The Grotto Podcast

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...

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 This is a public episode. If you would like to disc...

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/ho...

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/brittanyyg...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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 whe...

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 t...

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. Ent...

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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 podc...

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...

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 aspirin...

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 invi...

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:...

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 yo...

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. Y...

In this episode we will explore one of the 5 Inner Nose archetypes for world-building, called the Dream Cartographer. I share personal stories of how this archetype appears in my life, and ways you can recognize it in yours. This episode invites you to mine your dreamscape in order to uncover your desires and use them as creative fuel. Quote from the Episode: “For the Dream Cartographer, imaginati...