About
Dancing Serpent, founded by Kate Joyner, is a sanctuary for those seeking to reconnect with the ancient mysteries of The Heart, The Soul, Earth and Eros. Guided by Kate’s deep lineage of masculine and feminine initiation and expressive and embodied arts, the school invites you on a journey toward Sacred Union and Creative Embodiment. Here, the wild and the mythical are honored as forces for personal and collective transformation.
Our Three Portals
Dancing Serpent is an invitation into the living mystery of love—an ever-unfolding journey through the depths of self, other, and soul. At its heart are three core portals, each a gateway to a new dimension of intimacy and awakening.
The Unseen Roots of Relating
This portal brings clarity to your relationship's hidden roots. It exposes unconscious patterns from attachment, family echoes, and inner child woundings. Here, intimacy fears are bravely faced, authentic love is discerned from validation, and conflict transforms into a mirror for genuine connection.
Inner Union and Sovereignty
This portal illuminates inner Masculine and Feminine Union and Sacred Embodied sovereignty. It reveals self-trust rooted in our earthy essence, along with clear boundaries and an anchored presence. Our wounds are transmuted and integrated to prepare you for profound wholeness and soul deep relating.
Sacred Union in Relationship
This portal embraces union between two bodies, a profound relational practice for sacred intimacy. It explores how embodied Masculine and Feminine polarity creates growth, devotion, and erotic depth. Wounds, desires, and virtues here find their way into love and presence.
Your Teacher
Meet Kate Joyner
After a lifetime of devotion to the ways of Mystery, Earth, Soul and Eros, Kate’s extraordinary path of Feminine Initiation has brought her to the edge of the long lost mysteries of the wild.
Here Kate serves as a guide to the mysteries of Soul by facilitating the remembrance of the Lost Arts of the Masculine and Feminine and The Quest for Sacred Union. Our modern culture has banished and demonised the primordial power held within our Eros and its creative expression. We are at a time on the planet where this reclamation is not only possible, but necessary.
Kate believes that our creative life force energy, once fully embodied, is the revolutionary force that will change the world. She is devoted to creating alchemical journeys that catalyze the unfurling of the tender and powerful essence of each soul to come forth in service of re-imagining a culture rooted in true love and mythical wildness.Â
After life-affirming initiations and apprenticeships worthy of a bona fide Heroine’s Journey, Kate has received the directive to assume the mantle as High Priestess and Muse of The Dancing Serpent. It’s through this anointing that she lovingly and potently administers the mystical medicine that has arisen from the wellspring of her Soul Essence.
 “Kate Joyner is a modern day temple priestess and activist of the ancient ways. You’ll most likely find her dancing in flames while toasting menstrual blood to the Moon.
A thunderbolt to the heart, she is a contemporary embodiment of the unspoken and suppressed voices of the wild and divine feminine and masculine.
Her witchy work is revolutionary — and taboo in just the ways we need in this precarious time of radical change. Her visionary artistries — her poetry, performances, and experiential immersions — disrupt the egocentric, nature-disconnected, dominator worldview, and contribute richly to the building of a Western partnership culture that is soulcentric.”
— Bill Plotkin
Author of Soulcraft and The Journey of Soul Initiation
The Dancing Serpent Newsletter
Unveil profound inspiration and insights for your path with The Dancing Serpent Newsletter. Every edition brings you direct wisdom, exclusive musings, heartfelt reflections, and timely updates on our evolving offerings.Â
Lineage
Elisabeth Serra of Authentic Feminine Ecstasy (UK & Spain): after a Yearlong Initiation into the Deep Feminine, Kate underwent further studies spanning over 7 years where she learnt the Tantric Art of the Deep Feminine.
Here, Kate was initiated into the ancient embodied movement practice originating in the Tandava lineage, which she facilitates for awakening women around the world.
Bill Plotkin and The Animas Valley Institute (USA): a 6-year Soul Initiation Apprenticeship in the craft of Nature Based Underworld Guiding. It’s with great honor that Kate serves as part of the Guide Guild for Animas Valley Institute as a Nature Based Soul Initiation Guide.
Kate now leads her own clients and students on initiatory journeys, tracking the deep mytho-erotic essence encoded within the Soul.
Jessica Walker of Laboratorio Escuela (Barcelona): a 3 year full-time intensive immersion into the alchemical realm of experimental theatre making.
Here Kate fell in love with the power of the stage as a portal for creational freedom, and unleashed her artistry as an Actress of Experimental Theatre.Â
She now uses this cauldron as a tool with her clients to illuminate the hidden realms of life-force and expression that would otherwise remain imprisoned in silence. She also created The Blood Tales, a modern day myth telling of the true nature of woman’s menstrual Blood, which has been featured in cities and festivals around the world.
John Wineland : The Art of Sacred Intimacy and Sexual Polarity (USA) : currently in the 2nd year of apprenticeship in the lineage of Intimacy and Sexual Polarity, where the art of Feminine Embodiment and Masculine Embodiment and how the Masculine and Feminine come together to create evolutionary love is the main course of experiential focus.
Kate believes that when we relate from our essence, rather than our ego, we have the potential to birth a new earth, through Sacred Union.Â
Kate has also trained as a Gestalt Psychotherapist with Instituto de Gestalt Terapia de Bahia in Brazil and as Shamanic Practitioner with Warrior in the Heart in Glastonbury, UK.
Offerings
Explore our programs for authentic love and sacred living.
Discover powerful ways to cultivate the profound wisdom needed to reshape your relational world, and birth a new paradigm of authentic love and conscious connection from your very core.
Roadmap to Sacred Union
Step into a new paradigm of Spiritual Intimacy that honors the soul, celebrates the body, awakens deep Eros, and invites the sacred into your everyday life. Through immersive workshops, embodiment practices, and soulful rituals, you’ll be guided through a powerful awakening that leaves you inspired, connected, and empowered to love from your essence.
She & He ImmersionÂ
Join a profound 9-week group immersion for men and women ready to meet in devotion, embodiment, truth, and Eros. Unravel old patterns of love, romance, and connection to invite something wilder, more magical, and deeply felt to become the new norm in your relational paradigm.
