¡Hola! I am Puela Lunaris, the founder of Dances of the World Society. I have devoted my life since 1993 to rescuing dance and music traditions in danger of extinction from my native Spain, including Zambra and my signature style Lunaris Barefoot Feminine Flamenco™. 

In this training, I am putting at your service my 22+ years of experience as a dance teacher, performer, scholar, and multimedia producer. You will also benefit greatly from my extensive knowledge of my own culture as a native Spaniard and my formal studies in earning a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Education & Spanish Culture from the State University of New York, along with my Master in Digital Media from New York University. 

I feel very accomplished in my career as I have fulfilled all my dreams and aspirations as a performer and teacher. Now my passion is to coach other dancers, so they can fulfill theirs, and to pass down the Feminine Flamenco tradition in danger of extinction that I so cherish.  If you want to give this training a chance, know that I will be lovingly dedicated to your success!

To recover and revive Feminine Flamenco dancing, I have researched and studied for decades under the Gitanas matriarchs grandmothers in my native Spain who are the keepers of the ancestral memory and still dance with no footwork as the female Flamenco dancers originally did.

I will share with you a wealth of foundational elements from our Lunaris Feminine Flamenco Technique™ including:

• Floreo (hand moves)
• Braceo (arm moves)
• Marcajes (marking the rhythm with your feet & body)
• Vueltas (turns)
• Contoneos (sways)
• Taconeos (light footwork)
• Andares & Paseos (traveling steps)
• Percusión Corporal (body percussion)
• Plus, over 20 awesome and genuinely traditional Flamenco Skirt Techniques.
  
  I like dancing barefoot, but you are welcome to wear dancing sandals, slippers, shoes, or whatever you prefer. Moreover, you can blend in your classes all the above elements and use them in your own Flamenco-inspired fusions and choreographies.
  
  I am here to pass down to you the feminine Flamenco traditional dance vocabulary so you can develop your own creativity!

From the moment you join the training, you gain weekly access to a multimedia course guide with a 12-week detailed lesson plan, so you can teach an exciting Feminine Flamenco traditional choreography or use it as a model to teach your own choreographies.

This guide will make it easy for you to retain your students and take them from beginners to intermediate students able to deliver an exciting performance. And, I will also show you how to teach this material to advanced students. In addition, you get blank lesson plan templates that you can use over and over to plan other classes.

Instead of teaching a traditional choreography, you also get the option of taking the elements of the Lunaris Feminine Flamenco Technique™ that you will be learning in this training to create your own vibrant Flamenco-inspired dance or fusion project (some of our alumni have combined Lunaris Feminine Flamenco Technique™ with healing, Yoga, Qigong or mindfulness) 

During this training you will acquire and practice:
1.    Effective Instruction Strategies based on the 3 main learning modalities of Neuro-Linguistic Programing
2.    Important Key Action Words for exciting and clear instruction
3.    Essential Descriptive Words to make your teaching soar to a whole new level
4.    Specific Prompts to clearly guide your students making progression easy
5.    Crucial Secrets of classroom management (including strategies to deal with difficult students)
6.    Notions of Classroom Organization for effective teaching with or without mirrors
7.    Clever Ways to Assess your student’s needs on the fly

In addition, I will coach you to develop an inspiring body language and a fascinating teacher’s presence so that your students love you, can’t get enough of you, and keep coming back for more!

"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul"
Isadora Duncan

It is vital that we get to know our precious bodies to enrich the way we teach our classes and to help our students develop body awareness.

In this module, we explore anatomy in a concise, juicy, easy, and fun way to promote proper alignment, mastery of space, empowering breathing, and prevention of injuries. Here are some topics we’ll explore:

• Relationship between the plains of space and the human body
• What is a joint? Types of Joints
• Relationship between bones, ligaments, tendons, and muscles
• T he value of fascia
• Important muscles every dancer needs to be aware of
• What about Gravity?

