I am Sylvia Yssei.
I am Sylvia Yssei.
Guardian of conscious movement. Dancer, energy therapist, and guide to sacred memories.
The beginning of the sacred fire
My journey began in the body, that innate pulse of movement that transforms into dance. When I started Oriental Dance, I felt like someone who lights a spark without yet knowing that they are igniting a sacred fire that would mark my life forever. I was 14 years old at the time, and although I had already danced other disciplines, this was a turning point.
Over time, my body asked me for a language more connected to the Goddess, and I embraced what is known as tribal fusion belly dancing, which for me was an ancestral memory that awakened when I danced it. It was like remembering something that already lived within me from other lives.
Over time, other dances became interwoven into my path: Ori Tahiti, Bollywood, Oriental Dance®, Gypsy Dances, ATS®, Fire Dance… The alchemy continued. I also trained in body techniques such as yoga and hypopressive exercises.
Psychology, pedagogy and healing wounds
At the same time, I studied Psychology at the University of Barcelona. This knowledge gave me the keys to understanding the learning process and guiding from a place of support. My teaching style is holistic, ritualistic, and loving.
I vividly remember those childhood classrooms where dance was taught from a place of hurt: correction turned into judgement, learning tinged with shame. I went through classes where mistakes were ridiculed and a feeling of not being good enough was instilled.
From those experiences, one of my most sacred goals emerged: to teach with love and patience, creating spaces where every body is worthy of dance, regardless of its history or limitations. No one should feel excluded from the joy of moving freely.
Tahiti, the living root of dance
In 2017, I travelled to Tahiti and studied at the French Polynesian Artistic Conservatory, delving deeper into the living roots of Ori Tahiti dance. I have always found this dance to be both joyful and wild in equal measure, and one of its aspects connects deeply with gratitude, which is why I personally find it so healing.
Energy, healing and surrender
In recent years, my path has expanded into the energetic and spiritual realms. I have trained in Innerdance and LNT (La Nueva Terapia), paths that have taught me to read the subtle vibrations of the body, the unconscious, and energy in motion. Paradoxically, they have also taught me how, through dance and movement, the body can heal in extraordinary ways.
When I began this process of learning and remembering that we are energy and vibration, an injury forced me to stop: it took me off the path of competition—both external and with myself. I let go of the self-imposed demands that I had previously connected to dance. I surrendered. I focused on seeking authenticity rather than perfection.
This was a painful process of detachment, but I understood that Tribal Fusion belly dancing was my true language. I had found my authenticity as a dancer. I focused personally on studying and practising it, and although I mourned my retirement as a solo Tahitian dancer – a dance that has given me so much – it was the right path to take.
The body as a temple
Shortly afterwards, I went through an even more challenging physical process: a gastrointestinal and liver condition forced me to eat only five ingredients for over a year. Every meal was a lesson in humility. My body taught me its limits: what can I tolerate? What poisons me? What accumulates in my liver in the form of unexpressed anger?
The nervous system disconnected from pleasure: from eating, from feeling, from living. It was a profound and transformative journey. I am still walking that path, but today I am grateful for it with every fibre of my being, for the wisdom it has revealed to me. It was undoubtedly necessary.
Innerdance: a turning point
Innerdance was a turning point in my life. If I had to recommend just one energy activation, it would definitely be this one. Innerdance is for everyone… and yet, at the same time, it isn’t.
It is a portal that does not cross the mind, but rather surrender. Those who are not willing to let go of control may not be able to pass through it yet, or may remain on the surface. Innerdance opened a portal of introspective journey, a path home, straight to the root, to authenticity, so powerful that it changed my existence forever.
Every soul has its own process and path, and each person has—or does not have—the will to embrace surrender and walk that path—or not. That is why my recommendation may not work for you; it is not an absolute truth. Innerdance confronts you, supports you, and expands you.
Innerdance connected me even more with my life purpose: dance and how to heal with movement—whether dance or not—when I realised that during energy activation processes, my body made waves to reorganise the energy system: spine undulations, hip eights, chest, hip and head circles, mudras, spine extensions; even shimmies, chest beats… and no, I wasn’t the only one who experienced that because I knew how to dance.
This made me integrate into my wisdom, or rather, remember, that the body is not just an instrument, but a temple.
Ritual Dance: Alchemy of the Goddess® is born
From that integration, my method was born: Ritual Dance, Alchemy of the Goddess®. A synthesis of everything experienced and remembered, where the body becomes medicine, an altar, a channel.
Through this method, I guide women in processes of deep reconnection with their inner wisdom, their cycles, their lineage, their shadow, and their light. Here, dance becomes a ritual, a way to transmute, release, and embody the sacred power of the feminine. And it feels absolutely as if you are REMEMBERING and ACTIVATING a deep memory within you. ‘I already knew this, I have already experienced it, I have already felt it.’
Sharing the journey
Since 2010, I have been teaching Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, Tahitian Dance, Yoga, and Hypopressive Exercises. I run the Tiare Tahiti company and facilitate workshops nationally and internationally, wherever dance calls me.
In 2024, I opened the Sylvatika Tribe temple, a sacred space where the body is medicine, movement is ritual, and the forest—Sylva, Mother Earth—reminds us that we are the roots, sap, and fruit of the same sacred pulse.
It is a place of return, of integration, of living memory among witches and wise women who rediscover their power.
Today, my prayer is dance
Today I no longer dance only with my body, but with my soul open. I no longer seek to be seen, but to see, feel and hold you, woman, sister, witch… You, who sense that there is something beyond the social Matrix. You who feel the need for freedom and expansion.
I am a guardian of conscious movement, an alchemist of sacred memories, and a sower of light with every step. Today, I am a dancer and a bridge between worlds: that of the Matrix and that of Magic —or fantasy, as one of my students always reminds me— that of the tangible and that of the mystery of existence.
Dance is my prayer, my medicine, and my legacy.
Infinite gratitude
I am deeply grateful to each of my students, companions on this journey, mirrors and teachers. Thank you for trusting me, for opening your bodies and hearts to mystery, for allowing yourselves to inhabit dance as ritual, as prayer, as medicine.
Thank you for your dedication, for your vulnerability and trust, for your strength and courage. You are part of this alchemy. You are the witches who awaken.
Thank you for dancing with me, for remembering with me, for keeping alive with me the flame of the sacred feminine, uniting it in action, decision and movement.
For You and By You
I create unique experiences for events, ceremonies, training sessions, spiritual gatherings, or performance spaces that seek more than just entertainment: a transformative experience.
Whether through dance, fire, voice, or therapeutic accompaniment, I put my art and my listening skills at your service to co-create from a place of authenticity.