The Embodied Alchemist — Emotional Alchemy and embodied movement for women, with Chata van den Akker

For Women

Come home to your body. Feel what you’ve been avoiding, move it through, and awaken your inner authority.
Claim yourself as the Embodied Alchemist and Temple Keeper of your story — so you can create a life that turns you on.

What Embodied Alchemy Is

Are you done?

Done with the wine. The scrolling. The sugar. The bingeing. The smoking. Whatever it is you reach for at the exact moment a feeling arrives.

Done collapsing into the emotion — and done climbing over it, explaining it, meditating on top of it. Done managing a life instead of living one.

Because they were never the problem.
They were the door you took so you didn’t have to feel.

And when you can feel it and move it through — all the way through, in the body, where it has been waiting — you don’t have to quit them. They stop being necessary.

That’s the life on the other side. Not a managed one. One that actually turns you on.

You can’t HEAL what you won’t FEEL.

Not think about it. Not understand it. Not transcend it.

Feel it — in the body, where it was stored in the first place.

Most of us learned early that some feelings weren’t safe to have.

So we got clever. We managed them. Explained them. Meditated over the top of them. Kept the peace.

And the feeling didn’t leave.

It went down — into the tissue, into the nervous system, into the body that has been quietly carrying it ever since.

Embodied Alchemy is coming home to that body — and letting it do what it already knows how to do.

Your emotions are not problems to be managed. They are energy in motion — e-motions.

Stop suppressing them. Start moving them. And they become the exact fuel for the life you’re here to build.

Rage. Grief. Fear.
Not enemies. Portals.
The Four Pillars

Four pillars. One pathway.

Not four topics to study. One descent, and one rise — you go down into the body, meet what’s waiting there, build safety around it, and come back up as your own authority.

Arrive → Feel → Ground → Rise

01

You arrive.

Womb Wisdom

Come home to your feminine creative centre. The deep cyclical intelligence that has been signalling to you your whole life — and that you were taught to override.

02

You feel.

Emotional Alchemy

Not to fix it — to be with it, and hold it in compassion. Not suppressing. Not collapsing into it. Feeling, transmuting, releasing. Your emotions are the pathway to freedom.

03

You ground.

Divine Sovereignty

Real safety in your nervous system. Real energetic boundaries in your body. You don’t need to become louder — you become deeper rooted in the truth of who you truly are.

04

You rise.

Feminine Self-Leadership

Become the authority within yourself. Lead yourself first — everything else reorganises around a woman who has done that.

Ways In

Two ways to walk it.

One goes deep — a single pillar, all the way down. One goes wide — all four, in circle, together. Most women eventually want both.

The Descent

Emotional Alchemy

The embodied movement journey

A guided, carefully crafted journey — music, somatics and movement, held in a specific order for a reason.

You move to feel. You let the energy shift, release and transmute through the body — the emotion travelling out rather than settling deeper in.

You leave lighter. Not emptied — thriving, with the life force that was locked in the holding now moving again.

You come as you are. You leave with the energy that was stuck in you now available to you.

Deep — one pillar, all the way down
Pathway — the seven steps
Format — facilitated somatic journey
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Each journey is custom-designed and custom-crafted. Every element is intentionally woven together with a carefully curated musical soundscape — to help you drop into your body’s wisdom, feel, realize and transmute suppressed emotions, and reconnect with your creative life force. Each guided journey is unique, carrying its own medicine.

  • Somatic & Dynamic Meditation
  • Embodied Manifestation & Emotional Release Techniques
  • Somatic & Embodied Movement
  • Intentional & Safe Container
  • Breathwork

This is a guided journey HOME to yourself.

This isn’t passive — let’s get out of the head and into the body. This is EMBODIED ALCHEMY in action.

Supporting you to transmute & release stagnant energy and emotions — relieving stuckness, depression, emotional suppression & overwhelm — into Peace, Joy, Presence, Embodiment.

So that you claim yourself as the co-creator of your life, manifest your dreams, and align with your highest timeline.

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The Gathering

The Embodied Alchemy Series

The Wisdom Circle & somatic practices

A beautiful Wisdom Circle — a gathering where we come together to share the wisdom of the four pillars through various somatic practices and expression.

You are not taught the pillars. You are walked through them, in your body, witnessed by women doing the same.

Wide — a mix of all four pillars
Pathway — the four pillars
Format — Wisdom Circle experience
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Some things you cannot do alone.

Being witnessed by women who are not flinching, not fixing, and not looking away is its own medicine — and it’s the piece almost every woman is missing.

