Welcome! The most important thing to know about working with me is that I go deep. I lead people to slow down, perceive, expand, experience, heal and grow beyond what we usually think of as possible.
I am in my 4th decade as an earth-based spiritual devotee, teacher, scholar, author, healer, community leader, ceremonialist and musician.
I love bringing others more fully into the wonder of living, learning and loving in deep intimacy with nature and spirit.
See my biography at the bottom of this page for details about my experience, training and credentials.
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My Mission
My spiritual mission as given to me by the grandfather teacher of my primary soul group - the Eagle Clan - is to "call the circles and teach the ancient ways."
The Earth, our ancestors, and the planetary light guides invite us to feel the ancient ways blooming in our bodies. These are the parts of us that are fully indigenous to the Earth - wherever we live - waiting to be reborn NOW as we enter more fully into the Aquarian age.
Each one of us can be a node of light which shines more brightly than thousands of souls lost in darkness. Living from our most inspirited, embodied ancestral wisdom - ancient and new - brings true illumination to transform the consciousness, path and future of humanity.
I bring people together to...
• Reconnect with Earth
• Reweave the human story back into the songlines of the land
• Relearn to braid, unbraid, and rebraid the ancestral tendrils that move through our lives
• Repair the tears in our memory of multidimensional intelligence
• Remember how to move through the passageways and portals between timelines across the Akashic fields
More about Liz
Elizabeth Meacham, PhD - also known as River - is an internationally recognized and award-winning spiritual ecologist, author, teacher, healer and musician. She teaches nationally and internationally through ceremonies, workshops, retreats, advanced training programs, and one-on-one mentoring. She is the author of Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices (Findhorn Press/Inner Traditions 2020, and in German: Das Erdseele-Träumen, Neue Erde 2023).
Dr. Meacham received her PhD in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and her MA in Philosophy from Cleveland State University (summa cum laude). She is the founder and co-director of the Lake Erie Institute for Holistic Environmental Education, based in Cleveland, Ohio.
She is trained in the Earth Spirit healing arts lineage of Damaris Chrystal, as well as multiple energy healing modalities from her time learning with Ursuline Sr. Ann Winters and Nancy Herrick.
She holds ancestral lineage knowledge and healing gifts as a descendant of Edgar Cayce on her maternal side, as well as ritual skills in European nature mysticism on her paternal side.
Since 1995, Dr. Meacham has engaged in extensive scholarship, teaching and publishing in visionary environmental thought and nature-based spirituality. She teaches and publishes in the areas of spiritual ecology, ecopsychology, environmental philosophy and earth-based spiritual practices. From 2010 to 2016, she taught in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Ursuline College, in Pepper Pike, OH. Her courses included environmental philosophy, ecojustice, ecopsychology, bioethics, and topics in sustainability.
She has decades of experience facilitating, teaching, mentoring and training teachers and facilitators in colleges and universities, as well as through the 10 to 18-month courses and training programs that she creates and leads, often incorporating world-class national and international faculty.
She maintains an intensive Earth and Spirit-connected spiritual practice that is the central source of information and guidance in all of her work.
She writes, records and performs original ecospiritual music and leads spirit singing circles and ceremonies, including trance dance journeying.
Articles
• The Circle at the Top of the Hill, Peace with Nature edited collection, Neue Erde (2024)
• Magic, Imagination, and the Quantum Self, Sacred Hoop Magazine (2021)
• Karmic Eddies: Personal Vibrational Healing, Indie Shaman (2020)
• Three Steps for Re-Visioning our Planetary Stories, Inner Self (2020)
• The Self System Drawing: Teaching a Sustainable Worldview through Creativity, The Journal of Sustainability Education, Volume 7 (December 2014)