Experience of a Lifetime 

This Shakti Dance® Teacher Training journey leads you to a place of true enchantment. Becoming part of a vibrant group, charged with spiritual energy, you can discover and unfold new self-nurturing aspects of yourself.

Express your Creativity

You will gain an increased sense of vitality and inner spaciousness through the harmonious alignment of your Shakti energy.  Your meditative state of peaceful presence is enhanced, so Shiva can blossom through Shakti, and organically express your inner potential.

Connect with your Inner Self 

Through this conscious yogic practice, you will increase your sensitivity and intuition, unfolding greater insight and inner guidance.  

Connect with your Self-healing Power

You will experience how this practice massages your body, releasing tension and blockages in your fascia. Your body and mind will be liberated from deep conditioning, relaxing stress, for self-healing and renewal – opening out into a peaceful, aware state and a gracefully flowing life.

Deepen your Personal Practice

The Teacher Training Program will help you take your yoga practice to a whole new level. By learning advanced techniques and poses from our experienced Trainers you will improve your personal practice and learn how to guide others to experience benefits from this discipline.

Improves Quality of Life

As you develop your daily Shakti Dance routine you will feel increased mental and physical energy, boosting your alertness and enthusiasm, diminishing negative feelings.

Shakti Dance®️ is ‘The Yoga of Dance’, a unique Yogic System with a distinctive self-empowering method and practice, created by Sara Avtar.

The practice of Shakti Dance®️ combines rhythmic mindful movement with breath and sound, attuning you to harmonic resonance. Through its graceful organic flow, you are aligned to merge with Source. This flowing, rhythmic practice meditatively coordinates mind, body and spirit, returning you to the sacredness of your natural state. Charged with radiant vibrancy, you are liberated into a state of peaceful presence and invited to creatively express your essence; to nurture the unfolding of your inner gifts – for the harmony of the whole.

The system of Shakti Dance®️ embodies the ‘Principles of Harmonious Movement’. We learn to move organically in waves and spirals with relaxed aware flow and to attune to our inner cyclic harmony, igniting the creative feminine Spirit of Shakti. In the process, the harmonic current of prana-shakti unravels our entanglement and illumines our shadows, releasing us into healing and awakening. From an aware state of heightened sensitivity, we open up to our core vibration and cascade into free dance, discovering our authentic self-expression. As we step into wholeness, we can harmonise and heal the world.

Physical Body ~ Lakshmi: Radiant Embodiment
Principles of Harmonious Movement ~ Bandhas ~ 5 Elements & Postural Alignment ~ Rhythmic Breath ~ Dynamic Cyclic Asanas ~ Sequencing Movement & Graceful Flow

Energy Body ~ Kali: Transformational Release
Systems of Yogic Anatomy: Vayus, Chakras, Nadis, Meridians, Rasas ~ Frequency & Electromagnetism ~ Pranayama in Motion ~ Different Qualities of Dance

Mental Body ~ Saraswati: Creative Consciousness & Geometry of Mergence
Aspects of Mind ~ Meditation ~ Focus & Mindfulness in Motion ~ Influence of Mantras, Mudras, Musical Rhythm and Sacred Geometry ~ Celestial Communications ~ Mantric Choreographies

Yogic Philosophy
Patanjali ~ Vedanta ~ Samkhya ~ Bhakti Tradition

Hindu Mythology
Shiva & Shakti ~ Three Principle Gods & Goddesses

Methodology
Dynamic Structure of the 8 Phases of a Class

Development & Growth as a Teacher
Acquistion of Techniques ~ Integration of Effects of Practice ~ Role & Expression of a Teacher

This Training Program culminates in the certification as an Instructor of Shakti Dance® Classes or workshops of 1-3 hours.

Training Hours:
✨24 days of 180 classroom hours,
✨25 hours of early morning practice (sadhana)
✨45 hours of personal study (reading and practicing the techniques at home)
– a total of 250 hours.

