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When you slow down, you begin to see the beauty, meaning, and sacredness woven through everyday life.
But first, space must be created to reconnect, soften, and remember who you are beneath the noise, pressure, and performance of everyday life.
That is what inspired these offerings, immersive experiences, and retreats. Spaces virtual and in-person designed for beauty, honest connection, creativity, nature, and remembering what truly matters.
There are seasons when who you were no longer fits, but who you're becoming hasn't fully arrived.
The space in between can feel uncertain, tender, disorienting, and unexpectedly beautiful all at once.
Space to Be You is a digital guide designed to help you reconnect with yourself during seasons of change. The design and care came from several of my own seasons of change.
Through reflection, embodiment, nervous system awareness, and intuitive self-inquiry, you'll explore identity, self-trust, boundaries, visibility, and what it means to move through transition without abandoning yourself.
Inside you'll find beautiful imagery intentionally placed to pace reflective prompts, grounding practices, embodiment exercises, emotional processing tools, and guidance for navigating the in-between.
This guide is for you if you're questioning what's next, moving through a life transition, experiencing an awakening, reconnecting with your intuition, or craving a life that feels more aligned.
Some seasons aren't meant to be rushed.
They're meant to be lived.
Let’s get started, your life awaits.
Created by Amy Leiter
Art Therapist • Integration Guide • Founder of Everyday Illumination
Sometimes magic begins simply by creating space to be fully yourself.
Feeling like you're standing between who you were and who you're becoming?
By slowing down and creating more space in my own life, I began reconnecting with parts of myself that had been buried beneath constant movement, pressure, and productivity. The way I listened changed. The way I created changed. I found myself craving deeper conversations, beauty, nature, shared experiences, and a more intentional way of living.
What began as a personal return to myself slowly became the foundation for everything created here. The guide, the immersions, the gatherings, and the integration sessions all grew from that same desire: to create spaces where people can soften, reconnect, and feel more fully alive in their own lives again.
the exhale your body is craving.
Solo Private Retreats
Dive Deeper in Oregon or a Setting You of Your Choice
Duo Private Retreats
Friends, Partners, Mother/Daughter, Sisters in Oregon or a Setting You of Your Choice
Intimate Groups
Wellness weekends & Celebrations in Oregon or a Setting You of Your Choice
Women Making Shifts
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"I’ve had the support of Amy and my new (retreat) sisterhood to help me remember to always follow the stirring in my heart, especially when it’s messy, because that’s precisely where the magic is."
Stepping into Your Truth, Connecting to Your Desires through Regulation, and Honoring Your Unique Gifts
I’ve been working with Amy individually for a few years now, and she’s helped me find peace and regain my footing through some really tricky moments with my family and my career.
When she invited me to her retreat in Costa Rica, I surprised both of us by saying yes, and I’m so grateful I did.
I had devoted the past decade to motherhood and had thoroughly lost myself in the process. I was worried that I would be a shell of myself forever.
From the moment I arrived in Costa Rica, I felt a stirring in my heart. The entire experience felt like an invitation to sit with myself and acknowledge my needs, thoughts, and desires, along with the habits that had kept me living from a place of lack.
At the retreat, I came back home to my own body and voice. I was surrounded by the support I needed to let go of old patterns. The wildness of the place, the energetic space created by Amy, the community, and the food we shared all made it feel safe to release what no longer served me and remember what mattered most.
I returned home a different person, and the transition was messy. With the integration support of Amy and my new sisterhood, I was able to navigate that mess and continue following the stirring in my heart, even when it felt difficult, because that is where the magic is.
TASHIA, MANIFESTING GENERATOR
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"In our work together I've been learning to surrender to the present moment and trust in divine timing. This retreat was the perfect experience to practice that, but on steroids. My life is transformed."
Connection, Surrender, and Divine Timing: A Transformative Soul Journey
“I've been working with Amy for the past two and a half years and she has supported me being able to connect within so I can surrender to the present moment and trust in divine timing. This (January, Costa Rica) retreat was that experience but on steroids. It was so amazing!
Intentionality is what I feel the emphasis of the entire experience. The energy work, sacred rituals, the food, accommodations, and excursions were all amazing. Everything was super thought out and went with the flow of like how the group was feeling and experiencing. So yeah, this trip was like life changing. It was so great.”
MADDI, MANIFESTING GENERATOR
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"The space Amy created in Costa Rica was the most incredible opportunity for each one of us to practice in real time what we are working on while, really showing up, getting deep, and vulnerable, but also have such a fun time."
Unlocking Your True Self and My Week in Costa Rica
“The space created in Costa Rica was the most incredible opportunity for each one of us to really show up, get deep, get vulnerable, but also have the most such a freeing time.
I really felt like I was able to connect back to myself and step back from a world where a lot of things can pull you out, (of the present moment) right?
Work, personal life, everything comes up, but here, you can just focus on what your themes and lessons are, building stronger relationships with new friends, old friends, but also yourself.
I feel like each one of us had a lot of incredible breakthroughs and new lessons learned that we'll be able to take back with us into life, so when things pulling us left and right, we are still be able to keep this mindset. This mindset of feeling grounded, centered, loving, and feeling alive.
LAURA, MANIFESTOR
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"As I became more of my authentic me, I quit my 9-5 job and began building my own business. What I am learning with Amy is how to choose what lights me up and to live without burning out."
