Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training

Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training is an online yoga teacher training held live on Zoom over three weekends, open to all levels. It is led by Megha Nancy Buttenheim, founder of Let Your Yoga Dance, a movement practice where joy and fun meet deep and sacred. Trainees study the science, method and application of the practice, learn the art of teaching it, and lead a practice class for their peers, all from the comfort of home.

What to Expect

The training begins before the first session. Trainees prepare by reading Megha's book Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology, practicing with the Let Your Yoga Dance MP4 or DVD, studying a playlist of four videos, and completing the VIA character strengths assessment. The idea is that by opening night, everyone arrives well prepared and ready to enjoy the work.

The three weekends follow a clear arc:

- Weekend one covers the science and method of Let Your Yoga Dance.
- Weekend two turns to the art of teaching, including teaching craft and class design.
- Weekend three is the practicum, where each trainee leads a practice class for peers over Zoom, followed by graduation.

Two Zoom Q&A sessions support the process. One takes place before the final weekend to help with the teach class, and the other comes three weeks after graduation. Both are recorded, so anyone who cannot attend receives the recording that same evening.

About Megha Nancy Buttenheim

Megha Nancy Buttenheim is the founding director and self-described Chief Joy Officer of Let Your Yoga Dance. She describes herself as an inspirational dancer, teacher-trainer, educator and author, and she draws on a lifetime as a dancer, actress, singer, yogi and educator in experiential learning. Her credo is "Everyone is a Dancer," and she believes dancing is the key to a joyful life.

Let Your Yoga Dance moves through the body's seven energy centers, the chakras. It weaves together gentle moving yoga, user-friendly dance, qigong, meditation in motion, dance prayer, a yoga cool down and relaxation, all set to music from around the world. Its mission is to spread joy and consciousness by transmitting body, brain, heart and soul health to all populations.

Before You Go

No previous level of experience is required, but trainees are asked to complete the preparation before the first session: the book, the MP4 or DVD, the four-video playlist and the VIA strengths assessment. Megha also recommends the Moontides and Power and Grace MP4s and the Moving With Your Strengths MP4, though these are optional. The training is taught in English.

Tuition includes the three weekends of live Zoom instruction, guidance for the pre-training study, the recorded Q&A sessions, the teach-class practicum and graduation. A training manual and product materials are sent to you when you register. The book, the recommended MP4s and the VIA assessment are separate from tuition.

Refunds depend on when you cancel. An earlier cancellation returns the full tuition minus a materials and administrative fee, a later one returns half of that, and after the cutoff a credit toward the next training is offered unless there is a real physical or family emergency.