Welcome.

Lisa Natoli is a spiritual teacher in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta, specifically the teachings of Jean Klein and Atmanada Krishnon Menon.

Her teachings are simple, down-to-earth & practical and reflect those of her teacher, Jean Klein, which uses a body-mind approach to awakening and recognition of your true nature

This body-mind approach is about being fully present in whatever arises in your experience (thoughts, feelings, sensations) ... no longer fighting, struggling or resisting.

Simply Being.

Lisa Natoli appeared in this world on May 2, 1968 in Presque Isle, Maine.

Lisa and her twin sister and one-year younger sister were raised by their parents in Northfield/Tilton, New Hampshire, a small town near Lake Winnipesaukee

Lisa was a happy, radiant & inquistive child, who loves books, animals and nature.

She loves being in water and near water: pools, lakes, ponds, the ocean, and bathtubs.

Her favorite thing in the world is reading and being.

She has always been both equally introverted and extroverted. She loves to be alone, is comfortable alone, but also is at ease and comfortable being social and engaging with people and the world.

In high school, around 1986, she read Shakti Gawain’s book “Living in the Light” and then in 1989 she read Wayne Dyer’s book “You’ll See it When You Believe it.” Both of these books had a profound effect, with the ideas that the world we think we see out there (including the body) is a reflection/mirror of what the mind is doing.

She went to Champlain College in Burlington Vermont for two years and received an Associates Degree in Hotel/Restaurant Management in May 1988. She then went to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton Florida and received a bachelors degree in communications/journalism in May 1991.

She moved to New York City with a boyfriend in 1992, where they lived in Park Slope Brooklyn and she got a job in publishing in Manhattan working in marketing, sales & publicity. She continued working until she was “let go” in July 2000 when the publishing company merged with another company and a reorganization took place. She was "fired" by people she had never even met in Virginia. To them she was just a name and salary on a spreadsheet.

Six days earlier on July 4, 2000, she had declared "God is my boss" and "I'm working for God now" so when she "unexpectedly" "lost" her job, she thought it meant she was hired by God.

Lisa & the boyfriend broke up after a couple of years - around 1996 - and Lisa moved into different apartments in Brooklyn, where she drank heavily, started smoking cigarettes, gained 50 pounds and basically had an attitude that nothing lasts, so why bother? Her parents had divorced when she was 15 and even though she felt it didn’t have an effect on her at the time of their divorce, later she came to realize that all things pass away.

During her years in NYC, she worked in publishing and in her spare time, drank vodka tonics, smoked cigarettes, read self-help & self-improvement books along with A Course in Miracles. During these years she was deeply interested in books by Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

In March 2001, she traveled to Wisconsin for a 30-Day retreat at Endeavor Academy, a community for A Course in Miracles and she ended up moving there, leaving NYC.

She quit drinking & smoking, or more accurately she says that “drinking and smoking left me.”

She had been trying to quit drinking and smoking for five years previously, with no success, and finally, at the beginning of 2001, she realized she couldn’t quit and instead she relaxed her ideas about it. 20 years later was when she realized she had stumbled upon “how healing works” but it took her 20 years to actually see it. She stopped fighting and resisting being a smoker and a drinker and was at peace with it. She stopped judging herself about it, and within a very short period of time (in March 2001) both left her, never to return again.

She moved to Wisconsin in May 2001. She gave most of her physical belongings away, along with all of her books and kept only A Course in Miracles. She felt like she wanted to follow in Jesus’ example and “give it all away and not look back”. Later she realized this is completely unnecessary, but it’s what she did at the time with no regrets.

In September 2001, the weekend before the World Trade Center collapsed in New York, Lisa was there in New York for A Course in Miracles weekend. She was set to fly back to Wisconsin on Wednesday, but the Trade Center collapsed on Tuesday and she got quiet in prayer and the answer was to stay in New York. She had no money. All she had was the return plane ticket back to Wisconsin, but her guidance was clear: to stay in New York.