“Overcoming Anxiety: My Journey of Transformation”
Over the past two years now I have been working with Amy and she's helped me change my life.
When I came to Amy, I had a lot of anxiety and I didn't know where to put it or how to manage it. I didn't know why different things were happening in my life and I didn't know how to cope with them and I was generally overwhelmed and a little bit lost and she held the space for me to do really great work and I've been able to drastically reduce my anxiety.
I've been able to carry a healthy pregnancy, with twins! I have two beautiful girls that I'm able to be present with them as their mom. Using different tools through Soul Mapping, (a blend of Human Design, Astrology, and Gene Keys), I've been able to reconcile what my own desires are.
I quit my 9-5 job. I am building my own business, doing things that I think are interesting and exciting, not burning out.
I am pursuing a”
I am pursuing a life of peace and ease and self-fulfillment and because of that, I find I'm able to give so much more to the people around me and much of that can be attributed to Amy and the space she holds and the work she did with me.
VERONICA, MANIFESTING GENERATOR
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“I’ve been working with Amy virtually, and the energy work and clearing that happened during this trip was beyond anything I’ve ever experienced. It was the perfect complement to everything I’ve been integrating. My heart feels lighter, and I feel more free.”
Restoring Mind, Body and Spirit and Creating Sustainable Growth
“This last week was so transformative. I feel very restored and excited to come back from a trip (with growth and tools) that felt so sustainable and bring that sustainability into my own life.
Throughout this 7-day journey, I was able have the space and the time to fully process a lot of the lessons that I've been exploring in the last two years and also integrate them into what I'm doing now.
And I just can't wait to go home and live out my everyday life and continue this path of self-exploration with what I know is in my heart now.
EMMA, MANIFESTING GENERATOR
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"I literally wanted to just yell from the rooftops and tell every single person I knew, I'm alive, I'm alive."
I wanted to share my retreat experience with Amy that I had a few months ago. Before I left for the retreat, I was at capacity, really (I was) out of capacity for much. I was exhausted, I was mentally drained, I was eating all of the things that I wanted to eat but not necessarily that were serving me and I was ready for a shift.
I didn't know what that shift was and I just went (to Costa Rica) and I didn't know how to explain it or didn't understand what I was getting myself into but I knew and felt that it was going to be a good thing.
When I left Costa Rica, I came home and I realized haven't felt like that in years upon years, and if I may even childlike.
I felt refreshed, my body just felt like a whole new being and I literally wanted to just yell from the rooftops and tell every single person I knew, I'm alive, I'm alive.
And I assure you, this experience will transform you in ways you cannot yet imagine and just go for it. Just do it, book it, and you won't regret it.
ELIZABETH, GENERATOR
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“Amy has been able to share her tools with me and in that process given me a bigger toolbox that now I'm passing on to my clients."
I'm a frequency healer using Reiki, guided meditation, and Tibetan sound bowls.
It has been helpful as a practitioner to receive from Amy. She works with healing through a comes from a different angle than what I do. I have been working as all of us have with my inner child and dealing with my shadow and all of that fun stuff. The work Amy does with Soul mapping gives a unique access that makes Soul Contracts feel much more understandable and seen in the Astrology, Human Design, and Gene Keys charts.
It’s awesome to see what a clear channel Amy is and her own unique skills. She senses the current energetics and she gets right to the heart of what is happening. Amy has been able to share her tools with me and in that process given me a bigger toolbox that now I'm passing on to my own clients.
Amy shares openly, honestly, and authentically what is in the charts and coming through her intuition. She has been able to help me tap into new levels of myself and I highly recommend you're going to see her for her approach.
LILY, PROJECTOR
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"Unlocking the humanness in our human “mess” through Connection to Self"
“Thank you for sharing the gift of your wisdom and creativity your ability to unlock the humanness in our human “mess” connects us to ourselves at a fresh and deeper level. I want you to know that I value you as an amazing spirit guide on my own personal journey as a leadership coach.
With appreciation…”
JANET, GENERATOR
Internationally-Certified PCC-Level Leadership Coach, Navigating Brilliance
Contract work with Janet and Corporate Coaching Clients connecting to intuition and their brillance.
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“During my session Amy dialed right into what I needed with confident grounded authenticity.”
I received deeper knowledge about myself through my Astrology + Human Design chart.
Amy’s intuitive discernment of what is indicated in the chart, and suggested actions to address it, was invaluable. She explained what the charts were indicating in clear terms and honed in on aspects that were key to understanding how to move forward and through perceived blocks.
The information that was covered was summarized and sent to me for continued access as a resource and review, which I greatly appreciate. Every time I talk with Amy I get so much value from our conversations. I am blessed to have connected with her and her approach.
INGA, PROJECTOR
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“Learning Life is Happening for Me Was Life Changing.”
A Gift I Didn’t Know I Needed
“Finding Amy was a gift I had been waiting for a very long time without knowing. There was just something about her work that I knew was leading me there at just the right time. Learning to realize what was happening was for me rather than to me, was monumental.
Amy taught me to how to breathe again, trust the process, and to harness a strong intuition I never even knew I had. Beginning the journey was challenging, but after just one session, I knew I was on the right path, with Amy guiding me with a gentleness and grace I’d not yet learned existed.
Fast forward almost two years later, I now embrace new obstacles coming my way; I look forward to my sessions knowing the stillness and clarity that will arise the moment our meetings begin, and am ready to face all things happening for me.”
LEX, GENERATOR
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