BlissDance Foundation Training

Personal & Practitioner Mastery: A Taste of Bliss

1 YEAR COURSE
STARTING 14 MAY 2025

What is BlissDance?

BlissDance is a profound Tantric Movement Practice of Awakening: awakening in us our universal desire for Truth, Presence, Love, Connection, Beauty, Freedom, and Pleasure!

BlissDance, like Tantra, supports the powerful integration of all seeming polarities such as the sacred, profane and the sexual; the light and the shadow; and the masculine and the feminine.

One of the first principles of BlissDance, as a Tantric movement practice, is Presence – being present in the here and now, in our bodies, in our senses. Another is the connection between our desire, our sexuality and our hearts. As this happens, we get to experience and confront some of the unconscious patterns keeping us from being intimate with life, for example:

Body Armouring

We hold our bodies rigid in an attempt to protect ourselves from feeling too much – or feeling what we have been suppressing. Sometimes it’s laughter or ecstasy, sometimes sadness, fear or anger. All these states are welcome in BlissDance.

Habitual Associations

Over a lifetime of suppressions, we have built up meaning through associations. When someone touches us, what does it mean? When we enjoy or dislike the touch, what fears come up? Do they relate to past experiences or future projections? In BlissDance, these subconscious processes become conscious.

"Bliss is the balance that happens when we fully embrace both our shadow & our light, and come to rest as Love"

~ Shakti Malan

In embodied awareness lies liberation...

One of the keys of BlissDance is its invitation to break out of our habits and stuck ways. We enact some of the dramas of everyday life – like having to put down a healthy boundary – but dance this drama in a conscious way, as a celebration of the body, and as an act of liberation.

In experiencing it consciously, something gives way, more space is created, and we celebrate our expansion.

Something opens up; I taste only sacredness

The moment softens, our hearts soften, and our bodies melt. We get to feel everything intimately. We welcome what is, we no longer resist, and in that we can meet the beloved – in the dance and in the moment. In the first place, the beloved is our very own being. Then we can meet him/her in the other, the group, our lives, and in existence.

"Every sunset is a sermon, every snail is a sutra.
Every natural glory a Gita. Every vulture a Veda.
The universe is your inspiration!"

~ Kali Satyagraha

What to expect...

All it takes is a little willingness and a lot of curiosity. The music, the facilitation and the group carry us along into what we really, really want:
a deep heart opening into this present, precious moment.

To live our lives as blissful sovereign beings able to manifest our deepest desires, we must first get out of our busy minds and feel and move everything from the past too painful to process at the time of it happening – and so was put away to feel for later.  Most patriarchal religions shame the body and sexuality. We need to reclaim our beautiful bliss bodies and sacred sexuality. 

BlissDance asks, ‘What do we really, really want? What’s preventing us from embodying our desire and following our bliss?’

"BlissDance as a Tantric practice is a complex tapestry of intimate connectivity to turn you on, tune you in and transport you back home to your own infinite knowing."

~ Kali Satyagraha

What you will learn

  • How to use movement and music transformationally and holistically, for personal and collective healing and growth
  • How to progress dancers from the sympathetic into the parasympathetic nervous system – where all rest, relaxation, restoration and healing happens
  • How to develop a coherent and congruent dance journey. Every class / workshop / retreat is a unique journey into the interior and exterior landscapes of existence.  For the journey to be meaningful, it needs a clean and clear intention and vision, set by the facilitator. This intention becomes the themed invitation of the journey
  • BlissDance is a practice of deep intimacy, connection and awakening – you will learn how to support dancers to de-armour on a physical, emotional and spiritual level by creating immaculate safe, sacred space
  • How to work with all the layers of the body, from the most physical to the most etheric
  • How to take dancers into altered states of consciousness, both transcendent and regressive
  • How to bring dancers back out of altered states of consciousness, and ground them in the still, quiet centre of their beings
  • How to support dancers to develop their capacity for self-awareness and intimate connection with self, others and life
  • How to balance and integrate the therapies and learnings from the different movement practices and dance journeys into your own life, and the lives of your dancers
  • The role of music, and how to select the best music for a particular practice and outcome

BlissDance is both embodied and transcendent, masculine and feminine, dark and light, and critically, engages the shadow aspects of our sexuality and unconscious, bringing all into the loving light of compassionate consciousness and blissful integration.

Facilitation Team

Kali Satyagraha Widd

Custodian & Lead Teacher

Before Kali was irrevocably called to the lightning-fast path Tantra, she was a top brand strategist in Johannesburg, Dubai, London, and Cape Town. Upon shattering her left knee (her body’s feminine support structure) while horse riding, she realised she needed a radical change. 

