The ModernZen Collective Podcast

Lizzy Sutton & Nikki Sucevic
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Are you ready to elevate your mind, body, and spirit? Join Lizzy Sutton and Nikki Sucevic on The ModernZen Collective Podcast, where conscious women come together to explore the art of living with purpose, balance, and spiritual grounding. Whether you're a single professional navigating the pressures of urban life or a stay-at-home seeker yearning for deeper connections, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic practices and personal growth. Tune in as Lizzy and Nikki delve into ancient wellness secrets, expand your consciousness, and help you discover your true life purpose. We tackle the challenges of work-life stress, the quest for inner peace, and the journey of rediscovering who you truly are, to be able to live in alignment. Here, we embrace the unconventional, celebrate community, and empower you to step beyond societal norms to find balance, joy, and holistic living. The ModernZen Collective Podcast is here to guide, educate, and connect women ready to transform their lives. Discover a world where balance, joy, and holistic living are within reach. Connect, grow, and thrive with The ModernZen Collective—your space for holistic wellness in the modern world.   

  1. 2D AGO

    Crossing into the Year of the Horse: Clearing Space for Forward Energy

    The snake helped us shed. Now the Fire Horse asks us to run. This conversation dives into a year defined by natural propulsion, honest choices, and forward motion that doesn’t require hustle. We explore why courage isn’t loud bravado but quiet alignment, how truth beats comfort when you’re ready to stop shrinking, and why creating space outperforms chasing speed. If you’ve felt pulled in five directions or stuck in familiar patterns, this guide to Fire Horse energy gives you the tools to clear clutter—physical, mental, and social—and move with intention. Nikki breaks down the symbolism of the horse as life force in motion and the clarifying power of fire to reveal what no longer fits. You’ll learn how to spot people pleasing, overexplaining, and overcommitting before they drain your momentum, plus a simple somatic compass for decision-making: expansion versus contraction, clean yes versus obligated yes. Instead of forcing progress, we map a path for aligned movement that sustains like a marathon—direction over drifting, simplicity over noise, and small steps that compound into real change. You’ll hear practical ways to travel light—renegotiating outdated roles, decluttering your environment, and resisting the urge to fill newly opened space with the nearest familiar substitute. We talk nervous system regulation, healing signals from the body, and how release often returns your vitality faster than any motivation hack. The Fire Horse year rewards initiation, integrity, and the willingness to choose purpose over permission. Start the page, send the email, take the class you’ve delayed for a decade. Your alignment serves your circle and strengthens the collective. Reflection Moment As we cross into the Year of the Horse, reflect on what you’re ready to release so momentum can feel free rather than forced. What becomes possible when you travel lighter? Episode Links S2/E110 - Numerology For 2026: From Closure To CreationInspiration video by Send a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    38 min

  2. FEB 11

    Valentine’s Day Didn’t Invent Love, It Just Rented It: February 2026 Arcturian Channeling

    Let February be the month you finally let your body catch up to your growth. We open the door to integration and embodiment—moving from fresh awareness to steady action—while releasing the pressure to sprint toward clarity. Along the way,  Nikki shares an Arcturian transmission that centers pure love as the month’s natural frequency: love for self, love for others, and a renewed tenderness for the world we live in. We reframe mistakes as signals of courage rather than signs of failure. By softening shame, you create the safety needed for change to take root. We talk about why uniqueness is not a branding exercise but a spiritual imperative, how to align your pace with your nature, and what gentle momentum looks like in real life. Expect simple, grounding tools—mirror work, breath-based resets, micro-boundaries—that help the nervous system settle and your choices align with your truth. The conversation also widens the lens on love beyond romance. Giving and receiving become reciprocal practices that open channels for synchronicity, healing, and practical progress. As mid-month energies invite release and reset, we offer language, rituals, and reminders to support you in starting a new paragraph without re-litigating the past. If you’re craving progress without burnout, clarity without force, and a way to live what you know, this one’s for you. Press play, share it with someone who needs a softer path forward, and subscribe so you never miss the practices and transmissions that keep you grounded and growing. Your next step doesn’t need to be loud to be real—just honest, kind, and yours. Send a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    11 min

