Kundalini Dance
Level 1 Facilitator Certification
Kundalini Dance
Level 1 Facilitator Certification
2026 Professional Certification Pathway
This is for those who are longing for a training path that bridges inner tantra, transformational alchemy, kundalini shakti awakening, somatic awareness and deep inner inquiry.
For those who want to share the energetic keys of alchemical transformation that support the awakening of consciousness.
This is a path to journey deep within your unique soul blueprint and to remember the sacred priestess codes of empowerment as an embodied sacred leader.
Professional Accreditation is awarded upon completion of the full Certification pathway, qualifying you to facilitate the Alchemical Temple Arts of Kundalini Dance and Inner Tantra.
Choose Your Full Certification Pathway
There are 3 Pathways you can choose to become fully certified in 2026.
Please read all three below and choose what feels most resonant for your depth of devotion.
ONLINE ONLY WITH KUNDALIN DANCE FOUNDER LEYOLAH
This pathway is designed for online certification only and for those who choose not to travel for deeper initiation and immersion.
This Online-only pathway consists of:
- Kundalini Dance: Priestess of Embodied Transformation POET – 3 Months with Kundalini Dance Founder Leyolah (Feb 17 – May 14, 2026)
- Online Mentorship & Supervision – 5 months with Leyolah (Aug – Dec 2026)
- Practicum – you lead a 9 week group series in-person for your community (Sept – Nov, 2026)
BALI RETREAT WITH FOUNDER LEYOLAH
Embody the ecstatic keys of sacred inner union in a 11-day retreat with master trainer and Kundalini Dance founder Leyolah Antara in Bali, in June 2026. Be held in a safe, trauma-informed, compassionate field to awaken kundalini and learn the somatic and ecstatic arts of embodied transformational healing.
This Blended Certification runs June – December 2026 and consists of:
- In Person 11 Day Retreat in Bali with Kundalini Dance Founder Leyolah (June 12 – 22, 2026)
- Online Mentorship & Supervision – 5 Months with Leyolah (Aug – Dec)
- Practicum – you lead a 9 week series in-person for your community (Sept – Nov, 2026)
CANADA IN PERSON RETREAT & CERTIFICATION WITH LILA & MARTINE
This pathway is perfect for the women who want to go deep into the alchemical keys with a 9 Day In Person Retreat in on Salt Spring Island, Canada with Advanced Senior Trainers Lila and Martine. Replenish your mind, body and spirit through kundalini dance, breathwork, vocal expression, sensory exploration, presence practices, connection to land & nature, & inner inquiry. Come remember your place within the Sisterhood of the Rose.
The In Person Retreat can be taken as a a stand alone ecstatic-embodied immersion, or as part of the Full Certification training. The retreat is always a very special experience as we transmit the alchemical keys heart to heart and skin to skin. Come feel the power of your unique of feminine leadership expand and amplify; in loving connection with each other.
This Blended Certification with Lila & Martine runs July – Dec 2026 and consists of:
- In Person 9 Day Alchemical Immersion Retreat on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada (July 3 – 11, 2026)
- Online Mentorship & Supervision – 5 Months with Lila & Martine (Aug – Dec, 2026)
- Practicum – you lead a 9 week series in-person for your community (Sept – Nov, 2026)
Kundalini Dance
Full Certification Structure
This comprehensive pathway guides you from foundational embodiment to full Level 1 Kundalini Dance Facilitator Certification.
Pathway 1: POET
Priestess of Embodied Transformation
FEBRUARY to MAY 2026
3 Month Online Training with Leyolah
This is required to complete for Pathway 1 – Online Certification.
This is optional for Pathway 2 & 3 that have an In Person Retreat as the foundational teaching instead.
Pathway 2:
In Person Retreat In BALI
BALI RETREAT
June 12 – 22, 2026
Join Master Trainer and Founder of Kundalini Dance, Leyolah Antara, on the powerful spiritual vortex of Bali. The energies of this land deeply support the embodiment of the Kundalini Dance work.
Pathway 2:
In Person Retreat CANADA
This retreat can be taken as an embodied immersion, or is a foundational for in person full certification with Martine & Lila.
CANADA RETREAT (near Vacouver BC)
July 3 – 11, 2026
Held by Advanced Kundalini Dance Facilitators & Canada Trainers Lila Sofiyah & Martine Kleissen.
Your Practicum
SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2026
Facilitating Your First Chakra Alchemy Series
For those choosing Full Certification, you are required to lead a 9-week Kundalini Dance Chakra Alchemy journey in your community. This can be at home with two people or in a group as large as fifteen. You will receive PDF resources, playlists, structure, and guidance to support you in facilitating this series with clarity and confidence. This practicum exists within your Mentorship & Supervision.
Online Mentorship & Supervision
AUGUST – DECEMBER 2026
As part of the Full Certification, you will enter a dedicated container of Group Mentorship and Supervision to support both your personal alchemical evolution and your professional embodiment as a facilitator. These sessions are led by Leyolah, alongside Senior Trainers Lila and Martine, and are designed to hold you in depth, devotion, and refinement as you integrate the work.
