Moving in all directions: top training programs Training opportunities come in all shapes, sizes, and intensities. Whether you know exactly what you are looking for, or need to consider the options, here’s a sampling of 40 favorites to serve as a guide.
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Global School for Living Yoga
Founded by Yoga Trance Dance star Shiva Rea, this program focuses on training Prana Flow Energetic Vinyasa at locations around the world. Interplay Trainings offered for Next Generation Leaders ages 18-30 at InterPlayce in Oakland, CA. Two-week immersion teaches improvisation and body wisdom tools for both transformation and performing using movement, storytelling, stillness, and contact. Jazzercise Training programs in this wildly popular dance-fitness modality are given worldwide in weekend workshops. Get certified to become an owner-instructor or teacher. JourneyDance Trainings include two modules for certification, and two for deepening the practice at five-to-seven days per module. Kundalini Dance Led by Australianbased Leyolah Antara, trainings provide a background in the chakra system and tribal wisdom. Let Your Yoga Dance Develop knowledge and skills grounded in your own creativity to give you a springboard for guiding others in user-friendly dance and yoga. Leven Institute for Expressive Movement (L.I.F.E. Movement)
Professional certification training programs at this Lenox, MA, center include Shake Your Soul YogaDance and SomaSoul Somatic Expressive Therapy.
Eastwest Somatics students Nathalie Guillaume and Joan Englander practice deep listening through touch and movement.
LivingDance Methods taught by
Danielle Fraenkel at the Kinections Center in Rochester, NY, are applicable to a wide variety of movement scenarios. Moving Center School With training centers in both Manhattan and Marin County, the institution devoted to teaching Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms has facilitated all levels of instruction since 1987. Natural Rhythms Institute Sacred Dance Facilitator Trainings led by Lisa Michaels focus on personal growth and spiritual development. Nia With international headquarters in Portland, OR, and trainings around the globe, Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas’s blend of dance, martial arts, and healing arts offers progressive levels of education from White Belt through Black Belt. Nosara Yoga Institute These interdisciplinary yoga teacher trainings on the lush Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, and throughout the world, have birthed more than 1500 new teachers. Planetary Dance Leadership courses with internationally celebrated choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin teach people to bring this ritual dance for peace to local communities. Rosen Method Programs in Marion Rosen’s use of gentle touch to ease muscle tension are offered at the center in Berkeley, CA.
San Francisco School of Biodanza
Directed by Belisa Amaro, the school offers teachers trainings in the Rolando Toro System. Trainings are held in Oakland, CA, and consist of 30 weekend intensives during a three-year period. Singing Tree Institute Week-long practitioner Initiations led by Lis Addison provide the necessary tools for leading KiVo’s movement, voice, and healing components, and render participants eligible to become licensed KiVo practitioners. Soul Motion The “Movement Ministry” trains teachers in the U.S. and Germany. Three intensive residential trainings are required, with an additional practicum phase supervised by founder Vinn Martí or one of his authorized teachers. SoulSweat: Developed by Chantal Pierrat, this high-energy practice requires teachers to create unique choreography that reflects individuality and spirit. TaKeTiNa Intensive trainings bring this dynamic group rhythm meditation training to music, dance, therapy, medical, and social work professionals, enabling them to apply the principles of TaKeTiNa in their individual practices. Tamalpa Institute Learn dynamic applications for education, psychology, art, healthcare, and communication using movement-based expressive arts techniques developed by Anna and Daria Halprin. Uzazu Unique mind-body trainings and workshops aimed at exploring the fundamental energy dynamics that support our relationships and everyday actions. Yamuna Body Rolling Trainings in the U.S. and in cities worldwide offer a wide array of classes in this ball-based modality for every level of YBR practitioner. Yoga Fit This program developed by Beth Shaw demystifies yoga and addresses the needs of the fitness community, bringing user-friendly yoga and fitness courses to health clubs worldwide. Yoga for the People All bodies rise: this is yoga for everyone. Learn to teach judgment-free, script-free, feefree (all classes are donation-based) classes for yogis of all ages, levels, and incomes. Yoga Tree This mainstay of the San Francisco yoga community founded by Tim Dale emphasizes continuing education and recently opened a branch dedicated specifically to teacher trainings including the 500 hour Yoga Alliance certification. Zumba Weekend instructor trainings in this Latin dance fitness party happen in nearly every big city around the world.
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Alexander Technique Trainings in F.M. Alexander’s renowned method for achieving ease, freedom of movement, and balance require successful completion of a three-year full-time program. Anat Baniel Method Gentle and effective movement modality developed by the protégé of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. Body-Mind Centering Northern California’s school offers trainings in the techniques developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, an innovator in embodied approaches to movement. Breema Center The Practitioner Certification Program at Breema’s Oakland hub offers a 165-hour course in Breema bodywork, anatomy and physiology, and a practitioner colloquium. Chopra Center Integrating the healing arts of the East with the best in modern Western medicine, Deepak Chopra’s Carlsbad, CA, center offers training programs in everything from ayurvedic consulting to primordial sound meditation. Continuum Develop the ability to “read” tissue structure and breath from a Continuum point of view in the Wellsprings of Health Practitioners Program led by Emilie Conrad and Robert Litman. Core Connexion Somatic psychologist Eva Vigram directs this interdisciplinary transformational arts approach. Over a period of two-and-a-half years, trainees take part in six modules with additional peer meetings. Dance of Liberation Trainees in this modality founded by Parashakti establish the ability to lead blindfolded trance dances that bring participants into shamanically altered transformative states. Dance Meditation Sufi master teacher Dunya McPherson specializes in techniques that open the wonderment of self-perception. Completion of an 80-day intensive qualifies trainees for teaching certification. Dancing Freedom Facilitator trainings led by Samantha Sweetwater lead to completion three modules (Embodiment, Mastery, and Vision) plus a four-class teaching practicum within one year. Eastwest Somatics Institute Offers certification training in Shin Somatics, an approach to healing and personal transformation developed by Sondra Fraleigh. Energizer Training Institute Leader Wilbert Alix has been teaching people how to lead Trance Dance Ritual Programs since 1979. Feldenkrais Trainees learn Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’s method of somatic education through gentle movement and directed attention.
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