Elizabeth Engelman (Lizzy) was awarded the 2019 Nilsen Literary Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press and the 2017 Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. Her essays have been published in The New York Times and Endeavor Magazine, a publication of the American Society for Deaf Children.  She received her MFA from the University of Tampa, where she was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Award. She also holds an MA in Poetry from Lancaster University.

Elizabeth embarked on her yoga journey over ten years ago. She received her 200-hours Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Den Mandarin in Jacksonville, Florida and her 300-hour Ayurveda Yoga Teaching Training with the School Yoga Institute (SYI) in Tulum, Mexico. Her teaching style integrates the ancient science and philosophy of yoga with modern neuroscience and quantum physics, for a practice that truly seeks to transform bodies, minds, and spirits. Combined with her love of writing and poetry, the art of living is at the heart of her practice.