This container is held to deepen your alchemical understanding, support your practicum and facilitation practice, and ensure you feel confident stepping fully into your role as a Sacred Feminine Leader of alchemical embodiment. During this phase, you are being prepared to share Kundalini Dance — the mystical art of Sacred Inner Marriage — as an alchemical journey of transformation through the chakras. You will receive clear maps, practical frameworks, and direct supervision so that you can confidently and responsibly transmit this work. Throughout this period, you will receive a combination of both group and one private mentorship session with either Leyolah, Lila, or Martine. This session supports your personal transformation, your unique expression of sacred gifts, and the refinement of your leadership as you step forward to share this lineage.
Priestess Initiation
Completion Ceremony
DECEMBER 2026 – ONLINE
After completing your practicum and assignments, we gather for your online graduation ceremony to initiate and honour your journey. We seal your transformation and welcome you fully onto the path as a Kundalini Dance Priestess & Facilitator.
Full Certification Process Consists Of
To receive your Level One – Kundalini Dance Facilitator Certificate and be recognised as a Certified Facilitator, you must complete all elements of the training:
✓ Attend the 3 month Online Priestess of Embodied Transformation Course
OR – Attend an In-Person Retreat in Bali or Canada
✓ Participate in online mentorship sessions
✓ Complete your 9-week practicum (Sept-Nov 2026)
✓ Submit required written or video assignments
✓ Attend the final completion ceremony
✓ Complete all registration payments
✓ Be actively engaged in your own healing journey
✓ Engage in sisterhood connection
✓ Demonstrate transparency, integrity, and embodiment of the alchemical keys
Full Certification Process Consists Of
To receive your Level One – Kundalini Dance Facilitator Certificate and be recognised as a Certified Facilitator, you must complete all elements of the training:
✓ Attend the 3 month Online Priestess of Embodied Transformation Course
OR – Attend an In-Person Retreat in Bali or Canada
✓ Participate in online mentorship sessions
✓ Complete your 9-week practicum (Sept-Nov 2026)
✓ Submit required written or video assignments
✓ Attend the final completion ceremony
✓ Complete all registration payments
✓ Be actively engaged in your own healing journey
✓ Engage in sisterhood connection
✓ Demonstrate transparency, integrity, and embodiment of the alchemical keys
FOUNDER
Leyolah Antara
Byron Hinterland, NSW, Australia
Founder of Kundalini Dance™ & Pioneer of Tantric Somatic Embodied Transformation
For over 30 years, Leyolah has been a visionary pioneer in somatic, tantric embodied transformation, training embodied feminine leaders long before the field of feminine embodiment existed. She founded Kundalini Dance™ in the early 1990s, developing a unique tantric–somatic pathway that wove somatic descent, chakra alchemy, womb awakening, breathwork, archetypal embodiment, and ecstatic dance into a transformational lineage that has touched thousands across the world. Her work is rooted in the Rose Lineage, feminine mysticism, and the path of Divine Union that is shared from a foundation of the unifying practice of Sacred Inner Union.
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Kundalini Dance™ has always been more than a movement practice—it is a path of initiation. From its earliest days, it guided women into deep body-listening, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and the awakening of Shakti through the chakra system. This lineage carries both the grounded tenderness of somatic embodiment and the sacred intensity of tantric alchemy, offering a holistic and ecstatic path of feminine awakening.
Today, Leyolah is one of the only teachers within the Rose Lineage offering a fully embodied transformational path—a lineage where the mystical, devotional, and archetypal teachings of the Rose are experienced through the body, through movement, breath, voice, sensation, and somatic descent. Her priestess trainings are among the few that unite Rose Mysteries with true embodied transformation.
In this 20th Anniversary evolution of the work, Leyolah brings forward a refined somatic feminine approach—uniting emotional presence, nervous system attunement, trauma awareness with feminine leadership, chakra alchemy, and embodied spiritual initiation into a living temple training for those called to the Priestess Path and seeking real, embodied transformation.
MENTORS
Martine & Lila
Canada
Martine Kleissen & Lila Sofiyah are Advanced Kundalini Dance Global Trainers devoted to awakening embodied feminine wisdom, personal power, and soulful remembrance. With over three decades of combined experience in the art of facilitation, sacred embodiment, and priestess leadership, they weave Kundalini Dance, ceremony, and devotion into powerful spaces of healing, activation, and liberation. Their paths have been shaped through years of study, mentorship, and direct collaboration with Leyolah, carrying these alchemical keys to communities around the world.
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Rooted in womb wisdom, inner knowing, and divine feminine leadership, Martine and Lila guide women to reclaim their radiance, trust their bodies, and step fully into their unique medicine. Their work is grounded, expansive, playful, and profoundly sacred—inviting each dancer home to her truth, joy, and creative purpose.
Together, they hold a loving, potent field for transformation, weaving beauty, devotion, and embodied freedom—so each woman may remember who she is and let her light move through the world.
As Global Trainers, they lead the Canada Immersion Retreat, their own KD Full Certification pathway, as well as weave with Leyolah in her Full Certification Training as well.
Do You Have Questions?
For questions related to Priestess of Embodied Transformation 3 month online course, or the Bali Retreat please email [email protected]
For any questions about the Canada Certification, Canada Retreat or Mentorship please email Martine and Lila
Thank you to the many talented photographers that captured the essence of Kundalini Dance: Marsha Derevianko, Hayley Melrose & Ian MacKenzie.