  3. FEB 10

    The Moment That Changed Everything

    Some moments arrive without a headline and still rearrange everything that follows. We open our February theme of integration with a story from Lizzy's first summer after freshman year, working at a camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where service, nature, and a simple morning ritual cracked open years of anger and made space for trust. What began as survival mode, born from divorce and parentification, softened into presence through an unmistakable full-body experience during Morning Shine. Call it grace, God, or the felt sense of something larger; the language is personal, but the shift is universal: the body often knows first. From there, we walk the slow path of healing that doesn’t fit a highlight reel. Lizzy shares how forgiveness became a practice that rebuilt her relationship with her dad, not by denying history but by loving the person in front of her. We explore how unconditional regard for children who carried too much, illuminated a long-buried tenderness, and how that tenderness later fueled work in wilderness therapy, yoga instruction, and coaching. Along the way, we unpack why gentle momentum beats urgency, how nervous system safety turns insight into action, and how to honor a mid-month energetic threshold with release, realignment, and rest. You’ll leave with practical reflection prompts to help you locate your own hinge moments: the quiet shift you missed at the time, the truth you stopped resisting, and the way that change still shapes your choices. We lean into embodiment over certainty, trading force for trust and chasing for inhabiting. If you’re craving movement without self-abandonment, you’ll find language and tools to move forward with less friction and more faith.  Reflection Moment Take a moment to reflect on a defining experience in your own life. How might that moment still be shaping who you are becoming, even if you didn’t recognize its impact right away? Send a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    26 min

  4. FEB 6

    Practice: Guided Somatic Integration Meditation

    What if the next step didn’t require more effort, just more space? We open the door to a different kind of momentum—one that grows quietly, honors your timing, and lets February be the month where January’s insights finally land. If you’ve been pushing for clarity or afraid to lose progress by slowing down, this guided practice helps your nervous system exhale so your body can catch up to your growth. We start by orienting to support and softening the breath, then move through a gentle body scan from feet to crown. You’ll invite a recent realization to surface—without analysis—and notice where it lives in your body: chest, belly, throat, back, or somewhere subtler. With each inhale, imagine cleansing energy expanding through you; with each exhale, feel the system soften like snowfall after a storm. This is integration in real time: sensation over story, presence over pressure. Affirmations anchor the shift—“I don’t need to rush” and “I can trust the pace of my own process”—spoken in a calm state so they actually take root. We close with a vivid visualization of white diamond light cascading over you, releasing residue and settling what’s ready to integrate. The result is a grounded, embodied readiness that doesn’t burn you out or ask you to be anything other than how you are right now. If you’re craving movement without force, healing without hurry, and purpose you can feel in your bones, this practice is for you. Press play, breathe with us, and let gentle momentum carry you forward. If this resonated, subscribe, share with a friend who’s been rushing, and leave a quick review to help more people find their pace. Reflection Moment After the practice, give yourself a few moments to notice what feels more settled or present in your body. Integration doesn’t need effort—sometimes it just needs space. Send a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    13 min

