About Aliza Rivka
Founder of Mariposa Movement
Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
International DJ + Retreat Host
Aliza Rivka is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, International DJ, and founder of Mariposa Movement.
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Her work lives at the intersection of rigorous training and embodied intuition—where structure meets soul, and movement becomes a pathway back to self.
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With a decade of clinical training and experience in hospitals and therapeutic settings in New York City, Aliza developed a deep capacity to track the nervous system, meet people beyond words, and hold spaces of real transformation.
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Her foundation is both academic and embodied. She holds a BA in Dance from Columbia University (cum laude) and a Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy from Sarah Lawrence College, alongside a lifetime of training and professional experience in ballet, contemporary, and hip hop.
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She is also a longtime student of ceremonial, earth-based practice, walking a devotional path of embodied spirituality for over 15 years—deepening her relationship to rhythm, ritual, and the intelligence of the natural world.
But her path didn’t stop there.
After leaving New York and relocating to Costa Rica, her work evolved beyond the clinical frame—expanding into a more intuitive, expressive, and liberated approach to movement.
Today, Aliza's facilitation bridges both worlds.
​She is deeply trained and wildly intuitive—equally devoted to the science of the body and the wisdom that lives within it.
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Her spaces are known for their depth, precision, permission and aliveness.
Aliza doesn’t just guide movement: she teaches people how to trust themselves and listen to their bodies. To their truth. To what is ready to move through them.
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Through her signature programs, including Flight School and The Sanctuary, Aliza guides women home to their bodies—and for those called to lead, she trains powerful, embodied facilitators who know how to hold a room, move energy responsibly, and guide transformation with both integrity and intuition.
Aliza is pure magic. She shares herself and her journey so generously. Being in her presence inspires me to create a life so abundant that I'm bursting with love, because I want what she's having. Her deep, tender, fiery spirit is contagious and ignites everyone and everything around her.
JAMIE YASGUR | DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPIST
