Dance Alchemy presents:
Dance Alchemy Teacher Training
The Vision
Next Training:
Part I August 21-30, 2025
Part II April 3-12, 2026
Part III September 18-27
Tuscany, Italy
Istituto Osho Miasto
What is the aim of Dance Alchemy training?
I created Dance Alchemy Training so that those of us who want to make the absolute best of this gift of being here—in life, in a body— have a way to do that now, while we are here, instead of on our deathbed.
The intent of this training is to create a community of fellow travelers who want to leave the endless procession of humans who trudge along, carrying the miseries of their ancestors that sit on their love and joy from the cradle to the grave. These are the people who find and join a caravan of dancing human beings who use movement as a chance to grow and transmute any feeling of suffering, rather than pass it on to future generations
Community is necessary in a society that keeps dividing. Things like perfection, success, ambition, and trauma divide people against themselves and each other. In a community like Dance Alchemy, people feel held and encouraged to stay on their ‘alone journey’ together to enjoy the experience of being heard, accepted, understood, and loved. These experiences are what counter past experiences of negativity, judgement, and rejection.
For the ones who wish to share and expand the practice, I am able to certify Dance Alchemists, Somatic Experience healers, and trauma transformers. The training is designed to be an intensive and thorough transformational process that deals with personal life issues, as well as the collective issues by which everyone has been shaped, conditioned, and perhaps wounded. Dance Alchemy training is a life-changing process that helps everyone, but for those who teach, give sessions, sociologists, therapists or altruistic healers who love to work with people in any modality, it offers an understanding of the process of personal transformation from the inside.
Based on my own and others’ experiences with Dance Alchemy, we know that a person can only teach something they have lived themselves. To prepare a person to be a practitioner, they have to be doing the work, taking the training course.
How does Dance Alchemy training work?
From the time I was in my early 20s, through the energy and teachings of an enlightened master, I was fortunate to understand that human suffering is due to centuries of life-negative ideals, beliefs, shoulds, shouldn’ts that are hurtful to individuals as well as societies. Those negative ideas steer people away from their natural energy and tell them they are wrong from the very beginning when they follow their natural spontaneous being. This is the wound that has crippled humanity. Longing for oneness, truth, and joy is what draws people to religions and cults that then betray them by turning them away from the life within their own bodies. These ideas work through societies, communities, and families. They teach mistrust in emotions, feelings, vitality – whatever is natural and brings us to ourselves. Although most people are taught by well-meaning adults to follow orders, fit in, please others to be loved, and more – such teachings don’t see the love within and all around the individual that allows them to find their own way to the source of consciousness.
The good news is that such conditioning has not destroyed their hearts. Because the heart remains intact, it is still possible to move beyond the thoughts and beliefs a person listens to and follows and find the same innocence, the same trust, the same love and compassion, clarity, and intelligence that they came into the world with as a child. When we bring those heart qualities to the pain of being rejected, hurt, or not seen that wounded us, it can begin to heal.
The thinking mind cannot bring about a return to true nature. Meditation—which begins with listening to something deeper than the mind—is the basis for lasting, beneficial change.
I’ll bet that if you look, you can find at least one example from early in your life where a parent, teacher, priest, or other adult authority figure made you feel that something about you was wrong. They may have judged or condemned something you did or felt.
Dance Alchemy Training creates practitioners who have a deep understanding of the possibility of healing and transformation, and who have had the experience of growth as a result of it.
To have a full certification to practice Dance Alchemy, an individual must complete three parts of the training. Participants move through an intensive learning process to work with the alchemy that dance enables in their personal lives, to be prepared to offer practice sessions after the first module…if they so choose.
Three 10-day training parts must be completed to obtain full certification to teach Dance Alchemy.
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
- Engage in deep exploration and opening of the heart chakra
- Learn three elements of the alchemy of transformation and how to use them
- Learn the power of movement and dance
- Lay a foundation for understanding belief system conditioning and how it affects life
- Gain an understanding of the seven chakras and the areas of life they maintain.
- Personally transform whatever issues you have in each different area of life: money/survival; relating to other people; power/ expression; boundaries; self-love; creativity, intuition and insight; belonging
- Practice the art of inner alchemy
*Participants receive a Certificate of Completion after Part I.