From promoting unconsciousness through marketing global alcohol brands, she transitioned – not without some considerable challenges – to promoting embodied consciousness through non-dual movement, body de-armouring, and meditation. She turned to teachers at the cutting edge of non-duality to heal the extreme polarities that had played throughout her life; amongst whom were Isaac Shapiro, Sw. Rahasya, Andrew Barnes, and Shakti Malan, the founder of BlissDance and Shakti Shiva Academy.

To rehabilitate her knee, Kali trained in Biodanza (completing the 18 months Personal Development course) with Marcelo Toro – the grandson of the dance movement’s founder – and then deepened her conscious dance training with Shakti Malan, who had developed BlissDance, a Tantric Movement Practice of Awakening.
Over the past 10 years, she has held weekly BlissDance classes in Cape Town for 3 years, together with closed groups, workshops and retreats throughout Southern Africa, the UK, and the Netherlands.

The key differentiator of BlissDance is its lineage, steeped as it is in Totality Tantra and the invitation to constantly stalk our shadows and bring them lovingly into the light of healing, together with the substantial gifts they deliver to individuals and the collective. BlissDance also has the capacity to de-armour the body-mind while ensuring the development of clear discernment and setting of healthy boundaries from moment to moment.

BlissDance invites us to meditate consciously on what we really, really want, and develops our capacity for authentic intimacy with Self and with life as the Beloved.

Kali became renowned for the depth to which she could invite dancers to drop within a safe, sacred container – and for her superb music curation, which in turn organically led to her being invited to deejay at private events and festivals.

Together with Shakti Shiva Academy, Kali is delighted to announce the launch of a substantial 3-year BlissDance Teacher Training Certification: the exciting manifestation of Shakti’s dream to bring this exquisite movement practice to the world!

Read more about Kali.

Rayven Spirit (Steph Tredrea)

Support Teacher

A perfectly orchestrated quarter-life ensemble, leading from the turn of the century, introduced Steph to Shakti’s tantric teachings, working with her to become a practitioner and BlissDance facilitator.

 As an invitation into the fullness of embodiment and present moment awareness, conscious movement forms an essential aspect of his personal journey and offering.

“When I first danced BlissDance with Shakti I was able to face the discomfort of the stigma I had created. It was a safe container in which to do that and doing so dissolved the stigma.

I stepped through fears and limiting self beliefs to express myself in ways I had never previously imagined. Through the guidance of BlissDance I became more present and my self confidence blossomed.”

Read more about Stephen.

What students are saying...

about Kali & Rayven

Application Process

There are 3 parts to this application process. You do not need to complete the parts in order, but please ensure that you do complete all 3 parts for your application in order to be enrolled successfully.

1. Sign up to the WAITLIST

2. Complete the Application Form

3. Book your Discovery Call

Financial aid will be available to a limited number of students in the form of partial bursaries. Please note that bursary awards are based on several factors, including the size of our award fund and the approximate number of students enrolling at the full tuition rate.

All students requiring assistance are welcome to apply for financial aid. We welcome applications from serious seekers of all races, sexual orientations, and beyond.

How is this course constructed?

  • 12-months of study over 3 trimesters, with 3 month-long breaks 
  • 2 x 2-hour live teaching classes per month for 9 months, recorded should you miss the live sessions (18 in total)
  • 30-minute optional, informal, Hang-Out at the end of each live teaching class
  • 9 substantial Modules, in both written and audio formats, to suit your learning style
  • 1 x 1,5-hour in-person Coaching Session with either of the 2 facilitators
  • 3 x 2-hour Study Halls (1 per trimester) for community support and reflection, recorded should you miss the class
  • 3 x 90-minute Bonus Masterclasses with skilled experts in their field, with skilled experts in their field, recorded should you miss the class
  • 1 x 90-minute online BlissDance Drop-In class per month, uploaded to MixCloud to dance to should you miss the class, or should you wish to re-dance the journey (9 classes in total)
  • Monthly Assignments relating to the content of the course,  posted to the BlissDance Cohort on our private community platform, Mighty Network, where you can also view other student responses for inspiration and edification
  • Spotify Music Playlists

All of our teaching happens within Mighty Network, a safe, private learning platform; and our live calls will happen on Zoom. In these places we can have lively conversations, learn from each other, and ask questions in total privacy.