She stayed with a friend for a while and eventually got a job in celebrity catering and an apartment in Chelsea, slightly north of Union Square/14^th Street.

She lived both in Wisconsin and NYC until 2006, when she left New York for good and moved full-time to Wisconsin at Endeavor Academy and began working at Lands End in the packing department, in customer service, as a hotel server, as a wedding planner, as a wedding cook, as a hotel maid and as a soda-fountain barista serving cake & coffee.

In Wisconsin was a community of 200 people from around the world, with a love for A Course in Miracles and a teacher called “the Master Teacher” who passed in May 2008. She absolutely loves the Master Teacher and is grateful for her years in Wisconsin. It was unlike any other community she had ever seen: where everyone helped one another. She lived in a motel room that had been converted into church housing for the Academy, and had two cats she found one and adopted one day out while on a walk.

She was devoted one hundred percent to A Course in Miracles, to doing forgiveness work, to seeing everyone and everything as one with her, of being truly helpful, of being the light of the world.

Only one problem, which she couldn’t see at the time during all those years, is that she was completely identified as Lisa, the body, a mind, a person.

A Course in Miracles didn't really address identification as a body.

No one had ever taught her about being identified as Consciousness, as Infinite Being, as Awareness.

That all came later in 2018.

The years leading up to 2018 were a mixture of happiness, but mostly feelings of overwhelm, frustration, disappointment, worry and fear.

In May 2010, Lisa moved from Wisconsin for good back to New Hampshire to live her dad. She traveled to Boston where she heard there were people who loved A Course in Miracles and there she met her husband Bill Free.

Bill and Lisa got together in 2011 and married in October 2013. Almost got divorced in 2016, but then both underwent a gradual awakening, realization to Self.

They didn’t get divorced. They got cats instead.

And they have been happily married ever since.

During these years when she moved back to New Hampshire, Lisa began experiencing flu-like symptoms, viral-like symptoms and extreme pain which was eventually diagnosed as “an incurable autoimmune disease.”

She tried everything to heal for 5 years – traditional medicine, alternative, spiritual, metaphysical, diets – and nothing was working.

She was doing exactly what she had done with cigarettes and alcohol 20 years previously – doing everything to try and heal – which meant fighting, attacking, resisting and judging.

After $30,000 spent on various approaches with nothing working and Lisa’s 50^th birthday approaching in May 2018, she began something completely brand new: WELCOMING WHAT IS.

She began reading about Advaita-Vedanta and non-duality starting with Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille, and that led Lisa to their teachers: Jean Klein & Atmananda Krisha Menon.

Lisa mostly resonates with Jean Klein and considers him her teacher.

He uses a mind-body approach to awakening – which is an invitation to be in the body, to be with emotions, thoughts, sensations, habits, patterns, habits, stories – and investigate the mind activity and the body activity. So that you can clearly see what “the person” that you think is “you” “me” and “I” is doing.

Once this is seen, all the mind activity, the personal self-identity, then the real you, Awareness, Consciousness, Infinite Being, Light, the Presence of God is known by you directly as your first-hand experience, either slowly & gradually or instantly & spontaneous.

The result is calm, ease, peace & joy.

Suffering, misery, doubt, disappointment, sickness, pain, frustration ... all disappears and dissolves in the light of I AM.

What remains is the recognition of Infinite Being, Open Spaciousness & Silence, our true nature.

For Lisa, the search for healing and freedom ended when “the sufferer” and “the sick person” was clearly seen as not real, but was an image made up.

Sickness, lack and limitation was seen as a game being played by the personal identity - emotions were seen as toys - and when interest was no longer there, the emotions and symptoms fell away - in the same way a child loses interest in a toy and stops playing with them.

Eventually, the toy disappears as the child has other interests and "grows up" - in this same way, the toys of conflict disappear when the focus is on truth, light and love.