• Dancealchemy

Dance Alchemy presents:

Dance Alchemy Teacher Training

Body-based Transformational Therapy

What it is about:

Dance Alchemy is a body-based transformational therapy which can change your way of living life. It works by connecting with the body and emotions through somatic exploration, expressive movement and dance, and the heart center’s capacity to transform.
It teaches the basic principles of the alchemy of transformation, and how to use them in your life to feel better, to reclaim your birthright to live life as a joy.
It is meditation in action.
This work has grown out of the vision that Osho brought into the world known as Zorba the Buddha – a new way of spirituality that is life affirmative, instead of life negative. It gives rise to psychological and spiritual understanding based on the ancient secrets of inner alchemy as presented by the enlightened Master Osho, in his active meditations. It is also informed by Somatic Experiencing and other recent research into the brain, the body and the soul.

What we do:

You will start with a deep exploration of the transforming power of the heart center, through dance and heart-opening meditations. Through the heart you can connect with your body in a loving way, giving yourself much needed attention, and through movement begin to unwind what is held in, repressed and causing suffering.
You have a chance to discover and shine light on your own conditioning – all the messages you picked up, from parents, teachers, society that became inner voices and fears about what you “should” and “shouldn’t” do or be.
You have a chance to see and begin to unwind the painful repression of the natural that has caused suffering in your body and emotional life.
Whatever issue life is giving you; relationship, work, money, self-love, boundaries, trust, spirituality…Dance Alchemy helps you to use each situation that causes pain or distress to grow and become stronger and more creative, instead of to suffer.
Through somatic exploration, movement and dancing whatever is, as it is, and silent presence, you will begin to experience a metamorphosis, a shift – the magic of inner alchemical change. Then the gifts – for example understanding, clarity, joy, or strength – within the issue can come to you.
The loving acceptance carried in the heart is the master key – it enables you to look directly at the unpleasant feelings, thoughts, energies, emotions you avoid, and face them. It also supports you to feel – which is the first step towards healing. When you are doing this together with others who are interested in meditation and growth, a space of trust, fun and joy arises…

Who is it for?

The Dance Alchemy training is for anyone who wants a change – a full immersion process that will address many issues which cause suffering, and give new tools for living life more clearly, joyously, and productively.
It aims to deepen your self-love and your meditation, trust in life and in your own being – and to inspire your creativity and direction in life.
It is for those who feel an affinity to working with body movement and dance, and want to bring not only psychological help but the power of joy to others. This can be done by becoming a Dance Alchemy Practitioner.
It also is for anyone who wants to learn basic skills to work with people in an effective and creative way. If you are a massage therapist, social worker, counselor, psychotherapist, meditation teacher or do any kind of sessions or workshops, learning the principles of body wisdom and alchemy will deepen your work. It also gives others the healing of meditation – a base of connection with their soul.

What does it give you:

 

A deep healing of mind, body and emotions, and the wounds from childhood conditioning.

An innate body understanding of the alchemy of transformation/meditation.

Skills to work with movement healing, dance, trauma healing and help yourself and others have more resilience in life. To mention a few skills:

  • Reading body language
  • Intuitive energy reading
  • Somatic methods to heal anxiety, depression, fear
  • Ways to expand your capacity to face challenges and feel joy and bliss
  • Language/communication skills
  • Skills for connecting with your Creativity and playfulness
  • Skills to be more present to yourself, and then others; the power of the heart
  • Healing skills from the Mystery School, Brain science and techniques from Somatic Experiencing and the Heartmath Institute
  • Generally, It gives skills for any kind of teaching, classes or group work.
  • An understanding of working with Judgements, Boundary issues, Polarities, Shock, Shame, and dissociation
  • Skills for better relationships (whether intimate, friends or colleagues), and navigating different situations in life and work. It gives you an awakening of vitality and of creativity, as well as ways to listen to your intuition and higher guidance.
  • A connection with yourself, your body, your truth, and the wisdom and longing of your soul that can guide your life.
  • A grounding in a life of inner transformation and growth, and tools to live more happily and be yourself.

