Learn to connect you to you and live the life YOU want to live
welcome to the studio
Cultivating Light Studio is a new kind of studio founded on the idea that we all have a flame inside us that needs protection, care and to be cultivated to shine bright.
In order to protect and cultivate our flame, we have to get to know ourselves. We have to get to know ourselves enough to know what feeds our soul and then be brave enough to take aligned action with what makes us feel alive.
We want people to remember:
YOU GET TO BE YOU
The only requirement to come to Cultivating Light Studio is to be human.
It is so easy to abandon ourselves, when we don’t know ourselves and do things that don’t feel aligned to fit in, be loved or make money.
The vision for Cultivating Light Studio is to become a safe, supportive community of like-minded humans who value learning about ourselves and growing from the inside out.
begin here
Our Signature Class
Cultivate Time
How do you want to spend YOUR time?
There is always time for you. We just have to find it! We all get caught up in the day to day of life and the things that light us up get pushed to the bottom of the list or are not on the list at all. We get sucked into the shoulds and say yes when we want to say no. We convince ourselves we just gotta get through xyz to have time for ourselves but that’s just not the case. Let’s look at how you’re spending your days and create space for the things that light you up and make you, YOU!
Here you’ll deepen the skill of getting
Quiet & Curious.
LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE,
YOUR BODY, YOUR EMOTIONS AND
hold space for them without judgment.
Then take
aligned action
to meet those needs, desires and what’s best for you,
despite what others think.
This is what we do.
classes
To cultivate you
90 minutes + small group in studio + seated at a table
Cultivating Light Studio values learning about ourselves within a safe community who supports us. Most inner work is done in isolation with 1:1 practitioners or in quiet moments with ourselves, which absolutely has its place and learning about ourselves in a group can amplify our progress.
Each of our classes are designed to build on one another. There is no correct order and classes can be taken more than once. Start with what feels aligned with you. Cultivating Light Studio is here to support the cultivation of YOU.
meet the founder
lily peter
I’m so excited to embark upon this new kind of studio. We focus on learning to connect with yourself by getting quiet, curious and listening to take aligned action, meet your needs and desires, despite what others think. We all have a soul. A self to get to know and build a relationship with. We all go through times of struggle and have times when we feel like we’ve got this! Skills to connect with and understand ourselves are needed all the time. Nurturing the relationship with ourselves is so important because it’s one of the few constants in life. I can’t wait to learn more about you and see what unfolds when you connect, you to you.
I began working professionally in mental health in 2005. I went to grad school and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2012, spending most of my career leading groups, however, Cultivating Light Studio does not offer therapy. We teach skills to go deeper into your relationship with yourself, you to you. Although there is a place for western medicine and I seek care when needed, I intentionally stepped away from the medical model of crisis, diagnosis, insurance, etc. during my own journey with chronic illness. Through my healing experience using a self-guided neuroplasticity program and other modalities, I believe there are many paths to wellbeing, but the foundation is getting to know yourself and your body.
A few things I do for fun outside the studio are connection of any kind, live music, international travel, farmer’s markets, take in the negative ions at a beach and release what’s stuck in a breathwork session. I also have a love for making all things cozy and beautiful!
2023 Fierce Self-Compassion: Taking Action to Alleviate Suffering with Kristin Neff, PhD, Mission: Empowerment
2016 Self-Acceptance with Kristin Neff, PhD, Kelly McGonigal, PhD & Tami Simon, Sounds True
2015-2025 Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, The Daring Way™ based on the research of Brené Brown, PhD
2012-2024 Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker
2009 Master of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago