The Grotto Podcast

Not every day calls for transfiguration. Some days just want presence. In this soft, sun-dappled episode, I explore what it means to be “enriched enough”—when the environment isn’t ideal, the energy isn’t soaring, but something still glimmers.

This one’s for the in-betweeners, the almosts, the small rituals that tether you to something gentle and real. I didn’t want to record this episode. So I took a new walk, felt the citrus on my tongue, listened to the rain—and let that be enough.

We talk about being a visionary alchemist in miniature. About the long day of the solstice, and how even in surrender, you can still shape your atmosphere.

Includes ambient field notes, a micro ritual, and a reminder that transformation doesn’t always look like fire. Sometimes it’s just breath, timing, and choosing to see the light already on your skin.

EPISODE NOTES

DISCUSSED:

https://youtu.be/ldqvowj_hM8?si=alVwHuDsDY6JIkpC

https://youtu.be/ySJT7EBMDH4?si=eIwcbBq3CNw8nCCR

https://youtu.be/XNINqgkZVEU?si=obOChdW0O8AI6hXj

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.

What if you assumed it was already happening?

Season 2 of The Grotto with invitation: to shift your atmosphere, alchemize your outlook, and begin seeing transformation not as a future fantasy — but a present reality.

In this season’s first offering, I share how I’m shifting from the dreamier “Dream Cartographer” archetype of Season 1 into something more activated, intentional, and atmospheric. Enter: The Visionary Alchemist — the one who assumes beauty as already arrived, and builds accordingly.

You’ll hear:

Why my current creative compass is guided by webs, not roadmaps

What decision-making has to do with self-concept

The scent of inevitable transformation

Why this season is lighter, more collaborative, and energetically laced with trust

This episode isn’t about finding clarity — it’s about embodying the conditions that let clarity find you.

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 Inner Nose 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.

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Stay safe out there.

x Brittany

Living many lives, saying yes first, and dressing like a memory. In this extended episode of The Grotto, I talk to Chani Ra—stylist, podcaster, and digital shapeshifter—about personal style, fashion as a place to live many lives, and her ongoing resistance to rules. We cover color analysis, manifestation, human design, identity, digital footprints, and the joyous (but challenging) stamina of podcasting itself. A longer offering than usual—meant to feel like a walk together.

Mentioned:

In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae

Matriarch by Tina Knowles

Where to find Chani:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thefashionnap/videos

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thefashionnap

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/princesschanira/?hl=en

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6lwxuRQCKZoH1ulu7DA6Xc?si=a8badd03a4904aed

Connect with Me:

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

Follow me 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.

Season Finale: Drift Back Through the Dream

We begin with the sound of waves and voices—an audio collage of moments, insights, and echoes from this season of The Grotto. Let it wash over you like a tide pulling memory to shore. In the final stretch, I reflect on the path we’ve traced, what it means to dream in motion, and where we might drift next. A closing, a portal —for now.

SEND IN YOUR VOICE MEMOS FOR “BUILD AN ARCHETYPE” SEGMENT:

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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 Inner Nose 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 cozy conversation with Michelle Hotaling of Michelle’s Sanctuary for Sleep , we explore how dreams can be blueprints, how content can be love letters, and what it means to hold a vision in a loud, fearful world. We talk sanctuary-building—both internal and external—and how to find calm, magic, and creative power right where you are, even in the middle of the city. Whether you're an aspiring writer, a dreamy realist, or someone craving stillness, this episode is for you.

🌙 Topics we cover:

Dreaming as a manifestation practice

Creating for yourself vs. for others

Finding peace in busy environments

Writing, ritual, and love letters to the self

Cinderella stories + creative magic

Where to find Michelle:

Spotify: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/meditation-tides-with-michelle-s-sanctuary--6116523

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/michelles-sanctuary/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichellesSanctuary/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/MichellesMeditationSanctuary

Connect with Me:

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 Inner Nose 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 episode of The Grotto, we explore creativity as a sacred act of transformation. Through the lens of experimental art and healing, Brittany weaves together references from the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Carl Jung, and the growing field of neuroaesthetics, while anchoring it all in personal reflections on fashion, embodiment, and symbolic acts as tools for self-renewal.

This episode invites you to view creativity not just as expression, but as medicine—something that can soften, reveal, and reimagine the deepest parts of you.

✨ Topics include:

How symbolic acts can catalyze transformation

Jung’s mandalas and drawing the unconscious

Fashion and personal style as wearable alchemy

The healing potential of beauty and aesthetics

Embodiment challenges to channel archetypes

🕯️ A gentle invitation to play, explore, and heal through art.

Quote from the Episode:

“Last night I felt really out of control so I went and stood under one of the trees by my house..."

SEND IN YOUR VOICE MEMOS FOR “BUILD AN ARCHETYPE” SEGMENT:

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RESOURCES MENTIONED/FURTHER READING:

Lexee Smith on Nymphet Alumni https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kKy6UT4KqQhxoZ3H55QJD?si=d7c58c13a6aa4e74

Your Brain on Art book by Ivy Ross and Susan Magasamen

Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky

~that comment on Goodreads by “Simon”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35793673-psychomagic

Chani Ra’s Youtube Channel for Fashion and Personal Style https://www.youtube.com/@thefashionnap

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 Inner Nose 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.

This week on The Grotto, we continue worldbuilding beam by beam. This “episode” is a 20 minute yoga nidra practice to dive into the Dream Cartographer archetype. Lie down and allow your dreams and desires to be heard and alchemize your findings into something magical. Warning: this experience may be so blissful you do not want to “wake up”.

x Brittany

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 Inner Nose 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.

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 Inner Nose 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.

What if your dreams weren’t just things to understand, but things to use?

This week on Inner Nose, we take it further and apply lessons from the Dream Cartographer archetype. I’m sharing my four-step process for excavating your dreams and transforming them into something tangible—whether that’s art, a new creative project, or even a shift in your identity and the way you move through the world.

Your subconscious is already sculpting creative solutions for you while you sleep. In this episode, we explore how to:

* Extract creative fuel from your subconscious and apply it to your craft

* Use dreamwork as a portal for personal reinvention

* Cultivate wellbeing from within

This isn’t about passive reflection. It’s about taking action—using what’s already within you to shape something new. Just do it.

I’d love to hear about what you’re creating.

x Brittany

SEND IN YOUR VOICE MEMOS FOR “BUILD AN ARCHETYPE” SEGMENT:

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Resources Mentioned:

Sula by Toni Morrison

Download Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/

How To Train Your Mind to Recognize the Love All Around You by Sharon Salzberg

https://onbeing.org/blog/sharon-salzberg-how-to-train-your-mind-to-recognize-the-love-all-around-you/

My Inner Resource Yoga Nidra Practice:

https://youtu.be/baFX0KO0mRw

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 Inner Nose 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.