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The ModernZen Collective PodcastBoundaries as Shields: July's Animal Medicine ReadingA sacred Animal Medicine card pull reveals powerful boundary medicine for July through the wisdom of the Armadillo. Drawing from the respected Animal Medicine card deck by Jamie Sands and David Carson, Lizzy shares a profound reading rooted in Native American wisdom that speaks directly to our collective need for healthier boundaries this month. The Armadillo - with its natural armor as part of its physical being - teaches us about creating energetic protection that allows harmful words or intentions to simply roll off.The reading explores how many of us struggle with saying "no" e...2025-07-0112 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastLiving the Light: Embodying Summer Solstice Energy in Everyday LifeThe summer solstice isn't just the longest day of the year—it's a powerful energy portal that ancient wisdom traditions have celebrated for millennia. As the sun reaches its zenith, we too are called to step into our fullest expression and harness the transformative energies of illumination, expansion, and empowerment.What would it feel like to truly own your light? To shed the protective layers we've accumulated—like removing sunglasses that shield our eyes or heavy coats that hide our true form—and allow ourselves to be fully seen? This episode explores how summer's abundant sunlight offers more t...2025-06-241h 01The ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: The Nature Connection: Finding Inner Peace Through Outdoor MeditationReconnect with the earth beneath your feet and the divinity within through our guided walking meditation practice. When was the last time you truly felt present in your body and connected to the natural world around you? This transformative experience invites you to step outside, breathe deeply, and rediscover the profound healing that comes from mindful movement in nature.Our walking meditation begins by establishing a physical connection with the earth, feeling each step as an anchor to the present moment. This practice serves as a powerful antidote to the disconnection many of us feel in our...2025-06-0909 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastSacred Cacao: Heart Medicine for Modern Times with Angelica GraceDiscover the ancient wisdom of ceremonial cacao as more than just chocolate – a sacred plant medicine with the power to heal your relationship with the divine feminine within. Psychic medium Angelica Grace takes us deep into the world of this heart-opening elixir, sharing how it's transformed her life and the lives of countless women seeking reconnection to their authentic selves.Angelica reveals how ceremonial cacao differs dramatically from commercial chocolate, carrying the energy of generations of indigenous farmers who cultivate it with reverence and intention. She explains why cacao is referred to as "she," embodying the nurturing en...2025-06-0340 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Sun-Kissed Stillness: A Nature Embodiment MeditationHave you ever felt that your connection to yourself and the world around you has become dulled by the constant noise of modern life? This episode offers a sanctuary—a guided meditation practice that gently leads you back to your senses, your body, and the natural world that holds us all.Lizzy guides you through a sensory meditation designed specifically to be experienced outdoors. Rather than complicated techniques or esoteric concepts, this practice returns to the fundamentals: feeling sunlight on your skin, noticing the sounds around you, experiencing the support of the earth beneath you. The meditation mo...2025-05-3011 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastYou Are Already a Trailblazer in Your Own StoryWhat does it truly mean to shatter a glass ceiling? Rachel Patton's song "Broken Glass" sparked a profound realization during a morning drive with my toddler. For years, I believed trailblazers were only those making headlines as the "first woman to..." in their industry or field. This limited perspective prevented me from recognizing my own revolutionary acts.The truth is more personal and powerful: trailblazing happens when we choose paths different from our families, communities, and the expectations placed upon us. When I left my corporate career during the pandemic to pursue yoga teaching—something I'd saved fo...2025-05-2707 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastThe Hidden Toxins Impacting Our Energy + Health: A Conversation with Rebecca GlickEver wondered why you're feeling constantly fatigued despite seemingly doing everything right? The answer might be hiding in your kitchen cabinets, bathroom shelves, or even that scented candle you love so much. In this eye-opening conversation with functional medicine health coach Rebecca Glick, we pull back the curtain on the often misunderstood world of environmental toxins.Rebecca breaks down what toxins really are—not just buzzwords on wellness blogs, but genuine health disruptors lurking in our everyday environments. These substances accumulate over time, creating what experts call a "toxic burden" that can manifest as inflammation, hormone imbalances, en...2025-05-2027 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Guided Meditation for Energy Clearing and Divine ConnectionDiscover the transformative power of energy clearing in this guided meditation episode from the ModernZen Collective. When life feels overwhelming or your spirit feels weighed down, this practice offers a sacred reset button for your entire being.The meditation guides you through a powerful visualization process where healing white light flows from your crown through your entire body, dissolving tension, releasing blockages, and creating space for renewal. As the practice deepens, a golden protective light surrounds your energetic field, ensuring only positive influences can enter your space while negative energies are gently repelled.What makes...2025-05-1608 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastEnergetic Hygiene: Essential Practices for Empaths & IntuitivesAre you constantly drained after social interactions? Do you absorb others' emotions like they're your own? Your spiritual sponge might need some serious wringing out.The modern empath faces unique challenges in today's energetically chaotic