What you should know

Live Teaching Classes will be on Wednesdays. Study Halls will be on Sundays

Class times: 7pm SAST – 10am PT – 1pm ET – 6pm UK

Please take note of Daylight Savings, class time will always remain 7pm SAST, and all other time zones will shift by an hour accordingly.

How much time should you provision to truly benefit from the training?

Including all live teaching classes, assignments and participation in study support pods, we recommend you devote 16 quality hours per month to BlissDance.  This is the equivalent of 2 days per month, spread over 30 – 31 days.  It is important you commit to investing in yourself and in your training to optimise your investment and outcomes.

"When we are in the flow of creative inspiration, we are the playmates of God."

~ Kali Satyagraha
Modules

Semester 1

Module 1 ~ An overview of the conscious dance landscape, and where BlissDance fits in

Live Class: 14 + 28 May 2025

  • Brief history of indigenous ecstatic dance, out of which forms of contemporary conscious dance originated
  • Overview of BlissDance, and as a Tantric Movement Practice of Awakening, what makes it distinct from other conscious dance forms

Module 2 ~ A deeper dive into BlissDance, it's unique differentiation, benefits, and purpose

Live Class: 11 + 25 June 2025

  • The nervous system’s 3 settings – Sympathetic, Social and Parasympathetic, and dances to support these different states
  • What is body armouring, and how different movement practices can support de-armouring and capacity-building for greater presence and intimacy
  • The BlissDance Theoretical Model:  A Totality Tantra Map of Expansion & Transformation

Module 3 ~ The 1st Erotic Sutra of Relating & the 1st Erotic Thread of Intimate Presence

Live Class: 9 + 23 July 2025

  • • Relations as reflections of Self – life is not happening to us, life is happening for us, and from us, there’s really only one of us here
  • Humans as relational beings, and why healthier relating leads to richer, more fulfilling lived experiences
  • De-armouring physically, emotionally, spiritually
  • The dance of duality and totality
  • Developing the capacity for full-bodied, authentic, intimate presence with Self and Others

Semester 2

Module 4 ~ The 2nd Erotic Sutra of Sexuality & the 2nd Erotic Thread of Shadow Polarities

Live Class: 10 + 24 September 2025

  • Awakened sexuality and sensuality as embodied, erotic, creative life force energy
  • The body as the unconscious in form – resolution of the unconscious and healing and integrating our sexual shadow
  • Embody your desire – relating to desire from a subject vs object orientation
  • Exploring
    • Needs and expectations
    • Conscious consent
    • Healthy boundaries and communication
    • Loving touch
    • Subtle sexual energy – the liquid body of desire
    • Common unconscious polarities, divisions & splits in the body-mind, and how to unify them into embodied consciousness
    •  

Module 5 ~ The 3rd Erotic Sutra of Creativity & the 3rd Erotic Thread of Archetypes

Live Class: 8 + 22 October 2025

  • The value of creative expression, inspiration, curiosity and play as fundamental to self-esteem and growth
  • Movement and music as allies of the imagination, memory and creativity
  • Exploring the power of consciously embodying both the shadow and empowered universal archetypes of the psyche

Module 6 ~The 4th Erotic Sutra of Shamanism & The 4th Minor Thread of the Breath (BlissBreath)

Live Class: 5 + 19 November  2025

  • Delving into the mystical realms of:
    • Shamanism
    • Animism
    • Metamorphosis
    • Anthropomorphism
    • Alchemy
  • Expanding consciousness:  what are altered states of consciousness?
  • How to use breath, movement and music to induce altered states of consciousness

Semester 3

Module 7 ~ The 5th Erotic Sutra of Regressive & Transcendent Trance (BlissTrance) & The 5th Minor Thread of Transformative Expansion

Live Class: 14 + 28 January 2026

  • Dancing the Sacred Hoop of Life / the Medicine Wheel
  • Embodying and balancing the 5 cardinal directions and 5 primary elements
  • Dancing birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth
  • Facing our fears, taking back projections
  • Dancing to expand into embodied states of transcendent and regressive trance
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Module 8 ~ The Fundamentals of Facilitation as Embodied Transmission

Live Class: 11 + 25 February 2026

  • The basics of sound facilitation as place from which to intuitively transmit direct, embodied wisdom
  • Includes:
    • Emptying out to be the hollow flute, or the hollow bone
    • Self-care
    • Creating safe space and strong containers
    • Holding the energetic authority in a circle of equals
    • Handling conflict

Module 9 ~ Musicology: Music and Movement as Medicine

Live Class: 11 + 25 March 2026

  • The vital role of music in BlissDance
  • Creating magical dance immersions, soundscapes and sound baths

"Music is an interstellar language and we the spidery curators of these golden and silver threads. Music is what feelings sound like."