  • Womb Wisdom — arriving back in your centre
  • Emotional Alchemy — feeling and moving what’s stored
  • Divine Sovereignty — safety inside, boundaries in the body
  • Feminine Self-Leadership — rising as your own authority
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Emotion, in motion

This is emotion moving through the body — and this is exactly how it happens.

Emotional Alchemy movement journey · Film: Hailey Jane

The Pathway of Emotional Alchemy

How the alchemy actually happens.

Every somatic journey moves through the same seven steps. This is the descent — and the way back up.

01
Presence
02
Ground
03
Feel
04
Move
05
Release
06
Transmute
07
Manifest

What you were carrying becomes what you create with.

So — are you ready to co-create the next chapter of your life?

Chata van den Akker
Facilitator of Emotional Alchemy · Founder of The Embodied Alchemist

Meet Chata

Blessings, Sister,

My name is Chata. I activate courageous, devoted women who know they are here to fully embody their ecstatic purpose and create soul-led impact — midwifing the rise of Divine Feminine consciousness within themselves, their communities, and the world.

I support women ready to break free — from limiting beliefs and burnout, anxiety and mental chatter, depression and emotional suppression, overwhelm and coping habits, self-abandonment and dissociation.

And to reconnect with their inner power — stepping into emotional resilience, authentic soul expression, unapologetic truth, embodied presence, radiant joy, and fully embodied divine sovereignty — while staying human, messy, and alive.

For over 13 years, I have facilitated transformational experiences internationally — leading retreats, workshops, summits, festivals, and circles, both online and in person, alongside intimate one-on-one sessions.

“YOU are the MIRACLE you’ve been waiting for.”

My Own Way Home

The path I’ve walked.

Over twenty years of unpacking myself — and I walk it still, every day.

I grew up in Ibiza, one of the biggest party islands in the world, pulled into that culture young. At seventeen I was a go-go dancer at the largest nightclub in the world — dancing in front of ten thousand people, on stages and backstage with some of the most famous bands, artists and DJs of the time.

I drank. I did drugs. I partied hard. I modeled — on posters, in magazines, on TV and film. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Living the life.

Then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, I knew: this was not it. I would not be thirty and still living this way, like so many around me were.

This is not my story.

So I changed course. I stopped the drugs. I made small shifts, one after another, until my whole life turned. That was the beginning of a twenty-year journey of unpacking myself — every dissociation pattern, every vice, every coping mechanism. And each time I released one, another was waiting underneath.

The drugs, the alcohol, the smoking in my twenties. The binge eating, the binge watching, the dissociation. I met them all. And I released them all — through the mud of shame and self-loathing, through the tears and the screaming, through a lifetime of suppressed emotion. I met myself. Again. And again. And again.

What I learned is this: we have to tend to the body. This is not a climb up some hierarchy — it’s a descent. A deepening down into yourself, into your truth. Deeper self-love. Deeper compassion. Deeper peace.

Because at the end of the day, you have to be good with you. You are the one who has to live with yourself for the rest of your life — and you get to choose what that looks like.

This is what birthed The Embodied Alchemist.

In Their Words

What women feel afterward.

A client shares her experience of Emotional Alchemy
“So shamanic & intuitive”
A client shares her experience of Emotional Alchemy
“With gratitude”

The space Chata holds is safe, comfortable, and nourishing, and she is incredibly present with you. She opened me up and helped energy that had been so deep and suppressed move — to the point I didn’t even know it was there. I really haven’t felt energy move in my body like I did with her. I felt more confident, comfortable, and composed in my body afterward.

Trustin

I walked in carrying a heaviness I was unaware of. Through Chata’s beautiful facilitation, I was able to release energy I didn’t even realize I’d been holding. By the end, there was a sense of alignment in my body — a calm openness and a renewed sense of creative flow. It truly felt like transformation in motion.

Hayley Austin

Chata is an incredible facilitator — intuitive and sensitive. Her presence combined with energetic and healing modalities leaves you feeling absolutely amazing and transformed.

Devan Barron

I’ve received healings and spiritual guidance from Chata for over two years. She is an amazingly accurate healer and teacher. The guidance that comes through is extraordinarily insightful, and through working with her, my own work as a healer has grown significantly. Her work has been truly transformative for me.

Jennifer Cameron
In The Field

Emotional Alchemy, in motion.

The movement journey as it actually happens — emotion moving through the body, witnessed by community. Held at festivals and gatherings.

Chata guiding an emotional alchemy movement journey Chata facilitating somatic release in circle Guiding movement and emotional release A participant in deep expressive movement Emotional release through the body The circle moving together A quiet, inward moment in the journey Dynamic embodied movement in the circle Chata holding space in the movement journey

Emotional Alchemy movement journey · Tribal Vision Gathering · Photography: Hailey Jane

On The Horizon

Something is coming this August.

