Ishtara®
Heal your patterns, free your emotions, and come home to yourself. All through dance.
This is Ishtara®
Ishtara® is a neuroscience-backed method for transforming your relationship with your body, your emotions and yourself — through authentically expressed somatic dance.
Ishtara®
Most healing approaches work from the mind down. Ishtara® works from the body up.
That is because your body is not just where your feelings live — it is where your patterns live too. To your nervous system, your past is simply a pattern that repeats in your life until it finds completion. And completion cannot happen through understanding alone. It has to happen where the pattern began: in the body.
Ishtara® teaches you how to safely feel your past patterns as sensations in your body, and how to respond to them with love. By doing so, they complete rather than endlessly repeat. Not through force or fixing - but through feeling, movement, and the kind of unconditional love that creates real, lasting change.
This is healing and living that goes all the way down to the source.
HOW IT WORKS
FEEL SAFE
Your body is wise and deeply protective. Healing becomes possible when your body feels genuinely safe enough to let what has been held come forward. Ishtara© creates that safety.
GO DEEP
To heal a pattern at its source, you will have to meet it where it lives — in the nervous system, the tissue and the felt sense of the body. Ishtara© guides you there gently, precisely and at your own pace.
LOVE YOU CAN FEEL
Hurt that happened in another relationship must be healed in relationship — through the felt presence of safety and love in communion with others. Ishtara© will teach you how to bring that love back to yourself in a way your body can genuinely feel and receive. You will feel safe and held in this space.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
Every body, including yours, tells its own story. Ishtara© is completely personalized to you, honoring your patterns, your pace and the unique intelligence of your body. Nothing is forced or one-size-fits-all.
Who this is for
Ishtara® is for you if:
You are self-aware and have done lots of personal work, yet still feel stuck in the same patterns
You understand yourself deeply but that understanding hasn't created the change you are looking for
You crave more authenticity, self-love and self-acceptance — and want to feel it in your body, not just think it in your mind
You love to dance and feel most alive when your body gets to move — and you sense that movement has the power to help you process and heal
You are ready to stop fixing yourself and start loving yourself — from the inside out
Ishtara® is offered for women 21+. No prior dance or somatic experience is necessary.
Ishtara® Offerings
Ishtara® Body Alchemy
12-Week Introductory Course that combines Ishtara© Level 1: Body Story and Isthara© Level 2: Body Personalities
Where your Ishtara© journey begins.
Over 12 weeks, I guide you through the full Ishtara method in a small, intimate online group — teaching you how to use somatic dance to regulate your nervous system, feel and move your emotions, and begin healing your patterns at their source. Sessions are live, online, are never recorded and kept intentionally small so that every participant feels safe and receives genuine attention and care.
By the end of this course you will have a personal 15-minute daily practice you can use for life — and a felt sense of what it means to truly come home to your body.
All of you is welcome, wanted and celebrated here.
No prior dance or somatic experience needed. Open to women 21+.
Investment: $1600
Payment plans and scholarships are available. Please contact Rachael for more information.
Ishtara® Series — Ongoing Practice & Deepening
Once you have completed the Body Alchemy introductory course, the Ishtara© Series offers a continued space to practice.
This is a space to deepen and grow, with like-hearted women, in a safe and supportive container.
This is where the method truly becomes your own: where patterns continue to complete, authenticity continues to expand, and the relationship with your body and with your Soul keeps getting richer.
This is a weekly meeting of a small group.
You will choose your own songs to dance and alchemize to, while being witnessed in a safe community.
All of you is welcome, wanted and celebrated here.
Open to graduates of Ishtara© Body Alchemy only.
Investment: $444 for 6-week series
Payment plans and scholarships are available. Please contact Rachael for more information.
This is where healing happens.
Love your body. Restore a genuine sense of love, trust and belonging in your own body — learning to listen to it as the wise and faithful guide it has always been.
Move your body. Learn the heart of the Ishtara practice — a gentle, body-led dance movement practice that creates real feelings of safety, pleasure and authenticity in just 15 minutes a day.
Free your emotions. Go beyond intellectualizing your emotions and learn to move them fully through your body — learning to transform sadness into love, fear into intuition and anger into passion.
Love all parts of you. Learn to use this method to heal your patterns, love yourself unconditionally and free yourself to create and live your extraordinary life.
