Evergreen Joy
Ranch Retreat
July 23-27, 2025
A full reset for your body & spirit exploring the theme
Evergreen Joy
cultivating joy amidst all of life’s seasons & challenges
Let’s gather under Colorado’s big skies at a mindfully designed mountain ranch for regenerative movement, wilderness, friendship, and vision.
“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 Basecamp
We will rekindle ourselves in rustic luxury at magical Beyul Retreat, in a gorgeous river valley 1-hour outside Aspen, Colorado.
Our light-drenched movement space, farm-to-table meals, and dramatic big sky will inspire fresh creative vision.
Beyul (“Bay•yul”) is a Tibetan word meaning "hidden lands," which honors the idea of real places, as well as a state of mind, in which physical and spiritual worlds unite and illuminate the hidden layers of ourselves.
Explore the wilderness within yourself as you wander trails through forests and meadows, and along creeks, on Beyul’s 32-acres, playfully woven with natural art installations.
Beyul is dog & bike friendly, as an incredible starting point for some of Colorado’s best road and gravel riding, as well as rock climbing & paddleboarding.
Our Journey
Our day begins with easeful mornings for meditation or a walk on a forest trail through our ranch playground, then we gather for a long-form ALTER movement practice—a music-driven, yoga-inspired strength workout, integrating meditation and guided journaling sessions— followed by an energizing farm-to-table brunch.
Afternoons are yours for exploring the vibrant area and what is unfolding in your heart, with a swim in the river running through the ranch, a sauna/cold plunge, a short hike to an alpine lake, a trip to Aspen, or the option of a horseback ride with stunning mountain views, or personal mentorship session with Nicole.
We will gather again for an early evening ALTER restorative and meditation practice followed by a leisurely dinner with rich conversation. Woven with a few surprises...
July 23
3:30 - Check-in
5:00 - Opening Circle & ALTER practice
July 24 & 26
7:30-8:30 - Light Breakfast
9-10:30 - ALTER practice in barn studio
11:00 - Brunch
12:00-5:00 - adventure time: ranch exploring, hiking, creek swims, horseback rides, alpine lake hike, bike rides, mentorship sessions
5:00 - ALTER restorative practice & workshop, guided journaling, & conversation
6:30 - Dinner
July 25
8:00-8:45 - ALTER practice
9:00 - Breakfast
10-3 - Trip to Aspen
5:00 - ALTER restorative practice
6:30 - Dinner
July 27
3:30 - Check-in
5:00 - Opening Circle & ALTER practice
Aspen Adventure
Our retreat includes a day trip into Aspen to explore its gorgeous beauty & creative culture.
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.
Investment
EARLY BIRD rates until April 15th
Single Occupancy: Cabin or lodge room with private bathroom
$3,300
Increases to $3,600 on 4/15
Double Occupancy: Cabin or lodge room
$2,900
Increases to $3,200 on 4/15
Triple Occupancy: Cabin or lodge room
$2,400
Increases to $2,700 on 4/15
Includes:
ALTER movement & meditation practices + workshops
Farm-to-table meals: light breakfast, post-practice brunch, and dinner (dietary restrictions will be accommodated)
All day tea & coffee
Welcome gift
Use of sauna, hot tub, & cold plunge
Free range of Beyul’s land, creek, & hiking trails
Day trip to Aspen, including transportation
a 30-day membership to the ALTER Together Digital Studio
Additional Options:
1:1 Personal Mentorship session with Nicole
Horseback Ride on guided trail
Massages
Bring your dog, if booking a cabin
Personalized Photoshoot to celebrate your becoming
Post-retreat full-day 1:1 Personal Mentorship Immersion with Nicole (email team@nicolemeline.com)
“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!”
Retreat and Travel Details
Travel Information
The closest airport to Beyul is Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE) (1 hour drive away), or the Denver International Airport (DEN) is a (gorgeous) 4-hour drive away. If flying in to Denver, you may want to stay a night in Denver or in a Colorado mountain town on the way, and make a day of exploring. If flying in to Denver, probably best to rent a car, but from the Aspen airport, you can take an Uber/taxi from the airport to the ranch, or for a group transport option, join our Retreat Shuttle to & from Aspen airport to Beyul for $100 each way: Departing ASE airport 2/23 at 3:00pm, and Departing Beyul 2/27 at 10:45am.
Arrival and Departure
Check-in at Beyul begins at 3:30pm. Our opening circle and first ALTER practice begins at 5:00pm
Check-out by 10:30am on July 27. Retreat programming concludes at 10:00am, with brunch from 9:15-10:00am.
Dietary Allergies
Our meals together each day will be nourishing farm-to-table spreads with many options. We are happy to include vegetarian and vegan options and to accommodate dietary allergies; please note yours when you register. A light breakfast will be available before our ALTER movement practice from from 8-9am, and coffee & tea available 24/7.
Accommodation Occupancy
For double or triple occupancy, price listed is per person. Double occupancy is guaranteed if you register with a roommate and note their name during registration. If you are registering alone and request double occupancy, a roommate will be mindfully matched, and rate is dependent on sufficient paired requests. If no other roommate is available, you will be booked as single occupancy.
Payment Policy
The reservation deposit is not refundable for any reason.
If you need to cancel before the May 15th payment balance deadline, you will not be responsible for the remainder of your payment.
Should you need to cancel on or after May 15th, 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
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
Digital Connection
Beyul Retreat has high speed wifi in the Lodge lounge and dining area, which you can access at any time. There is no cellular service, though you can turn on your phone’s wifi calling to make calls. There is no wifi in the cabins, but they are a 5-min walk away from the lodge, should you need it, giving you the chance to fully disconnect for a digital detox.
More Questions?
Email team@nicolemeline.com for any further questions or concerns.
Follow the adventure at @alterjourneys and Nicole at @nicolemeline
A note from Nicole
I have searched for over a year for a retreat ranch with the spirit ALTER embodies: soulful, intentional, accessible, profound, and playful. The moment I stepped onto Beyul, I felt that energy. I cannot wait to share it with you, and to witness what unfolds in us immersed in this sacred wilderness.
This is a moment in the world in which it is vital to build spiritual community: like-hearted friends who are our allies as we grow into the bravest, most creative versions of ourselves.
This moment also invites us to become crystal clear on our purpose, how we are uniquely gifted to create and lead, as well as to restore ourselves, in response to this moment.
From my heart to yours, welcome to this retreat.
If your heart is prompting you, make the investment in yourself, and in the friends waiting to meet you.
The transformation begins now.
From here to the mountains of Colorado,
upward, and heartward.
With love,
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.
