About
Ana Otero
  • PHD in Dance Movement Therapy
  • Writer, Channel, Artist, Kabbalist, Yogi, Frame Drummer and Mystical Activist
  • Founder of The Desert Rose Mystery School®.
  • Founder of La Rosa Boutique
  • Creator of Mary Magdalene Priestess – Priest Training.
  • Yoga Certified Teacher in Kundalini, Tantra, Kabbalah, Egyptian Yoga, Hatha and Yin.
  • Practitioner and Teacher in Egyptian Energy Medicines.
  • Aramaic and Light Language Songstress.
  • Frame Drummer and Sound Mysteries Teacher and Guide.
  • Creator and Trainer in Desert Rose Womb Awakening, Magdalene Womb Yoga and Neshama Yoga
  • Healer through Light Language, Sarah Tamar Blue Rose Healing, and the Essene Technique for Healing.
  • Teacher in the Mystical Arts (Myrraphore tradition – Sacred Essential Oils, Ritual and Ceremony, Gnostic – Biblical Astrology, Kabbalistic Astrology, Numerology, Mystical Arts).
  • Mother and Lover to the Beloved.

Dancing the Language of Spirit with the Magdalene

I started dancing at the age of 3 and went to my first yoga class at the age of 11.  As a child, the spiritual realm was a vivid tapestry around me, filled with visions and the whispers of light beings. It was through the universal language of dance and art that I found the means to weave these ethereal messages into the tangible fabric of our reality.

As a young seeker, my heart was enraptured by the divine, leading me to immerse myself in the writings of St. Teresa of Ávila, St. John of the Cross, Kabir, and Rumi. Their mystical voices, the enchanting power of poetry, and the soul-stirring resonance of music were my constant companions.


My passion for dance evolved into a diverse expression of movement, spanning the disciplined arts of Ballet, Isadora Duncan, Flamenco, the ancient art of Middle Eastern Dance, and the meditative whirl of Sufi tradition. These disciplines became my tools for guiding others toward healing and spiritual connection, awakening the potent creative energy known as kundalini, long before I could articulate its profound impact.

The turning point came with a divine encounter in the Middle East, where I spent 9 years in these sacred lands, and where I completed my PhD in Dance Movement Therapy. It was in this cradle of ancient wisdom of the Desert that Mary Magdalene revealed herself to me. From that moment, my life’s work became a commitment to her teachings, embracing her essence as the Kallah Messiah, the Feminine Christ.

In pursuit of the desert mystics’ legacy,

I established the Mary Magdalene Priestess and Priest Training program in 2012, which blossomed into The Desert Rose Mystery School by 2014.

2021 marked the beginning of a new chapter, recording Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew mantras that had become the heartbeat of our prayers and chants at The Desert Rose Mystery School. With producer and musician César Galvez, a new path of prayerful expression was born, honoring our ancient Holy Teachers in the languages they once spoke. As I deepend my studies in the Aramaic Language, receiving Certification in 2023, this new path marked the beginning of a never ending relationship with Aramaic Creation Spirituality.

Based in Spain, the land of the Al Andalus (the land of Venus) and of the great mystics of the Sefarat, the Desert Rose Mystery School extends its roots both physically and virtually, allowing me to share this sacred work globally through trainings, workshops, retreats, and events. I am deeply grateful for this path and the opportunity to share the transformative power of the Magdalene – Christ Lineage, Aramaic Creation Spirituality and Sacred Embodied Arts.

I am in deep gratitude to all of my teachers, as they have all guided me in different ways and their wisdom has helped me RE-MEMBER.
 
I feel it is important for us to give the names of those who have been on our path, because these connections are infinite.

Dance, Music and Movement Therapy:

Myriam Eli, Gabrielle Roth 5 Rhythms, Mahmoud Reda, Nour of Cairo, Ashraf Hassan, Sami El Dessouk, Raqia Hassan, Shokry Mohamed, Isabel Bayón, Belén Maya, Judea Maya, Chúa Alba, Farruquito, Carmela Greco, Mayra Brawny, Manolete, Anna Halprin, Emily Conrad, Julia Levien, Yousef Sheronik, Marla Leigh, Zohar, Murat.

And a special thanks to my Egyptian Essene Teacher Barbakan, to my Egyptian Yoga Teacher Margot Paccuad, and to my Drumming Teacher Yshai Afterman.

