Liz Beachy Gómez is the founder of Ewassa, a nature-based healing practice in the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver, and author of the award-winning book From the Depths of Creation: A Nature-Based Path to Healing.
Liz’s passion for the natural world blossomed when she discovered Brazilian nature-based spirituality in her early twenties. She experienced healing in ceremony, emotional transformation under the rush of the waterfalls, and deep connection to the Earth while walking barefoot in sacred forests. After several years of practice in the tradition of the Orixás, Liz was initiated as a daughter of the ocean (Iemanjá) in 2003 by Babalorixá Carlos Buby, founder of the Templo Guaracy of São Paulo. She subsequently served as temple coordinator in Haiti and then the Dominican Republic for a total of seven years.
Liz is an international public health professional and energy medicine practitioner by training. She holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and anthropology from Kalamazoo College, and a Master of Health Sciences (MHS) degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her training in Andean (Q’ero) shamanic healing practices through The Four Winds Society in 2018.
Descended from ethnic Amish and Mennonites, Liz’s ancestors hail from Switzerland. Her parents were among the first in her lineage to choose to live outside of historical Mennonite communities, thus she was raised in mainstream American culture with an emphasis on the Mennonite values of simple living, non-violence, and horticulture. Liz took the last name Gómez after marrying her husband from the Dominican Republic, with whom she has two children.
After ten years living overseas in West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Liz returned to the U.S. to raise her family while juggling a demanding career. A health crisis eventually spurred her to renounce her full-time work in 2016 and return to nature in search of healing. The nature-based framework she teaches today was born of her own healing journey, her love for the powerful energies of nature (Orixás), and her more recent energy medicine work with clients and groups.
Liz is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and can offer interviews, ceremonies or workshops in any of these languages. Should you wish to schedule an interview, we have a media kit available on request.
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