight loss drugs, outlining the mechanism and side effects, and considering whether this approach to weight loss aligns with your intuition, builds your intimacy with your body, and what the deepest healing of our relationship to food and body image requires.
Inviting you to a new live round of WEIGHTY: https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
Recommended podcasts on this topic:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-ozempic-fix-our-obesity-crisis/id1382804627?i=1000640002580
(A deep dive into the mechanism and research on these drugs)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weight-loss-shot/id1534102062?i=1000599679393
(I love Garance's thoughts on intimacy with the body and the soulful side of these questions.)
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Exploring the stories we have absorbed about our relationship to food, and how we can re-write and re-wire them.
Inviting you to join me for the next live round of Weighty, my 6-week nutrition and mindset reset. Learn more and join: nicolemeline.com/weighty
Approaching weight loss or body recomposition from a loving foundation of your miraculous, already perfection and an orientation of radical self-love, compassion, and gratitude.
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast.
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
How to show up to this year in your radiance and vibrancy, regardless of what surprises it has for you. God stirs in us our wildest dreams to graduate us.
In this wildly unpredictable moment in time, in this tumultuous world, we can design a dream year? Yes, we can. For two reasons...
Your Dream Year course: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
The Envision Workshop: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/checkout/new?o=146306
The Joy Ride: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/orders/customer_info?o=153630
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Toe joints! Snow! Puffer fish! Mini horses! The northern lights! Saturn! Rockets! My little fairy wolf dog Everest snow angels outside, Colors! Christmas castus about the bloom for the 5th year in a row! The smell of a forest! Fire! Friendship! Music! Song! What in the world—we can sing to each other?! Slippers! Electricity!...
Joy is a mode of being. Exploring what it can mean to hope for joy to the world at a particularly dark time? Joy can wrap its arms around the full spectrum of the human experience.
The Integrate Workshop: https://wwe.com/visionary
The Envision 2024 Workshop: ww.nicolemeline.com/visionary
FREE ALTER Joy Ride: https://www.nicolemeline.com/joyride
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
This episode sponsored by Ritual Multivitamins. Code HEARTWARD for 30% off your first order.
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
We grow beyond something by both including and transcending it. Savor: to taste in full, be fully present to.
The Integrate Workshop: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/orders/customer_info?o=146305
Integrate Year in Review Journal: https://shop.nicolemeline.com/collections/envision/products/integratejournal
The Visionary Dream Year course: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
This episode sponsored by Ritual Multivitamins. Code HEARTWARD for 30% off your first order.
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alter/id1456421038
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ivzgfH315SXcMFVibiWdq?si=e195ccab28a34261
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
I call it The Melt...The instant reset into calm, powerful presence.
Begin or re-begin a visionary meditation practice with me.
Mediation Album sale: https://www.nicolemeline.com/meditation-albums
For 25% off: Code PEACEONEARTH for individual albums, or code PEACE for the All In bundle.
Upcoming workshops:
The Integrate Workshop: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/orders/customer_info?o=146305
Integrate Year in Review Journal: https://shop.nicolemeline.com/collections/envision/products/integratejournal
The Visionary Dream Year course: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
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Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
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The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Exploring the practice of integration: coming into awareness and integrity, and alchemizing the past into wisdom.
The Integrate Workshop: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/orders/customer_info?o=146305
Integrate Year in Review Journal: https://shop.nicolemeline.com/collections/envision/products/integratejournal
The Visionary Dream Year course: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
Thank you for rating and reviewing the Alter Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alter/id1456421038
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ivzgfH315SXcMFVibiWdq?si=e195ccab28a34261
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
A meditation to immerse you in your vision of the future.
SOURCED: https://www.nicolemeline.com/sourced
RE-SOURCED Meditations for Manifestation
VISIONARY Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
What stories are your operating in without realizing it? How we can we-write and re-wire our story around money, and all our resources. How we can clear our channel to divine Source.
