What if your body knows what you want before your mind can explain it? Artist, photographer, movement teacher, and Permission Project creator Elizabeth “Liz” Janowski joins Elaine to explore why authentic inner knowing often begins below the neck—and how freeform movement can help you hear it.
Liz shares how motherhood led her back into her body, why desire is a life-giving force, and how years of social conditioning can make women override their own yeses and nos. You’ll discover simple ways to slow down, notice sensation, use touch and music intentionally, and create enough inner safety to recognize what feels true for you.
This conversation invites you to stop outsourcing your knowing, treat your body as a trusted partner, and reconnect with the clarity, coherence, pleasure, and self-trust that become available when mind, body, and spirit are aligned.
Topics Covered (with timestamps)
- 0:00 What if your body already knows the answers you’re searching for?
- 3:55 Three conscious breaths, the episode Intention, and noticing Divine signals in the body
- 7:35 Why freeform movement is not about learning dance moves—it’s about authentic expression
- 9:07 “The body knows first”: desire, social conditioning, and learning what you actually want
- 10:24 How motherhood led Liz to movement and the creation of the Permission Project
- 13:00 Using the body as a receiver for intuition, inner knowing, and “warmer/colder” guidance
- 15:34 Liz’s definition of abundance: alignment and coherence of mind, body, and spirit
- 18:55 The body stories women carry—and how pleasing others can drown out your authentic response
- 21:01 Why safety, slowness, and embodiment can expand the story you hold about yourself
- 24:31 Coming home to the body in a screen-driven world—and expressing your unique yes
- 26:16 Touch, self-validation, and creating the feeling you want from within
- 28:56 Two simple practices to hear your body: sensory pleasure and making space to feel
- 32:34 How listening to your body can reduce reactivity and reveal what is really happening
- 33:39 Liz’s music-compilation gift for dropping into your body and clarifying desire
- 37:04 A final reminder: give yourself grace, listen a little more, and bring your body to the party
Key Takeaways (Skimmable Wins)
- Your body may register a true yes or no before your thinking mind has words for it.
- Desire is not something to suppress; it can be a life-giving signal that helps you recognize what is aligned for you.
- Freeform movement creates a way to express emotions and experiences that may be difficult to reach through thought alone.
- Self-trust grows when you create enough safety and quiet to notice sensation instead of automatically responding to other people’s needs and expectations.
- Small sensory choices—comfortable fabric, warm water, affectionate touch, music, rest—can help you rebuild an intimate relationship with your own preferences.
- Abundance can be experienced as coherence: mind, body, and spirit arriving at the same wholehearted yes.
Step-by-Step Process Shared
Come Home to Your Body
- Create signals of safety → slow down, get comfortable, reduce expectations, and give yourself space to feel.
- Notice what feels good → pay attention to texture, temperature, taste, touch, music, beauty, and other sensory cues.
- Let yourself feel what is present → rather than immediately managing or overriding emotion, give it room to move through you.
- Listen for the yes and the no → notice what expands, contracts, excites, settles, or feels distinctly “not for me.”
- Express what you discover → move, reach out, ask for affection, have the conversation, or make a choice that honors your authentic response.
Listen to the episode for Liz’s lived examples and Elaine’s reflections on using the body as a receiver for inner guidance.
Questions Answered in This Episode
- How can I tell what my body is trying to communicate before my mind talks me out of it?
- Why do so many women lose touch with what they genuinely want?
- How can freeform movement help emotions and inner knowing become easier to access?
- What does abundance feel like when mind, body, and spirit are aligned?
- What are simple ways to begin rebuilding trust, pleasure, and connection with my body today?
Pull Quotes
“I actually think the body knows first.” — Liz Janowski
“Abundance is being in alignment with your mind, your body, and your spirit all in one place.” — Liz Janowski
“Just to remember that you have a body is already a success in itself.” — Liz Janowski
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Guest Gift
Liz shares a series of short music compilations designed to help you drop into your body, listen more deeply, and begin moving with your desires. The transcript describes the gift, but does not include a public download URL. Use the guest-resource link supplied for publication once confirmed.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
How to Start a Movement — YouTube video
Havening — YouTube video
S Factor — mentioned by Liz as the movement practice that influenced her early training.
Sonia Choquette — referenced for the idea of the mind as broadcaster and the body as receiver.
Lynne McTaggart — a forthcoming book about music and the intelligent universe is mentioned.
About the Guest
Elizabeth “Liz” Janowski is an artist, photographer, movement teacher, and creator of the Permission Project. Her work uses freeform movement, immersive experience, and photography to help people reconnect with the wisdom of the body, feel safe in authentic expression, and explore themes such as desire, belonging, relationships, spirituality, money, and self-trust. Liz lives in Boulder, Colorado, and her work is rooted in helping women experience their own power, magnificence, sensuality, grace, and depth.
Website: https://www.permissionary.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/permissionary_art/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethfranko
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1014855085
About the Host – Elaine Starling
Elaine Starling, The Abundance Ambassador, is an international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach, and host of The Abundance Journey. Through her signature program, The Inner Power Protocol, Elaine guides spiritually-minded women to reconnect with Divine guidance, awaken their inner wisdom, and activate abundance in every area of life.
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