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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

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A meditation to incubate your next year.

'Vision is just a rumor—just a possibility—until it lives in the body.'

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music:

Gentle Mercy - Benny Holloway

Bloom - East Forest

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Vision-casting your 2020.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

Join me for Cocoon: 9 day audio meditation journey for transformation: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/S26eL6N5

Join me for Catalyst: 7 day audio meditation journey to spark your creativity: https://www.nicolemelinecourses.com/offers/cWvSkj6z

Learn more about the ALTER Together studio and membership at https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter

A gift of 4 introductory ALTER practices for you: https://www.nicolemeline.com/gift

Explore the ALTER Digital Studio, with a free 5-day trial: https://alter.nicolemeline.com/catalog

Learn more about ALTER Together: https://www.nicolemeline.com/alter

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.

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.

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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