Yoga:

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Margot Paccuad, Ramiro Calle, Yogi Bhajan, Siva Rhea , Gurmukh, Maya Fiennes, Amir, Barbakan

Spiritual Therapy and Lineages:

My Mother, My Father, My Daughter Almudena, Asia Priestess of Hathor, Essene Lineage through Barbakan, Tantric Lineage through Amir, Kabbalah Lineage through Barbakan, Magdalene- Christ Lineage, Yoga Lineage through Swami Chidvilasananda

In all of the Courses, Training, and Workshops
 
that I Teach my desire is that all of you awaken your Creative Energy to heal, to love, to feel good, to live the life you desire, to align with your destiny, and to be a Divine Human on Planet Earth.

​The word “creativity” comes from the Latin word creare, which means “to create”, therefore, by definition, creativity is the ability to transcend the conventional and existing concepts, patterns, and relationships, in order to bring something new into the tangible form or in the form of ideas. Creativity is the act of creating something new for yourself and/or for society.

For Creativity to be the force that drives us to create our lives as a work of art in a conscious way, it is necessary to claim our power and make it ours. Our Power is always awake, as a “program” it is always running through us, but most of the time we do not know it so we allow our power to take over us. When we do not claim our power, it aligns with the force of our programs, fears, and patterns, and becomes so strong that our lives are a reflection of the manifestation of our unconscious power. The moment we decide to EMPOWER ourselves, to be in our POWER, to claim our POWER, is when all those obsolete programs cease to have force. SACRED CREATIVITY is born as the impulse that leads us to live as CO-CREATORS and CREATORS and we begin to manifest our dreams.

All trainings at The Desert Rose Mystery School are fully accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine. Additionally, our Dance Movement Therapy and Ahava Sacred Dance Trainings hold accreditation from CID UNESCO.

Conversations with Mary Magdalene
by Ana Otero
 

When you move the body, your personal river of energy begins to flow, and clarity and inspiration are the orders of the day. That is why I believe that the practice of movement – dance is inseparable from the true creative pulse. Mary Magdalene wants us to be creative in order to bring our destiny to the world. We should not look at others and compare ourselves because each person brings their gifts to the world and to claim and appreciate these gifts, creativity is the way. At the same time, when we connect with the creative channel, there is an absence of EGO in that moment of creativity. The more we cultivate practices where there is an absence of the EGO, the more karma we release.

I opened The Desert Rose Mystery School® in 2014 guided by Mary Magdalene. She has guided me in the teachings of different techniques in order to create a spiritual school that would follow the teachings of Mary Magdalene and Yeshua and the Desert Rose Teachings. Through in-depth study of Hebrew Mysticism, Egyptian Mysticism, Aramaic, Alaha Shela , Shekhinah Mysteries, Light Language, Hathor – Venus Lineage, Hindu Philosophy, Yogic Science, Kabbalah, Astrology, Numerology, Sacred Essential Oils, Sacred Dance, Movement Therapy, Gnosticism, the Path of the Divine Feminine and the Gnostic Gospels, we have been able to create a school and we continue to create a school that resembles and is aligned with the teachings of Mary Magdalene, Yeshua and the Desert Mystics.

Ode to the Black Madonna
 
In the void of my silence, hiding myself from the light of the world.
Illuminated by the moon and by the stars.
Away from the eyes of what seems to be.
Dark night, take me into the velvet embrace of the Black Madonna.
Goddess, Almighty Mother. Protect me in your arms.
Look at me with your shiny dark face.
Look at me as I am, as I have been, as I will be.
In your emptiness, the past and the future are one.
Invisible, unheard of, and hidden by light, things are seen in my dark night.
Guide me and help me find the way.
You who know me, take me to who I really am.
Ana Otero
A call for compassion
Divine Mother
In these times of chaos
When all sentient beings and nature herself
Face death and resurrection
Fill us with the splendor of your passionate enlightenment
Burn us with your sacred fires
And bring into re-membering our being
Infuse our bodies, hearts, souls and minds
With the calm of your infinite embrace
Infuse us with the remembrance of our sacred marriage, the union between the masculine and feminine from which in each of us the Divine Child is born
The child that is your flesh, your heart, your light, your breath.
The Child that is free from dogma, shame and separation.
Birth us to be free and to be love
Free to play in love
Free to serve in love
As love and for love
Divine mother, teach us in this hour of apocalypse the appropriate action
that heals
preserves
redeems and transforms