Meet Your Body
Begin a journey back to your body that leads you to love yourself, to know your worth, to own your power, and to become free.
Your body is your healer.
Ishtara® is a somatic method that teaches you to use movement and dance to shift your body’s patterned responses, heal your stories and liberate yourself by conducting new energy through your nervous system.
Your story shapes your body, your body shapes your life.
The patterns from your past are stored in your body and show up and repeat in your life.
Do you live life in your head, avoiding your emotions because you don’t want to feel “bad,” and find you don’t really experience the “good” either.
Are you frequently triggered? Do you freeze when you want to take action or speak up, fight instead of being open and vulnerable in your relationships, or run from connection or experiences because you’re afraid of being hurt?
Maybe motherhood, menopause, or a health crisis has left you struggling to recognize yourself - physically and emotionally?
Perhaps you’re that person who takes care of everyone else and are left with nothing in the tank for yourself. You want to feel vibrant and powerful and alive but don’t even know if that’s possible or where to start.
Maybe what you’re feeling is hard to put into words - it’s a lump in your throat, tightness in your chest or an ache in your belly - you just know that your body is trying to tell you something and you can’t ignore it anymore.
You can reshape the story in your body through Ishtara Body Alchemy.
I invite you to meet your body in a whole new way.
What if I told you your body is a being not a thing?
Emotions are her voice. Movement is her language.
The Ishtara® method uses movement and dance as a way to let your body talk and express her needs, her emotions and her stories.
In small-group classes taught live online by Allison Burch, a trauma-informed, Licensed Ishtara® Teacher, you will learn how to listen to your body with love and reverence allowing her to express her emotions and her needs, and then you will learn to respond to her needs in a way that she can feel, through movement.
We call this release and rewiring Body Alchemy.
Through your Ishtara practice you will:
Experience emotional freedom as you safely conduct the full range of emotions through your body and open yourself to their gifts.
Rewrite the story in your body and transform the way you relate to love, money, power and your own self-worth.
Heal attachment patterns and sister wounds in the loving embrace of a circle of women through sacred witnessing.
Awaken or deepen your spiritual connection through the vessel of your body.
Transform from the body up.
By working with your body, you won’t just learn to cope or get by, you will have an ongoing practice with which to create lasting changes in the way you feel, act and relate.
Feel more confident and own your unique expression of power.
Express yourself without hesitation.
Love your body and meet her needs with joy and pleasure.
Trust your intuition and the messages from your body.
Deepen your relationships and call in love, connection and support.
Set boundaries and standards.
Heal your stories of love, worth, and power and money.
Know true belonging, in yourself and in community.
Ignite the creative, life force energy that lives in you.
The way is through the body. The alchemy is Love.
Your Ishtara Journey
Free Intro to Ishtara
Learn more about Ishtara and how the practice of Body Alchemy transforms your nervous system and can reshape your relationship with your self. Get a chance to meet Allison and ask any questions. Leave with a 15-minute practice you can start using now.
CLASSES
Tuesday | Sep. 10 | 4 PM — 5 PM (CT)
If you’re unable to attend an Intro class feel free to schedule a private info session.
01. Body Alchemy
Body Alchemy is a 6-week, 2-hour course taught live online that teaches you the fundamental principles of the Ishtara practice.
With an intimate group of no more than six women, you will connect to the emotional and energetic patterns of your body through intuitive movement.
With the utmost care and support you will experience the healing power of sacred witnessing (women have shared this is one of the most profound and magical aspects of the course.)
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Each Body Alchemy class is limited to 6 women. Part of the beauty and richness of the class is that it takes place within a small, group container where you will have an opportunity to connect with, witness and relate to others as they explore and deepen into their bodies, emotions and essence. (If you identify as male or non-binary, reach out to me at hello @ allisonburch.com and we can discuss what container would support you best.)
It is essential that you can attend all 6 sessions and stay for the entire 2-hour class. Each session builds on the next, creating an important foundation for future practice. In addition the commitment you make to the group creates the emotional safety and integrity that creates deep relational transformation.
You will receive a 100+ page guidebook, curated music, and individualized coaching and support throughout the class series.
Classes will be conducted live online via Zoom. You will need privacy, a reliable internet connection and access to Spotify.
Ishtara is not therapy and is not intended to replace therapeutic methods. It is a highly transformational movement practice based on sound somatic approaches to healing that you can do on your own at home. If you have a history of trauma, a mental health diagnosis or are uncertain if an embodiment practice is right for you, please consult a therapist before joining.
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6 weeks of virtual classes taught live
Limited to 6 women
Personalized to you and your body
100 page guidebook with at home practices
Movement practice in class
Curated music for your body
Individual movement coaching
Trauma informed education and resources
Body Story reading
Love, support, and safety
CLASSES
Wednesdays | Sep. 18 — Oct. 23 | 11 AM — 1 PM (CT)
Tuesdays | Sep. 24 — Oct. 29 | 4 PM — 6 PM (CT)
02. Body Trinity
Body Trinity is a 6-week, 2-hour follow-on course to Body Alchemy that explores your “body personality.”
Your body personality comes from the way your body learned to cope and defend. We will meet your Protectresses and your Liberators, to make way for your Creatrix to emerge.
