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

Satya (Francesca)
Professional Trainer

Satya Prem Jyoti is a mother, anthropologist, yogini, dancer, traveler and music born in Rome but who lived in many parts of the world. She has been certified as a Shakti Dance teacher since 2008. She is also a certified Kundalini and Hatha Yoga teacher, specialized in Yoga for women, Yoga for pregnancy and postnatal. Passionate about dance since childhood, she has studied different dance styles throughout her life (classical, modern, oriental, tango, Afro-Brazilian, elf, traditional dance from southern Italy). In her travels in India she studies traditional Yoga and therapy. ayurvedic,. She is a certified facilitator of Ovarian Breathing and Female Alchemy with Sajeeva Hurtado, and is also a leader in the training of Dances of Universal Peace, in the Sufi Ruhaniat lineage. She currently lives in Ecuador and is helping to spread the teaching of Shakti Dance in Latin America, training workshops and SD Teacher Training. 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.

2022
May, 6-8~ Online Format
May, 28-29~ Online Format
June, 20 – July, 3 ~ Presential Format in Gallese, Italy
October, 1-2 ~ Online Format
November, 19-20 ~ Online Format
December, 17-18 ~ Online Format

Academic costs include:

• 18 months of Shakti Dance Academy Membership (from 2nd April 2022 till 2nd October 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 465 € (non-refundable deposit).

NOTE: If you require an receipt for your payment, please contact us at payment@shaktidanceacademy.com!

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Early Bird – Enrolment before 1st February 2022

• One Time Payment: 2.170 € (including deposit payment)
  • • 1.705 € To be paid by 1st April 2022

• With Instalments: 2.420 € (including deposit payment)
  • 391 € by 1st April 2022 – 1st Installment
  • 391 € by 1st May 2022 – 2nd Installment
  • 391 € by 1st June 2022 – 3rd Installment
  • 391 € by 1st July 2022 – 4th Installment
  • 391 € by 1st October 2022 – 5th Installment

Regular Price – Enrolment after 31st January 2022

• One Time Payment: 2.300 € (including deposit payment)
  • 1.835 € to be paid by 1st April 2022
• With Instalments: 2.550 € (including deposit payment)
  • 417 € by 1st April 2022 – 1st Installment
  • 417 € by 1st May 2022 – 2nd Installment
  • 417 € by 1st June 2022 – 3rd Installment
  • 417 € by 1st July 2022 – 4th Installment
  • 417 € by 1st October 2022 – 5th 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)

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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.