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The ModernZen Collective PodcastFavorite Rituals & Spiritual Tools of 2025 with Angelica GraceWhat if sacred space wasn’t a room but a feeling you could carry anywhere—through snowstorms, long drives, and the beautiful chaos of raising kids? Lizzy sits down with Angelica Grace, a Shamanic practitioner and cacao facilitator, to trace how small, nature-led actions mature into embodied rituals that keep a family grounded through change.We begin with reciprocity and presence: watching snowfall as a prayer, listening to trees as a practice, offering thanks as a daily muscle. Angelica explains how Shamanic traditions from the Americas shaped her path, and why she treats plants as partners rather than...
2025-12-2359 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastThe Power of Knowing Yourself: Human Design & the Magic of Operating in AlignmentThe moment you stop forcing and start aligning, everything changes. Lizzy & Nikki dive into Human Design not as a personality label, but as a practical framework for making decisions, building relationships, parenting with ease, and finding that grounded sense of “this fits.” Together, we break down the five energy types—Generator, Manifesting Generator, Manifestor, Projector, and Reflector—and show how strategy and authority turn theory into repeatable choices that actually work.You’ll hear candid stories that make the system click: soothing a toddler in seconds by honoring his “direct light” digestion style, embracing a partner’s irregular rhythm...
2025-12-0953 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastSurrender Isn’t Passive; It’s Powerful: The Birth of Blake AdelaideWhat if the moment your plans fall apart is exactly when your power arrives? Today Lizzy shares the story of her daughter’s accidental home birth—a raw, intimate look at how timing, intuition, and partnership can carry you when control slips through your hands. This isn’t a highlight reel; it’s a ground-level view of second pregnancy realities, launching a business days before a due date, and moving from “I hope it works out” to “my body knows what to do.”We track the day from the first signs of back labor and the Spinning Babies technique...
2025-12-0542 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastHow Daily Gratitude Rewires Your Brain And Protects Your Spirit During The HolidaysThe holidays can feel like a sprint through crowded rooms, louder schedules, and a swirl of expectations. We slow it down and root into something steadier: gratitude as a daily, embodied practice that calms the nervous system, clarifies purpose, and brings the season’s meaning back into reach. Instead of pushing through, we show how simple rituals create real physiological change—so gatherings feel nourishing, not draining.Join Lizzy as she unpacks seven science-backed shifts that make gratitude more than a feel-good idea. You’ll hear how the Reticular Activating System (RAS) learns to notice what supports you, w...
2025-11-2530 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastFilling Your Own Cup: Self-Care Beyond Bubble Baths with Marney HenzeThis October on The ModernZen Collective Podcast, we’re moving through our theme of Rituals of Restoration — and this week, we’re talking about what it really means to fill your own cup.Self-care often gets reduced to bubble baths and surface rituals. While those can be lovely, true restoration goes deeper. In this episode, Lizzy sits down with Marney Henze, a yoga teacher, sound healer, and spiritual alchemist based in Sedona, Arizona. Marney creates soulful sanctuaries through yoga, meditation, sound, and creative ritual — guiding others to replenish, renew, and reconnect with themselves.Together, we explore...
2025-10-1453 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastBreaking Open: The Sacred Art of Falling ApartHave you ever felt your life crumbling around you? Those moments when everything seems to fall apart simultaneously can be terrifying—but what if they're actually sacred beginnings?In this deeply personal episode, Lizzy shares her recent experience of completely upending her life. From selling her family home of ten years to embrace a nomadic camper lifestyle with her husband and young children, to the emotional breaking point when their storage unit was broken into and the police never showed up after hours of waiting. That night, after months of holding everything together, she finally allowed herself to...
2025-09-3017 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastThe Spiritual Art of Letting GoAutumn whispers to us of nature's sacred rhythm—a time for harvesting what nourishes us and releasing what doesn't. But why do we cling so tightly to things that no longer serve us? In this soul-stirring conversation, Lizzy and Nikki explore the transformative power of conscious release and how creating space through letting go becomes the very catalyst for manifesting what truly aligns with our highest purpose. Through vulnerable personal stories—from walking away from prestigious career positions to outgrowing friendships that once felt essential—they illuminate how identity attachment, fear of loss, and societal expectations keep us teth...
2025-09-1741 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastSpiritual Q&A: Manifesting in Uncertain or “Low” SeasonsHave you ever felt your manifestation practice grind to a halt when life gets heavy? You're not alone—and there's profound wisdom in these seemingly unproductive seasons.The universe doesn't care about your pretty vision board; it cares about your capacity to hold what you're asking for. When manifestation feels slow or challenging, it's not failing—it's preparing you for what's coming. As Lizzy and Nikki reveal in this episode, the manifestation process isn't just about attracting what you want but becoming the person who can sustain it.Drawing from personal experiences—from Nikki's divine interv...
2025-08-2640 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastIf You’re Waiting for a Sign, This Is It!What if the sign you've been waiting for is right here, right now? Lizzy and Nikki dive deep into the mysterious world of divine guidance, synchronicities, and those persistent nudges from the universe that we often ignore.Through vulnerable personal stories, the hosts reveal how signs appeared at pivotal moments in their lives. Nikki shares how a powerful visualization exercise became her unmistakable signal to leave corporate life without a plan. Lizzy recounts the electrifying full-body experience that brought tears to her eyes—a physical manifestation of divine guidance so powerful she immediately committed to an eight-month ce...
2025-08-1329 minThe ModernZen Collective PodcastPractice: The 4-8 Breath: A Simple Path to Nervous System RegulationTake a deep breath and join us for a transformative journey into the power of conscious breathing. Today's episode features a guided 4-8 breathing practice that serves as both a nervous system reset and a gateway to manifestation.As day seven of our 30-day manifestation challenge, this episode centers on a deceptively simple yet neurologically profound breathing technique. The practice invites you to inhale for a count of four and extend your exhale to a count of eight – a pattern that activates your parasympathetic nervous system and shifts you into a state of calm receptivity. Lizzy guides yo...
2025-08-0110 minThe 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: 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 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...
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