Using embodied archetypes, you will develop deeper, healthier relationships with all the facets of your body’s nervous system.
CLASSES
Body Trinity classes will begin early November.
You must complete Body Alchemy before taking Body Trinity.
Join the waiting list to let us know you’re interested and we’ll contact you when registration open.
03. Ishtara Series
Join an ongoing 6-week, 2-hour Series to deepen your individual practice within a small group container.
Series is an opportunity to receive support and accountability, focus on specific areas that you are working on in your life, experience the power of sisterhood and sacred witnessing, and get coaching and guidance from a Licensed Ishtara Teacher to expand your personal practice.
CLASSES
There are currently no Ishtara Series scheduled.
You must complete Body Alchemy and Body Trinity before joining a Series.
Join the waiting list to express your interest and we’ll let you when registration open.
Meet Your Teacher
Allison is a Certified Professional Coach and Licensed Ishtara® Teacher.
She has been devoted to her personal Ishtara practice since 2021.
Allison teaches from a body of Love and Nurture.
The moment I stepped into my first Ishtara class - Body Alchemy - I knew I was home.
I met my body again and she remembered me and welcomed me back. “I’ve been here all this time,” she whispered.
For the first half of my life I was deeply connected to my body and to movement and dance. Dance was a part of my life and brought me so much joy - ballet classes as a child, choreographing dances with friends for our parents, dancing in showcases in high-school and college, and soaking up all of the community and professional performances in our town.
I see now how much I took all of that for granted. Because as I grew older and focused on my career and started a family, life happened, and what once brought me so much joy and soul connection now only came out with the occasional kitchen dance party.
Then I found myself in mid-life, experiencing menopause, feeling very disconnected from my body and from myself. Not only did I not recognize who was looking back in the mirror but my internal, emotional landscape was in disarray.
Life coaching helped me immensely. So much so that I left an unsatisfying corporate marketing career to become a certified coach for women experiencing the discontent and desire for more that I experienced.
But there was still something missing. I saw it in my clients and in myself.
The areas where we felt most “stuck” in our lives were beyond words. Or if we had the words, we were masterful storytellers and still nothing changed.
Then I found the potent medicine that is Ishtara.
What the Ishtara practice does is integrate healing with our entire nervous system. Through the body-mind we repattern our automatic responses, our emotional triggers, our protective patterns. It’s validated by current studies in somatics and trauma-informed psychology.
But even more important than that, by being deeply in-tune with our bodies, by having the capacity to hold all emotions and alchemize them with pleasure, and by being able to conduct potent life-force energy through our nervous system, we begin to touch realms beyond our current knowing.
To do this in a sacred circle with other women honors our ancient wisdom and gives us access to it in a time we so desperately need and desire it.
Hi, I’m Allison. I’m a life coach, a Licensed Ishtara Teacher and your guide to becoming more of your glorious true self.
I desire for you to meet your divine essence.
The way is through the body. The alchemy is Love.
I’ve walked the path and it’s so worth it. Take my hand. Let me bring you home to yourself.
What Allison’s Ishtara Students Are Saying
“Creating a healthier relationship with my emotions and having the tools within my body to express these emotions has been liberating.
Going through Body Alchemy and Body Trinity has been an amazing experience for me.”
— Erika T. | Software Product Manager | Austin, TX
“I love how honest and welcoming Allison is and how she models checking in with one’s body.”
— Melissa P. | Stay-at-home Mom to 3 | Austin, TX
“The group-witnessed movement and the ancient roots of the practice are really unique.
I have never had a body-based experience quite along these lines.
Allison is so warm and welcoming. She meets people just where they are and holds that space with integrity and kindness.”
— Molly S. | Culinary Professional and Pilates Instructor | Austin, TX
“Allison is patient, understanding and takes time to listen to each of her students.”
— Christina H. | Austin, TX
The Ishtara Method
Created by Tracy Harward through a decade of personal practice and somatic training. Supported by science. Proven in hundreds of bodies.
How it works
We teach you our unique method for somatic healing that uses breath, stretch, sensation and movement in a live, 6-week online course. You learn in a small group of just 6 people, safely guided by a trauma-informed teacher who personalizes the method and alchemies to you. The result is a transformation you can feel and see in real life.
Return and Relate.
We teach you to be safe in your body and relate to your body from a place of love and acceptance.
We also teach you to feel your emotions safely and use movement and music to transform them into love, power, and peace.
Release and Rewrite.
Your body remembers your past as a pattern in your nervous system. We teach you how to use our method to release the past so you can melt defenses that keep you stuck, especially in patterns of love, money, power and self worth.
You learn to create new patterns in these areas using our 15-minute movement method.
Rise and Reclaim.
The result of releasing stored emotion and transforming patterns in your body is more capacity to sense your true self.
Our method helps you create more love, power, and freedom and to feel safe to be more you.
Ishtara is for every body. You are welcome here. You can love and move your body in any age and any shape.
Allison Burch is a Licensed Teacher of Ishtara®. Allison 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 and follow Tracy on Instagram @Ishtarabody.
Ishtara courses, programs, and practices are a somatic (body-based) approach provided for personal development only and are not therapy, nor a substitute for physical or psychological therapy.