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Hello,
I've done both Hadia's Teacher Training workshops, as well as her Oriental Dance System DVDs, and both are extremely helpful in terms of understanding body mechanics and injury prevention. Ideally, a combination of working with both the Teacher Training and the DVDs is recommended, however if you can only do one, then I would wholeheartedly recommend that as well.
Hadia spends a lot (A LOT!) of the teacher training workshop illustrating how to effectively do warm-ups that don't cause injury, as well as correct ways to do movements and stretches as well. I loved this workshop because you come out of it feeling like everything you've learned before has completely been revised...it's amazing the amount of unsafe practices that dancers do. So pretty much, if you can take her workshop, go for it! It's the ultimate in teaching you about body mechanics and injury prevention.
Also, you may want to work with anatomy books, mainly anatomy of movement books, which are also very helpful if you sit down and dedicate yourself to learning about what's happening. I found one once at my university library; it might have been called "Anatomy of Movement" and it looked very helpful. Anatomy colouring books are also useful (Hadia uses these during her workshops). Hope that helps!
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