The full 3-part Training will also give you a deep understanding of how trauma/issues are held in the body and the skills for healing that in yourself and others. You will learn this through the metaphysical/cognitive/emotional/spiritual understandings and transformative techniques from the Osho mystery school,as well as the understandings of somatic experiencing, other basic principles from brain, science and recent cutting edge Somatic therapies.

Dance Alchemy Training Part I:

There are no pre-requisites for Part I
In person, 10 days.
On line, five weekends, half days, plus follow-up meetings, 60 hours

Part I consists of 2 Modules

Part I will give you a deep transformational experience for yourself through
Dance Alchemy, and an embodied experience of the transforming power of the
heart. It also gives a solid foundation in understanding conditioning, human
energy centers or chakras, the potential of meditation and inner alchemy, basic
brain science from SE (Somatic Experiencing) to help understand and heal the
nervous system, increased resilience and trust in life.

Module 1 The Power of the Heart

In person, the first 3 days.
On line, the first weekend half days, 11 hours.

You will:

  • Learn the transforming power of the heart center, which is the foundation for
    working with people and for changing your life, and the basis of Dance Alchemy.
  • Learn the essential elements of the alchemy of transformation.

Module 2 Dancing the Seven Chakras

In person, 7 days.
On line, four weekends half days, 11 hours each weekend.

After the work with the heart, and learning the alchemy of transformation, you will enter into a deep exploration of the seven chakras. Since each energy center, or chakra, regulates a different area of life, you will have a chance to bring your meditation to what may be holding you back, and the unique potential that wants to grow in you, in each area.

You will:

  • Learn how each of your seven chakras takes care of a different area of your life, examine your personal family and societal conditioning and be able to start dissolving the limiting energy patterns, beliefs, and wounds you have in each of these areas, through Dance Alchemy.
  • Receive not only mental knowledge, but an embodied understanding of Dance Alchemy as you go through the process.
  • Have a chance to work through an issue or theme that runs through your life and causes suffering, and gather tools for responding creatively to challenging life situations.
  • Have a chance to practice the alchemy of transformation so it becomes embodied, and begins being second nature. This means you have started to create new neural pathways in the brain and nervous system so that the old habits of suppressing your life energies begin to dissolve.

Part I summary:

  • Start a deep exploration and opening of the Heart chakra
  • Learn the 3 elements of the alchemy of transformation and how to use them
  • Learn the power of movement and dance
  • Gain understanding of the 7 chakra system and what each one regulates
  • Get a foundation in understanding your conditioning and how it affected your life
  • Transform whatever issues you have in different areas of life – money/survival, relating, power/expression, self-love, intuition and insight, belonging… through exploring each chakra
  • Practice alchemy

*You will receive a Certificate of Completion after Part I.
*Between Part I and Part II, Maneesha will be supporting you through online
meetings as you discover how the alchemy can work in daily life, and in practice
sessions. These meetings will be included in the price of the training.

Dance Alchemy Training Part II:

Pre-requisite: Part I, or equivalent
In person, 10 days
On line, 5 weekend half days, plus follow-up meetings

Part II consists of 2 Modules

After the deep opening, healing and attitude shift of the transformation process
as you moved through each area of life in the seven chakras exploration in Part
I, you are prepared for the second part of the training.

Module 1: Celebrate Yourself – OSHO Childhood Liberation

In person, first 4 days
There is no Pre-requisite – this module can be done separately.

“And the joy, on the day you discover your original face, alive, innocent, fresh,
intact, waiting to be rediscovered – what more you can expect?”
Osho, From Darkness to Light
This module is a process which transforms the sufferings of childhood/early life which affect your life now by bringing love into the past, enabling old wounds and false ideas about yourself to dissolve. Then through the magic alchemy of dance and meditation, we rediscover the natural energies we lost touch with as a child to expand, and our individuality to flower and live.
You will be guided through a deeply healing childhood process from the Osho Mystery School called Childhood Liberation. Just like Primal, you need to revisit the past to straighten out what was not right for you as a child, and let go of the burden of trying to be someone you are not – which we all are forced into. But the real healing is in connecting with your innocence and unique essence – that which you came into this life with, and had to leave in order to “grow up” according to others.
The joy of connecting with this essence is what makes it easy to shine light through the false personality and the layers of suffering you took on, without pushing or heavy catharsis.
Coming out of this process you reconnect with your own qualities – such as innocence, courage, and joy. As you dance, your essential qualities expand.