world. While your sensitivity is a profound gift, without proper maintenance, it quickly becomes an exhausting burden. This episode dives deep into the science and spirituality behind energetic hygiene—the essential daily practice for sensitive souls.Discover why that mysterious fatigue, anxiety, or unexplained physical discomfort might actually be someone else's energy you've unconsciously absorbed. Through quantum entanglement and auric fi...2025-05-1327 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastChanneling Explained: Opening Your Spiritual GatewayHave you ever felt an inexplicable urge to call someone who turns out to desperately need to hear from you? Or received a sudden flash of insight that solved a problem you'd been struggling with for weeks? What if these weren't coincidences but evidence of your natural ability to channel information from beyond your conscious mind?In this revealing exploration of channeling, Nikki shares her personal journey from skeptic to practitioner, detailing how she discovered her channeling abilities while seeking comfort during her father's illness. Through free writing after meditation, she began receiving messages that were clearly...2025-05-0646 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastSpiritual Q&A: Unveiling Alignment: What It Actually Feels LikeWhat does being in alignment actually feel like? As this concept has replaced manifestation as the spiritual community's latest buzzword, we realized it deserves deeper exploration beyond the surface-level understanding most of us have.Alignment isn't about everything magically becoming easy or perfect. It's about developing a profound relationship with your authentic self and recognizing how your body signals when you're moving in harmony with your true nature versus forcing yourself down paths that don't serve you.The physical sensations of alignment are unmistakable once you learn to recognize them: a sense of lightness, inspiration...2025-04-1734 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastBONUS: April 2025 Arcturian Channeling with Nikki: Rest Like the Universe is Watching (Because It Is)The Arcturians have a message for humanity that couldn't be more timely: our programming to stay busy is blocking our spiritual evolution. Through this powerful channeling for April 2025, they reveal how we've been conditioned since childhood to fill every moment with activity, creating stress patterns so normalized we hardly notice them anymore.When we live in this state of perpetual busyness, our nervous systems become dysregulated, our chakras blocked, and our intuitive guidance muffled. We find ourselves running from one task to another, wondering why we're exhausted and disconnected from our purpose. The Arcturians explain that this...2025-04-1710 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Grounding into Taurus: Finding Stability Amidst Change Guided MeditationFeeling untethered in a world that never stops spinning? This guided meditation offers a sacred journey back to your foundation through Mother Earth's embrace. The ground beneath your feet holds ancient wisdom and unwavering support – yet how often do we truly connect with this powerful energy source? In this deeply restorative practice, we guide you to reestablish your relationship with the earth element and your root chakra, the energetic foundation of your entire being. Through vivid visualization and gentle breathing, you'll journey to a peaceful meadow where you'll learn to extend energetic roots deep into the nurturing soi...2025-04-1712 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastYoga Beyond the Mat: A Journey Through Traditions and Philosophy with Kloe Zhang LattingWhen Kloe first stepped onto a yoga mat 16 years ago, weight loss was her only goal. Today, after thousands of training hours across India and beyond, she understands yoga as something profoundly different – a spiritual practice that leads to liberation from conditioned thinking.This episode takes you on a remarkable journey through diverse yoga traditions, revealing how commercialized Western yoga often misses the essence of this ancient practice. Kloe expertly unpacks the distinctions between Bikram, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Iyengar, Yin, and Restorative yoga, explaining their unique purposes and philosophical foundations.Nikki & Kloe explore how traditional yoga ba...2025-04-171h 20The ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Solar Eclipse Guided Reset: Surrender & RealignmentReady for a cosmic reset? Our solar eclipse meditation offers a sacred space to surrender what no longer serves you while opening your heart to divine realignment and new possibilities.This guided practice transports you beneath a vast starlit sky, where the moon's passage across the sun becomes a powerful metaphor for your own journey of release and renewal. As you breathe deeply, you're guided to dissolve old patterns and limitations into the cosmic darkness, trusting that you're safe in this space of surrender. The meditation connects you with the rhythm of the universe—the same energy th...2025-04-1707 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastEmbracing the Pivot: When Change Is Your Greatest Business AssetPivoting isn't admitting defeat—it's a sign of business intelligence. Lizzy and Nikki share a candid behind-the-scenes look at their entrepreneurial journey, revealing how they've learned to recognize and release strategies that aren't serving them.Drawing from their experiences in corporate environments, solo entrepreneurship, and now partnership, they discuss the freedom that comes with making swift decisions rather than waiting for scheduled evaluations. They share personal examples of holding onto platforms and processes that drained their energy, only to find renewed creativity and alignment after finally letting go.Your business provides valuable feedback when you're wi...2025-04-1730 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Divine Timing & Sacred Union – Trusting the Flow of Love Guided MeditationHave you ever felt that your life was missing purpose, joy, or deep connection? This guided meditation offers a sanctuary for those seeking to realign with their authentic selves and open to the flow of divine love.Lizzie and Nikki guide you through a transformative practice that begins with grounding. This visualization helps release the need to