Aug 2026

The Embodied Alchemist

The Embodied Alchemy Series

The Wisdom Circle & somatic practices — all four pillars walked through, in your body, witnessed by women doing the same. It gathers in Arcata, California this August.

Dates, details & how to join are landing soon.
Join the mailing list and you’ll be the first to know — before it opens to anyone else.

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The Body of Work

A Few of My Past Events

Circles, journeys and gatherings I’ve held — online and in person.

13
Years Facilitating Globally
100s
Of Women Held
Emotional Alchemy — an embodied movement journey for women

Live on Zoom · Santa Fe

Emotional Alchemy

An embodied movement journey for women — claiming and expanding your emotional expression, transmutation and range.

Emotional Alchemy — an embodied movement journey, Hawaiian Sanctuary

Hawaiian Sanctuary · Pahoa, Hawai‘i

Emotional Alchemy: The Journey Home

Somatic meditation, embodied manifestation and emotional release — a guided journey out of the head and into the body.

Emotional Alchemy: Phoenix Rising — Hawaiian Sanctuary, Pahoa

Hawaiian Sanctuary · Pahoa, Hawai‘i

Emotional Alchemy: Phoenix Rising

An embodied movement journey — transmute stagnant emotion into peace, joy and presence, and rise into your authentic truth.

Emotional Alchemy: Reclaim Your Inner Authority & Healer — Liberation Through Movement

Liberation Through Movement · Online, worldwide

Reclaim Your Inner Authority & Healer

An Emotional Alchemy journey hosted for the LTM community — Mountain Time to Bali, in one room.

Emotional Alchemy at Gaia’s Gathering — Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gaia’s Gathering · Santa Fe, New Mexico

Emotional Alchemy at Gaia’s Gathering

Five days on the land. Invited to hold the emotional-movement container for the gathering.

Emotional Alchemy movement journey at Tribal Vision, September 2023

Tribal Vision Gathering · September 2023

Emotional Alchemy at Tribal Vision

A movement journey held in the field — four days of ceremony, music and community.

Emotional Alchemy — free 5-day journey for women, Level 1, live on Zoom

Free 5-day journey · Live on Zoom

Emotional Alchemy · Level 1

Expanding your capacity for emotional transformation, expression and range — through movement.

The 30 Day Feel Your Emotions Challenge — online course

Online course · 30 days

The 30-Day “Feel Your Emotions” Challenge

Thirty days of embodied movement and meditation — a daily practice in feeling what you’ve been avoiding.

Jaguar Hearted Courage — an embodied movement journey

In person · MOVE, Santa Fe

Jaguar Hearted Courage

A 90-minute embodied movement journey — emotional release, somatic movement and breathwork.

The Jaguar Priestess Codes: The Courage Code — with Lila

The Jaguar Priestess Codes · Online, co-facilitated

The Courage Code

“I am worthy to stand in my feminine strength and full authentic expression.”

Motherhood Circle — a 13-week immersion

13-week immersion · 10 women

Motherhood Circle

From mother’s guilt, to mother’s rage, to womb wisdom. A rite of passage for the woman whose child became her mirror.

Movement Alchemy — outdoor community ecstatic dance

Outdoors · Santa Fe

Movement Alchemy

Outdoor community ecstatic dance. Open to everyone — kids, elders, all of it.

Chata van den Akker at Tico Time’s Sangha Fest — Durango, Colorado

Sangha Fest · Durango, Colorado

Sangha Fest

Yoga, meditation, music, dance, wellness and art — four days, invited as a facilitator.

Surviving Mama to Thriving Mama — online course for intuitive, empath mothers

Online course · For intuitive, empath mothers

Surviving Mama to Thriving Mama

Bust the sacrificing-mother story — and claim the life that turns you on.

Align Your Menstruation With Your Life & Thrive — a guide for mothers in business

Guide · For mothers in business

Align Your Menstruation With Your Life

The matriarchy business structure — stop burning out, and sustain your feminine, creatrix flow.

8:8 Lion’s Gate Portal Activation — Blue Lotus Ceremony, Lower Puna, Hawai‘i

Blue Lotus Ceremony · Lower Puna, Hawai‘i

8:8 Lion’s Gate Portal Activation

A temple gathering on the 8:8 portal — prayer, activation, group healing and somatic movement.

Royal Golden Sekhem — Egyptian Source Healing, Lower Puna, Hawai‘i

Egyptian Source Healing · Lower Puna, Hawai‘i

Royal Golden Sekhem

A temple of recalibration. Nervous system, soul’s path, cellular alignment — held as a collective.

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