2026 Predictions for Spiritual Business: Intimacy, Identity & Industry Evolution

My 2026 forecast for the future of spiritual entrepreneurship—this drop maps my predictions for next year for mystics in business. We unpack what’s coming, what’s already here, and how my priestess clients and I are preparing. From intimacy in the age of AI to the thawing of collective freeze, this is the pulse of what's next—and what your business must embody to stand out in a big year for healers, and SHINE. Includes a new, special invitation to deepen inside Fire of Transformation® mastermind.

Along with diversifying marketing, I'm also diversifying my mastermind in 2026. If you're circling the fire and desire options, DM me your curiosity or apply here to Fire of Transformation® and I'll share the possibilities.

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Welcome to Business Priestess Activation, audio drops for mystics in business where entrepreneurship is ritual, strategy is soulcraft, and expansion is inevitable. I'm Elizabeth Rowan, spiritual mentor, yogi, and business priestess. Here we don't do formulas, we do fire. These transmissions are potent activations to ignite your long-term strategy, self-leadership, energetic mastery and embodiment, and lasting legacy in the world. Because your sacred work isn't just business, it's business and being. Let's begin. Welcome back, Priestess. Wow, here we sit suddenly in December 2025 and less than a month left in this calendar year. As promised, as predictable, every year this time, I am cocooned, cozy, on the floor, working in this way through solstice into new year because I am, to say the least, prematurely seasonally aligned. So I want to share today thoughts on something that I just loosely riffed on in response to somebody's question on threads earlier this week and realize there's a lot of gravity to it that I would be remiss if I withheld that from you. So I am so glad you're here today. Join me for a sojourn into the future of spiritual entrepreneurship in 2026. This is my forecast. These are my predictions for what is coming next year for spiritual entrepreneurs and mystics in business based on everything that I see myself and that I see via all of my clients. What's coming, what's already here, how the priestess clients who I serve are preparing, and how I am as well. So if you are a note taker, this might be for you. I I rarely mention that, but if you're a note taker, this might be for you. All right, let's dive right in. I'm also going to invite you to stay to the very end for a special, somewhat private, considering this is a podcast, invitation to deepen inside the mastermind in a way that I have not really spoken about much at all publicly. So know that that invitation is coming at the end of this drop. Here we go. First things first. I mentioned this at length in my previous audio drop. Go back and check that out if you have missed it. I believe it's called Intimacy in the Age of AI. Intimacy, henceforth, is the future of marketing. Intimacy is the future of marketing and relationship. By relationship, I mean your mentorship, your coaches, your healers, every one of your clients, every one of your mentors. Because in the age of AI, the pendulum is 100% going to swing in the opposite direction back towards all things: authenticity, intimacy, true relationship, and deep alignment, which all of that feels wildly in contrast because it is to everything that that's not, right? Like bot-generated communication, massive group programs where you rarely, if ever, actually connect with the facilitator or lead mentor, marketing that you can't tell if it's real, if it's manufactured, and so on. So intimacy is the future of marketing. And you, as a spiritual practitioner, a mystical entrepreneur, 100% have a leg up on that before it has even arrived because that is your natural state. That is a gift, that's what attracts people to you like moths to a flame. And this is where this now becomes an actual business asset versus something that perhaps previous version of you would have been really mindfully at least patrolling your energetics around, not being eaten alive. And now, this trait, your just natural ability to feel and connect, becomes a channel for your marketing. People are no longer investing in cold content, I like to call it. Rather, you'll see people investing in resonance. And if you yourself find this craving for depth and are really disillusioned by short form strategies, by, you know, cranking out 10 TikToks a day, whatever it is, you're not alone. There's been a richness missing that frankly is the resonance of human relating. So to say it again, if you want your marketing to matter in 2026, make it intimate. Now, to be clear, that does not mean invisible. That does not mean someone will just find you via the frequency, right? This is a big pivot if you have been doing really mainstream forms of marketing and feeling also a degree of resistance around that. So if you've been historically feeling resistance around expressing in that way, the now old way, this new intimacy as a future of marketing stands to change everything, not just for your business, but how you experience and embody your business yourself. And that's a frequency that will be felt. So we get knee deep in