Module 2: Living the New Expansion

In person, next 6 days
Pre-requisite – Part I and module 1

After this beautiful child process, you have a chance to enjoy discovering yourself. Your creativity expands. Fresh energies will appear as you feel and express through movement. We play and enjoy, re-learning what we knew as children – to allow life as it comes! The body speaks, the wisdom of the body reveals. We help eachother with recognizing authentic movements, and communicating through movement.
You will revisit the issue you have chosen to work with through the chakras, and explore life situations where you have been reacting out of past nightmares,
and learn how to use difficulties to grow instead – bringing the alchemy into daily life.

Through dance and creativity games and structures, you will find new possibilities to respond creatively in life, instead of react.
During this time new neural pathways are being created, the more you practice dance alchemy. You will have time to practice letting something different happen than listening to the in the mind – deepening meditation and awareness.
You will also learn how to recognize and value the ways you perceive energy and emotions in others, and to read body language, which helps you trust your own perceptions.
You will learn a protocol for a heart session and a dance alchemy session, and steps for creating a class or group structure. Whether or not you decide to give sessions and classes, the learning can give you tremendous understanding.
You get a basic understanding of the nervous system, and principals of working with the body in healing work.
Lastly, in Part II we introduce Heart Synchronicity – The secrets of attunement!

Part II summary:

  • Deeply transforming childhood process.
  • Expand your creativity and find its’ direction
  • Dissolve old patterns and bring alchemy into daily life
  • Create new neural pathways
  • Learn to respond not react
  • Learn your way of perceiving energy, emotions and reading body language
  • Learn body reading
  • Learn to give a heart session and a dance alchemy session
  • Learn to create a class or structure for a workshop

*You will receive a Certificate of Completion after Part II.
* Between Part II and III, we will have follow-up meetings for those who are
continuing to Part III. If you choose to, you will be ready to start practicing giving
sessions and designing classes, and you will have the opportunity to enroll in an internship with my guidance as you practice sessions or leading classes. The
internship will allow me to support you as you share what is difficult for you, and
to review your recorded classes to give you feedback and ideas so you can
become a better and better practitioner.

Dance Alchemy Training Part III:

In person, 10 days
On line – 5 weekends, half days, 60 hours
Pre-requisite – Part I and II

After Part II – healing of the past, connection to your essential gifts, expansion of creativity and then a deepening understanding of the body, nervous system, alchemy in daily life and learning a simple session protocol, you are prepared for Part III of the training.

Part III will bring together what you have learned so far, teach new understandings and focus on where your creativity wants to go. It will focus on skills for working with people, which can be applied in any work you choose to do or create, making it more effective. You will be guided to connect with your own unique direction and truth through a somatic and heart exploration.

Together we will look into what it actually is that makes the work relevant and powerful –
which is meditation. For each of us, penetrating our connection with meditation, love, the soul and why we are here can lead you to live meditation in your life and in your work.

You also will learn Valuing, which is very important on the path.
Recognizing the essential energies of your beauty, being and gifts is an antidote to listening to the critical voices of conditioning – it helps you start living your life as a joy – not a problem.

You will learn new ways of working with movement, emotions, dance and the body, and learn new understandings and skills, such as language skills, presence, inquiry.
You’ll have time and space to practice, share and create together.
You’ll receive an understanding of how issues are held in the body-mind system, and how Dance Alchemy can work energetically, physically, emotionally and mentally to unwind and dissolve these limiting patterns.We examine how problems and suffering from the past are held in our body-mind system. You will learn about the nervous system and limbic brain, it’s survival mechanisms the subtle energy bodies, and emotional body, and how to work with them in yourself or with others.