I have developed a proprietary rhythmic training method called Flamenco Rhythms Revealed™. With this method you can easily help your students assimilate the Flamenco rhythms and experience them in their bodies moving across the floor.

You will also get counted versions of the dance, structured into clear dance phrases for easy learning and progression. Plus, you get a music map done for you and the lyrics for the choreography song with the translation in English.

Improvisation is important in many dance forms. Certainly, it is so in Flamenco. In this module we go over important keys and cues to understand how to improvise in Flamenco, especially when dancing to live music.
To see a practical application of the concepts we’ll be exploring, watch me improvising to the live music of the ever-popular BeatboxGuitar with no previous rehearsal.

In this Professional Development Program you benefit not only from the riveting research I conducted while earning a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language & Culture from the State University of New York, but also you benefit immensely from my knowledge of my own culture as a native Spaniard,  so you feel confident that you know what you are talking about regarding Flamenco history & culture while coming across as an expert on the subject.

Some topics we’ll explore are:

1. A concise overview of what is Flamenco
2. The difference between traditional and theatrical Flamenco dance
3. The difference between dancing Flamenco with shoes or barefoot
4. The difference between Flamenco as a dance form and a music genre
5. The difference between feminine & masculine Flamenco dance styles
6. Flamenco Terminology with correct pronunciation/spelling in Spanish and translations in English
7. An introduction to Gitana culture in Spain and its relationship to Flamenco
8. Tangos Flamencos. What are they?
   

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   Here is an excerpt from one of our weekly Q&As. We discussed the difference between Zambra Mora, Feminine Flamenco, and Barefoot Flamenco.

The Lunaris Technique™: Self-Care,  includes conditioning exercises based on concepts of Sacred Geometry from ancient Mediterranean cultures and other ancient traditions such as Qi Qong & Yoga.

You can use this proven technique to extract what you need for balanced warm-ups and cool-downs in your  classes or your own self-care.

In this Training, we go live for five weeks. Every week, you receive fresh, exciting, and well-structured multimedia content (instructional videos, licensed music, lesson plans, handouts, worksheets, and more) which you can study at your own pace. You'll have lifetime access to the content without having to pay any additional fees!

While the training is live, we get together on a weekly basis for Q&As, coaching, and to practice teaching. (The perfect timing for this will be discussed to make it convenient for everybody, depending on participant’s time zones)

The time investment you can expect to make is between 3-6 hours/week. So it is really easy to fit this training with your current schedule and priorities. As I mentioned, you'll have lifetime access to the content without having to pay any additional fees! Isn't it great to have reference material at your fingertips just when you need it?

If you want to be Certified by Dances of the World Society, you have the option of passing a qualifying class. You also have the option to pursue an additional official international certification by the International Dance Council/UNESCO. You'll a whole year ti accomplish your certifications. Everyone else will receive a Diploma of Attendance upon completing the Training.

Become an Extraordinary Workshop Leader!

In this module, we will practice:
•    how to put together workshop proposals that are irresistible to organizers
•    how to write appealing workshop blurbs that help sell out your events
•    how to take portions of a dance and teach it at workshops in a way that makes you a memorable teacher
•    how to create instant rapport with your workshop attendees, even if you never met them before
•    how to command the attention and the respect of your participants
•    how to quickly assess the different levels and needs of your students
•    how to teach multi-level workshops
•    how to get wonderful testimonials and follow up with your students

In addition, I’ll share with you examples of workshop proposals that got me hired as a star teacher at famous festivals. I will also share examples of workshop descriptions and blurbs so enticing that we had to close registration ahead of time because the events sold out.

In this training, you’ll create often-ignored, yet crucial, materials to easily master marketing and develop a powerful personal brand even if you were confused, overwhelmed, or hated marketing for years.

You’ll discover empowering, proven, and easy to implement marketing tools that will help you find students, keep them, and consistently make money teaching dance.

