Conversations with Elizabeth DiAlto Figueroa

Today we’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth DiAlto Figueroa.

Hi Elizabeth , can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I’ve had a pretty unconventional path, although looking back, I can see how everything has been connected.

I’m a native New Yorker, and I spent much of my twenties building a career in sales before transitioning into fitness in 2008. I’d been an athlete and loved movement since childhood, but becoming a personal trainer and group fitness instructor opened up an entirely different relationship with the body, and eventually, with myself.

In 2013, I was living in Los Angeles, approaching my 30th birthday, and at a crossroads. I knew I didn’t want to continue working in fitness the way I had been, but I wasn’t entirely sure what was next. On a flight from LA to New York that September, I had what I can only describe as a spiritual download for something called Wild Soul Movement.

I didn’t know it at the time, but that moment would change the trajectory of my life.

What began as a movement and embodiment practice for women evolved into an entire body of work devoted to helping women liberate themselves from conditioning, shame, self-abandonment, and the many ways we’re taught to disconnect from our bodies, instincts, desires, and truth.

Over the next 13 years, I built an international business, worked with thousands of women, developed multiple healing modalities and educational frameworks, trained facilitators, hosted retreats and workshops, self-published books, and created a podcast that has surpassed four million downloads.

Along the way, my work continued to deepen and expand. I studied energy healing, spirituality, sexuality, mysticism, and various wisdom traditions. What I initially understood as a calling to teach embodiment ultimately became a bridge to remembering and reclaiming something much older and deeper in myself: my nature as a mystic and medicine woman.

Of course, none of this happened in a straight line. There have been extraordinary successes, profound losses, major reinventions, and more than a few seasons of having absolutely no idea what was coming next.

In February 2025, after 12 years living in various places around the country, I returned home to New York, settling in Brooklyn. That homecoming coincided with another significant evolution, both personally and professionally.

Today, my work is much more intimate and bespoke. As a mystic, medicine woman, and spiritual advisor, I work with women through private healing sessions, Akashic Records readings, immersive experiences, and collective gatherings. My approach draws on everything I’ve studied, practiced, created, and lived, but it’s also deeply intuitive and responsive to the person in front of me.

One of the most meaningful shifts in recent years has been moving away from the idea that I need to build something bigger and bigger, reach more people, or constantly expand. I’m much more interested in depth, mastery, meaningful connection, and being a good steward of the gifts and resources entrusted to me.

At 43, I feel like I’m entering a chapter where so much of what I’ve spent my life learning is finally coming together. Not necessarily in the ways I expected, but in ways that feel much more honest, spacious, and alive.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I don’t know anyone who’s devoted their life to healing, liberation, and transformation who got there without being taken through the fire (at least!) a few times themselves.

I’ve been an entrepreneur for almost two decades, and there have been plenty of challenges along the way. Financial ups and downs, burnout, business models that worked until they didn’t, trusting the wrong people, staying in situations longer than I should have, and having to reinvent myself and my work more than once.

One of my biggest lessons has been learning that just because I can do something doesn’t mean I should. I’m a very capable, resourceful person. For a long time, I could make almost anything work through sheer will, creativity, and determination. But being able to make something work and actually wanting the life that comes with it are two very different things.

The pandemic changed a lot for me. So did entering perimenopause and discovering that I’m neurodivergent in my late thirties and early forties. I had to get radically honest about my capacity, my needs, and how much of my life I’d organized around being productive, responsible, and available to other people.

There have also been some deeply humbling experiences around relationships, family, grief, money, and learning to let go of people, places, and versions of myself that I once thought would be part of my life forever.

I think one of the trickiest things about being someone who teaches healing and transformation is that people can assume you’ve somehow transcended the messiness of being human. I certainly haven’t, nor would I want to. I’m not interested in being some untouchable, perpetually peaceful spiritual person. I’m interested in being fully human, deeply connected to the Divine, and as honest and loving as I can be while I’m here.

Something I say often is that life is the curriculum. I really believe that. Everything I’ve lived through has informed the medicine I carry and the way I show up for the people I work with.

And one of the most liberating things I’ve learned is that not everything hard is meant to be pushed through. Sometimes the lesson is to persevere. Sometimes it’s to surrender. Sometimes it’s to walk away, change your mind, or admit that something you once wanted doesn’t fit anymore.

Discernment is everything.

At this point in my life, I’m much less interested in proving how much I can handle and much more interested in creating a life that actually feels good to live. One where there’s room for pleasure, beauty, rest, intimacy, creativity, and mystery alongside meaningful work.

I’ve worked really hard to get here, and I’m still learning. I imagine I always will be.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
These days, my private practice is where everything I’ve learned, studied, practiced, and lived over the last 13 years comes together. I work with women who are tired of circling the same questions, repeating the same patterns, or knowing intellectually what needs to change but struggling to actually make those changes in their lives.

At the heart of everything I do is helping women come home to themselves. Not some idealized, optimized, healed-to-perfection version of themselves, but who they actually are underneath all the conditioning, expectations, survival strategies, and stories they’ve accumulated throughout their lives.

