Mahisha is the founder of Alrakasat, and is a national and international instructor. She has been dancing and performing for over 50 years. She has extensive expertise, knowledge, education, in the middle eastern dance styles and is well-known both nationally and internationally.

Mahisha's style and humorous, dynamic mode of teaching have made her a much sought after instructor and performer through the years. Her classes are designed to educate you not only in the various styles of this art form, but to include history, food, and ancient medicines. Being a massage and cranial sacral therapist and a naturopathic doctor with an extensive education in anatomy and physiology, Mahisha places great emphasis on posture and carriage. She also has many years of classical ballet training as well as jazz, modern and improvisational and movement therapy.

Her love of dance has been what has seen her through many of the lessons faced in life. Mahisha has found that an active and renewing knowledge of one's self fosters a sense of belonging on a universal level as well as a sense of inner peace and well-being. Therefore, she considers herself a time-traveller drawing on countless ones that have gone before us, encouraging us to acknowledge and assume the personal responsibility of finding all aspects of one's self, which are the very ones that have gone before. It is like being on the middle rung of the ladder with full awareness of the parts of self behind and ahead of you.