Trance Movement™ Facilitator Training

Would you like to...

Dive into
a Process of Personal Growth and Healing?
Deepen Your Understanding
of Trance, Movement & Psychology?
Experience the Power
of Breath, Blindfold, Rhythm & Deep Meditation?
Deepen your Knowledge
about Psychology, Healing & Transformation?
Learn how to
Facilitate Trance Movement Safely & Wisely?

In the Trance Movement Facilitator Training

you will:

Experience Trance Movement™ profoundly

Learn about the Body, Trance & Altered States

Learn about Neurology & Psychology

Learn about Processes of Healing & Growth

Go on a Journey of Healing & Transformation

Set Up

Module 1: Explorer

7 day retreat program

Module 2: Facilitator

4 day retreat program

These two modules can only be taken together – a requirement for obtaining the Trance Movement™ Facilitator Certificate.

Central throughout this program, is your personal growth. This is an intense, full and rich program, offering a lot of experience and the chance to explore, transform and deeply heal.

There are homework assignments between the first and a second module, before we complete the process together at the certification.

Central Themes

This is an intense, full and rich program, offering a lot of personal experience and the chance to explore, transform and deeply heal. Next to that, we offer a theoretical framework (1st module) including a reader, to learn how to work with trance, sound, meditation and processes of transformation.

Facilitating the Experience

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When you can safely surrender to the dance, and allow yourself to be moved from the wisdom and true nature of your body, moments of insights, growth and healing can occur naturally and spontaneously. You learn about different kinds of safety, and how to create a safe environment that facilitates such a process for others.

Exploring Body & Mind

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In addition to in-depth experience with Trance Movement, you will explore different universal forms of trance- and movement practices. You will also learn about the brain, neural networks, and other somatic mechanisms, to gain some perspective and understanding about these practices.

Exploring Breath Awareness and Breathwork

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Breath is a powerful tool to regulate, balance and enhance the flow of vitality lifeforce within you. In many spiritual traditions breathing techniques play an important role. We will explore breath awareness, different types of breathing, and you will learn how to utilize breathwork in your praxis as a facilitator.

Working with Darkness

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In most of our practices, the dancers are blindfolded, creating space for deep meditation, surrender, inspiration and transformation. In this training you will explore the effects of darkness in depth, and learn about the important role of darkness and sensory deprivation in Trance Movement.

Bridging the Realms of Consciousness

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The essence of trance work, as a facilitator, is to learn to move through altered states, to improve quality of life, and that of others in your community. All cultures on the planet have some form of these practices within their roots. You will learn about the essence behind these skills, and how they contribute to growth and healing.

The Musical Journey

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Sound and rhythm are a vehicle to induce trance, and to direct the journey. Rhythms and melodies take the participant on a journey full of inspiration and adventure. You will learn about the effects of rhythm and music on the brain, how rhythm and movement are intertwined, and get the chance to experience and experiment with organic sounds, from simple instruments, as well as contemporary technology.

Integrating the Fragmented Self

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You will learn about how trauma often creates unresolved fragmentation on a deep level, and how we all suffer from different forms patterns that keep us stuck there. With Trance Movement, both in group settings and individually, we can get things moving again, and deeply reconnect to parts of ourselves that we have lost underway, so that something original, more authentic, can resurface.

Personal Guidance

During your training you have one or more personal talks with the teachers. We pay attention to your personal development, and look at your individual needs and requirements.

Assigments & Apprenticeship

You get homework assignments attuned to your individual background and motivations. Besides practicing with each other, you also get the chance to do an internship in practice. This way you get to know a vibrant community of trance dancers, whilst gaining practical experience.

Certificate

Once you have completed all parts of the training program, and finished all assignments and the internship to satisfaction, you recieve a certificate of completion.

Trainer

Aernoudt Knecht has over 20 years of experiece in the fields of psychology (MSc, Radboud University), meditation, trance- and somatic therapies and coaching, and is internationally renowned for his work in teaching and facilitating Trance Movement.

Trance Dance Teacher Aernoudt Knecht“With the Trance Movement Facilitator Training we offer a wealth of knowledge, and decades of professional experience.”Trance Dance Teacher Aernoudt Knecht

Some Testimonials

A coming home to myself, on the way to essence.
Sonia Krahy
This training is a perfect mix that brings together the right nutrition for the head and heart.
Dimitri De Veerman
With Aernoudt I have learned to be humble for the processes that take place in space.
Mariëtte Koop
Aernoudt is authentic, professional and exceptionally loving with a lot of attention to people's individuality and inner strengths.
Sonia Krahy
This training has helped me to deal more consciously with the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions of myself.
Nens Stam
Aernoudt shares his wisdom purely. Being able to guide people through this profound ritual dance makes me infinitely grateful every time.
Maggie Nauwelaers
A thorough training where theory and practice flow harmoniously. Where freedom and deep experience are given space in all purity.
Sonia Krahy
I love the way Aernoudt creates a space in which I can feel completely at home within myself.
Dimitri De Veerman

Venues, Prices & Dates

Germany

M1: March 17-23
M2: June 26-29

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Poland

M1: April 14-20
M2: July 24-27

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Germany

M1: August 11-17
M2: November 13-16

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UAE

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USA

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