Sara Avtar
Shakti Dance® Founder

I’m British born in Edinburgh, educated in London and qualified in Germany, currently living in Italy. I am a life-long dancer and Originator of Shakti Dance®️ ~ The Yoga of Dance. I have practiced and trained in various styles of yoga and meditation since 1987, certifying as a Yoga Alliance / E-RYT 500 Kundalini Yoga Lead Teacher Trainer and Sat Nam Rasayan Healer.
Along the way, my inspiration has been sourced from Sufism, Theravadha Buddhism, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and an array of different dance and movement styles, all of which have found confluence and synthesis in the unfolding practice of Shakti Dance®️.
Studying Naturopathy in Germany and training to be Art and English School-Teacher at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, was a foundational experience for creating and writing the Curriculum & Manual for the Shakti Dance®️ Teacher Training Program, first launched in 2005.
I am a Mother and CEO of the Shakti Dance Academy and have trained hundreds of Shakti Dance®️ Teachers all over the globe, including a talented team of Teacher Trainers.
Alongside dance, I love to compose music and sing, and have released six albums to date, with mantra-music for Shakti Dance®️: “Shakti Lila”, “Merging”, “Swara Rasa“, “Waves of Grace“, “Swaha” & “Release“. – available on the Shakti Dance®️ Academy.
Through spontaneous playfulness and spiritual practice I have found Self-support and empowerment as a woman and mother. My intention is to share this inner resource with others, transforming art into yogic technology – combining harmoniously dance, breath and song with awareness, for the vital expression of peaceful Presence.
Through teaching Shakti Dance®️, I love to help others savour the nurturing depth of their Being, while holding space for deep release and the much-needed unfolding into wholeness, for planetary harmony. Read More

Sat Darshan
Lead Trainer

Sat Darshan was born in Finland into a musical family. Dance and music have been a door to Sat Darshan’s heart all her life, and she started practicing those and performing arts in her school years. Her interest in spirituality grew in her teen years so much that she got into Yoga in 1999.
In 2008 she became a Shakti Dance® teacher and since then she taught classes & workshops and organizing Teacher Trainings in Finland until she moved to Gran Canaria with her family in 2019.
Sat Darshan is passionate about the softer, more feminine and subtle approach to spirituality, that allows a deep healing of the subconscious tendencies and cellular memory. She also coaches women on self-acceptance and relationships, supporting them to heal and be authentic & sensitively empowered.
Other interesting and important aspects of Sat Darshan’s journey that blend into her work:
She became a Sound Healer in 2006, graduated as a Naad Yoga Teacher in India in 2012, and has dedicated many years in studying and experimenting her voice and different instruments in Western and Indian styles of music. Currently, she is learning the guitar, continuing to compose mantra songs and finishing up her first mantra album. Her speciality within Shakti Dance® is Sound & Mantra.

Siri Vedya
Professional Trainer

”As above, so be love.”
Siri Vedya is a Professional Trainer of Shakti Dance® based in Helsinki, Finland. She has been teaching Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan since 2008 and Shakti Dance since 2012, and spent many years discovering different dance styles in her youth. She is also a Meditative HealingTM and Karam Kriya spiritual numerology practitioner, mother, and most of all, forever a student of Life.
Her students describe her teaching style as warm and clear. Siri Vedya teaches in the metropolitan area, Tampere and remotely online.
Professional qualifications and certifications:
– Master of Philosophy (FM)
– KRI-certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, levels 1 (2008) and 2 (2016) and teacher trainer (Associate Trainer level).
– Shakti Dance Academy -certified Shakti dance teacher (2012) and teacher trainer (Professional Trainer level)
– Meditative Healing™ Practitioner (2015)
– Karam Kriya spiritual numerology studies (2019->)

Ardas Kaur
Associate Trainer

I am a Shakti Dance Teacher, KRI Teacher Trainer, Trainer in the School of “Natur Life Coach” Naturopath in Training of Ayurvedic Medicine and Counselor in Kundalini Yoga.
In collaboration with the “Aequanime” Project, I Integrate my Knowledge in Yoga, Holistic Medicine and work experience in Corporations.
My Yoga Practice starts at the end of the 90s, during my work experience in organizing events in the Corporates Environment, and I met Shakti Dance around 2006.
In 2009 I had the opportunity to become a Shakti Dance Teacher.
The meeting with Shakti Dance and Sara Avtar Olivier was enlightening to me, and It has always been a great support in my Path.
I mainly teach in Rome, but I have other collaborations in different parts of Italy.