Between Part I and Part II, you receive support through online meetings as individuals discover how Dance Alchemy works in daily life, and in practice sessions. These meetings are included in the total price of both Part I and Part II.
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
- Transform trauma embedded during childhood. Understand specifically how to use the power of movement and dance in alchemy
- Expand creativity and find its direction for your life
- Dissolve old patterns and bring the magic of alchemy into daily life
- Create new neural pathways
- Learn how to respond—not react
- Learn a unique way of perceiving energy and emotions
- Learn how to read body language
- Learn to lead a heart session and a dance alchemy session with your family and friends
- Learn to create a Dance Alchemy class or structure a workshop
*Participants receive a Certificate of Completion after Part II.
Between Parts II and III, there are follow-up meetings for those who’ll continue on to Part III. If you so choose, you will be ready to practice giving sessions and designing classes, and you will be offered an opportunity to enroll in an internship under my guidance to support you. (See Internship Details).
Dance Alchemy Training Part III:
In person, 10 days
On line – 5 weekends, half days, 60 hours
Pre-requisite – Part I and II
- 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 and creates new neural pathways
- Learn and practice different possibilities of working with movement, emotions, dance, and the body.
- Learn about valuing—the antidote to self-judgement
- Learn skills for working with people
- Understand the metaphysics of how issues are held in the body-mind system, and how Dance Alchemy works energetically, physically, emotionally, and mentally to unwind and dissolve them
- Learn techniques for working with a variety of 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 sessions
A full certification to teach Dance Alchemy is awarded after Part III is completed and you’ve met the requirements of repeating or assisting in any two areas/parts of the training.
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.
The Three Secret Keys to Becoming a Practitioner:
Practice, Practice, Practice!
In the training, you move through an intensive process while learning to work with alchemy in your personal life so you will be prepared to offer practice sessions or classes after Part I, if you choose to do so.
After completing all three parts of Dance Alchemy Training, you will have gained a deep understanding of living from your heart. You will have discovered a way of receiving life’s challenges and gifts that is transformative. You will understand transformation both cognitively and physically.
You will be well-prepared to work with people using Dance Alchemy to make any healing modality more effective through your understanding of transformation. After learning Dance Alchemy, you may even create your own unique way to guide and support others.
But like anything new, it takes practice to embody the knowing, and to get the knack of alchemy. You’ll need practice! Practice means using alchemy in your own life regularly, assisting and getting practice in giving sessions, in groups, and in classes. This is why I created a certification program that gives opportunities to practice and be guided in creating your own way to be a healer and a teacher.
Requirements for Certification as a Dance Alchemy Practitioner
- Complete the three-part Dance Alchemy Training.
- Assist or repeat (you can repeat any part for half price) three groups or parts of the training at least once.
- Complete an internship designed especially for you that supports you in whatever area you need help for teaching classes, holding sessions, or producing events.
- Receive supervision: observation and assessment of one or two of the classes you teach and sessions you hold.
- Complete the new Dance Alchemy Advanced Somatics Teacher Training to be scheduled in 2027.
Internship Details
I offer an Internship after Part II and/or Part III for those
who so choose. This means that if you want to practice creating and offering sessions or classes for fellow students, friends, or for the public, I am available to mentor you. This might mean you want help with the Creating a Structure form for a class you are planning, help accessing your ideas and creativity, or help with what comes up and is difficult for you before, during, or after giving the class. This internship is tailored to you; it can involve personal sessions and teaching consults as you need. I ask a minimum requirement of 6 sessions, you may choose to take more.
Another alternative, for those who do not wish to teach at this point, is an internship for yourself personally. This one is meant to simply support you to bring all that you have learned from Dance Alchemy into your life. This type of internship can be done with individual sessions, and is an offer only for training graduates that allows them to do it with just a few consults, as you so choose.
Three 60-to-90-minute consults: $260
Six 60-to-90-minute consults: $480
You may choose the time frame of months in which you want to use these and go with your own timing. This gives you freedom to go at your own pace but also gives you a structure to stick to which helps you focus.
Other Learning Support and Practice Options:
Inner Alchemy Sessions Training Intensive
(online, 2 weekend half days of 10 hours each)
Movement Alchemy Classes Training Intensive
(same)
What Participants Say
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 !!
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.
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 !!
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.
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 !!
Definitely recommended!!