VISIONARY Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
SOURCED: https://www.nicolemeline.com/sourced
RE-SOURCED Meditations for Manifestation
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
A meditation to connect you with divine Source, the wellspring of abundance.
SOURCED: https://www.nicolemeline.com/sourced
RE-SOURCED Meditations for Manifestation
VISIONARY Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Developing your relationship to resources, a spirituality of money, and your connection to divine Source, in tumultuous times.
VISIONARY Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
SOURCED: https://www.nicolemeline.com/sourced
RE-SOURCED Meditations for Manifestation
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
VISIONARY Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary
SOURCED: https://www.nicolemeline.com/sourced
RE-SOURCED Meditations for Manifestation
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.com/gift
Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
Connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether
The ALTER Together Digital Studio is a sanctuary of movement, meditation, mentorship, leadership training, and heartward community with Nicole Meline. Spirited movement practices including music-driven indoor cycling, yoga inspired mat practice, strength and endurance training celebrating all body types & abilities.
ALTER Indoor cycling is a rhythm-driven journey to build grit and soul.
The ALTER Practice is a blend of yoga, cardio HIIT and strength training, pilates and barre sculpting, ecstatic dance, and meditation.
Let's gather to deepen your practice, fill your mindfulness toolbox, sweat, breathe, and explore delicious mind-body connections.
All ALTER practices draw from Nicole's decades of teaching experience and 20+ years of practice and training as a yogi, founding Peloton master instructor, Ironman triathlete, poet, and speaker.
Collective Effervescence is the rush of energy and joy we feel amidst a community united by shared purpose and ritual.
When we gather together with the purpose of igniting our spirits, opening our hearts, aligning with our highest intentions, that energetic vibration is contagious. A collective energy that lifts us beyond where we can go alone and inspires our bravest dreams and boldest creations.
Invitation to Alter Together Membership: nicolemeline.com/alter
The Alter Together portal: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog
FREE LIVE Warrior Ride & Alter Practice: nicolemeline.com/gather
FREE Introductory Bundle: nicolemeline.com/gift
Alter Journeys Montana Retreat: nicolemeline.com/alterjourneys
The Art of Gathering book
Let's connect on Instagram @nicolemeline
Excavating desire and exploring the underworld of cravings for the invitation underneath.
"We are like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. Infinite joy is offered us, but we are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis
Learn more and join Weighty: nicolemeline.com/weighty
ALTER Journeys Montana Retreat: nicolemeline.com/alterjourneys
ALTER Together free LIVE Launch Gatherings: nicolemeline.com/gather
ALTER Together Membership Portal
Let's connect on Instagram @nicolemeline
The vacation of full presence
Join me in the ALTER Together Membership
and on the ALTER Journeys Montana Retreat June 23-27 or Wilderness Within Mentorship Retreat June 27-30
Meditation Audio Series Cocoon & Catalyst
Episode sponsor Magic Mind : an adaptogenic brain and memory booster with nootropics, which are molecules that enhance cognitive function. Enjoy 50% off your subscription order with code ALTER20
Let's connect on Instagram
Join me for Weighty Live!: nicolemeline.com/weighty
Favorite meal delivery service: SAKARA (code XONICOLE)
Blue Zones book
Blue Zones Cookbook
Envisioning the year of your dreams. An invitation to step into spirited leadership, and join the journey of the VISIONARY Mastercourse. Register at nicolemeline.com/visionary
The space between
Sacred Holiday playlist
Newsletter Sign-up
Integrate Journal & Envision Planner
VISIONARY wait list
A meditation on advent. Welcoming spiritual wanderers and nomads amidst deconstruction and expansion into community.
Four practices for a magical holiday season ✨
The Gratitude Party
To Bless the Space Between Us
Newsletter signup
Weighty 5.0 - beginning November 28th
Your excavation can be your evolution.
Weighty begins November 28: https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
(eros)ion: a meditation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ck6arPVj6dD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Alter Together Membership: https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter
What does it feel like to embody yourself fully? To become weighty? To nourish your radiance and legacy?