You will give and receive mini-sessions, which supports what each of us is unwinding and discovering along the way, and strengthens the power of being present from the heart.
deal with difficulties that come up in work with people, such as judgement, boundaries, the Karpman triangle or unworthiness. This gives you new skills and a grounding in being present from the heart to yourself and others.

For whoever is interested, you will have a chance to create a little class or event or presentation, with a basic guideline I will give you, and practice sharing with eachother.
You will be as challenged as you want to be – there will be an invitation to own and share the work with movement, dance, meditation and alchemy. If you want to create and experiment, on your own or together with a few others, the opportunity is there. If you simply want to participate and absorb, that is also tremendously valuable. Everything has its’ timing.

Part III summary:

  • Understand why meditation is essential to growth and healing work
  • Discover your own creative gifts, merits and abilities, so you can develop your own style and way of working with people and with inner Alchemy.
  • Practice dance alchemy, so it becomes easy, creates new neural pathways
  • Learn and practice different possibilities of working with movement, emotions, dance, and the body.
  • Learn Valuing – antidote to self-judgement
  • Learn skills for working with people
  • Understand how issues are held in the body-mind system, and how Dance Alchemy can work energetically, physically, emotionally and mentally to unwind and dissolve them
  • Learn techniques for working with certain issues
  • Learn about the nervous system and the limbic brain
  • Learn to read energy through your own body
  • Learn techniques to bring understanding to people through your work
  • Strengthen the power of your presence
  • Learn to create your own workshops and classes, and practice facilitating classes and sessionsA full certification will be awarded after Part III and the requirements of repeating or assisting any 2 parts.
    After Part III you will be eligible for an internship in further developing sessions, classes and groups in Dance Alchemy or in your own work.

What Participants Say

I experienced of the wisdom of the body, of all of its parts with their energies and qualities, and was bale to learn inner alchemy through dance. It transforms, gives life, welcomes you to a freer and more joyful life!
Anonymous Training Part I
Ultimately it’s up to the individual to do the work for healing, but being part of this group gave me the courage, power and opportunity to look deeply within.

Maneesha was a tremendous guide throughout this entire process. She really threw her heart and soul into this journey! Through the parameters of intensity, emotion and awareness I was able to uncover deeply held beliefs and understand old patterns. This was an experience unlike any other I’ve had through meditation. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of this group. Can’t wait for the next adventure with her!

Maneesha has guided us into ourselves, into our hearts and bodies, teaching us how to accept, love and transform our “blocks” and “negative emotions” with the power of awareness and love, and the joyous tool of alchemical dance.

With Maneesha, dance becomes a creative, juicy, liberating, surprisingly deep way to work on ourselves and manifest our deepest essence. And once we experience our real essence so clearly … there is no going back to old patterns that no longer serve us.

I have also assisted her in the Part 1 of the Dance Alchemy Teachers’ Training that took place from 30 June to 9 July in Miasto, Tuscany, Italy. It is impossible to describe the level of depth, joy and gratitude that the participants, all the assistants and Maneesha herself experienced. My words at the end of the training were: The online training was fantastic, and the training in presence has been simply o r g a s m i c !!

Colin Sallinger, New Orleans, La. Training Part I and II, online
Thank you Maneesha for your energy in the DANCE ALCHEMY group! YOUR FIIIIIRE!!!!!!!!awwww ?

It was amazing to dance, to feel the chakras, to express these feelings in dances, to accept myself AS I AM, to give my acceptance to other people !

You helped me to bring AWARENESS & INTENSITY in my life !￰ﾟﾏﾻ so I feel real joy and so much happiness inside ?
I love you , I love what you re doing ❤
This courage, this valuing myself that I feel right now is something that I really want to keep feeling. I treasure this a lot. This came not only form the work but from the safe space that is created with everybody. I could really look at my fears and my limitations, and admit them, before that was the hardest part for me.

I feel much bigger now. I feel so grateful with everybody and everything that has been happening.

Connecting with the heart has brought me into a space of connecting deeper with everything, in meditation, with myself, and with everyone in my life. And being able to speak from my heart is a huge change, and a huge resource that never goes wrong, it works every time, and it feels amazing.

