Phoenix Rising
Hidden in the Wings
Our ‘creation story,’ the embodied narrative we carry about where we come from and what life is, shaping how we move, relate, and participate in the dance of existence, has a powerful effect on how we experience life. We call the characters in your story ‘understudies’. In the theatre, an understudy is the one who steps in as a replacement when the main actor is unwell or unavailable. On the stage of life, these understudies have often forgotten that they stepped in to ‘hold space’ while the real star waits hidden in the wings.
Rise from the Ashes
the structure
Phoenix Rising will support you to:
The Journey
Acceptance & Intention
The Unbroken and The Chambers of the Heart
Your Creation Story & The Dance of the Understudy
Phoenix Solo + Q & A
Phoenix Ceremony
Integration & Completion
Save your spot
£525
£425
Resourced & Resilient
Ya'acov Darling Khan
Word from the Community
Over the years, we have worked together in my village and in the UK, where every year I join Ya’Acov and Susannah’s Long Dance ceremony. So I have come to know him both as a friend and as a very genuine and compassionate shaman. He has put his knowledge in the service of healing through music, sound and movement, and leads very powerful ceremonies that transform thousands of people, helping them to deal with their suffering and answer their most important questions. He is a great healer who has helped me in my shamanic spiritual growth.
Working with Ya'Acov is a gift. So grounded and committed to truth with a humility which belies the depth and gravitas of his life and professional experience, to have the privilege of working with him is to say a resounding yes to your own healing and expansion. Unquestionably one of the most powerful and authentic teachers I have experienced, I cannot recommend him more highly.
Ya’Acov is a gifted healer of the highest integrity. His work will help you understand, embrace and harness the power of your Inner Shaman. His words and guidance serve as a path to live with greater purpose and create a world where we can turn suffering into healing. Thank you, Ya’Acov, for being such a blessing, in and for our world.
The Phoenix work with Ya’Acov and Susannah is one of the most important tools I have worked with on my personal journey in Life. I have used it often during my journey with Movement Medicine and it has really supported me in transforming a lot of shame – not being good enough! – being wrong! – do I have the right to be here on Earth? etc. Without the Phoenix I would not have been where I am right now – it has simply guided me to come back home to my essence, to be able to live much more fully in contact with my True Self and my Soul.
The Phoenix Retreat is the most transformative thing I have ever done. I feel very empowered by the tools we were given to become conscious and dissolve patterns we don’t need any more. And how beautiful and encouraging is this way of creating a new story, a new future for our lives!
Phoenix Rising is a fantastic, strong and deeply magic tool… I feel like I finally arrive somewhere with all my potential and talents that I carry as well as with my fears and limitations.
I opened a certain space of myself that I hadn't seen or wanted to see before. I established a relationship with my shadow, I noticed it. I started dancing with it. The whole process was an incredible adventure. A lot is still falling into place.
I found most valuable Ya'acov's presence, the depth of his teachings and the way he holds space, even online. As well as the powerful experience of the Phoenix Process itself.
Our International Team
Kaya Sertic
Kaya has been working as a body-oriented psychotherapist, Movement Medicine dance teacher and ceremony leader, mentor and lecturer, holding workshops, ceremonies, trainings, intensive programs and retreats in Croatia and around the world. Through a variety of different therapeutic, shamanic and dance practices, initiations, explorations and personal experience, the essence of her work is to bring possibilities of empowerment, healing and resourcing, as well as a sense of purpose, dignity and love to the challenges of today's world.
Anna Sierpowska
Anna's a dancer and feels connected with medicine of the dance though Movement Medicine (AP & TT 3) psychoterapy (body oriented therapy) and art. The medicine she brings is connected with core authenticy of self manifesting in ordinary life.
Keef Miles
I am a first generation Movement Medicine Teacher. I am a poet, shamanic dancer, and shamanic soul guide. I am an apprentice of XamAM Alba Maria - Terra Mirim, Bahia, Brazil. Offerings include shamanic workshops, ceremonies, immersions and 1-1 soul mentoring. I am co-founder of Awakening the Wild and Awakening The Wild MAN.
Anja Bock
I am a mother and a lover of music, dance, and ceremony. I am deeply passionate about our Earth, all our relations, and bringing people together from all walks of life. I have been facilitating conscious dance for over a decade and co-creating retreats with the Herd at Holistic Horse Farm. I have held large holistic outdoor events in the Garden Route and I am often invited as a guest teacher at retreats, workshops and festivals in South Africa.
Didier
Didier is a burnout prevention specialist, professional coach and consultant based in Brussels, Belgium. Before founding Reconnecter.be, he spent over 15 years in business strategy consulting with major organisations across Europe.
He has been a certified Movement Medicine teacher since 2013. His professional practice integrates embodied and somatic methods — including the GDS® physiotherapy method (Godelieve Denys-Struyf), Systemic coaching, Movement Medicine and polyvagal theory — within a rigorous, systemic approach to burnout prevention, working simultaneously at the individual, team and organisational level.
He is a certified Mentor and Accredited Supervisor in Movement Medicine, and works with companies, managers, entrepreneurs and practitioners in Belgium, France and across Europe — in person and online, in French and English.
Yuki Lakshminarayani
She is a Movement medicine certified Teacher, a Spiritual Healer, an International Yoga Teacher and a Shamanic Worker.
More than 25 years experience of leading group work. Her work supports you for the unity of Body, Mind and Spirit, and assists you to connect to “Who you are.”
For more information about Yuki, please visit her website :
beyond3.jimdofree.com/
Karuna Linda Marx
Dance has been Karuna's companion and elixir of life from childhood on. Her background is in dance, meditation, bodywork and a 2 year Training in Gestalt Therapy. She is a Movement Medicine Teacher & Facilitator, mother, studied and accredited nutrition therapist, ayurdevic therapist and bodyworker and trained in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy with Linda Hartley, which is based on Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement and Somatic Psychology.
Haein Cho
Haein Cho is a yoga teacher trainer, aquatic bodywork therapist, musician, and facilitator of ceremonies and rites of passage. Originally from South Korea and raised in Auroville, India, she brings over 20 years of experience in movement, bodywork, and group facilitation.
She has taught internationally for over a decade, leading professional trainings, retreats, and workshops across more than 30 countries. Her work weaves together physical embodiment practice, emotional depth, and spiritual inquiry, supporting individuals and groups through meaningful thresholds of transformation.
Is this course suitable for me?
This course is for you if:
- You are a spirited human being who wants to take a journey of embodied learning to discover more about who you are and the medicine that is inside you.
- You hear the calling to retrieve and develop the unique essence and soulprint of who you are.
- Create the internal empowerment, space and resources to be able to witness your history and that of your ancestors as an invitation to create.
- You wish to invoke the power of responsibility for your own life and escape the vicious circle of blame, shame and guilt.
- You wish to play your role more fully in life and enjoy the deep satisfaction of giving what’s yours to give.
This course is NOT for you if:
- You don’t have the internal and external resources to allow your sense of self to be challenged.
- You suffer from any form of mental challenge that makes it hard or impossible for you to operate in consensual reality.
- You are not able to dedicate the time and attention necessary to the workshop journey including Listening Circles, weekly sessions with your Study Buddy and the Live sessions with Ya’Acov.
Please note:
* If you are taking any medication, please let us know. You will need the full support of your health care professional to participate in this workshop.
* This workshop does not constitute a training to offer any of the material shared.