An invitation to WEIGHTY:
https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
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.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/
Audible trial: audibletrial.com/alter
Holding space for our becoming this spring
WEIGHTY
Cocoon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Voice memos of your questions: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Audible trial: audibletrial.com/alter
Not so much looking for love, falling in love, but becoming love.
nicolemeline.com/singular
nicolemeline.com/retreats
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Voice memos of your questions: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Audible trial: audibletrial.com/alter
Partnering with the unknown, and expanding your capacity to be held and supported.
Exploring the radiance of rest and the layers of yoga nidra, in conversation with Tracee Stanley
The Alter Together membership: alter.nicolemeline.com
The Envision Workshop: nicolemeline.com/shop/the-envision-workshop
Voice memos of your questions: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Playlist
Audible trial: audibletrial.com/alter
Wisdom app: joinwisdomapp.com/
Radiant Rest: https://amzn.to/3DpqRft
Envisioning the economy of your life
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xzy3ewJA8V0YtSxW63TqT?si=727de7c1468d4846
The Alter Together membership: alter.nicolemeline.com
The Envision Workshop: https://www.nicolemeline.com/shop/the-envision-workshop
Voice memos of your questions: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Changing the story, practicing courage, and building a trustworthy resilience machine:
You're invited to the inaugural ALTER Trailblazer Half Marathon / 5K training journey + virtual race
https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
The bullseye of expansion
To deep dive:
nicolemeline.com/heartwood
alter.nicolemeline.com
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Catalyzing Community worksheet: https://www.nicolemeline.com/catalyzecommunity
music: Infinitesimal by Hidden Tapes
'I live my life in widening circles.'
When we think about living heartward-ly, of attuning to our own, individual vision, and how delicious it is to feel that sense of integrity, how do we harmonize that with our shared common life?
nicolemeline.com/heartwood
alter.nicolemeline.com
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Catalyzing Community worksheet: https://www.nicolemeline.com/catalyzecommunity
Songs Changing My Life
A valentine for your Heartwood year
nicolemeline.com/heartwood
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https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
http://audibletrial.com/alter
A meditation for the In-Between.
In rites of passage, there’s always a liminal space. A time of ambiguity, disorientation. A middle place. A field of uncertainty. Which is also possibility.
show notes: https://www.nicolemeline.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
playlist: Liminal Space
What does it mean to become a peaceful warrior? A woman, a man of the arena? Some field notes for navigating a political climax.
Show notes: nicolemeline.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Beacons for integrating and rebuilding a new world on twin pillars of action and contemplation: deep listening with Richard Rohr, St. Francis, Brené Brown, Rob Bell, Alen Alda, Toko-pa Turner.
Episode show notes: https://www.nicolemeline.com/journal/2020/6/23/action-contemplation-alter-podcast-episode-45
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
In ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
The Envision Summer Challenge: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner
+
http://altertogether.nicolemeline.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6smjXQ8kK5837m7POAusFb?si=gBFO-_jBQgme8_8w5sSmiQ
Amplifying Joy.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Rooting into Source.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Conspire: to breathe together
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Nourishing our becoming.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Gratitude medicine.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
An act of rebel joy today.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
A cocoon of unbecoming and becoming.
This daily meditation series is an invitation to drop in to your heart as we alter together through this season of change.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nfQknkozAmRHckXCqAUPX?si=8j_O6SCXTv6gwhS97c4y-g
For more meditations and soulful workouts, join the community at altertogether.nicolemeline.com
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Two words that are helping me to feel most human, and hopeful:
AND ALSO
And 10 principles for making the best of the worst.
We are an inexhaustible meaning-making, comedy-making, hope-generating species.
