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Hi, I’m Liz, and here’s a little about me…
Like every woman in this world, life continually presents me with a unique array of challenges, gifts and surprises! Over my 54 trips around the sun, I’ve had 4 careers and 4 children. I’ve lived on 2 continents and currently, in 2 cities. I’ve been married and divorced. My body has been injured and healed, both objectified and worshiped. I’ve experienced financial success and scarcity of resources. I’ve felt the joy of love and the sting of betrayal. I parent children who have disabilities and who are beautiful rays on the LGBTQ rainbow. I’ve experienced the power of both praise and shame. I know the feelings of belonging and isolation. Through it all, I’ve been sustained by building and serving community.
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Everyone's life is a wild ride.
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Fortunately, I understood from an early age that the one common thread of my life is ME and valuing my own wellbeing is essential to weathering the tides of life. I’ve been privileged enough to have access to resources and pathways with which I’ve created a foundation of wellbeing. Over the past thirty years, I have trained to become a teacher in various modalities that have been meaningful to me. I am a Holistic Sexuality Educator, YA-EYT-500 Yoga Teacher and Urban Zen Integrative Therapist with specialized training in Yoga for the Pelvis with Leslie Howard. I have been teaching yoga classes and pelvic floor workshops for over a decade and was mentor and faculty in teacher training at Yoga Shanti, NY. I am honored to acknowledge the feminine wisdom and tools I have gained through my studies with The School of Womanly Arts (aka Mama Gena) and The Feminine Wisdom Way. Prior to my teaching journey, I created and expanded Elixir Juice Bars after first starting out my career on Wall Street! I graduated summa cum laude from NYU Stern School of Business. In summary; I am both teacher and student.
My mission has always been to deepen my wisdom and share these resources with other women who have felt what I’ve felt and who desire to feel what they innately are; whole + connected. Collectively, I refer to this composition of learned and lived wisdom as my 5-Petals of Practice, and they are infused into every element of Space + Ritual.
"I created SPACE + RITUAL to be a force in creating a world of humans who feel whole in themselves and deeply connected; to the present moment, to their purpose, to community, and to something greater than ourselves because I believe that’s a world we all want to be a part of."
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You can learn more about me and my journey by listening to some podcasts below, schedule some time to talk with me, or come and say hi at a live event; I’d love to meet you!!
From Love and Connection,
Liz
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Our Mission
To be a force in creating a world of humans who feel whole in themselves and deeply connected; to the present moment, to their purpose, to community and to something greater than ourselves.
Our Values
Inner Truth
Inside each of us there is a voice that is calm, simple and clear. That’s the voice of inner truth. That voice knows that you are whole in yourself and innately connected to Life. When that voice is muted, we lose our Self, our purpose and our joy.” The outside world has a lot to say about who we are, what we ‘should’ do, and how we ‘should’ look or feel. It thrives on disconnecting us from that voice. Everything we do at Space + Ritual is in service to connecting a woman with her inner truth, and supporting the process of honoring it. We create spaces and practice rituals to separate the external chatter from the only voice that KNOWS.
Cycles + Stages
Our planet spins, our moon orbits, we revolve around the sun, and within our bodies, every 28 days for around 4 decades, our inner world cycles. Seasons change, and so do we. We ebb and flow with Life. But this gets lost in our masculine, linear, forward-at-all-costs world, and most of us haven’t learned to live in our True Nature as women. We create spaces and practice rituals that work WITH the cycles in Life and within ourselves. We understand that cycles of change are portals for transformation. They are opportunities to change how we show up. We hold that transformation happens in stages, which we celebrate and integrate along our Life journeys.
Integration + Celebration
Integrating our experiences is a vital, but much overlooked, part of our wellbeing journey. Reflecting, digesting, releasing, grieving and celebrating all we do, what we learn and how we grow - within the context of our whole Life - is the process of integration. In integrating our experiences we deepen them; we RECEIVE them, and they expand us. When we hold space and practice rituals to integrate and celebrate, we actually feel satiated. We stop seeking and start feeling complete.
Sustainability
We recognize that many of us feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities in life. We offer ways to access spaces in your life and rituals you can practice with ease, honoring the resources you have available. Working with spaces you access, and rituals that feel approachable, you begin to feel lightness, strength and joy…right away. And these are the feelings that carry us through our journey and sustain us along the way.
Community + Collaboration
Women embody an infinite array of voices, sizes, colors, cultures, experiences, wisdom, abilities, ages, orientations, and much much more. The expression of the individual brings great value to the collective. We value a community rich in all forms of diversity because we believe that to be a portal to expansion, inspiration of expression, depth of connection and evolving wisdom. There is a world of wisdom and numerous pathways to wellbeing. When we collaborate, we gain access to fresh perspectives and new paths. Interweaving diverse voices, we create a powerful web of wisdom.
