SEEDs Teacher Training

June 7th-11th, 2024 Register now!

The SEEDs (Self-esteem, Empowerment and Education through Dance) Teacher Training is a life-changing intensive certification program for dancers who want to bring change to their communities.

In five full days you'll learn how to create and run your own Pomegranate SEEDs® program, as well as work through topics such as; class structure, business models (profit vs. non-profit), sourcing mentors and presenters from the community and even running a dance studio, managing a dance company, contracts and much, much more!

The SEEDs Teacher Training is set up to create a micro experience of the program itself, offering a platform for self-discovery, evaluation and goal setting guaranteed to inspire any instructor to their professional course!

What you’ll receive

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    25 + Hours of dance and discussion

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    A 150-page print and digital teacher manual - a step by step guide to running your own SEEDs program

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    5 Instructional videos from Myra Krien

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    Dance Studio Tips and Tricks

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    Access to the SEEDs Teacher Training Facebook group where instructors all over the world are engaged in this work and meet for discussion, inspiration, and motivation

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    An official certification from Pomegranate Studios to teach the Pomegranate SEEDs® progam.

Price for five days of intensive training is $850. *Payment plans are available*

Meet your instructor

Myra Krien

Myra Krien is a renowned dance artist, professional dance mentor, international performer, choreographer, and teacher of bellydance. Krien founded the Pomegranate SEEDs® (Self-Esteem, Empowerment and Education through Dance) Youth Mentorship Program in 2000 in response to the needs of youth in her community. With the extraordinary success of this program, Krien began the SEEDs Teacher Training, to train dance instructors both nationally and internationally, how to offer this powerful programming to their communities. To date, 125 SEEDs instructors have been certified, and there are 38 SEEDs programs up and running throughout the United States and Mexico.

  • I left the SEEDS Training program in June, 2012 with lots of information and insights, not only on how to run a SEEDs program, but fantastic advice on everything from fundraising to business and valuing our time and talent as artists. The group of nine women from around the country bonded quickly and shared lots of creative ideas. I came away with a lot of inspiration and plans for my version of the SEEDs program. It is great to be part of a national alliance of people who love dance and want to help their communities through dance.

    - Tamalyn Dallal, Lynnwood, WA, SEEDs Teacher Training Graduate, 2012

  • Myra Krien is da bomb, she is a wealth of information and a true Renaissance woman. I’m in awe of her mastery of multiple styles and have renewed inspiration for bellydance and its transformative powers.

    - Kaeshi Chai, Woodside, NY, SEEDs Teacher Training Graduate, 2012

  • Myra has demonstrated to me that she doesn’t just talk, she walks the talk … She practices what she preaches and earns incredible credibility in the process. As a natural skeptic she won me over as an authentic leader who is as self introspective as she is not afraid to be vulnerable in explaining her own growth through leading this program … making it very real for me in the process and not sugar coating reality of leading such a cause. She is graceful, passionate and goal focused … inspiring.

    - Liezel Lane – Atlanta, GA, SEEDs Teacher Training Graduate, 2011

  • The training was way, WAY more then I expected it to be. It was 5 days of support and mentorship on so many levels. Myra told us in the first hour that she had unzipped herself and totally opened herself up to us for ANY questions for the 5 days of the training. It ended up being like a condensed mini- SEEDs program for us, the trainees. It was very emotionally, enlightening, and incredibly fun.

    Cecilia Rinn – Boise, ID, SEEDs Teacher Training Graduate 2011 & 2021

Have questions?

Contact us: 505.501.2142 - pomegranatesfnm@yahoo.com