18th May – 21st May 2023 
27th June – 2nd July 2023 
17th August – 20th August 2023
15th September – 17th September 2023 
20th October – 22nd October 2023
25th November – 26th November 2023
13th January -14th January 2024 

Academic costs include:

• 12 months of Shakti Dance Academy Membership (from a8th May 2023)
• Tuition fees,
• Technical Support,
• Teaching Materials in the English Language,
• Organization Costs,
• Exam,
• Certification,
• Royalty payment for the Training Program
• Saraswati Flowing Asanas & Saraswati Standing Exercises Video

There is limited space for this Teacher Training Program. If you are seriously considering enrolling to secure your place send the Application Form and deposit payment of 498 € (non-refundable deposit).

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Early Bird – Enrolment before 18th March 2023

• One Time Payment: 2598 € (including deposit payment)
  • 2100 € To be paid by 1st May 2023

• With Instalments: 2698 € (including deposit payment)
  • 550 € 17th May 2023 – 1st Installment
  • 550 € 26th June 2023 – 2nd Installment
  • 550 € 16th August 2023 – 3rd Installment
  • 550€ 14th September 2023 – 4th Installment

Regular Price – Enrolment after 18th March 2023

• One Time Payment: 2898 € (including deposit payment)
  • 2400 € to be paid by 1st May 2023
• With Instalments: 2998 € (including deposit payment)
  • 625 € 17th May 2023 – 1st Installment
  • 625 € 26th June 2023 – 2nd Installment
  • 625 € 16th August 2023 – 3rd Installment
  • 625 € 14th September 2023 – 4th Installment

Please notice payment of complete tuition is obligatory even in the case of dropping from the participation at the Teacher Training at any point from any reason. For certification the participant is entitled to attend the missed modules (up to 6 days) max. 6 months after passing the exam at any of the forthcoming Teacher Training in Europe. (more details in SDTTL1 Legal Disclaimer)

Travel and Accommodation Costs are not part of the Training Cost
The total residential costs for food and accommodation varies depending on the different accommodation options. Please ask for more details.

Accommodation payments will be paid directly to the venue at residential retreats.

Shakti Dance Level 1 Certification Requisites:

1. 180 classroom hours
2. 45 hours of self-study* and written summaries
3. Full payment of the Training Program fees
4. Participation in at least 10 mornings of sadhana (1.5 – 2.5 hours early morning practice), during the training program. 
5. In addition to the training program, attend 30 hours (1hr = 60mins) of Shakti Dance regular classes or workshops (practical not theory), with any previously Certified Shakti Dance teacher (prior to your training group). The time period given for this completion ranges from 3 months before training begins, until 6 months after the end of training. Online classes and workshops will be recognized only if purchased through Shakti Dance Academy and with a valid Academy certification of participation.
6. Completion of any extra Study Assignments in order to recuperate missed classroom hours
   
7. Completion of any Follow Up Tasks after the Practical Exam
8. Pass the Shakti Dance® Level 1 Practical and Written Exams
9. Complete all the training requirements no later than six months after the end of the Training Program. An extension may be granted by official request to the program organizer and Shakti Dance Academy.
10. The final decision for qualification lies with the Lead Trainer and the Shakti Dance® founder Sara Avtar Olivier.
11. Insertion of Personal Teachers’ Profile Page in the Shakti Dance Academy Teacher’s Directory. NB: If this occurs later than 12 months after Teacher Training Program begin, renewal of Academic Membership will be necessary. 

*The 45 Hours of Self-Study include:

1. Personal practice of specified yoga-asanas and Shakti Flowing-Asanas
2. Personal practice of specified meditations and/or Celestial Communications,
3. Keeping a diary of experience during the practice of specified meditations and/or Celestial Communications
4. Personal practice of specified Standing Sequences and/or Mantric Choreographies
5. Reading of course manual or hand-outs during the Program
6. Background reading of suggested books
7. Short essays of theoretical nature and summaries of diaries relating to personal experiences during the 40-day practice of Shakti Dance.

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