Shriya, St. Petersburg Training Part I, St.Petersbourg, Russia
The 10 day long retreat has been a deep dive into the mystery of my body and witnessing of its unfolding. Moving in the group and sharing with each other left me feeling like I knew these individuals since eons. After the retreat I felt like I had access to more parts of myself and a better capacity to move in beauty and in challenge with grace and understanding. The support of the fellow trainees has been a huge gift in the process and has helped me trust myself more. I could not recommend this course more for those curious to dive deep into connecting with themselves and seek tools to do that, that they can bring home. Maneesha is a force and has been a wonderful guide throughout the journey with her practical support, humour, sensitivity, wisdom and thorough experience of the practices.
Emilie Lindsten – Naliniruha Training Part I, Misato, Italy
I have completed the first online Dance Alchemy Teachers’ Training and it has been one of the most transformational experiences of my life.

Maneesha has guided us into ourselves, into our hearts and bodies, teaching us how to accept, love and transform our “blocks” and “negative emotions” with the power of awareness and love, and the joyous tool of alchemical dance.

With Maneesha, dance becomes a creative, juicy, liberating, surprisingly deep way to work on ourselves and manifest our deepest essence. And once we experience our real essence so clearly … there is no going back to old patterns that no longer serve us.

I have also assisted her in the Part 1 of the Dance Alchemy Teachers’ Training that took place from 30 June to 9 July in Miasto, Tuscany, Italy. It is impossible to describe the level of depth, joy and gratitude that the participants, all the assistants and Maneesha herself experienced. My words at the end of the training were: The online training was fantastic, and the training in presence has been simply o r g a s m i c !!

M. M., Italy Training Part I, II and III, online
One of the biggest things that have happened to me with the training is being able to recognize myself again and take my own space – becoming again the main character of my life because when the group started I was was putting myself second all the time.

This courage, this valuing myself that I feel right now is something that I really want to keep feeling. I treasure this a lot. This came not only form the work but from the safe space that is created with everybody. I could really look at my fears and my limitations, and admit them, before that was the hardest part for me.

I feel much bigger now. I feel so grateful with everybody and everything that has been happening.

Connecting with the heart has brought me into a space of connecting deeper with everything, in meditation, with myself, and with everyone in my life. And being able to speak from my heart is a huge change, and a huge resource that never goes wrong, it works every time, and it feels amazing.

Maitri Training Part I, II and III, online
This training has left me something so precious I cannot describe in words…. Exactly what I was looking for, I can say. And a curious thing… With the opening of the third chakra, my appetite has also opened up. I started eating with pleasure,as it had not happened to me for a long time. Thanks thanks thanks.

Maneesha was a tremendous guide throughout this entire process. She really threw her heart and soul into this journey! Through the parameters of intensity, emotion and awareness I was able to uncover deeply held beliefs and understand old patterns. This was an experience unlike any other I’ve had through meditation. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of this group. Can’t wait for the next adventure with her!

Maneesha has guided us into ourselves, into our hearts and bodies, teaching us how to accept, love and transform our “blocks” and “negative emotions” with the power of awareness and love, and the joyous tool of alchemical dance.

With Maneesha, dance becomes a creative, juicy, liberating, surprisingly deep way to work on ourselves and manifest our deepest essence. And once we experience our real essence so clearly … there is no going back to old patterns that no longer serve us.

I have also assisted her in the Part 1 of the Dance Alchemy Teachers’ Training that took place from 30 June to 9 July in Miasto, Tuscany, Italy. It is impossible to describe the level of depth, joy and gratitude that the participants, all the assistants and Maneesha herself experienced. My words at the end of the training were: The online training was fantastic, and the training in presence has been simply o r g a s m i c !!

Deva Tarika Training Part I, Miasto, Italy
I met Maneesha after covid started she offered free classes on zoom . I got connected with her right away ! I’m so happy to meet her and enjoy her technique to transform energy in my body .
Definitely recommended!!
Molouk S. Training Part I, II and III, online

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