Shakti DanceĀ® International Teacher Training
Level 2
Somatic Goddess Matrix
Live Intensive in Italy
23rd - 29th August 2024
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In the enchanting backdrop of Italy, the Shakti Dance Level 2 awaits you at the end of Summer from 23rd-29th August. This year’s theme, “Somatic Healing through the Goddess Matrix,” explores how seasonal themes, goddess archetypes, and hexagram qualities map onto the anatomy of the body. Through the transformative practice of Shakti Dance, you’ll learn through self-compassion to access and release emotional and physical pain stored in different areas, illuminating shadows and unlocking gifts for profound transformational healing.
The āSomatic Goddess Matrixā is an intricate and interconnected web of physical, emotional, and energetic flows through the body and its fascia that are inherent to the divine feminine. This matrix is based on the Seasonal I-Ching, and has been originated by Sara Avtar to encompass the body’s wisdom, emotional landscape, and the subtle energy systems associated with the different faces and phases of the Goddess. It embodies a holistic understanding of the goddess’s presence within each of us, and emphasises the integration of bodily sensations, emotions, and spiritual energies in the context of healing and personal transformation.
Enhancing the Full and Vibrant Expression of Creative Being
Shakti DanceĀ® is the point where yoga and dance meet ā transforming dance into yoga. Here, dance becomes a conscious practice, heightening awareness and unfolding into yogic union.
In this Dance of Life, we live as individual vibratory fields in a swirling mass of vibrations. Our health, vibrancy and wellbeing depend upon how the vibrations in these fields are aligned and harmonised. As the yoga of dance, Shakti DanceĀ® facilitates balance and harmony, using a three-fold synergy of rhythmic breath, movement and sound ā together with sensory awareness, or mindfulness.
āThe soul is reflected and expressed through our dance when we are in most intimate contact with that Being that animates us.ā ~ Sara Avtarā
Experience of a LifetimeĀ
This Shakti DanceĀ® 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. Ā Your meditative state of peaceful presence is enhanced, so Shiva can blossom through Shakti, and organically express your inner potential.
Connect with your Inner SelfĀ
Through this conscious yogic practice, you will increase your sensitivity and intuition, unfolding greater insight and inner guidance. Ā
Connect with your Self-healing Power
You will experience how this practiceĀ massages your body, releasing tension and blockages in your fascia.Ā Your body and mind will be liberated from deep conditioning, relaxing stress, for self-healing and renewal ā 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 feelĀ increased mental and physical energy, boosting your alertness and enthusiasm, diminishing negative feelings.
Sara Avtar
Shakti DanceĀ® Founder
Iām 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 DanceĀ®ļø ~ 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 DanceĀ®ļø.
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 DanceĀ®ļø Teacher Training Program, first launched in 2005.
I am a Mother and CEO of the Shakti Dance Academy and have trained hundreds of Shakti DanceĀ®ļø 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 DanceĀ®ļø: āShakti Lilaā, āMergingā, āSwara Rasaā, āWaves of Graceā, āSwahaā & āReleaseā. ā available on the Shakti DanceĀ®ļø 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 ā combining harmoniously dance, breath and song with awareness, for the vital expression of peaceful Presence.
Through teaching Shakti DanceĀ®ļø, 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
Arrive: 23rd August 2024 between 15h – 20h CET
Departure: 29th August 2024 after lunch
Lovely country house Calanchi Agriturismo, Viterbo (near Rome)
Enrolment For Active Academy Membership
Active Membership refers to individuals who pay an annual membership fee.
ā¬1249ā¬1149 Early Bird Price for enrollments before 1st June 2024- Accommodation in a triple-bed shared room
- 6 Days of Shakti Dance Level 2 Teacher Training
- The three daily meals will commence on the 23rd of August with dinner and conclude on the 29th with lunch
- Transportation to and from Fiumicino Airport
ā¬1299ā¬1199 Early Bird Price for enrollments before 1st June 2024- Accommodation in a double-bed shared room
- 6 Days of Shakti Dance Level 2 Teacher Training
- The three daily meals will commence on the 23rd of August with dinner and conclude on the 29th with lunch
- Transportation to and from Fiumicino Airport
Enrolment For NON – Active Academy Membership
ā¬1349Ā ā¬1249 Early Bird Price for enrollments before 1st June 2024- Accommodation in a triple-bed shared room
- 6 Days of Shakti Dance Level 2 Teacher Training
- The three daily meals will commence on the 23rd of August with dinner and conclude on the 29th with lunch
- Transportation to and from Fiumicino Airport
ā¬1399ā¬1299 Early Bird Price for enrollments before 1st June 2024- Accommodation in a double-bed shared room
- 6 Days of Shakti Dance Level 2 Teacher Training
- The three daily meals will commence on the 23rd of August with dinner and conclude on the 29th with lunch
- Transportation to and from Fiumicino Airport
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Please notice payment of complete payment is obligatory even in the event that you withdraw your participation from the Teacher Training at any point, for any reason.
*ā¬25 for certification for those Shakti Dance Level 1 Teachers who are interested in following the Training with homework
* Academic Members are those whose membership is active and paid on a yearly basis
This Level 2 Retreat is primarily for Shakti DanceĀ® Teacher Trainees or Certified Teachers. Certified Level 1 Teachers may gain a Level 2 Certification for this module on fulfilment of the requisites. Teacher Trainees must certify as Level 1 Teachers before qualifying for this moduleās Level 2 Certification.
We have a few places open to those who are neither Teacher Trainees nor Certified Teachers.Ā Please inquire before sending your Application Form or making Payment – and await confirmation.You would not be eligible for certification, nor Academic Membership, so your Retreat Cost would be that of a Non-Academic Member.
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