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LEVELS
THE THREE LEVELS OF FLIGHT SCHOOL
The Mariposa Movement teacher training path is now offered
in three powerful, standalone modules. Each level is a gateway into deeper embodiment, leadership, and transformation.
Start with Level 1 for the strongest foundation,
or choose the module that speaks most to your heart.
Your path, your pace.
LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS
Somatic Dance Leadership Training
March – June 2026 | Online
This 12-week online immersion teaches the Mariposa Movement methodology — our foundational approach to dance as a healing, transformational tool.
Perfect for: dancers, space-holders, creatives, healers and emerging leaders ready to add movement medicine to their toolkit.
LEVEL 2: NEW EARTH DJ
Step Into Your Power as a Leader + Frequency Holder
June–Sept 2026 | Hybrid: Online + 10-Day Costa Rica Immersion
Take your dance leadership to the next level and learn to DJ.
Level 2 is for women ready to go deeper into rhythm, frequency stewardship, and ceremonial movement leadership.
Perfect for: women who feel the call to step up to the DJ decks in service of awakening and liberation through movement and music.
LEVEL 3: LA CHISPA
Plant Medicine Pilgrimage to an Off-Grid Sanctuary
January 2026 | 9-Day Retreat in Costa Rica
A sacred pilgrimage to a hidden sanctuary deep in the mountains of Costa Rica, where we gather with trusted mentors and sing with the sacred plant teachers who guide our way. We will work with Grandmother Medicine.
If you don’t yet know what this means but feel a strong curiosity or call, trust that — and let’s hop on a connection call to feel into whether this path is for you.
Perfect for: graduates of Level 1 or 2 (or equivalent), or women ready to step into deep ceremonial work and lead with humility, integrity and devotion.
Flight School is for the woman who feels the whisper.
The one who knows — deep in her bones —
that there’s more to life than what the world has shown her.
You may have walked through fire, weathered storms,
or felt the ache of forgetting who you truly are.
Yet, like the Phoenix rising…
or the butterfly breaking free from the chrysalis…
You know it’s TIME TO FLY.
To activate & celebrate your god-given gifts, for the good of all.
Flight School is for you if you…
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Feel called to lead or teach — as a dance guide or DJ — in a way that's rooted in nature connection, love, truth, and integrity.
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Want to learn the Mariposa Movement methodology — our signature approach to dance as a healing, transformational tool.
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Are ready to trust your intuition even more deeply and lead from your heart.
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Resonate with an earth-based & ceremonial approach to somatic dance + DJing.
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Long for a circle of powerful women who see you, celebrate you, and hold you as you rise.
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Feel the pulse of the New Earth and know in your bones that you are part of this global shift in consciousness.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Hi! I'm Aliza Rivka, Founder of Mariposa Movement
And I believe that movement is medicine, joy is revolution, and dance has the power to change the world.
Seven years ago, while working as a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist in nursing homes near NYC, I got really sick. My entire life stopped in the face of intense autoimmune symptoms. It was a deep, dark night of the soul.
During that time, I was guided to move to Costa Rica and follow the whispers of my heart and soul. Through dance, ritual, and deep somatic listening, I eventually found my way back to health, wholeness and vitality. And what I discovered was more than healing — it was truly a homecoming.
Today, I guide women around the world in finding their own way home: in reclaiming their power and wildness through the Mariposa Movement methodology — a fusion of dance therapy, earth-based ritual and embodied leadership.
I’ve now trained nearly 50 women in facilitation, and continue to steward Flight School as a path for women ready to rise — not just for themselves, but for the good of all and for the New Earth that is calling us all forward.
If you feel the call, I’d be honored to guide you home to your power, your purpose and your own sacred soul flight.
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
"Under Aliza's guidance, your life will transform to a more expansive state of being."
-Tanya Lucia, 2022 Graduate
or send your questions to aliza@mariposamovement.com
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