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.

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If you are looking for guidance to heal your body image, relationships, and sensuality, these books are for you.

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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

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Trailblazer Running Program: https://www.nicolemeline.com/trailblazer

The Visionary Mastercourse: https://www.nicolemeline.com/visionary

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

A holiday blessing and year-in-review meditation to integrate the past into wisdom for the future.

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Sacred Holiday Playlist

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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.

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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

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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.