force or control outcomes, instead surrendering to the perfect unfolding of your path.The journey deepens as you connect with the radiant green energy of love within your heart center. Here lies a profound truth: sacred union begins...2025-04-1709 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastNumbers Don't Lie: The Hidden Power Behind Your Wedding DateWhat if your wedding date carried an energy that could shape your entire marriage? In this fascinating conversation, Nikki shares her thoughtful approach to wedding planning as she prepares to marry her fiancé, Kyle. Rather than simply selecting a convenient Saturday, she's incorporating numerology and astrocartography to choose a date and location with intentional energy.Discover how different numbers create distinct relationship dynamics - from the stability of "4" to the abundance of "8" to the spiritual connection of "11." Nikki explains why September 26, 2025 (which reduces to an 8) represents infinity, material wealth, and reciprocal energy between partners. Meanwhile, dates adding t...2025-03-2536 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Guided Meditation for Awakening Feminine Flow, Intuition, and ManifestationHave you ever felt disconnected from your intuition or struggled to manifest your desires? Our newest guided meditation offers a solution by helping you reconnect with your divine feminine essence - that powerful, creative energy that exists within all of us.This practice guides you through a journey of awakening feminine flow, enhancing intuition, and activating your natural manifestation abilities. We begin by establishing a sacred connection with Mother Earth, grounding your energy and allowing you to feel fully supported. From there, we activate your sacral chakra - the center of creativity, pleasure, and flow - visualizing...2025-03-2108 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastBONUS: Arcturian Channeling with Nikki: Navigating March 2025What if those unexplained aches, fatigue, and heightened sensitivities you're experiencing aren't random maladies but evidence of a profound evolutionary shift? The Arcturian Council of Light offers revelatory guidance in this channeled transmission about Earth's transition into higher frequencies.This episode illuminates how our planet's long-standing polarity of light and dark has served as the catalyst for humanity's growth and development. Just as we learn most powerfully through direct experience, this duality has created the perfect conditions for our collective evolution. The Arcturians reveal that these current growing pains—physical discomforts, emotional intensification, and spiritual awakening symptoms—are...2025-03-2116 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Spring Equinox Activation: Rebirth & RenewalSpring arrives with a whisper of possibility, inviting us to shed winter's heaviness and step into renewed purpose. Our Spring Equinox Activation meditation offers a sacred space to honor this transition, guiding you through a powerful practice of renewal and intention-setting.Amid the rush of daily life, we often forget that we, too, are part of nature's cycles. This gentle 9-minute meditation reconnects you with that fundamental truth. Through guided breathwork mirroring the rhythm of life—inhaling for awakening, pausing in transition, and exhaling what no longer serves—you'll prepare your body and spirit for transformation....2025-03-2009 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastEmbracing the Spring Equinox: Why January 1st Isn't the Real New YearThe modern world has conditioned us to believe that January 1st is when we should launch into ambitious resolutions and dramatic lifestyle changes, yet when we examine ancient wisdom and our own bodies, we discover a profound truth: the Spring Equinox represents our true energetic new year.Lizzy and Nikki reveal why those first three months of hibernation aren't a failure of willpower but rather perfect alignment with Earth's natural cycles. Drawing from Ayurvedic traditions and astronomical reality, they explain how winter months are biologically programmed for rest, reflection, and integration — not for pushing against our nature wi...2025-03-1934 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: Guided Meditation: Wellness as a Cycle – Honoring the Natural Rhythms of GrowthHave you ever felt guilty for needing rest or struggled to make peace with the natural ebbs and flows of your wellness journey? For those moments when life feels out of balance, we're sharing one of our most treasured practices – a guided meditation that reconnects you with nature's wisdom and rhythms.This gentle yet profound meditation guides you through the seasons of wellness, using the metaphor of a tree to help you understand how growth, abundance, release, and rest all play vital roles in your wellbeing. Just as trees don't bloom year-round, we too move through cycles th...2025-03-1808 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastManifestation, Magic & the Secrets We Were Never Taught with Hannah SummerhillWhat if your memories of reality aren't as reliable as you think? Join Nikki for an intriguing discussion where we dissect the puzzling nature of collective false memories and their implications on our understanding of timelines and the possibility of living in a simulation. Our guest on today's episode, Hannah Summerhill, a manifestation coach and one of our highly trusted and recommended experts in our Practitioner Collective, helps unravel these mysteries. Together, we explore the balance between seeking objective truths and embracing the inexplicable, emphasizing the role of self-awareness and healing in grasping the essence of our reality.2025-03-111h 16The ModernZen Collective PodcastReleasing the ‘All or Nothing’ Mindset in WellnessEver set up the "perfect" wellness routine only to fall off on a practice or two a few times and then give up on the whole thing? Join us as we dive deep into our personal wellness journeys on this episode of the ModernZen Collective podcast, where Nikki shares her steadfast commitment to a holistic skincare regimen, and Lizzy opens up about evolving her wellness habits during pregnancy. Together, we explore how adapting our routines to life's changes can bring about a balanced, purpose-driven lifestyle that encourages flexibility and joy.Morning rituals take center stage as we...2025-03-0429 min