Transformation and growth

The system of Biodanza, founded by the psychologist and anthropologist Rolando Toro, is an effective instrument for the transformation of people looking for quality of life. The practice of Biodanza changes the outlook on life, relationships with ourselves and with others, whether at home or at work.

With the practice of Biodanza your potential can be rediscovered and developed in situations of encounter and movement to music. The modules are specific exercises to music that encourage expression of feelings. These three elements (music, movement, expression) comprise the experience of the 'Vivencia'. Have alook on this TV presentation:.

Biodanza strengthens the ability to experience, strengthens the desire to live and to stay alive. Biodanza is the reconciliation with life, the pure act of life in dance.

Identity in Biodanza

The development of identity is a lifelong process that forms on the basis of genetic potential, with which we come into the world, and manifests itself in a total of five expression lines (Toro). These are:

• Vitality, physical fitness and toughness;
• Sexuality, the feeling of sensuality and pleasure;
• Affectivity, the feelings in relationships and encounters with other people;
• Creativity, natural curiosity and the desire for change and design, and
• Transcendence, the relationship with nature and the universe.

The expression and the development of identity is on the one hand destined by our first experiences in childhood, but also influenced favorably or unfavorably by other co-factors. Ideally, the trend is towards increased integration.

According to Toro, the development of identity is not linear but occurs in the form of a pulse between two different states of being healthy, the so-called regression and the increased awareness of oneself. Regression is a state of relaxation and dissolution of individuality in a larger whole, such as in a trance or when being asleep. Regression has a healing and regenerative function for our body. In the waking state, however, in activity when we feel our body in all its intensity, we have a heightened awareness of ourselves.

Better quality of life

Biodanza works particularly on an existential level. Experiences can change our lives forever and lead us to a healthier lifestyle.

Our life plan with the questions: Where will I live? With whom will I live? What tasks will I meet in my life? can be redesigned and a new quality can be given to our lives: to live life in all its facets, enjoy health, achieve your dreams, be happy.

Some of the basic building blocks of Biodanza:

Organic homeostasis

Presence and dissolved relaxation are the two poles of human experience, their interaction is essential for our health.
At the level of the autonomic nervous system, the sympathetic nerve activates the nervous system in the waking state of the organism: the heart rate increases, the breathing is short (release of adrenaline), blood is supplied to the muscles, the glands function decreases (dry mouth), open pupils, etc. A state of serenity, on the other hand, stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system the other complementary organs: improved glandular function (bright eyes), increased salivation (mouth watering), decreased heart rate, increased gastrointestinal activity (digestion), increased bladder activity, etc.

This interaction sustains our health. Stress symptoms and psychosomatic diseases occur, however, if we live onesided, as it is often the case in our modern societies. Biodanza supported by its structure in a session the autoregulatory mechanisms of the body and acts in this way, preventive and therapeutic, not just organic, but also on a psychological level.

The experience (Vivencia)

To experience a very intense moment (Vivencia) leaves a feeling of vitality, of integration. And that is exactly what is going on neurologically and immunologically in our bodies when we feel this way. The limbic-hypothalamic adaptive system, a region of our brain stem that determines our emotional, sexual and regressive behavior and regulated together with the organs within the organic equilibrium. It is activated by Biodanza, so we feel well on a conscious level, harmony and well-being.

The music

Music is the hue of life. It affects us very directly, and moves us inwardly. This inward motion (emotion), we express in a body movement (dance): such as in the gentle movement of the breath, the powerful expression of our own strength or in the delicacy of an encounter. Thoughts (activity of the cerebral cortex) move to the background.

The group

Biodanza in a group is an essential part of the work. It represents the protected environment for the expression of identity, the venture to show itself in a climate of acceptance and warmth. Only in the encounter with others we become aware of ourselves, the other is our "mirror".

Eros, the basis of life

Eros, the love for all living, is the basis of life. Rolando Toro proved that love works against biological degeneration processes.
Tenderness is beneficial: it reduces tension, relieves pain, promotes healing processes, stimulates the metabolism, and increases self-esteem. In Biodanza, human encounter and contact are the ways of transformation and healing. They awake the poetry of life in us.