that inside of all of my one-on-one work, intensive, certainly fire of transformation mastermind. If this is on your radar, there is strategy around it, and it gets to actually feel reciprocal and nourishing versus you, you know, performing for the hope and a prayer that the algorithm will smile on you today. All right, so that's my number one. Here's an example of how I myself am implementing this. You're listening to it. This audio drops channel is voice first. It's opt-in, meaning, if you're listening, you found me, you sought this out, you cued it up, you chose to tune in and drop in to this wisdom and insight that I share versus someone very passively scrolling and maybe, maybe not coming across some content. Very different. This is intimate. I have so many of you share that with me that you tune in because it feels like you're right here. And that was my entire goal. In fact, my most recent client who stepped inside the mastermind as of day before yesterday, December 1st, perfect, full moon week, no less, arrived via dropping into business priestess activation, just like you're here today. So that's an example, one of many, of how I am cultivating intimacy as the future of my own marketing. We get deep into that in every possible way that works best for my clients because the podcast is not the end-all be all. Certainly that's an option, but there are a litany of ways to do that in methods that are actually really beautiful extensions of you without you just replicating someone else's marketing strategy and low-key hating the whole thing the whole time. All right, let's continue. Number two, I anticipate high-ticket long-term investment will rise again in 2026. No doubt. The scattered stand store$27,$7,$47 download resource digital path is dying. Now, of course, there will be business owners and coaches who can make bank that way. However, the line of work that you and I do cannot be distilled down into a$7 or a$27 or a$97 template or digital downloadable freebie. You get what I'm saying? High-ticket long-term investment is rising again. Healers, mystics, spiritual practitioners, entrepreneurs are craving depth and structured, containerized transformation, not cobbled together someone else's strategy. So I'm gonna speak to this in another one of my predictions here in a moment. But essentially, high-ticket long-term investment because that too is intimacy and that too is relational. That also bridges a gap that this is the gap that fire of transformation 100% fills. But the gap between business over here and everything else in your life, including your spiritual, energetic, and emotional work over there, the dissonance cannot stand. And because of that, long-term investment will return substantially next year. I'm gonna get into this a little bit deeper in another one of my predictions. Stay with me. This is your dream if you are done DIYing your way to your destiny. Welcome, right? I had a recent client join the mastermind after a three-day micro intensive. She's in for a year. All of my women are in for a year. And then some they renew, they resign again and again and again. Not because it's a dependency, certainly not a codependency, rather the dedication, devotion, expansion available when you know you have not just a mentor and guide for 12 months, but also a sacred sisterhood. For I saw somebody put this on threads and it was brilliant. It was like you want an accountability partner, but an accountability partner is often speak for business coach without the investment. And we've outgrown that. So the high-ticket long term becomes a whole ritual of the like richness with which you hold your sacred work in the world. All right. Related. Speaking of that, if we're working together, we are in relationship. This brings us back to a point I breezed by momentarily ago on real relationship with your mentors, coaches, and guides versus either this passive downloading thing to cobble together across, I don't know, a dozen different downloadables, your business strategy model, or being in groups that are either too short term because three months is nothing, truly, or being in groups that are so massive, you rarely have FaceTime with the facilitator, certainly not one-on-one FaceTime. So real relationship with mentors and guides is gonna come back tremendously next year. This is no more just invisible coaches behind a one-way webinar screen. This is a return to lineage, to presence, and to mentorship that really holds you in again, the fullest expression that you have been calling forth. This is you wanting to be seen, held, and activated. If you have been burned by inaccessible mentorship, really short-term kind of cobbling together, group programs, you know, death by a thousand downloadables in your inbox that you never actually opened. Great. It's time to come back to sacred relationship in your work. And this is you as the client. This is you as the facilitator. All right. Number four. I think we're at number four. I follow a coach online who she always just says number next. And I like that. Number next. Hybrids of in-person and virtual experiences will be the new standard because we have as a collective a hunger for the in-person, palpable, felt, tangible. I, for the first time in my life, hosted events this year in my