Teacher Training
TAKE YOUR LOVE OF YOGA DANCE ONE STEP FURTHER AND BECOME A CERTIFIED LET YOUR YOGA DANCE® TEACHER! jOIN MEGHA THIS YEAR AND NEXT WITH THESE UPCOMING TRAININGS:
#1. Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training for Special Populations
With Megha – Nancy Buttenheim, MA, E-RYT
Learn to teach Yoga Dance in and out of chairs to people with special needs:
People with Parkinsons, MS, the elderly, people with arthritis, people suffering from depression, people healing from cancer and/ or undergoing chemotherapy. This 5 day training is for body-centered teachers of yoga dance, yoga, bodyworkers, physical therapists, MDs, nurses, special-ed teachers, educators.
Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training for Special Populations will teach you to:
* Serve people who need and want to move their bodies but are hindered due to illness, pain, lack of mobility
* Study, practice, and teach appropriate pranayama-breathing techniques for this population
* Discover creative ways to dance your yoga in chairs and to teach it to your students
* Heighten your sensitivity to the emotional and mental needs of special populations
* Slow down so that your students never feel rushed or pushed
* Work with Balance
* Treat your students with respect and care, promoting dignity and self-confidence
* Increase your music library with appropriate music for your students
* Understand the power that Music has upon the Brain
* Utilize the seven chakras (the energy centers of the body) as a roadmap for your classes
* Increase your own movement vocabulary so you can in turn offer new sequences to your students
* Practice-teach and mentor fellow participants in the dance of yoga
* Facilitate during sharing time after the practice classes
* Practice-teach with visiting special needs students from the Berkshires
* Learn how to stay grounded and not attached to outcome
* Observe your emotions and steady your mind and energy field.
* Be sensitive to the unique needs of this population
RECOMMENDED Post-REQUISITE:
First Level of Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training: Oct 3-8 at Kripalu
Part 2, Nov 28-Dec 3, will certify you as a Let Your Yoga Dance instructor for the general population
#2 Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training Oct 3-8 Part 1 Nov 28-Dec 3 Part 2 Kripalu Center
Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training is a transformational, joyous, fun and funky, sacred and powerful training which will teach you to be the best teacher of Yoga Dance! In two parts, each five days in length, you will get to know your body in a brand new way, your relationship to music will never be the same, and you will experience the art of being a transformational teacher. All this created in a safe and loving environment. Megha is devoted to bringing this dance of yoga to everyone on earth. And this is a lifelong training. You will receive tools not only for being a yoga dance educator, but you will continue to receive gifts and tools after graduation for as long as you wish. We are in this for the long haul!
Let Your Yoga Dance Part 1:
Part 1 is all about the science and method of yoga dance and its applications. You will learn all about the chakra system and how it relates to a yoga dance class. You will dance through the chakras and receive a tremendous music library. You will learn how different kinds of music relate to the chakras and your yoga dance class. Part 1 must come first. No matter what your experience with yoga or dance, you cannot get the training you want by coming first to Part 2.
Let Your Yoga Dance Part 2:
Part 2 is an outgrowth of the chakra-yoga-dance-music-movement methodology that is learned in Part 1. You will practice at home between the two parts, so when you return to complete the training, you will have tremendous confidence and all the tools you need to succeed. This learning environment is under the umbrella of compassion for self and other. No competition. Kindness is key. The graduation ceremony, complete with diploma certifying you as a Let Your Yoga Dance instructor, is deeply moving. Many people have said it was more powerful than their wedding day!
#3. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training - Nosara Yoga Institute Feb 6-19th.
In this experiential learning environment the exercises and inquiries of Let Your Yoga Dance® unlock the power of movement, itself. Joy, passion and the entire kaleidoscope of human emotion are drawn forth in the moment of allowing your yoga to dance you.
Each day of your training combines program sessions that include yoga practice and teaching methodology user-friendly dance and chakra-based movement inquiries. These inquiries foster a rich immersion into the deeper layers of one's wisdom body while inviting you to discover new levels of energy, and grace along with new levels of professional competency as a yoga educator.
Program includes exploration and practical training in:
- Yoga and YogaDance technique as they relate to the chakra system
- In depth study and embodied analysis of the chakras
- The relationship between yogadance, the body, and music
- The creation of a library of world music appropriate for all the chakras
- Using the koshas, yamas & niyamas to design, deliver and recapitulation one's yogadance class .Breathwork, chanting, toning and sounding to reclaim one's natural, authentic voice
- Practice Teach
- The business of marketing and promoting yourself
Graduates of the 2009 training reported the following: Megha! You have to call this weight loss training! We all lost ten pounds!
PEOPLE ARE SAYING about Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training:
Dearest Megha,
All morning I've reveled in and also am processing the magnificent week I've just experienced with you and our yogadance teacher training tribe at Kripalu. The rituals you created for us throughout meant so very much to me. The only other time I had felt similar was at my wedding ceremony 30 years ago. The deepest part of me thanks you for putting so much love, effort, time, and thought into the whole of our training, culminating in such a beautiful graduation ceremony.
I had a phone conversation with my mother this morning. She lives in CT. After sharing with her about my YogaDance certification she said "so now you have to learn how to dance?" This is my thanks to you for the inner critic segment of our training. Without just having had that fresh in every cell of my body and every fiber of my being, that sentence may have effected me in the way of the inner critic. But it didn't. It just twisted my brain for a nano-second. Then I turned toward my certificate (that I already have nicely framed) and turned back and said into the phone: "Mom, I am a Kripalu YogaDance Instructor; I know how to dance. I AM a dancer!"
I did this training for JOY. YogaDance Teacher Training has filled that need to overflowing capacity.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.....