Meet Aradia
Aradia Julia Sunseri is the founder of Ritual Movement Arts™
Professional Dancer, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Ordained Priestess
FULL Bio :
R.M.A. a modern mystery school of ancient practices devoted to Sacred Dance, Ayurveda, and Women’s Vitality Practices.
For the past 20 years, Aradia has facilitated Sacred Dance in yoga studios, festivals, ceremonial event spaces, and sacred sights around the world. Since 2008. She has taught the R.M.A. method and danced with women across the world, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Colorado, Egypt, Bali, Mexico, and Greece. Aradia hosts her events, as well as been featured as a guest teacher offering Sacred Dance at festivals, retreats, and women’s circles.
Aradia facilitates sacred dance online courses, international retreats, workshops, and sacred dance facilitation mentorship courses. These transformational teachings empower women to unlock their own birthright of embodiment and deepen their wild womxn's soul connection to this planet and their unique purpose. Aradia focuses on these integrative body therapies, weaving somatic movements such as sacred dance and yoga, with herbalism and meditation. Her teachings are nurturing and holistic practices to bring balance into everyday life. As an (AHC) practitioner graduate of the California College of Ayurveda and women’s health advocate, she also holds degrees in Somatic therapy, yoga Nidra, womb healing, herbalism, and traditional Ayurveda lens of body therapies including Panchakarma, detox, and women’s health programs.
What exactly is the R.M.A. method? Ritual Movement Arts™ is a movement and meditation-based method that works with the integration of sacred dance and embodiment practices to promote aliveness, ecstasy, and emotionally attuned living. These non-dualistic goddess earth wisdom-based teachings are rooted in the spiritual yoga traditions, including Tantra and modern-day somatic work. The 3 pillars of this method are yoga/sacred dance & the priestess arts. Aradia focuses on these integrative therapies, weaving somatic bellydance. Honoring the traditions and her lineage work, she weaves the meditative aspects of ceremony & cultivation of personal practices. She is an Ordained Priestess of the White Rose and devotee carrying the lineages of Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, and Kashmir Shaivism.
When you work with Aradia you are receiving the wisdom Shes been cultivating as a Sacred Dance Instructor, Intuitive Spiritual Teacher, Healer, Ayurvedic health Counsellor, and women’s transformational Retreat Facilitator.
As a professional dancer and performance artist, she cherishes the old ways of storytelling and mythos. She is an ecstatic student of both Western and Eastern esoteric studies. Aradia has 20 years of experience teaching and choreographing everything from Fusion of Tribal Fusion Bellydance to Nepalese and channeled sacred temple dances. In her world creativity, dance, herbalism, and daily rituals are an absolute necessity.
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Professional Dancer and Performance Artist: Aradia has over 25 years of experience in the movement arts and professional performance in theater, on film, and on stage. Aradia’s art is rooted in yoga, dance therapy modalities, ritual performance & theatrical improvisation. Her unique style incorporates the holistic & healing aspect of dance as meditation. She has years of training in Classical Ballet, Tribal/Temple fusion belly dance, Nepalese, Oddissi, modern dance, fire dance, and traditional Butoh. Expressing the anatomy of the soul through ritual dance and original handmade costumes, her visual and energetic presence embodies the artistic timeless exploration of sacred dance as devotion.
Booking Inquiry for your next Event, Celebration, or Festival
Professional dancer offering Temple Fusion Belly Dance entertainment
Specializing in theatrical shows, old-world theatre vignettes, ceremonies, blessings
Fire dancing & sword balancing
Avail to perform with many styles of music including Eastern musicians and recorded electronic tracks.
Ambient character performer/ Tarot reader
Aradia is avail to book as a solo performer, as well as with accompanying musicians & multiple dancers.
Hire our Dance Company www.dreymadance.com
I look forward to hearing from you. Please let me know what kind of event you are creating. You can book me as a soloist with an ensemble. As well as with multiple dancers & musicians. I am delighted to bring the magic & mystery of Temple Fusion Belly dance to your next event!
Aradia has performed worldwide as a soloist and has shared the stage with artists and renowned musicians including Cirque Du Soleil, Lucent Dossier, Chebb i Sabbah, Zen Arts, Faith & the Muse (as Serpentine), David Starfire, Andrew Jones, Shpongle, Random Rab and many more. Aradia has also performed in multiple music videos that have appeared on MTV and in independent films. She has been invited for repeat performances at music, art, and yoga festivals in the U.S. and internationally, including Coachella, Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, Wanderlust, Source, Harmony, Symbiosis, and Electric Picnic.
My Origin Story
From a young age, I was drawn to the great mystery of nature - both of the earthly and celestial realms. As a child, I could see energy and commune with nature spirits. I was blessed to be raised in a very nurturing spiritual environment, deeply immersed in Buddhist & Hindu philosophies and practices with deep roots in paganism. My early life was spent attending Sufi whirling potlucks and meditation gatherings often led by my mother's guru. Satsang and prayer circles were our main forms of socialization, and we would often travel to meet within a spiritual community. The principles of these teachings are based on non-dogmatic teachings of peace, Sat Chit Ananda, and inner and outer balance.
