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 the 12-step meetings they brought me to became my introduction to spirituality. 

Getting sober was by no means the only thing that needed to happen. I’d been depressed, anxious, and collapsed 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