“We are the cosmos made conscious, and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” – Brian Cox, physics professor and musician
Feelings of numbness, detachment, depletion, and pain can be mistaken for an inability to heal, grow, transform, and transcend limitations in your life. In this state, you feel like a wilted flower barely surviving for years in an untended garden. Unknowingly, you possess within you an extraordinary capacity for awareness that will transform how you experience your life.
Embodied awareness is how you experience your Self, while conceptual awareness is merely you thinking about your Self. Embodied awareness takes us into feeling and felt sense perception, which connects us with the power to heal, grow, bloom, and thrive. Our felt sense perception yokes us to our extraordinary human system of intelligence.
Did you know that the human body is a brain with fully distributed intelligence and energy connected to the universe? Quantum biologists seek to understand the extent to which quantum mechanics – in other words, the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic or subatomic level – plays a role in biological processes. Researchers examine quantum interactions, such as those that result in energy conversion, and their impact on biological systems at the molecular level. Research in this area has enhanced our understanding of how living organisms use quantum phenomena to their advantage or, in the case of intelligent and energetically dynamic humans, to make progress (1, 2).
Former Integrative Neuromuscular Therapist, with over 36 thousand client session hours, and founder of Ahyin Quantum Being, Elizabeth Ahyin Graham, is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her clinical work was inspired by her college study of quantum physics and its confirmation of the nature of consciousness by ancient wisdom. Through Embodied Cosmology, she now educates clients to understand how their personal consciousness is connected to universal consciousness through embodied awareness. She integrates the principles of trauma care with the science of intentional change to help others gain a deeper understanding of their electromagnetic nature.
“When the time is ripe for change, change is natural. It unfolds from within and it makes us freer to re-create our life according to our life’s purpose.” – Barbara Brennan, writer and spiritual healer
“My healing work derives from a love of great nature and the cosmos. In nature, I can witness the cycles of growth and decay, birth and death, and a harmonious wholeness. Each of us is wired to be inherently intuitive, curious, imaginative, and creative. Alongside my love of nature is my love of learning. Openness to the unknown is key to both healing and learning,” says Liz. “By going deeper into the vastness of our embodied awareness, we contact the intersection of quantum physics and biology to understand how our intelligence interacts with the larger field of existence, particularly through our felt sense perception.”
Liz’s educational background includes a BA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a writer and editor for the college newspaper and art directed the magazine, for which she won multiple Columbia Scholastic Press Awards. “During this period, I made the connection between Eastern philosophy/mysticism and Western quantum physics–it was a ‘light bulb’ moment that integrated everything in my life going forward, personally and professionally,” she says. “I have been innovating in pain treatment, healing, wellness, and creativity to ease suffering and aid in transformation and transcendence ever since.”
“Emerging science and ancient wisdom were doing this beautiful dance, confirming each other and my lifelong experience as a highly intuitive and sensitive person,” says Liz. That coherence between science and spirituality shed a knowing light on her early psychic experiences with sensory perception. Cultivating trust in this energetic awareness became a profound source of her self-empowerment and ability to support change in clients.
Fourteen years into her clinical practice, she entered a Transformative Leadership MA degree program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, founded in 1968 by Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri and his wife, Bina Chaudhuri. The institute was a small institution that grew into the respected and influential voice it is today, at almost 60 years old. The Chaudhuris aimed to give people of all backgrounds and beliefs the opportunity to transform self, society, and earth through integral education and the evolution of consciousness.
“The education further confirmed and deepened my clinical therapeutic innovation as I continued innovating a kinder, gentler neuromuscular pain treatment integrating eastern spiritual wisdom with western science,” Liz says. “In addition to the neuromuscular work, I taught breathwork, used guided visualization, and educated about emotional intelligence, spiritual practice, anatomy and physiology, and nutrition to create a fully integrated embodiment system teaching clients to track their sensations and experiences, and to unwind compensatory use patterns.”
Since stepping away from her clinical practice, Liz has trained with dozens of somatic and embodiment teachers as part of her post-clinical path to creating yet another integrative approach to helping clients harness scientific and spiritual insight for self-empowerment. “I am a certified Buddhist mindfulness meditation teacher through Dharma Moon,” she says. “Unbeknownst to me, my teacher and Dharma Moon founder, David Nichtern, was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who deeply influenced my spiritual perspective, practice, and healing through his writings in my mid-20s.”
“We are not living in the eternal now where reality is—we are always thinking that the satisfaction of life will be coming later, don’t kid yourself.” – Alan Watts, writer, philosopher, and speaker
“Quantum biology studies the unseen processes of a living universe and living organisms, which classical physics cannot explain. Quantum physics studies the microscopic, but it is still indeterministic and mysterious. It doesn’t attempt to do what most scientific theories do—describe reality,” Liz says. “Biology describes the macroscopic, so combined, we are looking at how energy behaves beneath our conscious awareness to influence biological life and the interconnection of everything.”
Along with an awareness of quantum biology and a connection to the universe, Liz explains that trust and awareness are at the core of her co-creative work with clients. “Trusting in, and being guided by, embodied awareness, we can feel and release our constrictive, habitual patterns to transmute energy (emotion, frequency, felt, sense, history, memory, pain, hopes) consciously. This practice is present with interconnectedness,” she says.
“We tend to spend the majority of our time in conceptual awareness, when we’d do better to become increasingly interoceptive,” Liz says. “When we learn to experience our Selves as part of the Quantum Universe, limitless resources become available for sustenance, connection, creativity, compassion, healing, spiritual growth, and transcendent peace.”
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estes, writer and psychoanalyst
Clients suffering from chronic pain will find support and grounded methods for transformative healing when working with Liz. “The pain body is at the integral intersection of my clinical and spiritual work. This invisible but felt entity is composed of accumulated emotional pain and the thoughts that arise from even deeper beliefs. Over time, they dictate how we interact with the world and ourselves. Recognizing its presence is the first step towards greater freedom. Through awareness, we can begin to disentangle ourselves from its grip and foster a life led by peace and clarity,” she says. “In practice, this means having the willingness and courage to come into felt-sense contact with both the pain and the energy of healing—observing our reactions, understanding the stories and beliefs at the roots of our pain. Then, we can cultivate a mindful approach to our sensorial experiences. Healing the pain body benefits the individual and ripples out to enrich our collective society.
If you are motivated to connect with greater possibility, to transform the thoughts that hold your limiting beliefs in place, to become deeply present in your embodied awareness, consider working with Liz.
“Logic will take you from point A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
Personal consciousness is our embodied multidimensional connection to quantum energy and the inexhaustible resource of the universe. “When your ideal collaborates with real action, new resonance emerges to help you transcend the outworn and redream your life,” says Liz. “But first, you must release the known—I think that’s where it gets tricky for many. Transformation involves an intrinsic challenge to what is known, thereby delivering us into the vast possibility of the unknown.”
Contact Elizabeth Graham if you would like to tap into your power to energize your daily life, heal, and grow into the vibrant human being you know you can be.
Disclaimer: The content of this article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered professional medical advice.
References
- The future of quantum biology | Royal Society. May 4, 2023. Accessed May 13, 2025. https://royalsociety.org/blog/2019/02/the-future-of-quantum-biology/
- Clarice D. Aiello. Quantum Biology: Unlocking the Mysteries of How Life Works. SciTech Daily. Published online May 21, 2023. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-biology-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-how-life-works/
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