What to expect
Live, online sessions in an intimate group container
A trauma-informed, body-led approach that meets you exactly where you are
Somatic dance practice that requires no choreography or dance experience — just your body and your willingness to feel
A method that is personalized to you and your body's unique patterns
Warm, experienced guidance throughout
A daily practice of just 15 minutes that you can use for life
Please note: Ishtara® is not therapy. If you are currently working with a therapist, I encourage you to continue that work — Ishtara® beautifully complements therapeutic approaches by adding the body-based, felt experience that talking alone sometimes cannot reach.
Client Love
My experience of Ishtara was like a beautiful welcome home party for the body. So many needs met in one relatively short class. I will try to put it into words, but really this is an experience that you must FEEL. Ishtara is a beautiful container that invited my human home to her body to experience the magic and vitality that comes from being in sisterhood. To be seen. To be nurtured. To be mirrored! Not just the manicured, carefully curated mask of human that I bring to the world, but the raw slightly activated lightning bolt of energy that is contained in human skin, that I AM. Rachael is an incredible artist of life and teacher. Gratitude.
- Jill
Wisdom, wonder, liberation, joy. The Ishtara course with Rachael shifted so much within me and it continues. I learned a different story and with it changed how I understood and witnessed the parts of myself I was taught to shame. No stories, just the one my body wanted to express. I saw the power, the magic, the wonder and wisdom contained within myself and my sisters in this course. In this container with Rachael, I bared my soul, I was witnessed, I was celebrated and I began to celebrate myself. This is healing, energising embodied medicine and magic and Rachael brings her own powerful intuitive wisdom to this powerful mix. Thank you Rachael.
- Tamsin
The Ishtara Program was a transformative experience that came during a huge transition in my life. It helped ground me and work through emotions that otherwise could have been very overwhelming! The program gave me tools to use and new ways of embodying and integrating emotion that I will carry forward to move old stuck energy, or new inputs coming in that I want to move through. I also found it really enlightening and helpful to learn about the different energies I hold, who my protectresses and liberators are and giving a name to the different parts of myself that have been creating patterns or energies in my body and life based on my needs being met or not met.
- Kat
Frequently Asked Questions
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None at all. Ishtara's movement practice is gentle, self-guided and completely adaptable to your body — there is no choreography to learn and no "right" way to move. If you have a body and a willingness to feel, you are ready.
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Most somatic approaches focus on regulating or releasing emotions. Ishtara goes further — it teaches you a specific method for completing patterns at their source in the nervous system, so that change happens not just in the moment but in a lasting, body-based way. Many people who have tried years of other approaches find Ishtara reaches something that nothing else quite has.
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Once you have learned the method, your daily practice takes just 15 minutes — three times a week is enough to create meaningful change. During the 12-week Body Alchemy course you will also attend our live weekly online sessions together.
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Yes — all sessions are held live online, so you can join from anywhere in the world from the comfort and safety of your own home.
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No — Ishtara is not therapy and I am not a therapist. It is a body-based self-healing method that many people find beautifully complements their therapeutic work by adding the felt, body-based experience that talking approaches sometimes cannot reach. If you are currently in therapy, I encourage you to continue and to let your therapist know you are beginning an embodiment practice.
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My Ishtara offerings are currently open to women 21 and over. If you are non-binary or male and feel called to this work, please reach out directly and I will point you in the right direction.
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Ishtara Body Alchemy is the 12-week introductory course where you learn the full Ishtara method from the ground up — personalized to you and your body. The Ishtara Series is the ongoing continuation for graduates of Body Alchemy — a space to keep practicing, deepening and growing in live group sessions. Body Alchemy comes first; the Series is where you go from there.
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Groups are kept intentionally small, at a maximum of 6 participants, to ensure every participant feels genuinely held, seen and supported. This is not a large online course — it is an intimate, personal container.
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While we require that all participants attend the first 6 sessions of the introductory Body Alchemy program, we also understand that life happens! Please reach out directly at rachael@ourinfinitenature.co if you need to discuss attendance or scheduling and we will find the best solution together.
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Please reach out to discuss any concerns before enrolling. Refunds are not generally offered once a course has begun, but I am always happy to have a conversation at rachael@ourinfinitenature.co.