Alter

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  

Gratitude is the greatest drug in the universe. 

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 @

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 b

A guided meditation by Dana Trixie Flynn, to accompany episode 8, '0 to God.'

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

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 WEIG

A guided meditation to cultivate your body as an incubator of the future.

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 star

A guided meditation toward wonder and radical attention.

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.

A guided meditation

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.

A guided meditation to define your invaluable work.