Yoga Trance Dance® Teacher Training with Ariana Bates

Learn to lead this internationally celebrated prana yoga and free-form movement meditation. For yoga teachers and yogadventurers who are interested in the interconnections of yoga and dance, this Trance Dance intensive provides the basic tools to explore the foundations of Yoga Trance Dance

We are all born knowing how to dance; this inherent movement is well documented as one of the oldest planetary yogas. Evolving since 1994, Yoga Trance Dance is a contemporary exploration of the spirit of dance within yoga. Beginning with sahaja prana vinyasa or the experience of prana initiating yogasanas in a spontaneous, natural flow, yoga trance dance unfolds into an exploration of free-form, breath driven movement to liberate one’s creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom.

The Intensive Includes:

• Global overview of the power of free-form movement in human history
• Exploration of cross-cultural trance roots and movement meditation
• Dancing universe – Cosmology of Nataraj within Yoga
• Roots of sahaja flow within yoga and dancing mystics throughout history
• The power of invocation and sound – five opening invocations and mantra
• Leading sahaja flow for every body – essential 12 offering movements
• Devotion in motion – Prana Flow Namaskars for Yoga Trance Dance
• Sahaja Prana Vinyasa™ – pathways for integrating sahaja flow into vinyasa forms
• Guiding elemental movement from the earth to space
• Guiding kriyas and free-form ecstatic dance
• Leading the power of collective movement
• The nature of movement – yoga trance dance outdoors
• Creating the musical wave of Yoga Trance Dance
• Invoking and weaving the poetic language of the body

25 Hours of Yoga Teacher Training that can be applied to Prana Vinyasa Teacher Training certification

This course is for Yogis that would like to enrich their personal practice and for Yogis on the teaching path that are interested in teaching Yoga Trance Dance.  

To gain Yoga Trance Dance certification, you need to be a 200hr certified yoga teacher and complete the follow up embodiement project with Ariana Bates (following this training).

Detailed Yoga Trance Dance Teacher Training Manual

Suggested Reading : 

Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement by Gerald Jonas