home. Historically, I have been so protective of that energetically. And this year, I had so many of you in and out of my home, sitting together on the earth, on the floor, hands on each other's knees and hearts and backs and the you know, holding hands, like just that visceral connectivity that we have been yearning for, period, and certainly since pandemic era, to present. So in person is going to continue to shine coupled with virtual. So this hybrid model, and I say this because yes, we want presence and we still want freedom such that I'm traveling and can facilitate from anywhere, or I can be the client from anywhere. And then similarly, my clients are traveling. People are all over the place, especially last month and this month with holidays. No matter. We still want freedom. Great, and the in-person component coupled with virtual hybrids are the new standard going forward. This to me feels like the next evolution, which is one part the sacredness of gathering and one part the sovereignty of online. If you yourself crave connection and autonomy, which I think is all of us, if you're here, you're part of this next wave. Here's an example. I am obsessed with something that I am cooking up for mid to late 2026 as in-person experiences woven into existing long-term mentorship and masterminds that otherwise are online and virtual. So I'm a hundred percent practicing what I am sharing and predicting. And this is this is the uh weight with which I am really anticipating all of these things coming to fruition next year. And it's really exciting. All right, number next, as it were. Similarly, sacred circles and community-led ecosystems. I feel like this is actually a slight twist from the membership mayhem that was this past year. Everybody laybody this year and this past last year, the last two years. Everyone and their mother had a membership, a micro membership, a short-term membership, an evergreen membership, memberships, right? These are being play replaced also by meaningful relationships. So this is much more live, sacred circle, community-led ecosystem style than you logging on into like teachable or circle or wherever and having comments back and forth with a handful of people that you have never met and never will. Very different frequency. And the mystics who thrive next year and onward will be those who facilitate amplification between clients, between collaborators, and between coaches. So if you know that your impact, for example, is amplified in circle, that's the strategy. That's the strategy, and that's a lot of you here. I am so big on cross-pollinating between my own service providers and coaches in collaborations and including my clients therein, such that it becomes this just really mutually amplifying and generative infinity loop, like feedback loop in the most beautiful way of collective expansion. So this is not just limited to you as the client in circle or as the facilitator of circles, but really as a facilitator of conscious connection beyond the obvious, beyond the circle, beyond your locale. All right. Number next, I think we're at six. We just talked about this in my fire of transformation mastermind call earlier this week. And that is after years of collective freeze, a thaw is here. The thaw is here. This is from freeze returning to fierce. After years of collective freeze, this is from pandemic to present, right? The like freeze response, nobody moved. People stopped traveling, people stopped doing all sorts of things. And then this year, Trump's election, nobody moved, people stopped doing lots of things, people stopped investing, people stopped expanding, people were just like freeze response, wait and see how this unfolds. Yes, and now something is shifting. I am in this conversation with so many women at this moment. It's fascinating. Everybody from my hairdresser, who I just saw today, to my sister, who I also just saw today, to friends in the group chat, clients, and so on. Everyone has timed out on the freeze in fear, like knee-jerk reaction, and is really primed to return to this shift back into self-advocacy, advocacy for their fire, for their work. This is gonna be big for healers next year that had the flash thought of people aren't buying healing right now. Um, I beg to differ. And I a hundred percent guarantee that will not be the case next year. People are planting their flags in their life. There's a lot of wow, perspective. There's a lot of we only get one life energy that I am seeing coming back online after a lot of freeze response this year. So if you yourself have been quiet too long, you already know that your work is needed now more than ever. Part of my work is not to like wrangle that out of you, surely, but rather co-create with you the path to let that unfold. So, really rolling out your own red carpet, party of one, for your sacred work, for everyone to find you, book in and amplify your work in the world. Because this, like, let me just, I say this all the time: this whole phenomenon of the Homer Simpson meme receding into the shrubbery, that's not it. That's not a mature business model, that's not you in self-leadership, and that's not actually who you are. Rewind and listen to that as many times as it takes for you to remember yourself. But all of this to say, my prediction for