Responding requires integration of shifts and changes. It’s a revision of course, that keeps our focus on our values and mission, when the path toward it changes. Fixed goals, flexible means.
nicolemeline.com
Instagram: @nicolemeline
Episode shownotes & playlist: altertogether.com
This meditation is a taste of WEIGHTY: a 28-day journey to revolutionize your relationship to weight and nourishment. To gain weightiness purpose, vision, presence, legacy, to shed stagnant layers, stories, habits, excess, and to revolutionize how you nourish and energize yourself, body, mind, soul, spirit.
Ignite your metabolism. Balance hormones. Nutrition science meets intuitive eating and soulful weight loss.
https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
An invitation to WEIGHTY: a 28-day journey to revolutionize your relationship to weight and nourishment. To gain weightiness purpose, vision, presence, legacy, to shed stagnant layers, stories, habits, excess, and to revolutionize how you nourish and energize yourself, body, mind, soul, spirit.
Ignite your metabolism. Balance hormones. Nutrition science meets intuitive eating and soulful weight loss.
https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
An invitation to WEIGHTY and an introduction to its vision to 'Embody Yourself Fully.'
WEIGHTY begins March 15. Join here:
https://www.nicolemeline.com/weighty
Instagram:
@nicolemeline
@altertogether
Mission Magnetizes Momentum. A Conversation with Jennifer Jairdullo, and an invitation to craft an oath, a refined, personalized mission statement, a sankalpa, for this season of your life or business.
Inspired by the Oath Workshop: www.nicolemeline.com/oathworkshop
Envision Planner: www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner
@nicolemeline
It’s something beyond a resolution and intention. And something beyond a desire. It's a statement of dedication.
An invitation to craft an oath, a refined, personalized mission statement, a sankalpa, for this season of your life or business. Because mission magnetizes momentum.
Inspired by the Oath Workshop: www.nicolemeline.com/oathworkshop
Envision Planner: www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner
https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/2020/2/9/oath-part-1-what-is-your-manifesto
@nicolemeline
A guided meditation to cultivate nomadic belonging—heart as hearth. A home frequency you can drop into any time, any where.
Music:
Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond (Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith) from 'Songs from the Bardo'
Inspired by the Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/envisionplanner
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/?
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/?
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
music:
Gentle Mercy - Benny Holloway
Bloom - East Forest
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/?
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether/?hl=en
Facebook: @nicolejoymeline
nicolemeline.com
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
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, work, celebrations, and adventure.
A deep dive into the moments that most shaped you this past year—challenges as well as heights. You will be guided to recognize and metabolize the lessons your life is teaching you, how you are being led, supported, and invited to grow, build, and create.
This episode is inspired by the Integrate Year in Review Journal at nicolemeline.com.
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether/?hl=en
Facebook: @nicolejoymeline
nicolemeline.com
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
https://www.instagram.com/nicolemeline/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/altertogether/?hl=en
Facebook: @nicolejoymeline
nicolemeline.com
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 you’ve established rituals that pull you in a moment of presence and soulfulness, you will be more free to create. We can think of ritual as a chosen, well-worn pathway that becomes more and more of a home, and the safer we feel, the freer we feel.
So ritual is less a rut, and more a groove.'
And an introduction to the Envision Planner: https://www.nicolemeline.com/shop/envisionandintegrate
And announcing upcoming Utah & California events and a new Alter Journeys retreat in Tulum - February 19-23
altertogether.com
@altertogether
@nicolemeline
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
A guided meditation to accompany episode 10: Q & A, to drop into our interconnection, and conversation with Wendell Berry's 'The Unsettling of America.'
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
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
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-marker moments when we decide on the metrics we use to measure our lives.
My heart’s been whispering this mutinous, terrifying challenge:
‘The story you’re desperate to hear
is the one you’re meant to live into, and tell.”
This world needs stories of the exhilarating mislead. I haven’t heard enough of them. The ways the path swerved, and what we did with it. The ways our hopes and expectations were subverted—the ways things didn’t turn out—they ways things got funky. And so we did. We chose to get weird. The late bloom. The street-wise, long-simmered art. The re-imagined, revolutionary family. The woman, the man who laughs her way, his way into a new way. Who proceeds as though all the juice is in the Mislead. I'm becoming a scavenger of stories of getting lost in the wilderness long enough to become wild.