~ Kali Satyagraha

Investment in Yourself

1. Complete the Application Form

2. Book your Discovery Call (Optional)

3. Complete your payment to register for the course

  • Payment Plans available: One time payment, 12-Monthly payments
  • We have introduced a special Financial Aid 16-Monthly payment option (see details below)
  • Early Bird available until 31 March 2025

Financial Aid

Our commitment is to make this course affordable & accessible to everyone, regardless of financial background and circumstances.

We’ve created a specially priced 16month payment plan for students who know they really want to do this very important work, but finances have previously prevented them from participating.

This 16month payment plan:

  • incorporates a 30% financial aid bursary 
  • has no additional fees loaded to the monthly instalment 
  • is only available until 31 January 2025
  • is limited to 5 students only
 
Please only register for the course with an 16month payment plan if you require financial assistance.

"There is no path. The path appears through the vibrations of music and movement. Dance to the beat of your own heart and your path will rise up to embrace you."

~ Kali Satyagraha

Masterclasses

with Guest Teachers

Crallan Sunbird & Ruth Ehrhardt

Embodying the Sacred: Being in Ceremony

Live Class: Wednesday 30 July 2025

Drawing from various traditions and practices from around the world and our own personal experience, we will offer a thread of prayers and songs which connect us to our true nature, weaving with voice, guitar, frame drum, bells and tarambuka.

coming soon…

Jeremy de Tolly

Your Radiant Voice: Expressing authentically with Heart, Embodiment and deep Presence. 

Live Class: Wednesday 29 October 2025

We learn to communicate as children, deeply imprinted by our family dynamics and the culture around us. In the process, our voices become a shadow of their authentic potential. Perhaps we’ve learned we are “too much”, or our voices shrink and shut down when in the spotlight. Some learn to feel shame after speaking and singing. Many of us fear taking up space, and doubt if it’s truly safe to be seen and heard. With the Radiant Voices Process, we consciously explore and liberate the conditioning that hijacks natural, empowered self-expression. By introducing heart centered presence and deep somatic awareness while communicating, we reduce anxiety, overthinking and shame around self-expression. And then by doing deep de-conditioning / healing work on our vocal patterns, we liberate our radiant voice so we can truly connect and thrive, and then share our unique magic with the world.  

Jeremy de Tolly is a communication coach who helps people overcome fear and anxiety around speaking and singing so that they can express themselves with confidence, clarity, and ease. Through his Radiant Voices Process, he’s helped thousands of people—from CEOs to yoga teachers—show up powerfully as their authentic selves.

He’s trained in multiple modalities, including energy coaching, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®), and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). He uses trauma-informed somatic therapies and mindfulness methods to help people overcome their fears of expressing themselves and being heard and seen. In the process he’s been featured in publications such as GQ, Men’s Health, and Rolling Stone.

When he’s not coaching clients, he makes music as a singer, guitarist, pianist, and studio producer. He lives between Toronto, Canada, and a beautiful farm in Elgin, South Africa.

Dan Brulé

Breath, Energy, Ecstasy: A Deep Dive Breathwork Immersion

Live Class: Wednesday 7 January 2026

The breath is a bridge – it’s a force that leads us to ourselves and to our source. The breath awakens us to the powerful yet subtle energy that fills and surrounds everyone and everything. In opening and surrendering to this energy, we find that we are home in a state of pure being and ecstasy. In this bonus masterclass, Dan will share a conscious connected breathwork session expand our minds and hearts, sparking the neural pathways of limitless potential, flow and creativity.

Dan Brulé, world-renowned Pioneer in Breathwork, is a modern day teacher & healer, an innovative, unorthodox, irreverent, creative, game-changing entrepreneur. He trains the people of the world to use the power of breath and breathing to relax and energise their body, focus and expand their mind, calm and balance their emotions, and nourish and uplift their soul. He is the author of Just Breathe. Learn more at www.breathmastery.com

"When we open our senses in fascinated wonderment, instead of living life as a problem to be solved, we begin to dance it as a mystery to be savoured and enjoyed."

~ Kali Satyagraha

Bonus

Study Hall Sessions

Accountability & Community 

Live classes: Sunday 27 July 2025, 30 November 2025 + 29 March 2026

We’ve built in 3 “Study Hall” style sessions at the end of each semester for additional support.

