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
Hay algo que me conecta con el desierto y los cantos de mujeres de raíces ancestrales; algo que me atrae de las plantas y de los susurros del bosque. Algo que me llama desde la profundidad de la Tierra y las entrañas de los Úteros. La danza es lo que más de acerca a todo eso. Es como respirar con todo el cuerpo a la vez. Sentí este llamado desde pequeña. Entonces no terminaba de entender la dirección que debía tomar en un mundo que veía muy limitado y materialista.
Since I was little, I couldn’t stop thinking about dancing. I tried other disciplines, and although I loved them—flamenco, for example—I felt there was a response more aligned with my inner feelings and with the questions I kept asking myself over and over. Everything changed when I started taking Oriental Dance classes: that was when my path of remembering began. Beginning this dance was like lighting a tiny spark, not knowing that I was igniting a fire that would shape my life forever. I was 14 years old, and that moment became a turning point.
Over time, my body called for a language more connected to the Goddess and the Earth, and that’s when I discovered what is known as Tribal Fusion Belly Dance—a memory that awakened within me as I danced it. It felt like remembering something that had already lived in me through other lives. Tribal hip dance is an ancient language that reminds us of the wisdom of the body.
Later, other dances began to intertwine along my path: Ori Tahiti, Bollywood, Indoriental® Dance, Gypsy Dances, ATS®, Fire Dance… I also trained in yoga and hypopressive techniques.
Psychology, pedagogy and healing wounds
At the same time, I studied Psychology at the University of Barcelona. This knowledge gave me the keys to understand the learning process and to guide from a place of support. The pedagogy I use is loving and patient.
I clearly remember those classes from when I was little, where dance was taught from the wound: judgment, shame, fear. I went through classes where mistakes were ridiculed, and the feeling of not being enough was planted.
From those experiences, one of my most sacred purposes was born: to teach from love and patience, creating spaces where every person feels worthy of dancing, regardless of their story, wounds, or fears. Returning to the body is vital for everyone, but especially for women. Healing the wounds of the feminine is essential, particularly when we have been conditioned by taboos and complexes that have kept us from feeling worthy and deserving.
Tahiti, the living root of dance
In 2017, I traveled to Tahiti and studied at the Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia, deepening my understanding of the roots and essence of ‘Ori Tahiti dance. Feeling the percussion live gives you goosebumps. This dance has always felt to me both joyful and wild, and one of its styles—’Aparima—connects deeply with gratitude, which is why, on a personal level, it feels so healing to me.
Energy, healing and surrender
In recent years, my path has expanded into the energetic realm. I have trained in Innerdance and LNT (La Nueva Terapia), tools that have taught me to feel the subtle vibration of everything around us and, paradoxically, have shown me how the body can heal extraordinarily through dance and movement.
When I began this process of learning and remembering that we are energy and vibration, an injury forced me to pause: it took me away from the path of competition—both external and with myself. I realized the self-demand that had once been tied to my dancing. I surrendered. I focused on seeking my authenticity instead of perfection.
This was a painful process of letting go, but I understood that Tribal Fusion Belly Dance was my true language. I had found my authenticity as a dancer. I focused personally on its study and practice, and although I experienced the grief of stepping back as a soloist in Tahitian dance—a dance that has given me so much—it was the right path.
The body as a temple
Shortly after, I went through an even more challenging physical process—in truth, a nightmare, to be honest. A gastrointestinal and liver condition forced me for over a year to eat using only five ingredients. Every meal was a mix of torture and a lesson in humility. My body was teaching me its limits: What can I tolerate? What poisons me? What accumulates in my liver?
My nervous system became disconnected from pleasure: from eating, from feeling, from living. It was a deep and transformative journey. I am still walking it, but today I am grateful for it with every cell, for the wisdom it has revealed to me. It was, without a doubt, necessary to know myself more deeply.
Innerdance: a turning point
Innerdance was a before and after in my life. If I had to recommend a single energetic tool, without a doubt, it would be this one. Innerdance is for everyone… and at the same time, it’s not.
It is a portal that is not crossed with the mind or pretense, but with surrender and letting go. Those who are not willing to release control may not be able to walk it yet, or may remain in superficial layers. Innerdance opened a portal for an introspective journey, a path home, straight to the root, to authenticity—so powerful that it changed my life 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 deeply with my life purpose: dance and how to heal through movement—whether it is dance or not—when I realized that during energetic activation processes my body made waves to reorganize the energetic system: spinal undulations, hip eights, circles of the chest, hips, and head, mudras, spinal extensions; even shimmies and chest hits… and no, I wasn’t the only one experiencing this because I knew how to dance—it’s a hidden language of the body—but real!—that we all can access.
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 dedicated to teaching, sharing Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, Tahitian Dance, Yoga, and Hypopressive techniques. I lead the company Pasifika Hips 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 root, sap, and fruit of the same sacred tree.
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 seek to be seen by others, but to see myself, and to support you, woman, sister… You, who sense that there is something beyond the social Matrix. You, who feel the need for freedom and expansion: because all of us—or almost all of us—have at some point dreamed of being witches, wise women, dancing priestesses, waiting to be awakened. It is not just a dream.
Today, I can recognize myself on my path as a guardian of conscious movement, because I have dedicated my life to it, and because my purpose is to guide you to awaken through your dance. I am an alchemist of ancient memories because I help you bring into the here and now the fragments of your soul scattered across this and other lives through dance, so that you can return to your essence—free, connected, and authentic.
Today, dance is my prayer, my medicine, and my legacy. And it can be yours too. Will you join me?
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.