ALTER JOURNEYS
BOULDER
May14-18, 2025
Join me for a visionary retreat in my beloved mountain playground of Boulder, Colorado for regenerative movement, adventure, transformational workshops, and new friendships.
This retreat will be a full body and spirit reset, focused on the theme of
Spirited Leadership
Our workshops and workouts will move you through an arc of transformation to refine the way you lead yourself, how you show up to your creative dreams, and how you inspire the communities you are leading.
I cannot wait to share with you the magic of my home of Boulder: a fusion of athletic and entrepreneurial ambition and stunning mountain beauty, woven with the world’s best trail system.
We will be recharged by morning hikes or runs on my favorite Boulder forest trails, followed by meditations in meadows and alongside creeks. Indoor cycling workouts, yoga-inspired ALTER movement practices, workshops that will refine your vision for your next chapter and your leadership toolbox, and delicious farm-to-table meals, woven with a few surprises…
“The two ALTER Journeys retreats I have attended have been the most transformative trips of my life: renewed energy, new friends who feel like family, and a new way of seeing myself and my future. I’ll be joining many more.”
Our Journey
May 14
3:00 - 5:30 - Check-in at Embassy Suites
5:30 - Retreat Shuttle pick-up
6:00 - Indoor cycling & ALTER yoga flow
7:30 - Welcome Dinner
May 15
9:00 - Shuttle pickup for group hike or trail run
11:30 - Group Brunch
12:30-5:00 - Downtown Boulder Wander / Mentorship sessions
5:30 - Shuttle pickup for evening restorative ALTER Practice & Workshop #1: Becoming a Spirited Leader
7:00 - Sunset Group Dinner
May 16
9:00 - Shuttle pickup for group hike or trail run
11:30 - Group Brunch & Workshop #2: Abundantly Resourced
1:00-5:00 - Sauna / Cold Plunge (optional) / Mentorship sessions
5:30 - Shuttle pickup for mountain town excursion, farm-to-table dinner, and live music
May 17
9:00 - Shuttle pickup for group hike or trail run
11:30 - Group Brunch
12:30-5:00 - Boulder Wander / Farmer’s Market / Sauna & Cold Plunge / Mentorship sessions
6:00 - Group Dinner
May 18
10:00 - shuttle pickup from Embassy Suites
10:30 - ALTER mat practice & Closing Circle
12:00 - Drop Off at Hotel
*schedule subject to change
Boulder, Colorado is a powerful vortex. This gateway to the Rocky Mountains has long been a destination for spiritual leaders, healers, and creatives, and transformative communities. It is a place to release your previous chapter, receive a vision for the next, and expand to create it.
Our workshops and workouts will refine your vision for your next chapter, and curate rich connection with new friends.
Our hikes will be under 2 hours, on moderate terrain with occasional slight climbs. We will have 2 groups, one for trailrunners and one for walkers, and will hike at the pace of joy, leaving no one behind.
Investment
EARLY BIRD rates until March 28th
$2,400
Increases to $2,700 on 3/28
Includes:
ALTER workouts + workshops + hikes.
4 celebratory dinners & 2 lunches (The Embassy Suites include breakfast)
Transportation from recommended hotel to hikes, studio, mountain town excursion, and group meals
Welcome Gift
1 free month in the ALTER Together membership
Does not Include:
Accommodation. Book your room with a special rate for this retreat at our recommended hotel, The Embassy Suites (click here), where our retreat shuttle will pick up & drop off before and after retreat programming, but you’re free to book any accommodation and meet at retreat venues or meet the shuttle at the hotel.
Travel to Boulder. Boulder has a regional airport, but the closest large airport is Denver International Airport (DEN), just 40minutes away, with plenty of taxi/car hire or rental car availability.
Optional Add-Ons:
Personal Mentorship Session with Nicole: 1-hour during the retreat free time, or an extended half-day or full-day session in Boulder before or after the retreat, designed around your growth goals.
Massages / Sauna / Cold Plunge, which are optional and can be booked ahead of the retreat. Details, along with Nicole’s curated guide to Boulder and a suggested packing list, provided upon registration.
Payment Schedule:
The reservation deposit secures your space and is not refundable for any reason, so travel insurance is recommended. If you need to cancel before the April 1st payment balance deadline, you will not be responsible for the remainder of your payment. Registration assumes acceptance of this waiver.