The purpose of these sessions is to provide 90-minutes of unstructured time for questions, conversations, exploration & inquiry.

There’ll be an opportunity for you to share about how the course is going for you and breakout groups will give students a chance to get to know each other and share personal experiences and insights.

You can also simply use this time to focus on your assignments – you’ll have accountability built right in.

9 BlissDance Drop-In Classes

90-minute drop-in classes

Every month you are invited to join us for our monthly online movement class.  This is your opportunity to intimately deepen in your movement practice, and meet yourself exactly where you are. 

  • Wednesday 5 March 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 9am PT • 12pm ET • 5pm UK​

  • Wednesday 21 May 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK​

  • Wednesday 18 June 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK​

  • Wednesday 16 July 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK​

  • Wednesday 17 September 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK​

  • Wednesday 15 October 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK​

  • Wednesday 12 November 2025 @ 7pm SAST • 9am PT • 12pm ET • 5pm UK​​

  • Wednesday 21 January 2026 @ 7pm SAST • 9am PT • 12pm ET • 5pm UK​

  • Wednesday 18 February 2026 @ 7pm SAST • 9am PT • 12pm ET • 5pm UK​

  • Wednesday 18 March 2026 @ 7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 5pm UK​

Office Hours with Lisa Grace

A regular ongoing opportunity for connection, inquiry & sharing

Most Mondays on Zoom – event listings in our Circle of Fire on Mighty Network

Receive additional support from Shakti Shiva Academy Faculty Lisa Grace as you move through the BlissDance Foundation Training course materials.

Please use this space to check-in, ask questions, start conversations, initiate inquiry, request support on your path or simply share what’s moving for you in your messy living loving human life. The hour together will be led by the desires of the emergent group and Lisa Grace may offer a meditation or other practice…

Think of this intimate hour as a free coaching session with Lisa!

It’s our weekly gift to you 🎁

What students are saying...

about BlissDance Foundation Training

Intensive Retreat

BlissDance asks, how much bliss can you stand? Bliss is not simply happiness: bliss includes happiness, but bliss is so much more than that! Bliss is really an orientation to the reality of existence, which opens its loving and compassionate heart to all that life brings. The bliss state says, ‘Bring it on!’ It has no preferences or avoidances.

7-night / 8-Day in-person Intensive

Attendance is optional if you’re taking the course for Personal & Practitioner Mastery only.  

This retreat is a compulsory requirement for students wanting to qualify as a certified BlissDance facilitator.

Where: Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat, South Africa

When: 3 – 10 December 2025

Investment: from  $1650 – $2100* /  €1515 – €1950* /  R22000 – R28000*

* depending on type of accommodation selected
travel expenses excluded

Rhythm is our mother tongue. Energy moves in a wave. Waves move in patterns. Patterns moves in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

~ Kali Satyagraha

F.A.Q

Who is this 1-year BlissDance Foundation Training course for?

This course is designed to be both a stand alone personal development course and it’s also part of a 3-year learning path to qualify as a certified BlissDance facilitator. 

BlissDance is for those yearning for authentic presence, intimacy, connection, pleasure, love, freedom and truth. It’s for brave spiritual warriors unafraid to fly their freak flags and have their vulnerability witnessed by others.

All it takes is a little willingness and a lot of curiosity. The music, the facilitation and the group carry us along into what we really, really want: a deep heart opening into this present, precious moment.

Any body in a body can move.

Anybody in a body can move. We dance to express not impress so, you do not need to be a dancer or have any previous dance experience. Furthermore, this course will teach you the fundamentals of music selection and curation.

No. In fact, sometimes the less you know, the better it is – this opens you to beginner’s mind and enables you to meet the materials in a fresh way. What is important however, is that you are hungry and committed to this work.

No. It’s not required that you’ve completed any previous courses with Shakti Shiva Academy. This course can be taken for personal development only and it’s also the 1st year of a 3-year learning path to become a certified BlissDance Facilitator. Read more about the BlissDance learning path here.

The BlissDance training is made up of live, online teaching classes; study groups, masterclasses, study halls and monthly assignments.  The course is designed to be deeply stimulating, provocative, introspective, meditative and pleasurable.
 
We believe learning happens best in a well-held, confidential, compassionate, authentic, collaborative, and engaging environment.  
 
To optimise your investment in this training, it’s recommended you devote 16 quality hours of your time and attention to the course.

We’ve built in 3 “Study hall”- style sessions at the end of each semester for accountability, community and additional support. 

