I’m Elias,
I’m a nondual spiritual practitioner. I help people unwind the emotional knots that restrict their freedom, security, and choice.
To do that, we must deepen their connection to themselves and to the world — apparently separate relationships that reflect each other like mirrors.
I was a heroin-and-everything addict as a teen.
But I rapidly lost all control and, rather than relief, my compulsions brought isolation, auditory hallucinations, and a very desperate powerlessness to stop. By 19 I was in detox and they brought me to 12-step meetings, which were my introduction to spirituality.
Getting sober wasn’t the only thing that needed to happen. I’d been depressed, anxious, and folded inward since I could remember. Plus, I’d done so much ecstasy that it stopped working. I checked many times. My serotonin system was absolutely fried for the remainder of my 20’s. In terms of healing, I had my work cut out for me.
It started with 12 step meetings for many years and very rigorous practice with their tools, along with years of therapy with a couple great and compassionate therapists.
Unfortunately my devotion to these kinds of inner-work did not take me where I wanted to go. I was deep into the second half of my 20’s when I found the integrated practices of movement and non-dual spirituality that worked for me.
I began growing much faster when I met my Brian, a YouTube energetic embodiment teacher. I spent 2.5 years devoted to the practices he taught me in his meditation and embodiment workshops. I’ve practiced what he taught me almost daily, often for 4 hours, sometimes even 8 hours a day, since 2016.
Then, I devoted 2.5 years to intensive 1:1 work with a Tantric Buddhist master, though Buddhism wasn’t what she taught me.
She was very firm about not being a teacher of anything at all.
Instead, when I sat with Jill, I could suddenly hear and see myself with a clarity that surprised me.
Something similar has happened with each of the practitioners I’ve worked with since. I’ve worked with a handful of really great ones, all with different talents.
For the most part, I don't practice their traditions. But I have been changed by their ways of being, and that has changed the way I sit in my self.
My spiritual practice is exactly that — learning to sit deeper and deeper into my self and working to live my life in resonance with the deepest truth I can access.
Every time I act in line with that intuitive resonance, I open quickly and profoundly in ways that I craved, but did not imagine.
I’m not a lineage holder in the traditions of all people on this list, but I am who I am because of these people, and I love and thank them for it.
Thank you to:
Andrew Daniel | Jill Buchholz | Karl Wolfe | Lester Levenson | Brian Begin | Fabeku Fantumise | Hale Dwoskin | Cheryl Wright | Alec Walczak | Sara Gotheridge | Chögyam Trungpa | Adyashanti | Ron Smothermon | Dostoyevsky | Bill W. + Dr. Bob