You’ll receive assignments and worksheets to help you:

• Define Your Ideal Student Profile
• Find Your Unique Selling Proposition
• Make Competition Irrelevant
• Enhance Your Social Media Presence
• Develop a Fascinating Personal Brand
• Understand the Basics of Press Releases & Media Relations

Become part of a lovely international community of wonderful dancers & dance teachers like yourself! We inspire each other, encourage each other, share our dance journeys, and develop friendships.

You also get plenty of opportunities to practice teaching, so by the end of this training you feel absolutely confident to teach this dance style.

During this training, you are NOT alone in front of a computer. I am lovingly dedicated to your success as a dancer & dance teacher, so I host complimentary Office Hours/Group Coaching sessions, at no extra charge, to answer all your questions and give you the personal care and support you need.

The world can be a stressful place. Our time together is meant to be more than just a training. It is meant to be an Enrichment Program, an oasis where you can renew yourself, enjoy community, connect with your essence as a dance teacher, and contribute to a more pleasant world by passing down a dance style in danger of extinction filled with feminine charm!

I am always working on my own professional development. This year you can enjoy something very special!...

I took the course Metodología de la enseñanza del baile flamenco, (Flamenco Dance Teaching Methodology) with Concha Jareño & Andrés Peña, at the International Flamenco Festival in Jerez, and I will transmit to you the essence of what I learned!

•   Fully licensed music (10 tracks) for performing and teaching your classes
•   The Blueprint for Learning and Teaching Dance (this resource will give you tons of amazing ideas)
•   Lesson plans for further dance exploration including: hip-hop, modern dance history, and choreographic devices.
•   Annotated bibliographies and recommended articles
•   Resource Lists

Teaching a class or a workshop is actually public speaking. The 6 Pillars of Successful Presentations™ is my very own trade-marked methodology that I use to coach many top executives and successful entrepreneurs in New York City to develop their stage presence.

During this training, you too will benefit from these Successful Presentation Skills™ so you can be confident and develop a fascinating teaching presence that will keep your students coming back for more. This video summarizes what my Successful Presentation Skills™ methodology is about and the benefits you can receive from it

Yes! You can experience this training for a whole week, 100% Risk Free. If during that time, you don’t feel this program is for you, I will gladly refund your full tuition.

So you’ll have a whole 7 days to drive-test the course. If after giving it an honest try, you think this is not the training for you, I’ll happily refund you 100% of your money. Risk Free. Guaranteed.

✓ Lunaris Feminine Flamenco Technique™
✓ How to Teach Floreos (hand moves)
✓ How to Teach Braceos (armwork)
✓ How to Teach the passionate Flamenco turns
✓ How to Teach Marcajes (marking the rhythm with your feet and body)
✓ How to Teach Spanish Skirt Dance. Including over 20 distinct techniques rooted in authentic, traditional dance 
✓ How to Teach Feminine & Masculine Flamenco in a school setting
✓ How to implement a multimedia teaching unit with a 12 week detailed lesson plans that you can use for your classes
✓ Blank (reusable) lesson plan templates
✓ Successful Presentation Skills™
✓ Effective Teaching Methodology
✓ Progression and Skill-Building Made Easy
✓ Clever Student Assessment Strategies
✓ Classroom Management & Organization
✓ Anatomy of Movement in Plain English
✓ Improvisation
✓ Dance Composition
✓ Flamenco History & Culture
✓ Wonderful International Community!
✓ Interactive Group Coaching Sessions with Puela to Have All Your Questions Answered
✓ Guided Practice Teaching Sessions
✓ Suggestions for Class Attire, Costumes, and Staging
✓ Recommendations for Performances Opportunities
✓ Savvy Marketing Skills
✓ Fully licensed music (10 tracks) for performing and teaching your classes
✓ Lyrics with translation in English for the choreography song
✓ How to become a memorable workshop leader
✓ Counted and improvised versions of the dance
✓ Flamenco Rhythms Revealed™ (Rhythmic Training)
✓ The Lunaris Technique™ for Self-Care (Conditioning Exercises Based on Sacred Geometry)
✓ Additional Gitana Music from Legendary Flamenco Masters