PADI Underwater Dance Instructor Course

🌊 Become a PADI Underwater Dance Instructor (UDI) with DiveArts Academy! 🌊

Become a certified instructor and teach the PADI Underwater Dance Specialty course to aspiring underwater dancers. This program covers teaching methodology, student assessment, safety management, and course delivery standards.

As a PADI Underwater Dance Instructor (UDI), you will teach the PADI Underwater Dance and the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance courses.

This course contains in-person classroom sessions, pool sessions and open water sessions (optional), where you learn to effectively teach all the skills of the PADI Underwater Dance Program.

Requirements

• Hold active teaching status as PADI Mermaid Instructor or PADI Freediver Instructor
• Complete PADI Underwater Dance Specialty course at student level
• Demonstrate competency in all 18 core underwater dance techniques
• Pass instructor-level knowledge assessment and practical teaching evaluation

What’s Included?

• PADI Instructor Guide
• PADI Underwater Dance Instructor Application Fee
• PADI Underwater Dance Instructor Exams
• PADI Underwater Dance e-card
• DiveArts Academy Certificate
• Pool ticket (included towel and drink, pool fee)
• Open water session (included transportation, safety diver, and FnB) - Optional
• Photoshoot: Professional headshot, Land mermaid portraits, Underwater Dancer
• One Cinematic vertical video (reels)
• Documentation
• Equipment rental
• Graduation Ceremony
• Merch from Brand Partners

Itinerary

Day 1 - Studio / Class Session (PADI Theory)
Class 1 (Presentation from MIT): Course Orientation - Learning and Instruction - PADI Underwater Dance Program Overview - Safety and Risk Management - MIT presentation theory of Underwater Dance / Advanced Underwater Dance

Day 2 - Studio / Class Session (PADI Studio)
Class 2: Teaching Plan discussion and PPT presentation Underwater Dance / Advanced Underwater Dance by candidate. Teaching Presentation by MIT with all teaching skill
Studio 1 (Presentation from MIT): Body Stretching and Warm Up - Apnea Warm Up - Additional dance skill at Studio

Day 3 - Pool Session (PADI Pool)
Studio 2 (Mock Teaching from MI Candidate): Body Stretching and Warm Up - Apnea Warm Up - Additional Dance skill
Workshop 1: Basic Water Skill - Workshop 2: Underwater Dance Skill - Workshop 3: Rescue and Assistance - Workshop 4: Teaching Presentation 1

Day 4 - Open Water Session (PADI OW)
Workshop 5: Open water teaching training - Photoshoot: Headshot & Land Dancer portraits - Discussion: Business Plan

Packages

• Zero to Hero UDI: For those who do not have any PADI underwater dance certificate, but are already a PADI Mermaid/Freedive Instructor. This package includes PADI Underwater Dance and PADI Advanced Underwater Dance.
• Crossover: Crossover program for those who are already underwater dance instructors with another diving agency.

📍 Courses are available in Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia. We have a schedule for the Underwater Dance Instructor Course every month, but we can also tailor the schedule for you!

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