“This retreat sparked a whole new chapter for me. Five days of pure delight. It reconnected me with my power, creativity, and new like-hearted community. Deeply grateful!”
Nicole Meline
Retreat Leader
Transformational mentor, community catalyst, and creator of ALTER movement & meditation.
Having led over 15 retreats, Nicole’s deep training in retreat design and pastoral care will support your connection with your heart and your refinement of your vision.
Learn more about Nicole here.
Retreat Details
Arrival and Departure
Retreat programming begins Wednesday, May 14th at 5:30pm, and concludes Sunday, May 18th at 12:00pm. Late arrival and early departure if necessary are allowed, though we’ll be moving through an arc of transformation together through the course of the full retreat.
Dietary Allergies
Our meals together each day will be nourishing and delicious. We are happy to include vegetarian and vegan options and to accommodate dietary allergies; please note yours when you register.
Payment Policy
The reservation deposit is not refundable for any reason.
If you need to cancel before the April 1st payment balance deadline, you will not be responsible for the remainder of your payment.
Should you need to cancel on or after April 1st, the remainder of your payment must be paid in full.
Travel Insurance
As unexpected cancellations can happen, please consider purchasing travel cancellation insurance. Some travel insurance policies cover some or all trip cancellation costs. With most agencies, insurance must be purchased within 14 days of making your reservation. We strongly recommend purchasing cancellation insurance through your travel agent, or visit this web site to compare insurers: www.worldnomads.com.
Suggested Packing List
Fitness / Yoga clothes
Sneakers and hiking shoes
A sun hat or visor and sunscreen
Bathing suit
Casual attire. If it delights you, festive attire for dinners
Layers for the cooler mornings and evenings
Altar Offering : a token of something you’d like to create amplify, honor, or release, to bring to our Opening Circle
Yoga Mats will be provided
More Questions?
Email team@nicolemeline.com for any further questions or concerns.
Follow the adventure at @alterjourneys and Nicole at @nicolemeline
Welcoming You
Having led over 15 retreats all over the world, I am in awe of the powerful transformations and deep friendships that can unfold over just a few days of intentional immersion in inspiring community in a beautiful place.
With great joy, I invite you to join me in the place I call home, so we can launch each other into our next chapter.
Love and adventure,
Nicole
More Questions?
Email team@nicolemeline.com
or book a 15-min call with Nicole to discuss any questions you might have about the retreat value, community, or logistics:
About ALTER Journeys Retreats
I have always been fascinated by the tradition of pilgrimage—a journey shaped with intention but also intentionally open-ended, unsure of its geographic and spiritual twists. Open to possibility.
A time to make space in life for transformation, inspiration, redirection. To be disrupted, de-centered by the size and strangeness of the world, by artistry and traditions and flavors unimagined. To discover and explore deep strangeness. To be recognized, maybe even adopted, by another world. To feel unknown, even to ourselves, and then to feel our way back home with all senses ignited, and to know it for the first time. To be re-named. Revised. Revived.
My life has been shaped by such journeys—by stepping out of the familiar and routine to give time and space for fresh vision, for the heart to open, for attention to sharpen. To get a panoramic view of the map of my life at a given moment—to understand how past chapters have led to this and where the future calls. To hear what the heart demands.
We can find this kind of perspective in moments of prayerful meditation, on a yoga mat, or in an ecstatic sweat—here, now. But deep work, deep knowing, deep transformation can unfold over the course of a journey away from the lives and the work we’re building so we can return—or swerve—more fully ourselves.
I have dreamed of crafting journeys to these places for a tribe that becomes family along the way. Thoughtfully curated, creatively orchestrated, but spacious enough for the soul to wander, to expand. Adventures, feasts, art, wandering, service, sweat, breath, yoga, meditation, contemplation—guided visioning, journaling, and creative challenges—and excessive time to walk along an ocean or stare up into the clouds.
Journeys that weave in the stories and storytellers of a place, its artisans, its ways of spreading a table, and rich time alongside visionaries and peacemakers who are reaching into its past, reaching into the margins, and creating its future. Journeys that bring us home to the radical heart of ourselves. That root us in joy, however the road unfolds.
