ISHTARA

A method to transform yourself from the body up.

For every body. You are welcome here.
You can love and move your body in any age and any shape.

Go beyond regulating the nervous system and create lasting changes in the way you feel, act, and relate, with Ishtara®’s proven body based method called Body Alchemy.

Melissa Brough is a Licensed Teacher of Ishtara®. Melissa has trained with the creator of Ishtara, Tracy Harward, and is licensed as an independent teacher. For complete information on Ishtara, you can also visit ishtarabody.com

Ishtara body alchemy free intro

Learn to transform any emotional energy using the somatic method of Body Alchemy. Join a free introduction to learn about Ishtara’s trauma-informed method for alchemizing emotional and relational patterns through movement, so that you can lead the life you desire. In this intro we learn how patterns are created in our nervous systems that limit or enhance our capacity for joy, success, and fulfillment. We explain how Ishtara’s Body Alchemy works and provide an overview of the six-week course. You’ll come away from this introduction with new appreciation for your body, greater understanding of somatic work, and a discount for the course! Online introductions last one hour; in-person introductory workshops include gentle somatic exercises and last two hours. Open to any body.

Join a free Intro to Body Alchemy

Ishtara body alchemy

Learn how to transform any emotional energy so that you can lead the life you desire. Ishtara Body Alchemy is a trauma-informed method for transforming emotional and relational patterns through movement. In this 6-week course you’ll learn how patterns are created in your nervous systems that may limit or enhance your capacity for healing, joy, success, and fulfillment. You’ll gain a profound appreciation for your body, greater understanding of how to work with your unique nervous system patterns, how to listen deeply to your body to heal yourself, and how to alchemize emotional energies into their highest gifts. Each class is limited to 6 people and is a customized learning journey unique to you. This class is for any body. 

Ishtara Body Alchemy Offerings

Ishtara body trinity

Discover the personality of your body – the ways you learned to protect yourself in your life. Your patterns of protection can show up as patterns in your relationship to yourself and others. By learning to relate to these patterns in your body as personalities, you can love them, transform them, own your power, and become more free. You will learn advanced movement vocabulary, how to create your own potent body alchemies, and how to turn on your power in a way that is playful, potent, and pleasurable. Each class is limited to 6 people and is a customized learning journey unique to you. Completing Body Trinity enables you to participate in retreats and other special events!

Body Alchemy is a pre-requisite for this course.

Ishtara Body Trinity Offerings

Ishtara Ongoing Series

Deepen your practice, transform old patterns, and step into the fullness of you through weekly group sessions. This is where your unique practice truly comes alive. Body Trinity is a pre-requisite. 

Ishtara Ongoing Series Offerings

Ishtara Special events

As a thank you for moving with me at any point over the past year, I invite you to join me for a free 2-hr special community event. We will move together and celebrate this growing community of practice. Please register soon; space is limited to 9 people each. This free special event is open to anyone who has completed Body Alchemy with me.

Gratitude 4 You: Free Class!

Ishtara 1:1 Support

Deeply personalized Ishtara support for practitioners at any level. Looking for help with your practice? Want alchemy suggestions? We can deep dive into a specific pattern you want to shift, emotional wound you’d like to heal, or a desire you’d like to call in. We’ll help you rewire your nervous system for the life you want to live. 30-minute or 60-minute single sessions, or 3-session packages available. Available in person or on Zoom.

Contact me for 1:1 Ishtara coaching.

PAY IT FORWARD

Have you benefitted from Ishtara? If so, you know that part of the medicine of this practice is moving in community. This community grows through personal references and through financial support for those who cannot otherwise access the courses. We greatly appreciate your help in making this transformative method accessible to as many people as possible. Please consider referring friends, family and colleagues and helping sponsor tuition for others. Thank you!

Pay it forward.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Melissa Brough
PhD; Reiki Master/Teacher; Licensed Ishtara Teacher

FULL BIO

Melissa Brough is a Licensed Teacher of Ishtara®. Melissa has trained with the creator of Ishtara, Tracy Harward, and is licensed as an independent teacher. For complete information on Ishtara, you can also visit ishtarabody.com