“Office Hours” is a weekly online gathering space hosted by Shakti Shiva faculty member Lisa Grace. You’re invited to use this space to check-in, ask questions, start conversations, initiate inquiry, request support on your path or simply share what’s moving for you in your messy living loving human life. 

If you find you require additional support aside from the LIVE calls and group coaching sessions provided with this program, then you are welcome to approach either of the facilitators and book private sessions. These sessions are booked and paid separately and negotiated between you and the facilitator in their private capacity. 

No. Because you’re able to download all the materials, you can work through them at your own pace. You will have lifetime access to the private course cohort on Mighty Network, so you can continue to interact and learn with the other course participants even after the course has completed. This course is not yet another to-do. There is a carefully curated structure in place to support you to get the most out of the materials. We do however encourage you to keep current with reading or listening to the modules and attending the LIVE calls each month. You can always return to the assignments and complete them in your own time.

Not a problem – all LIVE teaching and Q&A sessions as well as masterclasses with guest teachers are recorded and will be available within 48 hours so you can download and watch/listen to them at your convenience.

Your journey remains completely confidential. If you wish to share on the private course cohort on our Mighty Network Community platform, there is a confidentiality agreement in place.

You’ll need reliable internet access, a computer, speakers or headphones.

Only for downloading and interaction in the Q&A aspect of the live coaching calls. We will give you all the support we can – and you’ll see that, once you’re in the flow, it’s really easy.

Unless you cancel your registration timeously, the Shakti Shiva Academy does not offer a refund for any other reason. During the first month of the course, that is up to and including 31 May 2025, you can de-register from the course by writing an email to info@shaktishiva.academy.

If you selected the monthly payment plan when registering, we will cancel your future payments, however, please take note that no refunds will be provided.

If you selected to pay in full upfront when registering, we will refund 80% of your payment. After 31 May 2025, you can no longer de-register from the course.

You can read our full terms & conditions here.

If you’re interested in participating in this 1-year course and still have questions that need answers, please schedule a free 30-minute discovery call with course facilitator Kali Satyagraha here or  with Principal & Senior faculty, Rhianne van der Linde here.

Did you know?

It took approximately 50 years for yoga to reach a global tipping point after migrating from the East?
Conscious Dance hasn’t reached its tipping point yet!

Kali – a top global brand & marketing strategist for 30 years – predicts when Conscious Dance tips in approximately 5 years from now, the movement will be exponentially larger than yoga. Yoga requires a certain level of strength and flexibility-building, which in turn requires regular class attendance and a particular innate athleticism – whereas anybody in a body can move!

Training in a Conscious Dance modality today is an opportunity to set yourself up as an in-demand teacher for the future – one who can hold classes and retreats anywhere in the world – from Bali to Costa Rica and from Ibiza to Cape Town. You can enjoy a richly rewarding path on every level, as your own mistress or master, and confidently know you’re contributing to the creation of a more grounded and blissful new world.

The origin story of BlissDance

Over a decade and a half ago, Shakti Malan – the founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy – created a dance methodology called BlissDance to support Lovers of Eros to embody their true awakened essence, as well as to create authentic, deeply intimate connections with their inner selves, one another, and the planet.

Shakti recognised how people today are very much conditioned to be in their heads: our bodies simply life-support systems for our busy minds! The masculine aspect of linear logic and valuing of action dominates at the expense of the sensed, multi-focused, felt, intuitive wisdom of the feminine

 

As a leading teacher of Totality Tantra, Shakti desired a simple and powerful way to redress this imbalance to wake people up, and transmit the Tantric teachings beyond intellectual concepts and theories, and directly into an embodied, intimate and authentic lived reality.

She also realized that the body is the unconscious made manifest. If we could de-armour our existential defences and use the body as a tool for consciousness, then we might begin to regain sovereignty, dissolving the unconscious layers of illusion, conditioning and trauma obscuring our true essence, and inhibiting our sexual life force energy and intimate relationships. Then, and only then, can we take radical responsibility for our lives, and playfully and pleasurably co-create with reality!

Music and movement are universal human languages, stretching back to the beginning of time, beyond the machinations of the mind, and thus perfectly suited to manifest Shakti’s dream.

Based on her training in Tantra, Biodanza, Meditation, Qigong, and Yoga, Shakti created BlissDance, a Tantric Movement Practice of Awakening, where we get to truly Embody our Desire.

Certification

You are welcome to do this 1-Year course for Personal & Practitioner Mastery only.

This course is part of our 3 year certification track for BlissDance.

 

Certification Map

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