An Alchemical Dance Priestess Initiation
Certification Training
Activate your
EMBODIED SACRED FEMININE LEADERSHIP
Kundalini Dance™ is a sacred embodiment practice of ecstatic alchemy and inner union. It’s movement medicine that cultivates inner wisdom, self-healing and authentic expression through movement, breath and sound. Join the ever-growing global movement of Kundalini Dance sisters who steward this sacred work around the world.
This empowering White Tantra practice of Sacred Inner Union strengthens your connection to the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine energetic flows of creation within your body for inner awakening, transformation, and remembering. These alchemical keys are dynamic, holistic, and balancing for mind, body, and soul, and are deeply devotional and nourishing to your wholeness within.
This is a professional development somatic training for those wanting to offer powerful and life changing Alchemical Dance sessions. This work is dedicated to those looking for a template to begin facilitating sacred space and for those who are already seasoned practitioners and therapists who desire to upgrade your ability to guide others through embodied transformation, facilitate spiritual awakening, and bring the alchemical keys of harmony and balance through sacred inner union. This training is both a very personal, deep cellular upgrade, and a professional map to embody the more subtle energetic elements and gain direct experience of guiding your own transformational Kundalini Dance temples and events.
In 2025 we begin our Kundalini Dance Certification with a special blend of an Online Mentorship with an In Person Training Retreat.
As this training weaves both online + in person mentorship, we join as sisters to journey deeper within our unique soul blueprints to remember the sacred priestess codes of empowerment as an embodied sacred leader. As we gather in the immersive field of an in person retreat, participants receive priestess codes that can only be transmitted skin to skin, womb to womb, activating deeper remembrance of the soul codes that lay within.
Take your place within the Sisterhood of the Rose
This is a professional training & personal journey of REBIRTH
In leading hundreds people over the past 16 years we have witnessed that anyone who undertakes this alchemical journey will very likely experience a depth of rebirth and alignment to their soul essence and divine design.
This work is not for the faint-hearted but for the courageous ones who are ready and willing to do the deep work, the great work that involves activating kundalini shakti and purifying that which no longer serves them so that they may step up as a sacred leader and channel of the divine.
This experience is designed for deep transformation, revitalization, and sacred feminine embodiment of Sacred Inner Union.
This Alchemical Dance exploration is a profound sacred practice that can take people into some very deep transpersonal and multidimensional spaces. Each chakra brings a wealth of dynamic energy and insight that leads us into a place of harmony and wholeness within. This journey is one of devotion, wisdom and compassion, and is held in deep reverence to our innate inner knowing.
As we continue our collective spiritual awakening and earth kundalini activation, we know that this awakens many souls on the planet. There is an intuitive calling for transformational guides who understand and embody the alchemical healing process to safely navigate kundalini energy for transformation and integration.
An Alchemical Priestess is a woman who is a sacred guide that supports others to remember their unique soul blueprint and direct connection with the Divine.
These alchemical keys are grounded in the present moment and support us as we co-create our future.
In these transitional times we need more compassionate guides to hold a place of harmony and wholeness, and be an embodied midwife of love.
This is an alchemical dance training, yet it is so much more!
If this is what you feel you are born to do, then join us for our
Alchemical Dance Priestess Training
Begins in 2025 – TBA
Immerse yourself in the ancient future sacred temple arts of :
Kundalini Dance
Ecstatic Embodiment
Shakti Activation
Womb Awakening
Emotional Alchemy
Sacred Feminine Embodiment
Sacred Inner Union
Alchemical Healing
Chakra Dance Journey Mapping and Facilitation
Shamanic Dance Journeys
Sacred Feminine Leadership
Goddess and Deity Practice
Tantric Energy Work
Tantric Intimacy Practices for Group Connection
Ecstatic Breathwork
Creating Sacred Space
Art of Ceremony
Group Leadership Skills
Holding Space
Body Mind Integration Techniques
Tantric Shamanic Healing Practices
Rose Mysteries
Energetic Transformational Healing
Self Inquiry and Awareness of Core Patterns and Energetics
Guided Visualisation
Leading Shakti Meditation
Weaving Music for the Ecstatic Dance Floor
Training & Certification Structure
An Alchemical Initiation
PREREQUISITE
Chakra Alchemy
ONLINE SERIES
Learn the Foundation of Chakra Alchemy and Sacred Inner Union with the Founder of Kundalini Dance and the Rose Temple Sanctuary Mystery School of Alchemical Arts; Leyolah Antara.