I am a Buddhist witch as well as a 5th generation herbalist. My wild roots found a way through the arts to express myself, and as soon as I could walk, I could dance. As long as I can remember, I’ve always had altars and spoken to the spirits. I remember the first time my grandmother visited me and how affirming it was to feel her presence, as she had died long before I was born. From a very young age, I could see spirits and sense energies around places. I started practicing yoga at a young age and experienced my first Kundalini Awakening at 12. This was both a gift and a great challenge. As a very sensitive and highly attuned person used to seeing spirits and things from other realms, I could not share this information with many people; otherwise, they would think I was crazy, and there was nothing I could relate to in the mainstream culture. I often felt that I was born at the wrong period in time and frequently daydreamed of temples from old worlds. I experienced a lot of frustration and creative energy seeking expression but not knowing how to channel it. I was given the gifts of a clairvoyant but did not know how to use them, often leading to feelings of being overwhelmed and disconnected from the earth and my body.
At 16, I found my first coven and began the path of the Wiccan way, working with plants and animals. This began my studies in Jungian psychology, shamanism, and the power of mythos. I felt called to move deeper as the path of mysticism guided me into the connection of body, mind, and spirit. I deepened my studies and gained several yoga certifications, honoring and carrying the lineages of Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, and Kashmir Shaivism. This bridged the Eastern practices of tantra and Western occult to blend into my daily personal practices.
When I was 24, I discovered the art of Tribal Fusion belly dance. I immediately fell in love with the costume, the music, the sisterhood, and all that came with it. This was the first dance form I had seen in my life that was not based on competition. This was a women’s dance for all shapes, sizes, ages, belief systems, and backgrounds. A dance rooted in the earth and connected to women’s fertility and magic.
It is not a coincidence that I found Bellydance the same year that I was struggling with health issues in my stomach around chronic candida. I was diagnosed with an eating disorder because I couldn’t keep food down, and I knew that this was not the case. There was deeper work to be done. Years of suppressing anger, frustration, and a lack of creative outlet were suddenly met with this amazing dance form. I had permission to move freely in the dance. I learned to undulate with my belly and ground my feet into the earth. I felt the gift of sensuality connecting heaven and earth through my body as a conduit. This dance showed me the blueprint of sacred shapes, circles, figure eights, and ways to move my hips that opened and cleared trauma and past experiences stored in this way. The dance brought many gifts to all those who invited it in deeply. I began to share mine and be surrounded by the kinship of soul women.
I fell in love with this art form so deeply that within two years, I was teaching classes and workshops at my local studio, and within three years, I was touring the world internationally as a professional Bellydancer. It was here that my world began to meet the yoga philosophy and practices, as tour life was exhausting and really asked me to look at my energy levels for long-term health. At the age of 25, I co-founded and toured internationally with my dance company, traveling and performing at festivals, in film, and on TV.
The deeper spiritual practices laid the foundation as I began to seek teachers who would incorporate dance as exactly that - a spiritual practice. I was then blessed to find several dancers in Odissi, Natyashastra, and sacred Buddhist dances that showed the same reverence around the dance as a devotional art form. For the next 10 years, I was immersed in study and performance art. Another awakening occurred around the metaphysical world and the priestess arts. These are the paths of the temple dancer and the wild woman, and so together, this became clear. I had a vision from the goddess telling me it was time to step fully into the role of facilitation and teaching. I fuse the vitality practices of the ancients with some modern-day priestesses, bringing the temple dancer to life to heal and to step into leadership to steward the right relation with our bodies, each other, and this beautiful precious planet Earth.
This is my life’s work and a piece of my story. I am excited to share and weave this dance with you and see the jewels that are uncovered for you from this magic. It is my greatest passion to be teaching these practices with the heartfelt intention of empowering women to claim the divine feminine energy within. Within this soul work, a natural progression is to remember you are a magical conduit bringing new inspiration and uplifting humanity through these ancient sacred arts. I stand for protecting all that is sacred with embodied action.
Thus far my life experience & training has taught me the marriage of yoga, dance & ritual. These 3 ancient pathways have come together in such profound ways. They are the core triad of all my offerings.
Accreditation: With over 20 years of training in Sacred dance lineages. My path has guided me to a career as a professional belly dancer and performance artist, Teacher, and Ritual facilitator.
I’ve had amazing opportunities to tour and work with many exceptional artists/creators of the U.S. as well as the European tribal fusion Bellydance movement. I would like to honor all my teachers whom have been a divine light inspiration & support. As dance has always been a form of meditation & spiritual practice to honor the cycles & rhythms of life. I am forever a student in this school of life, continuing my studies in Sacred Dance, Ayurveda, Shamanic Healing, Somatic healing & body energy medicine.
My teachers and dance luminaries I have had the honor to study with: Jill Parker, (Tribal Fusion) Suhaila Salimpour,(Tribal/Cabaret) Carolena Nericcio (A.T.S) Rachel Brice (Tribal Fusion) Zoe Jakes,(Tribal Fusion) Colleena Shakti, (Odissi) Prajwal Vajracharya ( Nepalese ) & many more.
Over 20 years of yoga practice & 4 Different Certifications, from Traditional Hatha, Vinyasa, Tantra, & Yoga Nidra. My beloved Teachers in Yoga are Swami Sitaramananda, Shiva Rea, & Vidya Shakti. Honoring & Carrying the lineages of Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, and Kashmir Shaivism.
Graduate of the California College of Ayurveda. Certified & practicing healing arts through the Traditional Ayurveda lens of body therapies including Panchakarma, detox, and women’s health programs Certified (A.H.C) Ayurveda Health Counselor.
My Teachers in Esoteric studies: Barbara Brennan, B.O.T.A, Tom Kenyon, Jonathan Rigby, Hermetica Logos, Angelles Arren, Martin Prectel, Temple Sisterhood of Sekhmet, I am an Ordained Priestess of the White Rose. Life Long Studies & Path of Great Initiations.
