ELLIOT RASENICK

He/Him

Founder Beloved Emergence

Elliot has been a leading figure in transformational events in the Pacific Northwest for nearly twenty years. His roots were in the wild and raw, but very different worlds, of underground dance music and bhakti yoga. In the early 2000s, he saw an opportunity to bring these seemingly disparate communities together, celebrating the common thread between them – ecstatic experience and expression.

Thus Beloved Presents and Beloved Festival were born in 2008 as an outgrowth of Elliot’s early work facilitating art, music, ritual, and celebration in Portland, Oregon. Beloved events weave sacred art & music, somatic experience, experiential learning, and ritual to cultivate vulnerability, belonging, and liberation. The events and the community they have spawned synthesize pedagogical and mythopoetic knowing and weave devotion, psychedelic experience, deep interpersonal connection, and ecstatic playfulness while seeking to nurture safer spaces as a canvas for authentic expression, connection, and self-exploration.

Through the throes and shutdowns of the pandemic, Elliot laid Beloved Festival to rest and dedicated his focus to Beloved Emergence. He founded a non-profit and raised funds to purchase Bells Mountain, 700 acres in Southwest Washington. Sitting at the intersection of ecological restoration, resilient systems, regenerative agriculture, and land-based trauma healing, Beloved Emergence is devoted to place-sourced interdisciplinary learning and events to heal the Land and all those who care for the Land. Then and now, Beloved’s objective is to model a new culture that understands the depth of our connection with each other, to the planet, and with the divine.