The Grotto Podcast

This episode is a short and sweet look at the interplay between movement, mindset and getting better with time. Join me as I reckon with becoming a beginner again.

UPDATE: shoutout to those who downloaded this episode in the first 45 min, love you. I didn’t realize the audio issues. They have been resolved.

x Brittany

Treat your body as a lighthouse, a bright, enduring signal in the darkness of a dying world.

Almost a month ago, mine shutdown. Cut off from anything that brings me pleasure (like this podcast) and staring in the face of a world disruptive to the way I am wired, I had to get creative..

I have always been insecure about my ability to communicate. Over time I just accepted that it would never be my strong suit until I started doing the work to be able to bring my visions to life.

Having this platform has stretched me into something closer, but I’d be lying if I said I felt like a “real writer” or “real podcaster”. I am not sure what my inner critic even means when it worms its way in and effortlessly nickpicks everything I do/say/am. I still feel major imposter syndrome at times, but I have been creating the evidence through my “body of work” that I can do anything I want, as long as I get my body on board. And that’s what I want to talk about today.

x Brittany

This week we seek to inhabit the body and mind fully in order to reunite us with our personal magic. You may use this on a walking route you think you know well or you may lay down, close your eyes, and allow your subconscious to present a series of images that will be the most meaningful to YOU.. like a personal cinematic masterpiece.

x Brittany

In this episode, I explore what it means to stay alive to life — to choose eros, even when the air feels heavy. Through the gesture of Pushpaputa Mudra, reflections on awareness, and the shimmer of silver light on cloudy waves, I return to the mind as a place of offering. What I’ve learned is simple: what I bring my light to becomes more beautiful.

My dad’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-jeff-greene-a-legacy-of-love-and-support

DISCUSSED:

Richard Miller on Yoga Nidra https://shop.irest.org/pages/yoga-nidra-a-meditative-practice-for-deep-relaxation-and-healing?srsltid=AfmBOooMIWBHYUuLWInu5BfH6H-kpl1qDV5qy0DrzUzZ5Z1uq6LeDYF0

Lindsay as Liz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuinujlh6ew

Pushapata Mudra Embodied Yoga Flow by Lisa Weinhold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1gr_F_e9k

Nairy Fstukh on Substack https://substack.com/@softmoonrising?

On changing position http://103.203.175.90:81/fdScript/RootOfEBooks/E Book collection - 2023 - B/RARE E-BOOKS/The_Heart_of_Tantric_Sex_A_Unique_Guide_to_Love_and_Sexual_Fulfillment.pdf

WAYS TO CONNECT:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

A season turns, and with it, we enter the Reflective Sage.Like the first cool wind through yellowing leaves, this archetype asks us to pause, to listen, to shape space with our presence.What happens when you are here, in this golden turning?

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

Welcome to Place Magic, a mini series examining the archetypes we can draw from our physical environment. This episode is an ode to our nation’s capital, and my “college town”, Washington DC. Each episode will present a sensory snapshot of a place I have lived and how we have shaped each other. I invite you to inquire into how this process has occurred in your own life.

x Brittany

DISCUSSED:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/636-quiet-storm/

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

DISCUSSED:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/636-quiet-storm/

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

In this reflective season finale, we explore the framework of looking, feeling, and witnessing—first through a painting, then through the lens of the podcast season itself. By zooming in and zooming out, we examine not only what art and archetype can reveal, but also how our internal state informs every outward creation. A quiet, sensory exercise unfolds into a meditation on burnout, rhythm, and desire. This is a pivot point for the Visionary Alchemist. Let it meet you wherever you are.

DISCUSSED:

Instinct for Water by Maria Filoupolu

https://belgraviagallery.com/blog_article/maria-filopoulou-instinct-for-water/

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

In this 20-minute Yoga Nidra practice, you’ll enter the state where transformation becomes inevitable. This guided meditation is designed to help you embody the Visionary Alchemist archetype — the version of you that doesn’t chase outcomes, but instead weaves reality from inner knowing.

Using the metaphor of the spider’s web, this practice invites you to:

- Stay loyal to your dreams and desires

- Trust that the world is always reflecting your inner truth

- Re-pattern your subconscious beliefs with softness, not force- Create your life as a living work of art

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.

I recorded this one before sunrise—barefoot, and a little under-rested. It’s a meditation on desire, the kind that moves through sound, sensation, and subtle noticing.

This week, I’m unraveling the difference between being seen and being witnessed, between reaching for attention and reclaiming your own gaze.

There’s Baldwin in here. Morrison too. I bring you into the “sonic grotto”—that place where your longing meets language—and we let it echo. Just the awareness that sometimes your desire is your direction.

Ways to Connect:

Practice Yoga Nidra with me: https://www.youtube.com/@InnerNoseYogaNidra

Follow Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanyygrn/?locale=us&hl=am-et

The Inner Nose Universe on Substack for Yoga Nidra BTS, new podcast episodes and creative ideation: https://innernose.substack.com/

Support The Grotto by signing up for my Substack email list to recieve new episodes in your inbox every Sunday or by subscribing on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please rate, leave a review or share the episode with a friend. :)

Hosted by Brittany Greene.