  5. FEB 3

    Gentle Momentum: Moving Forward Without Forcing

    The calendar says go, but your body whispers wait—and that quiet nudge might be the smartest move you make all year. We open February as a bridge season where integration replaces urgency, clarity arrives through sensation, and progress looks like small decisions that feel honest rather than performative. Together, we unpack what “gentle momentum” really means: less pressure, more presence; fewer checklists, more alignment; slow shifts that still carry you forward. We get candid about the discomfort of not having a word of the year or perfectly defined goals, and why that tension can be fertile. You’ll hear how micro-boundaries, aligned collaborations, and subtle redirections become the breadcrumbs that lead to the bullseye. We share practical nervous system tools so you can choose after regulation, not before—an equal-count breath you can use anywhere, plus curated healing frequencies to soothe the vagus nerve and steady your baseline. Expect clear signals to watch for—tightness, urgency, fatigue—and a simple process for honoring desire without abandoning integrity. If an obligation remains, we show how to exit cleanly and kindly, keeping your word while making room for what’s true. We also zoom out to the bigger arc of a “year one” energy and a collective pivot toward integrity, transparency, and community. The takeaway is both spacious and grounded: you’re not behind if your growth is quiet. February invites you to listen to your body, choose with care, and trust that gentle momentum is still momentum. Reflection Moment As you consider your next steps, check in with your body. What kind of movement feels supportive right now—and what might be asking to slow down or soften? Episode Links The Compound Effect by Darren HardyRife Cure: All Healing Frequency (800 Hz) - Whole Body RegenerationFlow Aligned Coaching Podcast, S1/E9: 4:4 Balance BreathSend a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    46 min

  6. JAN 27

    Coming Home to Yourself: Feminine Embodiment, Presence & Inner Calm with Gabrielle Mastronardo

    What if the life that looks perfect from the outside quietly drains you from the inside? Nikki sits down with mindfulness teacher and feminine embodiment guide Gabrielle Mostronardo to unpack how she left a dream fashion job, rebuilt self-trust, and followed a trail of intuition from Europe to Mexico to Bali. Along the way, she reveals how to tell intuition from fear, what happens in a temazcal rebirth ceremony, and why balancing feminine and masculine energy is the key to sustainable clarity, creativity, and calm. We trace the practical steps that moved her from burnout to embodiment: full-spectrum yoga that goes beyond poses, hypnotherapy that dissolved an “I don’t trust myself” core belief, and a quantum-informed healing protocol that calmed her nervous system and sharpened her inner guidance. We also dive into yoga philosophy—Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna—and how balancing these energetic channels unlocks kundalini energy and real-life momentum. If you’ve ever felt caught in overdrive, outsourcing your worth to job titles, productivity, or other people’s approval, this conversation offers a grounded path back to your body’s wisdom. Gabrielle shares simple practices to start today: micro-moments of mindfulness, breathwork to find equilibrium, and a yes/no body check for everyday decisions like food, rest, and commitments. We also talk about the “wounded feminine,” the costs of living in perpetual control, and how to make space for receiving without dropping your goals. Her platform, Maia Conscious Living, brings it all together with 1:1 coaching and a new group program on feminine embodiment designed to help you regulate your nervous system, tune into intuition, and choose aligned action that lasts. If this episode sparks a shift, share it with a friend who needs permission to trust herself. Subscribe for more grounded conversations on holistic living and personal growth and leave a review to help others find the show. Your voice helps this community grow. Episode Links The Embodied Feminine - 33 Day Initiation into Feminine EnergyGabrielle's HypnoSend us a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    1h 24m

  7. JAN 27

    Practice: Deep Winter Rest: A 30-Minute Yoga Nidra for January Integration

    What if the best way to begin the year is by not forcing a beginning at all? We open the door to a different January—one that honors the threshold between what was and what’s still becoming. Instead of chasing clarity, we invite presence, deep rest, and the kind of listening that reveals what’s quietly unfolding beneath the surface. With warmth and steadiness, Lizzy guides you into a 30‑minute Yoga Nidra designed for winter: get comfortable, settle your body, and choose an intention not as a fix or a goal, but as a way of being. Through simple cues and gentle awareness, you’ll enter a state of conscious rest where the body sleeps and the mind remains softly awake. The heart of the experience is a vivid winter visualization—dark, fertile soil beneath you, silent snowfall above, and a sense of being fully held. This imagery reframes stillness as capacity, not emptiness. By attuning to the earth’s quiet potential, you loosen the grip of urgency and reconnect with the deeper pacing of your own life. We close with a caring return to wakefulness, repeating your intention and inviting small movements that help you carry this calm into the rest of your day. If you’ve felt behind, pressured, or unsure how to start, let this be your reset: you’re right on time. Press play to rest with us, begin the year with presence rather than pressure, and let clarity arrive when it’s ready. If this practice supports you, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a pause, and leave a review to help others find their way to rest. Listener Reflection Rest has a way of revealing what effort cannot. After this Yoga Nidra, notice what surfaced — sensations, emotions, or quiet insights. What would it feel like to trust that clarity is unfolding in its own time? Send us a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

