Aliza Rivka, MS

Aliza Rivka is the guide you meet when you’re ready to fly.

After 32 years in New York City, Aliza left the concrete jungle for the jungles of Costa Rica because her body told her to. It took months of brutal body aches, depression and depletion for Aliza to finally look right into her body and ask: “What do you want?”

What arrived loud and clear was a flood of imagery: green jungle canopies, ocean warmth, sun on skin and lots of dance. Ingredients for health. An emerging recipe for a soul-based life.

Within 2 months, Aliza was on the plane to Costa Rica (never before on her map) managing a dance retreat center near the beach. What has unfolded since then has been nothing short of magic. Mission rebooted, autoimmune symptoms dissolved, Aliza now guides others in the art of quantum growth through dance.

Aliza is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, an ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess and officially a DJ Witch (graduate of PhDJ). Her dance floors are literal jungle parties where nature gets down with us and a new earth births between beats. When Aliza’s on the decks, bodies breathe better, ancestors exhale and sound systems pulse to the deeper prayer of Pachamama.

Aliza has touched thousands of lives through dance – leading dance community in the NYC area, locally in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica and globally from her Zoom screen. Co-founder of Imiloa Institute’s Soul Sundays and Mama of Mariposa Movement – Aliza is just getting started. Subscribe for all ways to dance and connect, and join Flight School (Aliza's signature movement mentorship program) here! https://www.mariposamovement.com/flight-school

Aliza led our Cacao Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance Celebration for our Moving through Grief retreat at Imiloa.