This is one.
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 for 20 years, with 3 different studios, a huge teaching staff, a big free candy bowl of stick on bindees and rub-on gold tattoos. somehow, there’s always glitter stuck to your feet when you put your shoes on to leave.
You know when Dana’s in the building because of her laugh, which of course she dropped as a sound check—a loud, over the top, invitation and welcome mat to let it all hang loose. There’s a lot of New Orleans in that laugh. More on that later. Her get up’s are as vivid and crazy as her tattoos, full sleeves and then some, there will always be extra leopard print, and probably a Laughing Lotus tee shirt tie dyed with the Dalai Lama or Janis Joplin in silhouette. Her hair a shock of whichever shade of the rainbow feels right, a lotus probably shaved into one side.
The first words out of her mouth: Welcome, family.
Dana’s one of the humans who makes New York, New York.
So full of possibility, pride, play,
She’s one of my joy gurus
One of my goals in this podcast is to introduce you to them, teachers and leaders who are catalysts of transformation—humans who are creating communities and spaces of communal growth, whether brick and mortar, or digital, and daring to create funky family over a sterile business exchange, and stir soulful connections instead of envy or aspiration. Leaders whose mission is to inspire—which is another way of saying, to breathe together.
Dana and I talk about her story and her work, which is basically just been various forms leading dance marathons. We talk a little bit about the history of yoga and its modern lineage, and I want right now to invite to stick around, especially if yoga’s not your thing, because it’s not really about yoga. Yoga’s not about yoga. It’s about everything. For me, yoga is any moment movement becomes a doorway to the heart. And that can mean the smallest movement—a shift of attention to a breath. One rep or step beyond what you thought possible. Ecstatic dance that spins you out of the old thought patterns. A moment of intentional stillness. Any moment we alter.
Dana and I talk about yoga and jazz and sex and God and New York and spontaneity and discipline and creativity and community and New Orleans and resistance and rot and grace. We talk and weave in music, cause it’s our favorite short-cut to God. We talk about scavaging for joy.
We talk about altering together.
Welcome to the conversation with @DanaTrixieFlynn.
Find episode resources, playlist, and show notes at: altertogether.com
A guided meditation in response to episode 7, 'Eat the World'
to regenerate twisted plots
and reset your nourishment.
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 second episode unpacking the surprises of an adventure I took to Bali for two weeks that unexpectedly turned into 2 months.
I knew Simon and I would have a lot to talk about when he answered my questions about how he’s reimagining a vegan gathering place with a wink and a shrug and ‘it all started with pork ribs.’
Both/and, people.
Flesh and spirit.
Radical hospitality.
Food philosophy that encompasses our connection to everything.
I’ve been shaping an experience around food, nutrition, body love, and community called WEIGHTY. If your relationship to food is something you struggle with or have questions around, I cannot wait to journey through it with you. It’s launching soon, and you can find out more at nicolemeline.com/mentorship.
Welcome to the conversation with Simon Jongenotter (@newearthcooking), executive chef of Zest and founder of the New Earth Cooking School.
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 irreducible complexity of life on earth and the real challenges we face as a species and a planet. What I kept discovering over and over in Bali is a community of futurists, deeply smart, reflective, talented, intentional drop-outs of failing systems, drawn to Bali for its ancient tradition of healing. But they’re not just here for personal restoration, and certainly not for retirement. They’re here to heal the world. Big vision. No small states. And surprisingly, for a community of visionaries, radical humility.
