The Dancemeditation™ Intensive Training program inculcates deep listening skills within a multi-dimensional frame; all of you learns to listen, be moved and guided by forces beyond the Ego self. Because the process of being receptive catalyzes transformation, healing, and growth, practising and teaching Dancemeditation™ bring continual newness. The Movememt Monastery and fall or winter intensives are the program's required in-depth training periods.

The 80 days of retreat and intensive training is generally shaped in two Phases.

Initial Phase
The first half of the Training concerns becoming thoroughly acquainted with the scope of the material.
Objectives:
- develop & evolve movement skills
- develop & evolve movement meditation skills
- develop a strong inner resource capability
- develop knowledge of dance elements
- open into Sufi energetic lineage
- build a solid personal practice

Second Phase
The second period rests on having developed trust in the Dancemeditation™ process through experience. Ask yourself if the following aspects have strengthened in you:
- expanded capacity for concentration
- expanded somatic perception
- commitment to the materials & process
- healthy self-discipline
- knowledge that through the work you experience growth & positive change
- a sense that this is a way of life for you
Objectives
A deepening capacity and honing of skills.

For those interested in teaching,  this lineage is less concerned with conveying an elaborate lexicon than with the capacity to shape pedagogical environments from a deeply informed yet Source-guided Self.  In Dancemeditation™, a teacher's authenticity and presence allow spacious scope for the student. Dancemeditation™ is not taught from the head; it bubbles up from body and from the Eternal. The Teacher Training hones trust in this. Through study in a receptive methodology, trainees learn to carry and convey transmitted lineage inside movement process. You may feel that you become more naked over time, that the more you know the less you know, and that you have less and less to tell everyone.

Advanced Training embracing Sufi life continues on for those who wish from the completion of the Certificate. This period of training will be initiated by an invitation from Dunya. The classical prescription of 1001 days of dervish training is kept in view as a reminder that spiritual seeking is not quick and finite, but rather a loving surrender.