Everyone is welcome to join this experience as it is foundational teachings and transmissions with Leyolah. This online video journey is a prerequisite for the KD Certification Training that can be done up to 1 year prior to training. This is an additional cost to the Certification – so feel free to begin today!
8 Month Certification Training Includes
Welcome Sisterhood Circle
& Orientation
ONLINE
This online orientation circle is to meet your Kundalini Dance Mentors and global Sisters. We activate our sacred circle together and begin weaving our journey together.
10 Day In Person Retreat
Our 2025 Retreat will be held in Canada by experienced long time Advanced Kundalini Dance Facilitators & Trainers Lila Sofiyah & Martine Kleissen.
CANADA
Salt Spring Island, BC (near Vacouver BC)
July 2025
Online Mentorship
You are supported and held throught your training by Lila and Martine. After the Retreat they host Online Group Mentorship Sessions to prepare you for your practicum, deepen your alchemical awareness, answer any questions that may arise while you are leading your sessions, and give additional training.
You will also receive a Private Mentorship Session with both Lila and with Martine that will expand your embodiment and support your unique expression to nurture your sacred gifts.
Your Practicum
Facilitating Your First Chakra Alchemy Series
Your practicum is where you lead a 9-week Kundalini Dance journey in your community.
This can be at home with two people or in a group as large as fifteen. PDF Resources & Playlists are provided for you to hold this sacred experience with ease.
Priestess Initiation
Online Completion Ceremony
ONLINE 2026
This online graduation retreat is to celebrate your journey and to give you a final initiation as you continue on your path.
A calendar of all Online Mentorship dates and times will be given upon registration.
To receive a Level One – Kundalini Dance Facilitator Certificate of Completion and be certified as a Facilitator you will need to complete all training segments: attend the in person retreat, attend the online mentorship sessions as much as you can (or watch the recordings), finish your practicum, submit any written or video assignments, and attend the completion retreat. We also require you to be actively engaged in your own healing process, interact with your sisters, and be willing to transparently share in your process and embody the alchemical keys.
The Certification process consists of:
✓ A sacred container to support your personal and professional empowerment
✓ Attend the 10-day In Person Kundalini Dance Priestess Training Retreat in Canada
✓ Attend of the Online Group Mentorship calls with KD Trainers Lila & Martine
✓ Receive a Private Mentorship Session with both Lila and Martine to expand your embodiment and support your unique expression
✓ A training manual with maps, templates and music for your classes
✓ Faciliate a 9-week Practicum + written journal assignments + assessment
✓ Attend the online Completion Retreat
✓ Support & sharing within the private online group
Kundalini Dance Priestess Training Team
Your Mentors
We are really excited to be holding this sacred container for you.
All training will be led by Advanced Kundalini Dance Global Trainers Lila and Martine with special bonus offerings from Leyolah.
Let’s rise together!
Lila Sofiyah
For the past 15 years I have had the joy of guiding transformational journeys and retreats weaving Kundalini Dance, Feminine Leadership and Ecstatic Embodiment. Cultivating spaces for activation, connection and remembrance as a dance activator, astrological guide, alchemical priestess and sacred feminine mentor.
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After discovering Kundalini Dance in 2006, everything in my life changed and I became dedicated to sharing this work. Certified in this transformational practice for the past 14 years, I have had the opportunity to work closely with Leyolah Antara, the founder of this work co-facilitating retreats and facilitator trainings in British Columbia, Bali and around the world.
It truly lights me up to guide and support other women stepping into their medicine and embodied feminine leadership. Holding a loving space for coming home to oneself, to remember their unique essence and shine that into the world. Walking the path of awakening and transformation, so that they can feel more empowered and inspired to fully embrace and share their gifts with the world.
As a facilitator, I love to uplift, inspire and hold space for transformation through deep journeys that bring a nurturing and playful spirit to inspire others to connect with their own joy, passion and authentic selves. Weaving in ceremony into all my offerings as my devotion to the divine and desire to create safe and sacred spaces for self-healing and presence.
As a Priestess of the Goddess and the Lineage of the Rose, I am guided deeply through the wisdom of the Divine Mother, Mary Magdalene, Venus and the Sophia Christ Consciousness, devoted to the path of beauty and the way of love. Deeply moved by the cycles of nature, of the cosmos and our innate inner rhythms that guide our lives. I feel so blessed to be able to share this path of ecstatic embodiment and joy and meet you here in the heart.
