Through the dance I have found my centre, and have developed a relationship with my true self. When I am dancing I am anchored in my still place, watching but not identifying with the passing emotional currents flowing through me. This is the aspiration of my daily life. Where the dance teaches me that it is possible to deeply connect to my core HEART centre, and emanate from this unchangeable place within me. Unwavering no matter what chaos is spinning around me, like the eye of the hurricane, my soul remains resting, watching, from the moving centre, a place where I have found my true home.

This way to my centre has been a deep shamanic medicine journey, a journey of blood, sweat and tears. I am reminded of a Rumi quote "Dance until you shatter yourself." Which reminds me why I dance, I dance to shed my skin, to peel away the layers that keep me separate.

I dance to go within, to those, dark place of my soul I have been too afraid to see, to feel those feelings I buried long ago. I dance to face my demons, to meet my core pain, I have run for long enough, 'til I found that the only way out was to dive in, then my pain became my art, I brought my darkness out of the shadows to the light of form, where I could feel it, see it, sweat and sound it out of my cells, into the light of the sun . I dance to reinvent myself, I dance to know more of myself. I dance to empty myself of the past and fill my cup again with the light of source. In the dance, heaven and earth have merged in my heart to ignite the flame of love within.

The dance I dance is the one of surrender, the dance that dances me until the 'I' with all my agendas disappears and the mystery of the NOW opens up within me. I dance with my resistance, my lethargy, my inertia, I take my stuck-ness, my stiffness, to the edge and fly. Dancing, traversing inner dimensions totally absorbed in my quest for freedom.

My dance is a dialogue with my body, I dance to enquire into my stiff neck, tense shoulders, tight jaw, old emotion unexpressed and turned frozen, holding on for too long. I see my contractions and tension as my body screams for attention, I have something to say to you, enough fear, I want love expansion, warmth fluidity... if I am tight and overstressed then its time to breathe, time to dance stretch, listen to my body, let go and let love flow.

I have had to face a dense body, a body imprinted in the fear and pain of the past. I have listened to my body speak to me, read the symbolic language within my cells, soul codes reactivating memories of an ancient past, etheric blue print looping in the same patterns time after time, life after life. The dance has been my Zen dojo, my temple, my inner master helping me to see, to wake up, loop out, embrace, accept surrender and set myself free. Embrace, acceptance and surrender have been my guides to letting go, releasing and breaking out of the constant patterns that have kept me in fear and pain. I dance to plug into the Universal matrix and re-encode patterns of fear to love.

My dance is a wild prayer for insight, a multi leveled discourse with my body. I become the living memory held in my cells, I dance it into form so I can feel it, see it, touch it, taste it. I dance to get to know it before I can let go of it. I dance and breathe my body memory awake. I dance with the passion, I wanna know, let me see so that I can be free. I pray for the insight to let itself loose on me so I can see what is limiting me, I dance for clarity.

I dance to remember who I am...and to see the parts of myself that forgot, pretending to be who I am. I dance to ignite the flame of love within. I surrender my ego to the flame... I dance to die... Aaaahh... I dive inside the gateway of my heart to find the ocean of love that I AM. Aaah... I dance and fly... I dance to cultivate the light within. I dance to remember I AM the light.

I dance to embody ecstasy to be whole in body, heart, mind and soul.

I look forward to disappearing in the dance with you.

- Leyolah Antara

Antara's Biography

Through years of deepening and refining the work, I have come to call my work Kundalini Dance^TM. It is a synthesis of dance, healing, tantra, shamanism, chakra therapy and transpersonal psychology: a marriage between East and West, ancient and future transformational technologies, designed to empower people in awakening the, true- self. I see everyone has an inner healer, a shaman within, one who can feel, see and work with the unseen inner energy forces, an alchemist who can transform lead into gold, fear into love. I feel others are just like me; they want to live fully present, consciously awake and free.

I have been exploring the transformational path of ecstatic dance for 16 years. I studied Dance-Movement Therapy at Roehampton University in London in 1994/1995. I trained with dance shaman, author, Gabrielle Roth in 1990 and Hawaiian Kahuna Sandra Michael in 1994. I worked on developing the Chakra Dance Journeys with Frank Natale, the pioneer of the Trance Dance^TM work; he supported me in the early development of the work and offered me his studios in Amsterdam as my lab over the year 1991. I apprenticed with healer and movement therapist Elizabeth St John in London, from 1991-1993. I did a dance-meditation training for six weeks in the Osho Multiversity, Pune, India 1992. I have been meditating and cultivating my spiritual awareness for the past twenty years.

Since 1991, I have taken thousands of people across the globe, into the remembrance of how to work with their innate inner energy, their chakras and their kundalini, to transform the pain of the past, purify and move into ecstasy.

I pioneered of the Chakra Dance Journey workshops, which became popularized by Return to the Source in London between the years 1994-1997, when we co-produced the "Chakra Journey" double CD with a 72 page booklet, with over 100,000 copies sold it was a huge success. I have facilitated Chakra Dance Journeys in Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Maui, Hawaii, Bali, Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong and at my home base here in Byron Bay, Australia. I have worked with small intimate groups and facilitated Chakra Dance Journeys in Brixton Academy, London for up to 6000 people. For information on my current teaching schedule is available Here.

In 1999, I gave birth to my divine daughter and have since been based in Byron Bay, Australia. I have been teaching in Australia, writing and have co-created another interactive chakra journey dance music CD entitled "Chakra Trancen-dance" The Keys to Natural Ecstasy. This can be purchased through this website.

In 2005 I have just completed training my first group of 17 facilitators and feel empassioned to continue spreading the KD work globally in service to the awakening of humanity and Gaia. If you are interested in training with me as a KD Facilitator, Click Here.

In 2005 I have invitations to teach in North America as well as Melbourne and Perth within Australia.