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DTP Institute

The DTP Institute is involved in research, development, training, implementation, and support of evidence-based dance fitness programs. Our mission is to increase autonomy, body-trust, and self-advocacy for girls and women at critical points in their life span. We are registered as a 501-c-3 non-profit charitable institute in the U.S. implementing global access to culturally sensitive programs for a diverse population of girls and women.

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The Institute’s first project has been establishing the training and certification curriculum for pre/postnatal dance-movement instructors that is offered by our Global Trainers. Persons interested in becoming instructors or facility sponsors of culturally-sensitive programs in their global region can learn about this process here.

The Global Trainer team has embarked on two additional areas of program research, development, training, and implementation: Menarche/adolescence and Peri/post-menopause. Once training and certification in these areas are completed, the logo dtp5 will be fully realized, providing creative physical, mental, and emotional education to enhance enhance reproductive freedom in the five P critical life stages: 1) puberty and adolescence, 2) pregnancy and/or young adult fertility decisions, 3) postpartum, 4) perimenopause, and 5) post-menopause.

Both research and evidence-based practices show that dance produces body-trust, support, and community through social bonding, mental acuity, and well-being, as well as improved health outcomes and self-advocacy throughout the life-span. As the importance of the arts in mental and physical health continues to be recognized, the impact of dance grows in value.

Girls, women, and people AFAB deserve better education about how our bodies work, fun and safe activities, cultural grounding, and psycho-social support. Whatever point that we become girls and women, and whether or not we choose or are able to have children, our reproductive life cycle strongly determines the rhythm and quality of our lives. Accurate knowledge of our anatomy, its physics and physiology, hormonal drifts, assets and liabilities have yet to be established. Thus, we undertake this project: the DTP Institute.