Meet Your Dragon
Claim your Conscious Predator
Stop Playing Small
Step into a relational dojo of embodied leadership where you can explore and express your full emotional range, test and expand the limits of your relational skill, navigate conflict from a place of owning your desire, and learn to wield your power with clarity and care.
our methods
Inner Dragon Practices
It all starts inside your own body. Learn to open your energy centers and clear blockages through movement, music, and breath.
Foundational Exercises
This is why we use the word "dojo." Try on multiple ways of being in short, time contained bursts to practice your relational edgework.
Individual Exercises
What is the pattern you want to change? In small groups, you’ll plan iterations of exercises designed to re-pattern a part of your psyche, clear out the pipes on expression, or role play powerful moments in your life past, present, or future, and make different choices.
Stage Work
Feel the power of the collective witnessing. Wield it by stepping onto your stage. Use it for your alchemy. Act different on behalf of yourself, your lineage, and the collective.
Dragon Culture
Live inside a new relational ecosystem. Experience what it’s like to be held by a culture that reflects your brilliance and your shadow - and invites your full aliveness. Leave ready to create the culture you've dreamed of.
What You'll Experience
This isn’t a lecture, it’s embodied practice through voice, breath, movement, sound, and relational practice. Exercises emerge in the moment: roleplays, structured challenges, or improvisations. We listen, feel, and co-create what’s needed.
What sets Dragon Academy apart is the real-time, world class coaching and the chance to work with the actual material of your life.
We become intentional mirrors for each other that reveal each other’s blind spots and unconscious patterns with intimate precision. Some moments will crack you open. Others will anchor you in clarity. You may find yourself crying, laughing, roaring, or still, but always more real, more here.
What You'll Learn
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Meet yourself and others with presence and courage.
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Face challenge with resilience. Lead with desire instead of collapse.
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Master power dynamics verbally and somatically.
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Become a nervous system others can surrender to.
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Wield your “flamethrower.” Hold charge and speak truth without burning down the room.
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Interrupt old relational loops and rewire your responses.
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Reclaim and transmute shadow: rage, desire, shame, grief, and command.
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Engage in taboo relational dynamics - like flirtation, conscious humiliation, or predator-prey play - with clarity and consent.
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Access joy, play, and a fuller range of aliveness.
Dragon Academy exists to serve the evolution of humanity through the art of relationship.
Who This is For
Those who crave depth — and are willing to take emotional risks to find it.
The ones who feel the dragon stirring inside: the part that won’t settle for numbness, niceness, or shrinking to fit.
If you desire emotional and relational sovereignty — if you’re ready to feel more, reveal more, and be changed by what you discover — welcome.
Why This Work Matters
The world needs humans who are awake, aware, and alive. By facing our shadows, we build the emotional fitness to hold complexity. As we reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve exiled — rage, shame, desire, command, fear, and grief — we become whole. We stop outsourcing power or projecting blame.
This is relational leadership: the ability to stay present, grounded, and open in the face of charge. We learn to meet intensity without collapse, and conflict without adding harm. It’s an embodied antidote to violence — a call to connection, not collapse.
At Dragon Academy, we walk a path of remembering. We unravel our Box of Self - inherited programming, protective adaptations, and performance strategies that once kept us safe, but now keep us small. When we return, we are not the same. Polarity reveals itself as sacred tension — not a split between good and bad, but the force that generates life.
Meet Your Guide
Ali Williams is a former Olympic athlete turned transformational coach and founder of Dragon Academy. Once trained to suppress emotion in pursuit of perfection, she now creates spaces where people shed their armor, face their shadows, and come alive at the edge. Her journey began in the world of professional synchronized swimming, where performance came before truth — until the mask cracked, revealing a deeper calling into shadow work, embodiment, and relational power dynamics.
With a decade of experience in group facilitation, nervous system attunement, and transformational leadership, Ali is known for holding catalytic spaces where people access more of their truth, voice, and power. After stewarding hundreds through deep personal exploration at Hawaii Eco Retreat, she founded Dragon Academy to create the kind of rigorous, soul-shaking programming she couldn’t find anywhere else — a dojo for relational depth, embodied power, and emotional truth.
testimonials
Watch Sabrina in her FIRE.
"The Dragon Academy gave me tools to face confrontation and stand my ground, something I had never done before. I am significantly less afraid of intense situations now.”
Watch Maggy in her Tenderness.
"Being in this community has allowed me to go to the deep places inside of myself that I've been really afraid to go for a long time.”
Watch Josh in his Awe.
"We have such clear rules, we can push so many edges, and experience so many sides of each other, and we're all free to be more of ourselves.”
