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I have been a student of the body, the elements, and natural-intelligences for over a decade. Though in reality, I’ve been who I am my whole life.

I have committed to falling apart again and again, pealing away the layers of separation in order to rebirth, rebuild and re-store a more deep, authentic and honest version of myself. I have learned that healing our relationship with our body heals our relationship with earth’s body. From this lens, we begin to take more responsibility of our own healing and the effects of our energy. We begin to see that through the alignment (or dis-alignment) of our head, heart and sex, we create our reality. We begin to reveal the blocks, limiting beliefs, stigmas, stories and taboos stored in the body that have us living disconnected, contracted and avoidant when it comes to intimacy.

Through the ecology of the body, sexuality and emotional honesty, whether put into practice with individuals, couples or large groups, this work opens new realms of vulnerability, desires, and a capacity to express what’s been suppressed and free ourselves from our internal battles. In turn, we become liberated adults, better lovers and leaders, courageously creating our dreams with an open heart and bringing in the necessary change in an emerging uncertain world.

The dance brought me to deeper places of intimacy, eros and connection to my body, our collective body and the earths body. I became a graduate from the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, the Institute of Embodied Wisdom, and continue to study in many realms and training forms such as authentic relating, Avalon, Prisma Leadership, internal martial arts, wilderness skills, BDSM and shamanism.

Bio:

I am an artist and guide who explores the intersection of erotic ecology, the body and relational intelligence as practical tools for sense making, healing and social change. I use the organizing forces of the elements to reconnect us to our bodies and strengthen our most vital relationships. My work has impacted thousands worldwide, teaching for years at Esalen, Summit Series, MAPS and more. I have performed at top festivals and stages, including Lincoln Center, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Black Rock City. I am a graduate from Jungian Somatics-Movement for Trauma with Jane Clapp, Death Doula with Death Wives, the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, Institute of Embodied Wisdom and currently getting my masters at Naropa in Ecopsychology. I am a student of the shamanic arts, training with Quechua (Peru), Manitos (New Mexico) and Nahua (Mexico) traditions. A 5th-generation Ashkenazi New Yorker, I now resides on my family farm, deepening with the land and the intergenerational wisdom it holds. I am currently devoted to my private practice with clients, curating IRL immersions with mission driven individuals, couples and groups to foster embodied, sane and wholesome lifestyles that can lead to collective thriving.

Credentials

➝ Founder of Meta Method
➝ Chief Erotic Officer at Wild Vessel
➝ Jungian Somatics-Movement for Trauma with Jane Clapp
➝ Death Doula, with Death Wives
➝ The Institute of Embodied Wisdom with Scott Coady
➝ The Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality
➝ Mastery in Transformational Training (LP 153)
➝ Avalon & Prisma in Psycho-Dharma group work
➝ YT200
➝ Esalen Institute Faculty & Work Study
➝ BA in Dance at Hunter College
➝ Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory & Repertory, NYC

“Elana challenges your authentic self to engage in the present moment. This process provides real time observations and feedback for seeing things as they actually are.”
— Josiah Cain

META Method is a nature-centered philosophy and practice that returns you to your body’s wisdom and souls essence. Ultimately for you to feel liberated and living connected in a body you trust. It integrates meditation, movement and writing techniques in connection with the natural elements; fire, water, earth, air and META; META being the integration and embodiment of them all living within you. META is an ethos and state of being. By developing the practices, tools and skills represented within each element, its natural design is to awaken ones connection to life and its cycles, a greater aliveness and awareness with ones body, and a deeper capacity to meet uncertainty amongst a collective. It bridges the path from the individual-self to the communal-self.

What is
META Method?

I created the Meta Method in 2012, after a Vipassana (10 day silent meditation retreat) where I felt the sensational aliveness of all the elements come alive inside me. I shifted my professional dance career in NYC from form to formless, from being told how to dance, to letting the dance dance me.

Over time I not only conceptually knew we are the elements, I began to live it as an embodied consciousness that informs how we innovate, lead, learn and collaborate as we step into the unknown future.

Services

  • I support individuals and couples using a composition of somatic ecology (body), erotic intelligence (nature), and emotional honesty (soul), to draw forth relational depth, connection and new embodied potential that liberates the mind and body.

  • I teach META Method at conferences, retreats, immersions and as online courses. It is a nature inspired movement practice for grounding and integration. It unites the mind and body and connects ones internal ecology to the natural world.

  • I speak on Erotic Ecology, healing the perceived separation between ourselves and nature through redefining the Erotic outside of a sexual context and into an ecological one. This restores our humanness, and invites us to question the world that continues to be created from leaving our body and soul’s wisdom behind.

  • Wild Despair is a cathartic dance performance that channels the emotional turbulence of our climate crisis into a powerful call for collective action and planetary healing.