    31 min

  8. JAN 20

    Against the Grain of January: Listening to the Season Instead of Society

    What if January isn’t the time to sprint, but the time to listen? We step into winter as a threshold, an intentional pause where rest becomes action and receiving becomes strategy. Instead of forcing resolutions against bare trees and short days, we explore how aligning with the season strengthens intuition, steadies the nervous system, and lays the groundwork for a more authentic year. Nikki unpacks the tension between society’s push for instant reinvention and nature’s quiet cadence. We revisit Ayurvedic wisdom and circadian rhythms, talk about creating white space in a culture that rewards constant output, and share how to train your body to feel safe in stillness. You’ll learn why “slow is the honest pace,” how to spot the hidden costs of overriding winter (burnout, shame-based goals, lost intuition), and simple practices that shift your state: buffer your schedule, take phone-free walks, savor grounding foods, and protect the morning theta window for soft visualization. This is a season to let desire mature without measuring output. Think of January as a holding pattern that consolidates nine years of learning and readies you for spring’s clean momentum. We offer reflective questions to guide your integration, and gentle rituals—from mirror affirmations to fireside pauses—that build a foundation of warmth, presence, and self-trust. Choose stillness before strategy and watch your plans root deeper, your energy refine, and your path clarify without the push. Listener Reflection If you stopped treating January like a starting line, how might your body, energy, and expectations shift? Let this episode invite you into the slower, quieter wisdom of winter — where rest, reflection, and integration come first. Episode Links S2, E113: Closing 2025 With Gratitude, Numerology, And Magic: A Collective ReflectionS1, E45: Embracing the Spring Equinox: Why January 1st Isn't the Real New YearSend us a text Support the show Thanks for listening to The ModernZen Collective Podcast. 🔮 Ready to step deeper into this work? Our monthly bonus subscription unlocks expanded teachings, guided practices, exclusive interviews, and channeled insights to support your spiritual journey. 📘 Explore our Free Library, where you can access monthly Listener Reflection Guides that pair with our podcast conversation episodes—your space to go deeper, journal, and integrate what you’re learning. 💫 Meet our curated Collective of holistic practitioners—trusted experts who can support your growth and fast-track your transformation through personalized, aligned modalities. ✨ Want to stay connected between episodes? Join our email community to receive first access to new offerings, seasonal challenges, and exclusive wisdom from The ModernZen Collective—straight to your inbox. 🌿 Follow us on Instagram @modernzenco & personally at @lizzysutton.co &...

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Are you ready to elevate your mind, body, and spirit? Join Lizzy Sutton and Nikki Sucevic on The ModernZen Collective Podcast, where conscious women come together to explore the art of living with purpose, balance, and spiritual grounding. Whether you're a single professional navigating the pressures of urban life or a stay-at-home seeker yearning for deeper connections, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic practices and personal growth. Tune in as Lizzy and Nikki delve into ancient wellness secrets, expand your consciousness, and help you discover your true life purpose. We tackle the challenges of work-life stress, the quest for inner peace, and the journey of rediscovering who you truly are, to be able to live in alignment. Here, we embrace the unconventional, celebrate community, and empower you to step beyond societal norms to find balance, joy, and holistic living. The ModernZen Collective Podcast is here to guide, educate, and connect women ready to transform their lives. Discover a world where balance, joy, and holistic living are within reach. Connect, grow, and thrive with The ModernZen Collective—your space for holistic wellness in the modern world.   

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  • Creator
    Lizzy Sutton & Nikki Sucevic
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    124
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The ModernZen Collective Podcast
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