The Laboratory of Embodied Wisdom – by Valentina Leo
A tantrik practice of embodied presence rooted in devotional intelligence.
For over a decade, Blissdance has been a foundational practice in my teaching — a powerful gateway into embodied presence.
I remain deeply grateful for the ways it has supported my own growth and the growth of so many students and facilitators.
Over time, my work has naturally evolved beyond a single modality.
Through decades of teaching, study, devotion, and lived experience, I have been weaving Blissdance together with traditional tantra, somatic inquiry, devotional ritual, erotic awareness, and embodied wisdom teachings into a transmission that is distinctly my own.
At this stage, both for clarity and integrity, it feels important to me to name this evolution. The Laboratory of Embodied Wisdom™ is now the core container for my experimental work — a living laboratory of bliss.
Blissdance remains the ground from which this work has grown, but the practices, teachings, and training offered here arise from my unique synthesis and lived lineage.
For my existing students: Nothing you have learned is lost.
Everything you have embodied remains valid, alive, and honoured.
As we move forward, my monthly classes, future immersions and training will be offered under The Laboratory of Embodied Wisdom™, reflecting
the fuller scope of what I teach and transmit today :
a mode of knowing that arises through devotion rather than control.
A training in devotional intelligence.
This transition allows greater freedom, responsibility, and transparency around how my work is taught and stewarded — ensuring it can continue to evolve with integrity and care. Thank you for walking this path with me, for your trust, and for your willingness to step into the unknown and become intimate with the Mystery.
I express deep gratitude for my teachers that have given me vision,
and all my devoted assistants that over the years have been supporting and nourishing my crazy wisdom.
I am because of you.
This laboratory is alive — and we are discovering it together.
The Laboratory opens on Friday 23 January 2026, at 7 pm in Cape Town
It is an intelligence that emerges when the body, breath, heart and life are listened to, with reverence.
It’s the capacity to orient toward something larger than the ego without leaving the body.
It’s a living responsiveness to what is sacred in the moment and not to what is prescribed.
This is devotional intelligence. An authority that comes from attunement, not hierarchy.
Devotion is not austerity.
It includes desires & longings, chaos & confusion, insecurities & intuition, tenderness & intensity.
This work doesn’t sanitise eros —it listens to it.
This listening is a form of devotion.
Devotion as a relationship with Reality reflects the deep tantric orientation of these laboratories.
This work consistently does something subtle and unfortunately rare:
It does not instrumentalise Tantra as a technique to extract bliss, sexual power or catharsis.
Neither it’s a spiritual practice that transcend the self.
Pleasure, power and bliss are not goals —they are responses.
Devotion is presence over outcome in reverence to what wants to emerge, not what is promised.
Nothing is promised. There are no goals, no expectations.