next year is that there is a degree of thaw that is here from freezing back to planting the flag in your own freaking life. All right. You and your clients across the board. All right, next. We are looking at yes, diversifying devotional marketing beyond social, like I have been on all year this year. Like my clients, intensives, one-on-ones, and fire of transformation mastermind clients have all been on deeply devotional, diversifying marketing well beyond social. This also goes to diversifying and devotional mentorship. So, as I mentioned at the very top, I have a little sneak preview of something at the very end of this drop regarding this, but how I am diversifying and creating even deeper devotion inside mentorship, including Fire Transformation Mastermind. So that's a little wink over here for me to you to invite you to stay to the end and hear what that's about, because marketing is not the only thing that I am diversifying over here as big picture, long-term strategy. Under, however, the marketing umbrella, you already know if you are a routine listener here, thank you. We're no longer putting all of our resonance into Zuckerberg's hands, into the whim of an algorithm that is increasingly based on pushing out ads, less on organic reach, certainly less on sharing your work to people who are not yet in your sphere. You need systems and sovereignty and soul aligned strategy that goes much deeper and broader than just post more. That's that's not it. So if you, like so many of you, so many of my clients, certainly myself, got sick of building your bot your legacy on. Borrowed platforms next year is made for you. Here I can riff off just probably half a dozen examples of how I am doing this in real time this year already. How my clients are doing this also in real time this year already. Podcast, email newsletters. My email is transitioning from an email to an actual newsletter on winter solstice. I cannot wait. Total game changer over there on um platform and like ways of creation that I actually own how that's gonna go out in the world. Trademarks happening over here. I had a registered trademark come in last month. I have another one in the works. Automations, pitching, PR, media, press, all of this as part of diversified longevity. And frankly, a willingness to look lovingly, critically at your business and what isn't isn't working, period. On the number side, what isn't isn't working for you energetically, structurally, logistically, like what is not bringing in the results. You know that expression, the like continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results is actually insanity. It becomes that at this point. And we're there. So you don't need my permission, however, you do need your own to look at a deeply diversified and devotional strategy when it comes to yes marketing and frankly the entirety of your business model with love. All right. Number eight. Number eight looks like self-trust and strategy over templates and trends. Self-trust and strategy over templates and trends for 2026. This means this next year is not about more, certainly not about more indiscriminate doing, rather, deeper devotion and deeper devotion to your intuition. Meaning you with your swift sword of discernment, like I always say, slicing through the business phenomenon that do not apply to you, that do not resonate with you. Now, if you're gonna slice through the bits that do not apply or resonate with you, great. What remains? That's where you actually lovingly need some serious long-term strategy because just being anti-this, that, and the other isn't it? We get to figure out what it is it for you, and that's where your intuition comes in. That's the self-trust and strategy piece over templates and business trends, certainly over marketing trends. This is no more forcing yourself into someone else's launch plan, someone else's marketing plan, someone else's Canva template, someone else's plug and play. This is you building the system that you actually capital T trust as an extension of that, that doubles as a ritual from you to you, that you trust yourself. So if you're still doing other people's business models, that is a big kind of red flag to your entire system that you don't actually trust yourself. And that we're kind of um maybe subconsciously hiding behind these methodologies that you at some point in time paid someone else to teach you, right? When that's actually not it. So self-trust and strategy, easily trumping templates and trend chasing in 2026. Say that three times fast. This is when you're ready to build a business that actually expands your soul, not the algorithm. This is that. Examples. I mentioned a few already. I filed my trademark for fire of transformation back in January 2025, and it came through two weeks ago, I think, late November same year. So almost a year. And what is that, 10 months of long game vision? Because my work is sacred and I hold it as such. Same with other trademarks that I have underway. Same with how this year the mastermind went from live launch model, six-month duration to evergreen model, brilliant, year long plus duration. Everything that I have done this year has been long game, anchored in self-trust. This also includes all of the press coverage I've received, pitches