Our Story
Magic: any mysterious, seemingly inexplicable, or extraordinary power or quality.Offering a variety of classes, workshops and private healing sessions that pull from ancient wisdom on shamanistic and mysticism-based practices, we connect to each person’s authenticity.
Here, at the Magic of Life, we believe that life truly is Magical, when we find the willingness to allow it to be. And we want to help you create that space, that Magic, in your day-to-day life!
We live in a day and age where we have knowledge at our fingertips. Vast bodies of knowledge have been compiled by anthropologists and historians, giving us the ability to see what is shared throughout traditions from across the globe, spanning all of human existence. Many of these, look to ecstatic states for answers about the nature of reality and have always known of the energies that modern physics has proved to be true.
Offering a variety of classes, workshops and private healing sessions that pull from ancient wisdom on shamanistic and mysticism-based practices, we connect to each person’s authenticity. These traditions include things like pranayama, Zen meditation, Ayurveda, Feng Shui, Anthropologist Dr.Feliticas Goodman & The Cuyamungue Institute’s research on ecstatic postures, and many more.
The owner and central practitioner, Elizabeth Ann Goodman, holds certifications in Yoga (200 hr CYT, currently working towards 500 hr RYT), Kai Chi Do, and Perception Therapy. In addition, she has also studied engineering and has an A.A., with a philosophy minor.
Elizabeth Ann Goodman has been a lifelong student of philosophy and energetic practices. Growing up in the hustle and bustle of New Jersey life, it became essential for her to try to make sense of this world and find some peace. She practiced karate from early childhood, receiving her black belt and winning the nationals multiple times, which is where she first heard the concept of Chi, or life force. She was always an avid reader of philosophy, becoming absorbed in Sean Paul Sartre, Jung, and Emerson as a teenager.
She professionally obtained her Kai Chi Do teaching certification in 2013, her 200 hour Yoga Teaching Certification (CYT) in 2014 from Aquarian University, and is actively finishing her 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification (RYT), the highest level of certification one can obtain in this field, which enables her to provide yoga teacher trainings.
In addition she was certified in Perception Therapy through Alternative Treatment International, in 2014, which deals with the concept that perception forms thinking, which forms behavior. She has an A.A. from SWFL State College, with a philosophy minor, that she obtained in 2011 and has since studied both psychology and environmental engineering at FGCU.
Additionally, she spent many years in professional sales and is a small business owner, resulting in a well rounded balance of right and left brain thinking. She will be returning to school to finish the last year of her undergrad in the UCF, BS in psychology program, with a neuroscience concentration, fall of 2020, and then plans to pursue graduate studies in Anthropology.
Joy vs Happiness
“Joy and happiness are wonderful feelings to experience, but are very different. Joy is more consistent and is cultivated internally. It comes when you make peace with who you are, why you are and how you are, whereas happiness tends to be externally triggered and is based on other people, things, places, thoughts and events.”