The Sophia Institute to proud to bring you a very special hybrid event with
Elizabeth Kulze

“From Burden to Blessing: Embodying the Divine through Female Biology”

 Saturday, February 8, 2025
10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET

All registered participants will receive the video recording link to this program to watch at your convenience.
2.5 CEUs available by contacting:  info@thesophiainstitute.org

It’s one thing to believe women are powerful beings, but it’s quite another thing to feel this way in our bodies.

Modern culture is saturated with the rhetoric of female empowerment, and yet, many of us continue to experience our bodies and their unique capacities—the very sources and living expressions of our femaleness— as burdens, impediments, objects of shame, punishments by a vengeful god, or else entirely empty of meaning and intelligence.

– This is why we can “have it all” and still not feel like enough.
– This is why we can believe “all bodies are beautiful” and still feel disgust every time we look in the mirror.
– This is why we can proselytize “the importance of self-love” and still be unable to feel this love outside of the validation of a romantic relationship.
– This is why we can believe “aging is something to celebrate” and still dread the coming of another birthday.
– This is why we can rail against “the objectification of women” while continuing to believe that our bodies must be starved, hardened, surgically augmented, plasticized, fetishized, or coveted in order to be acceptable or worthy of value.

If you’re one of the many women who has experienced this painful disconnect, a disconnect between what you believe and say and how you feel and behave, then this seminar is for you!

Using a blend of metaphysics, psychology, reflection, evolutionary anthropology, and embodied spiritual practice, you will discover how the source of this disconnect is your estrangement from the living reality and intelligence of your body, and how healing this relationship can awaken you to the divine presence that dwells within, freeing you to lead a more courageous, sustainable, creative, and abundant life. This is what the great feminist thinker, Audre Lorde, meant, over forty years ago, when she spoke of the erotic as power.

Together, we will learn

– How our suffering is actually a call to come home to ourselves and reintegrate the deep wisdom of our bodies back into our lives.
– How the experiences of menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause are not merely biological realities, but profound spiritual teachers that can allow us to inhabit a sense of ourselves that is predicated on love, gratitude, and awe, as opposed to shame and sense of lack or unworthiness.
– How awakening to the divine presence and erotic power within us can allow us to become inwardly resourced, align with our inner light, and thus, empower us to walk the path of our destiny instead of the path of our conditioning.

Bring your mothers, sisters, daughters, and girlfriends, and come experience the fullness of your femaleness as you never have before.

Meet Liz Kulze

Elizabeth Kulze is a mother, writer, and educator from the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

She is dedicated to restoring feminine wisdom, paradigms, and practices to all areas of contemporary life—including maternity, spirituality, creativity, and ecological stewardship—and teaches courses and workshops intended to support and nurture others in the furtherance of this mission.

Her foundational course, Motherhood: A Metaphysics, has helped women all over the world overcome anxiety, fear, shame, and the need for control, so that they can experience their fertility and Motherhood journeys as opportunities for self-empowerment, healing, and spiritual growth.

Her fiction and reportage have appeared in The New England Review, The Stinging Fly, The Master’s Review Vol. V edited by Amy Hempel, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast, among other publications.

She has worked as a journalist and taught in both secondary and higher education.

She received her BA in Honors English and Creative Writing from Boston College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wyoming.

She lives with her husband and two young children in Atlanta, Georgia where she is at work on various writing projects. She is proud to have lived everything she teaches.