I started to realize that Bali was a meeting ground for innovators re-imagining human relationships—to each other, to Spirit, to the planet, and how we can build and create structures and institutions and businesses in honor of that. It’s a hub of people from around the world who are waking up—who want to wake up—to a post-Industrial, post-Individualistic future. They’re the kind of people David Brooks describes in his new book ‘The Second Mountain,’ which envisions two types of characters—First Mountain and Second Mountain people. We climb the first mountain in that first half of life. Then if we’re lucky, we hit a valley—we lose a job, a beloved, our health, our identity. If we’re lucky, the valley is the re-making of us. Suffering expands, rather than shrivels us. We’re broken open. We stage a rebellion—we lose interest in that ego-driven, first mountain ascent toward the prestigious school, the flashy title, job, home, stuff. We start climbing a Second Mountain. It’s no longer about self. It’s about summons. We don’t want to be enriched consumers. We want to be consumed. We want our lives to feed the world, starting with our neighbors. We want to elevate consciousness. We want intimacy. We want the joy of moving together, in a rhythm beyond ourselves.
This episode is about introducing you to some of these radical Second Mountaineers I now call friends and conspirators in reimagining human connection and creativity. I have a word for the teachers that resonate with my soul and purpose—the irreverent reverents that teach me how to be sensually and attentively immersed in the everyday world, for all its pleasure and pain and contradiction, and connected, devoted to Spirit. They’re my joy gurus. And these four innovators I’m about to introduce you to have joined the ranks. These are projects worth knowing about, and stories of that dance between hustle and flow every creator, every innovator begins. Here are field notes from the future.
They say Mama Bali won’t let you go until she has taught you what your next chapter demands. So two weeks became eight. I’m just home, back in Brooklyn, still spinning. Not quite out of the vortex. Altered, rewilded, homed, in a fresh, unexpected way. I didn’t know this journey would be as upending—as unending—as it was, but I’m grateful, and I want to share with you the wisdom, energy, and the tough love I’m still absorbing from this sacred place, this meeting ground, and what I started to recognize over and over as an incubator of the future.
This is why I’m leading a retreat there next November 3-11, called Savage Devotion. I can’t wait to see what Bali has in store. The plan she might have for you.
I’d love to hear what this episodes conversations stir in you, so let’s talk on social media, or leave a comment or question on the episode show notes pages on altertogether.com. And, as usual, look out for the guided meditation episode that accompanies this conversation to drop you into your heart this week, and sit with some of the questions we raised.
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.
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.
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 disqualification and risk, the hustle, and the graces, the flow that carries us as the universe conspires to support the work of our highest intentions.
I’m especially excited for you to meet Carolyn, as I’m leading another Alter Journeys retreat to Montana this June 12-16, and there are still a few spots open. I’ll be teaching indoor cycling journeys at Zephyr and Alter at Foster Creek Farm, our retreat basecamp, in the rolling hills and ranchland just outside Bozeman. I cannot tell you how magical this place is. They call it big sky country for a reason. It expands you. And Bozeman is my new crush. Rustic, smart, secretly sophisticated, mountaineering, foodie town. This will be the third retreat I’m leading there because it’s that magical. In addition to transcendent sweat parties, workshops, and gorgeous meals, we’ll spend a day in the wilderness of Yellowstone. You can find details at https://www.nicolemeline.com/retreats – or on the shownotes to this episode at altertogether.com, and you can get a glimpse of past retreat magic on instagram @alterjourneys. I’d love for you to join the tribe in Montana, or on another retreat this year. Bali, Tuscany, Mexico, and Patagonia are on the horizon.
Frederick Buechner writes that vocation is ‘where the fountain of your joy meets the well of the world’s need’. So the sweet spot, the most satisfying work in our own personal zone of genius, vibration of calling, is this cocktail of bliss and service. Not that bliss is without hustle. This conversation is focused on the oscillation between hustle and flow, that moment when they combine, cross-fertilize into a mode that feels like operating in full power. Optimal being. It’s where fire meets zen, for you.
We happen to be talking about Carolyn’s journey to create Zephyr, but there’s big, broad questions at play, that apply to creation and business, enterprises, and leadership of any kind. Carolyn and I talk about building invaluable businesses that are extensions of our heartspace.