Connect with me on IG @anandalila
Martine Kleissen
I discovered Kundalini Dance in 2009 and it flipped my world upside down, spun it around, and filled in all the spaces in-between with feminine frequency. It was exactly the medicine I needed at the time for my most loving liberation and soulful remembering.
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With each chakra dance I would learn to embody these alchemical keys that set me on a 180° path of deep healing, transformation and soul remembrance of freedom and love. I danced as much as I could over the years but all the local facilitators moved away and I knew I needed these alchemical keys in my body and as a daily sacred practice in my life in a bigger, bolder way. I patiently and passionately waited for a few years until Leyolah hosted an international training and I made the decision in less than 30 days to follow the womb-call to fly to Australia in January 2013 to begin my next revolution of awakening and empowerment.
The KD training (and each dance since) is profoundly grounding and exquisitely expansive. I re-learned how to deeply trust my body, inner knowing, and womb wisdom. I re-patterned how to take up space, own my personal power, and express my authentic voice. And I cultivated a deep soul knowing of my own sacred wisdom and my creative purpose. I reclaimed my Priestess crown, sat on the throne of my womb and knew that I needed to share these healing keys with women in my community so they could feel this good too.
It’s been such a magnificently powerful journey over the past 14 years of this sacred practice, and even to this day it is one of the biggest gifts in my personal and professional life to hold the sacred healing space for myself, and my heartfelt community, to continue to amplify feminine frequency, remember infinite worthiness, and re-claim our radiance.
I have such infinite gratitude and loving bows to Leyolah for being the Founder and fierce-loving guide of this revolutionary work. By dancing this practice we are activating light grids around the world as we dance our sacred selves and honour our remembering. Here’s to walking the beauty way together, dancing our divine design and letting love move through our medicine vessels.
Connect with me on IG @heartpreneur8
FOUNDER
Leyolah Antara
New South Wales, Australia
Just over 33 years ago, I fell in love with my first soul mate, the first time we made love I had a Kundalini activation that changed the course of my life forever. I was in art school at the time and had been pursuing a career in ceramics, I had just came out of a two year apprenticeship in Japan with Takuo Bizen a ceramisist who came from a famous family lineage of traditional ceramisists, the Bizen Family.
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After my Kundalini awakening, I became obsessed with wanting to serve others in their awakening and began to pray consistantly asking, what is my purpose. One day, my then husband and I sat in ceremony together in the Australian Desert at a very sacred site, called Palm Valley, a place where the aboriginal shamans would go to receive their guiding vision.
When I asked what my work was, I was specifically guided that I was to educate people how to work with “her” (Kundalini Shakti) to clear their chakras, through dance–movement, breath, energy work and sacred sexuality to prepare their bodies for a vibrational shift that was beginning and would accelerate to a point of intensity in the near future. Humanity and all life would be involved in that rebirth and if we chose to open our body/mind/spirits to “her” love, she would prepare us to deal with the earth shifts and harmoniously rebirth ourselves as the new enlightened humanity.
So that is how my journey began and my embodiment and devotion for the Divine Feminine, Shakti began to grow. I had no idea I was embarking on a journey in the exploration of transformational alchemy. The science of awakening consciousness, I was to become a techni- cian of ecstasy, a mapmaker and guide to the realms of the soul. I was to be my first experiment. The road to the top of the moun- tain was long, and I had already been on it for lifetimes.
My devotion to the Divine Feminine deepened. I surrendered to her to show me the way, and the more I surrendered the more she showed me.
My quest for soul-level liberation continued and I began to deepen my exploration of the chakras, both as energy centers that carry emotional energy and also as holographic memory banks that retained blueprints of the soul’s journey.
I came to see working with the chakras as integral to supporting the journey of awakening. I have found that working with the chakras provides an integral journey map, that gives the “ initiate “ an opportunity to truly embody the transformational process.
I have spent the last 33 years teaching and developing this tantric shamanic dance practice that we have come to call Kundalini Dance.
I am in awe of the power and depth of this work. It touches my heart so deeply to witness the authentic, raw human expression of pure emotion that brings so much vitality and power back into the body and soul.
I am on a mission to inspire women to be fearless creators of their sacred work. I have found that the best way to re connect a woman back to her power and her passion is to resurrect the power of Shakti within her womb, to teach her how to turn on her inner light and in that spark the her inner genius.
For over 15 years I have been training facilitators and initiating priestesses and it is my greatest joy to support a women to shine brighter to unleash her from whatever is dimming down her light, keep her small, shut down and lead her to her source of power, where she can connect to her authentic voice, her deeper desires and create a life that she was born to live.