accepted, collaborations, conversations I'm having now for the in-person experiences I'm creating next year, and so on. So know that whatever's happening strategically next year has to, not even gets to anymore, has to anchor into self-trust. I'm actually gonna add a bit of a spontaneous one in here, prediction that is, that touches on one that's next because it's coming to me in real time and it feels important to express. And that is the fact that I think next year a lot of healers, spiritual entrepreneurs, and mystics in business are going to peace out. And those who remain are going to blow up. A lot of people are going to decide this isn't for them. They're not willing to navigate the uncertainty. And when they remove themselves from this sphere, the ones of us who remain, who double, triple, quadruple down and are going nowhere, will blow up. That brings us to my prediction that 2026 is a year of the healer. It is. After everything that the world has been through in the past five, six years, after everything that the US has been through in the past year, eight, 16, before, like however far back you want to go, 2026 is a year of the healer. It's your time. And not if you're still doing business like it's 2019. So the healers, mystics, entrepreneurs who rise now and in the new year are those who rewire everything in devotion to their mission. If you know, and I know you know that your medicine is meant for the masses, and I know you know because you're here. If you know that your medicine is meant for the masses, 2026 is your year. People will be leaving this industry. Now, you don't need anybody to leave for you to shine, but anticipate that the spotlight on you is going to inevitably grow. And you, this is absolutely a have to get to. Have to get to have your business in place so that it is actually future-facing, not in reactive mode, dodging, answering on defense because you're still set up like it's last year or like it's pre-pandemic, right? So feel into that. 2026, hands down, a year of the healer. People will be leaving the industry. People in leaving the industry will create this vacuum effect for more of your work to be seen and experienced deeply. Let all of these land. If you're a note-taker, amazing. I think I rattled off nine, if not 10. Let me know. All right. So feeling into all of this here, and we're just a couple weeks now from winter solstice, which is such a beautiful point of reflecting on all of this this past year, what you have learned, what's possible feeling into these predictions that I share with you for how I am basing my business and my client work going forward into the new year, let all of this land. Absolutely let all of this land. Your future clients are not looking for another freebie, they're looking and feeling for you. As I teased at the top, I do want to speak to this briefly. If you know that you're ready to lead the way into 2026 and that this year is going to be wildly different for you and you are declaring it as such, certainly, Fire of Transformation Mastermind is the move. And I have a private tier inside the mastermind that I have not really talked about publicly yet. And it's built precisely for you if you are resonating with all of this and want to move into a space that embodies it fully. There's full potency and also options. If this sparks some curiosity and you're already feeling the thaw from this year's freeze, and now are here into the fire, DM me with your curiosity to activate your expansion. You can also apply now, and then we have the conversation and have the opportunity to have the conversation around tears, both in the application and in a quick chat if need be, and certainly in the DMs upon your application. Don't disqualify yourself because you don't have yet all of the information. All right. I am so excited for everything that we stand to create together in 2026 and doing business and being in very different, very deep, embodied, conscious, on our own terms, ways of being. 2026 predictions for spiritual business come down to intimacy, identity, and evolution of the industry. This is intimacy as the future of marketing. This is high-ticket long-term investment resurging back. This is deep real relationship with mentors and guides, myself included. This is hybrid model of in-person and virtual as a new standard. Sacred circles and community-led ecosystems will lead over the membership mayhem that was this past year or two. After the collective freeze, people are thawing into a ferocity. I can't wait for this. Diversified devotional marketing beyond social and diversified mentorship, as I just exhibited to you and teasing you about this private tier inside fire of transformation. Self-trust and strategy will triumph over templates and trend chasing. And in a nutshell, 2026 is a year of the healer. She who does not disqualify herself. And if that is you and you're curious about working with me, whether that is intensive or one of a few private tears inside Fire of Transformation Mastermind, DM me on Instagram at Elizabeth Rowan Yoga. You can also apply via a link in the show notes. I cannot wait to step over the threshold alongside of you into this glorious, gorgeous new year to come that is full and ripe with possibility. All right, Priestess, I'll talk to you in the next drop.