Balancing hustle and flow as an entrepreneur
Defining success, Redefining the bottom line, and measuring our lives by the metric of joy
Cultivating collaboration over competition with people working in the same space
Creating a body-soul playground
And songs that have been lanterns on Carolyn’s (and my) journey
So, join the conversation with Carolyn Williams…
I’d love to hear what this conversation stirred in you, so let’s talk on social media, or leave a comment or question on the episode show notes pages on altertogether.com. And, as usual, look out for the guided meditation episode that accompanies this conversation to drop you into your heart this week, and sit with some of the questions we raised.
I hope you’re inspired to begin the flights that are worth a fall.
‘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 than numbing discomfort. We discuss forms, history, rational and traditional theory, yoga as a broader and deeper practice beyond asana, visualization, and meditation’s amplifying effects over time.
Nicole proposes fresh questions and challenges around your practices of rest, restoration, and integration to cultivate your inner state—the wellspring of your physical and mental health, and the main thing you share with others—and disconnect from the ‘insufficiency industrial complex.’
What is your path home to whole-heartedness? What returns you home to yourself? Do you know the voice of your heart, your spirit?
ALTER is an ongoing, evolving conversation with you, so if you’d like to join the conversation and have a question or comment you’d like Nicole to read and engage with in upcoming episodes, please go to the Contact page on altertogether.com and leave an audio voicemail, send a message, or engage with Nicole and the podcast on social media at @nicolemeline or @altertogether on Instagram or @nicolejoymeline and @altertogether on Facebook and Twitter.
If you’re not on those platforms, email Nicole via nicolemeline.com, where you can also sign up for the newsletter full of soul food - new blog posts, and the books, films, other podcasts, and wellness crushes.
If you’d like to support this podcast, you can join the community at altertogether.com. Click the link TOGETHER to discover an expanding collection of rich resources to support your growth and your igniting work in the world. Exclusive guided mediations and movement practices, live online conversations, a book club, and early access to Alter mentorship courses, events, and retreats, among other surprises. And please leave a review for the podcast on iTunes, which helps others find it and this community. I’m grateful you’re a part of it.
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
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 infusion of courage – for the moments you need it most.
In episode 1, we ask:
Where does Hustle meet Flow?
Where does performance, with its exhausting hunger, meet hibernation and restoration?
Where does work meet grace?
Confidence meet vulnerability?
Focus meet openness and curiosity?
Drive meet play?
Alter with an ‘e’ and Altar with an ‘a’?
How to become a joyful warrior for justice, peace, and your creative work?
How to grow and build at the pace of integrity and joy?
How to honor set-backs, revisions?
The next episode is a guided meditation to take you deeper into the themes of Episode 1.
For resources mentioned in Episode 1, see the show notes at: https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/2019/2/27/episode-1-alter-altar
Alter is an ongoing, evolving conversation with you, so if you’d like to join the conversation and have a question or comment you’d like Nicole to read and engage with in upcoming episodes, please go to the Contact page on altertogether.com and leave an audio voicemail, send a message, or engage with Nicole and the podcast on social media at @nicolemeline or @altertogether on Instagram or @nicolejoymeline and @altertogether on Facebook and Twitter.
If you’re not on those platforms, email Nicole via nicolemeline.com, where you can also sign up for the newsletter full of soul food - new blog posts, and the books, films, other podcasts, and wellness crushes.
If you’d like to support this podcast, you can join the community at altertogether.com. Click the link TOGETHER to discover an expanding collection of rich resources to support your growth and your igniting work in the world. Exclusive guided mediations and movement practices, live online conversations, a book club, and early access to Alter mentorship courses, events, and retreats, among other surprises. And please leave a review for the podcast on iTunes, which helps others find it and this community. I’m grateful you’re a part of it.
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, awake to the grit, dirt, and complexity of our world, alert to the graces that come alongside the struggle, the hustle. Encouragement – an infusion of courage – for the moments you need it most.
Join the conversation at altertogether.com
For additional show notes, visit https://www.altertogether.com/shownotes/podcast-trailer