I am constantly humbled to receive the count- less testaments to how the Kundalini Dance work has changed lives. This work is dance — and it is so much more than dance. It is from my deepest heart and soul that I unconditionally offer this gift to you. May you help awaken many souls through this process.
Connect with me on IG @leyolah_antara
Gratitude From Women
What previous participants have to say:
Lila is an incredible mentor, with a wealth of knowledge to share with us. She felt so safe and welcoming right from the beginning. It absolutely was an embodied practice she was teaching. Her dance journeys are so powerful and I’m so grateful I got to receive this wonderful medicine from her.
Martine is a loving, heart centered mentor that truly embodies this work. She guides powerful dance journeys leading to so much expansion and possibility. She is so safe, holds beautiful space and has so much wisdom to share! I am so grateful to have experienced her guidance!
– Sarah C ~ Scotland
I truly loved it all! It was just so special, unexpected, so thoughtfully and beautifully curated. I found a confidence within me that I have never met before. A knowing that arrived through deep embodiment, through feeling the space that you Martine and Lila held so strongly. The safety that they both created to find what I now know is already within me. It was a teaching like no other I have experienced. I have never felt so seen, so held in a circle of pure love, so honoured. It was so deeply moving it brings me to tears to recall the deep knowing that it evoked in me. A home coming and a birthing.
– Janine G ~ Canada
‘Diving into the Kundalini Dance training was next level, I was completely open to the infinite so I could truly let go and surrender to all within myself. Guided through sacred prayer, intention, dance, breath, movement practices are like portals to go within and beyond your physical being. The guidance of this sacred practice is intense self healing and full power, it activated me on a cellular level. I have opened and deepened to what i am calling my activation of my super human powers. I was re-birthed by fire, kundalini serpent fire. Thank you Leyolah for being a divine channel, teacher and guide. I am eternally grateful.’
– Noeleen Melissa Joyce, Sydney Australia
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‘When you train to become a facilitator of Kundalini Dance you are not only learning tools that will help you to guide others and inspire their transformation and evolution. You will also develop inner capacities that help you to navigate through the challenges of your daily life. As you dedicate to this practice, you become more heart centered and deeply anchored in your sacred feminine power and intuition. Previous trainees have likened the facilitator training journey to that of a priestess initiation into the sacred alchemical temple arts as you deepen in your service and prepare to become a guide for others to connect to the Divine within themselves and without.’
-Kaitlyn Field, USA
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‘The Kundalini Dance facilitator training was a powerful initiation connecting me to the divine life force that dwells with in me. I learned new skills to shift old beliefs and patterns that were limiting my capacity to experience joy ecstasy and bliss. Moving the dense energy of fear, anger and shame from my body and dancing it into the light of love. As a facilitator I have witnessed the transformational power of this work change the lives of those who choose to open themselves to the creative abundant life force that flows through us. I am so grateful for this work and the gifts I have received from it.’
-Snow Marks, Alaska USA
Please fill out the Application Form
You must go through an application process to be accepted into the training. Please note that not all applicants are accepted into the program as there are various physical and psychological requirements necessary to be able to go on this deep transformative journey and to hold space for others to step onto the path themselves.
Once we have processed your application, we will be in touch with you if you are accepted into the training. If the programme is a good fit for you, we will direct you to the payment information and you can process your payment.
CERTIFICATION INVESTMENT
This is a Certification in the foundational Kundalini Dance Alchemical Keys of Inner Sacred Union that begins mid 2025 and and ends early 2026
TUITION RATES INCLUDE FULL CERTIFICATION TRAINING
Online Mentorship and the In Person Retreat on Salt Spring Island as well as retreat accommodation of your choice + 3 nourishing meals per day.
There are 4 retreat accomodation options to choose from that determine your total investment. Space is limited so book early to reserve your special spot.
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PRIVATE
‣ Cabin
‣ Cobb House
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PRIVATE
‣ Caravan
‣ Cedar House
SHARED
‣ Room in Main House
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WE DO IT FOR YOU
‣ Orchard Camping
Tent & Supplies all provided
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DIY
‣ Orchard Camping
‣ Bring your Camper Van
Please read all Terms & Conditions
Thank you to the many talented photographers that captured the essence of Kundalini Dance: Hayley Melrose, Ian MacKenzie, Marsha Derevianko, Mina Lumena, & Martine Kleissen