I’ve never been particularly interested in separating the sacred from the ordinary, the mystical from the practical, or the profound from the ridiculous. I bring deep spiritual wisdom, somatic and energetic healing, practical tools, humor, irreverence, and straight talk into everything I do. I’m equally comfortable talking about God, grief, nervous systems, sex, relationships, boundaries, and the absurdity of being a human being.

I don’t believe we have to choose between being deeply spiritual and being fully engaged with the world. In fact, I think the real work is learning how to hold both.

Some come to me at major crossroads, questioning a relationship, career, or the direction their life is taking. Others are navigating grief, identity shifts, spiritual awakenings, or the particular reckoning that can come with midlife. And some are doing quite well by conventional standards but want to feel more connected to themselves, comfortable in their bodies, confident in their choices, and available for pleasure, intimacy, and joy.

Through intuitive readings, energy healing, spiritual counsel, and embodiment practices, I help women get clear on decisions they’ve been agonizing over, understand why certain relationships or situations keep draining them, recognize patterns they haven’t been able to interrupt, and find new ways to move forward.

What I love about this work is that no two sessions are alike. I listen closely, ask questions that get beneath the surface, and draw on a wide range of intuitive, energetic, somatic, and practical approaches. Sometimes what’s needed is a conversation that helps someone see something they’ve been unable to see. Sometimes it’s energy work, embodied practice, ancestral or archetypal healing, or simply creating the conditions for someone to receive rather than constantly having to do more.

My clients often leave with a perspective they hadn’t considered, language for something they’ve struggled to articulate, a decision they feel ready to make, or a specific next step they can bring into their everyday lives.

We can go very deep without making everything so damn heavy.

Something that sets my work apart is that I don’t approach people as problems to solve or projects to fix. I don’t have a formula I run everyone through. My work is highly intuitive, relational, and responsive. I’m interested in coherence, not perfection, and I care just as much about how people live and integrate what happens in a healing session as I do about the session itself.

Over the last 13 years, thousands of women have engaged with Wild Soul Movement, my books, courses, workshops, and retreats, and my podcast has reached more than four million downloads. I’ve also had the privilege of training other practitioners and witnessing people take what they’ve learned through my work into their own lives, relationships, families, and communities.

Right now, I’m feeling really reinvigorated about sharing more of that work publicly, especially on YouTube. After years of creating so much material, I’m enjoying bringing old teachings back into circulation alongside new podcast episodes, wisdom nuggets, embodiment and spiritual practices, and practical conversations about navigating midlife.

I’m especially interested in reaching spiritual, unconventional women who aren’t looking to follow the traditional scripts about who they’re supposed to be or what their lives should look like. Women who care deeply about healing and liberation, but also want to enjoy their lives! Women who want more sacredness, connection, pleasure, beauty, erotic aliveness, and joy without checking out of reality or abandoning themselves in the process.

What I’m most proud of is that my work has continued to evolve as I have. I haven’t tried to freeze myself in whatever version of me was most successful or marketable at a particular time. I’ve allowed things to change, sometimes dramatically, even when that meant disappointing people, letting go of things I’d worked really hard to build, or beginning again.

There’s a lot of pressure in the personal development and spiritual industries to position yourself as someone who has all the answers. I’m much more interested in being a devoted student of life, a skilled practitioner, and a trustworthy steward of the wisdom and medicine I’ve been entrusted with.

Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
Sadly, on the mentor front, this has honestly been one of my own greatest challenges throughout the course of my career.

Networking though, I can share a few things!

First and foremost, be someone people enjoy knowing, not just someone they might benefit from knowing. And take a genuine interest in them, too. I think that goes a lot further than any networking strategy ever could. You also need to work on your social and relational skills. Too many people think you either have this or you don’t. These things are trainable! And in our current climate when so many people are low effort and disengaging, being engaging really stands out.

Be curious about people beyond what they do or who they know. Some of my most meaningful professional relationships started with conversations that had nothing to do with business. Genuine connection, shared interests, and mutual respect go a lot further than approaching every interaction with an agenda.

Discernment is equally important. I’m a big believer in generosity, but I’ve learned the hard way that some people will take as much as you’re willing to give. Pay attention to reciprocity, consistency, and how people show up over time. You can be warm, open, and generous without overextending yourself or giving people access they haven’t earned.

And nurture the relationships that matter! Reach out when you don’t need anything. Celebrate people’s wins. Stay connected because you genuinely value the person, not because they might be useful someday.

I’d much rather have a smaller network of people I genuinely like, trust, and respect than hundreds of superficial connections. Some of the best opportunities and collaborations in my life have come from relationships where there was real affinity and no pressure to turn every interaction into an opportunity.

Connection first. Discernment always. Let the rest unfold.

Pricing:

• $50-550

Contact Info:

• Website: https://elizabethdialto.com
• Instagram: @elizabethdialto
• Youtube: https://YouTube.com/@elizabethdialto
• Other: https://elizabethdialto.com/links

Image Credits
Work Play Branding gets credit for the last 5 images. (in case they don’t upload in order – the Puerto Rico, red dress, and love more reaching images are mine, the rest are Work Play)