Dance is intrinsic to most women as a form of expression, although many women have become disconnected from this. Dance is meditative, healing, and empowering. It bridges the sexual/spiritual gap that most women have lost, touching all levels of existence: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Sacred dance, tapping into inherent, primordial movements, is as ancient as creation itself. It can help women reconnect to the creative and sacred parts of themselves.

"The polarities can be named in several ways, feminine/masculine, negative/positive or yin/yang. They are called polarities because they are at opposite ends of the poles, the two extremes. In the physical world they are usually recognized as positive and negative. One of the important qualities of polarities is that they are electrically charged. The fact that they are electrically charged also means that they are magnetically attracted to each other. This is the real law of attraction, where opposites attract. In order to create balance there must be equal amounts of both either pushing or pulling against each other.

Our goal is never to neutralize the polarities but to balance them. We need both extremes. Imagine where we would be if molecules decided that they didn’t want to be polar or extreme and decided instead to be neutral! Basically the universe as we know it would cease to exist. We are not looking for neutrality, we are looking for balance. This is why in shamanic thought we are looking at the space between things, the interface. This place is the most dynamic and the most balance place. It is very magnetic and active, not neutral."

Let The Alchemy of Dance: Sacred Dance as a Path to the Universal Dancer help you tap into your innate, divine feminine energy utilizing rhythm and movement through sacred dance. Become the universal dancer who is fully integrated with life, and dance with the universe.

On the Path with Leslie Zehr

“I'm anything but objective about the work of Leslie Zehr. She has been a beloved mentor and friend ever since I first visited Cairo, and gave me one of the most useful teachings I've ever heard: "This is the country of the River. Give up and go where she wants to take you, and it gets easier. Try to swim against the current . . ." -- and the rest did not have to be said. As the years have passed since 2003, her words have seemed to apply to almost everything: exchanges and interactions with people, communications with the Moon, Mother Earth, the Andean plant teachers and other Divine medicine, and with the flow of healing energy through all the bodies of my own consciousness.

Leslie is uniquely qualified to write not only about dance, but specifically about the Alchemy of it. The word comes from Khemt, the ancient word that the people of the Black Land by the Nile called their country before it became more widely known under its Greek name, "Egypt." She was initiated as a Priestess at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, has channeled and created the Egyptian Flower Remedies, has led the Cairo Center for Health and Wellbeing since she and other women first founded it in 1996, and has guided countless teachings and ceremonies at sacred sites, all of them unified by the same alchemical theme she presents in The Alchemy of Dance. The book is rich in spiritual lore, as it shows how an evolving pattern of Sacred Dance is present in the arcana of the tarot, the archetypal images of the soul journey, and the symbols of alchemy.

That's why her book is so unusual. No footwork diagrams or pictures of body positions. And nothing about dance as entertainment, or as something to relieve the stress of the workaday world, or as a way to lose weight and get an ideal dancer's body. If anything, Leslie affirms that women's bodies of all sizes, ages and shapes are beautiful as they are. The point of what she does is in the alchemy as an empowering, liberating process of transformation in which one attunes with the rhythms of the Earth, the pulse of the heart and the dream of freedom. In the end, for those who commit to the path Leslie maps out, one can release the fear, the doubt and the distraction, and become one with the Universal Dancer who expresses what is sacred in every breath and every move.”

Dan Furst author of 'Surfing Aquarius: How to Ace the Wave of Change'