When and where

In 5th of August  the group is open. After this the group is closed.

After trying out the participants decide for a semester: January - July or August - December (monthly fee). The group is continuous. Please pay by standing order.

In 5th of August  the group is open. After this the group is closed.

After trying out the participants decide for a semester: January - July or August - December (monthly fee). The group is continuous. Please pay by standing order.

In January  the group is open. Besides of these days the group is closed.

After trying out the participants decide for a semester: January - July or August - December (monthly fee). The group is continuous. Please pay by standing order.

An invitation into the world of afro-brasilian godnesses, a fascinating world of images, that is building our existence.

Diferent than in Christianity the Gods in Africa and Latinamerica are full of „human characteristics“.
They represent the forces of our soul. They are close to us and convey some wisdoms of life to us.

There is f. ex. the goddess of awakening, the goddess of fulfillment, the god of hunting, the god of war and the old god who forgives himself.
They represent forms of energy, archetypes and resources in daily life. All divinities dance; that means they represent a body feeling, which expresses itself in a dance. The divinities are  strong sources of energy, that anybody of us would like to mobilize in certain periods of life. It may be the force of the resource „Contact by conflict“ or the virtue of inaction“ or the „inner fire“.

In the connection with the qualities of these gods we experience the different possibilities to dance our life: we experience the way from lack to abundance, we find the key to our heart, we feel ourselves in transformation. In this weekend we will bring back to life some of these qulities, we dance them and that way we incorporate them.

The workshop is realized in a wonderful seminar-house in the middle of nature.

We all experience the circle of lthe year or certain phases and passages in our life, even if it is unconscious. In spring for example we often feel - like nature around us - in a state of awakening, we feel the growing intensity of the sun, more light brings us energy and more motivation to embark on new projects. Each of theese situations is a reason to celebrate, to honour and to come on very consciously. With this we change our perception, it makes more sense. We become satisfied. so, we can create ceremonies in the most diferent situations, as a celebration of a life phase.
Egal, ob sie privat oder beruflich relevant sind; sie alle haben sinnstiftende Bedeutung haben.

The ojective of this seminar is to emphasize the importance of ceremonies in our life: rituals of relationship, passage rituals or birth of something new.
My invitaiton is to experience the miracle of life with Biodanza and to feel the wisdom in it.

The seminar is a celebration of life at the end of the year

We all experience the circle of lthe year or certain phases and passages in our life, even if it is unconscious. In spring for example we often feel - like nature around us - in a state of awakening, we feel the growing intensity of the sun, more light brings us energy and more motivation to embark on new projects. Each of theese situations is a reason to celebrate, to honour and to come on very consciously. With this we change our perception, it makes more sense. We become satisfied. so, we can create ceremonies in the most diferent situations, as a celebration of a life phase.
Egal, ob sie privat oder beruflich relevant sind; sie alle haben sinnstiftende Bedeutung haben.

The ojective of this seminar is to emphasize the importance of ceremonies in our life: rituals of relationship, passage rituals or birth of something new.
My invitaiton is to experience the miracle of life with Biodanza and to feel the wisdom in it.

The seminar is a celebration of life at the end of the year.

Aqua-Biodanza is a soft and a touching form of Biodanza, which is realized in a small group in water with a temperature of about 35-36°C. Water is the element, in which we moved before our birth for nine months. In this state we will return with Biodanza very softly and experience moments of peace and serenity.

On Friday we'll begin to dance "on earth" and then on saturday we will aproximate softly to water and entrus ourselves gradually to its peculiarities. We will abandone ourselves to the element, let us flote and feel the adatablity of water, its power and the possbility to be without gravity.

Aqua-Biodanza raises the basic mood and possesses special anti-Stress-efects, then the somatic nervous system is reinforced, relax is being promoted and the function of the adrenal glands is affected positivly. Our entire skin is in contact with water, soft movements and touches from other persons in this element give us the feeling of well being and pleasure.

Aqua-Biodanza auses a process of "slowdown" of our rythm. With the support of a partner we can flow into prenatal time, in a soft trance, enter in contact with our origin and concect ourselves with our very own essence. This leads on organic level to regeneration of the cells, on psychological level to dissolution of motoric tensions, anxiety and to enlargement of the capacity of selfhealing. On existencial level Aqua-Biodanza leads to a global feeling of harmony with life and a sensation "to be newborn".

The number of participants is limited. Please bring swimming cloth, slippers and a big towel, and  a light lunch for the pause at noon.

he Minotaur, a mythical creature with a human body and the head of a bull, symbolises in Biodanza the wild, instinctive aspect that lives in us as a primal force.

He stands for our fears - he is, after all, a "scary" monster that we try to hide. But fears that we suppress manifest themselves in spite of everything. They "want" to be seen; only then is it possible to overcome them. We do this in wonderful rituals that uncover our original power.

This is how fear is transformed into courage.

The Minotaur Project represents a work of transformation in Biodanza. Its methodology allows a deep access to our identity and a more fulfilling life by overcoming inner blockages. Based on Greek mythology, Rolando Toro created a ritual path to ourselves: deep and powerful.

The labyrinth is an archetypal metaphor for our existence, whose various paths and curves symbolise the doubts and mysteries on our life's journey. The Minotaur is a creature of Greek myth with a human body and the head of a bull; in Biodanza it symbolises the wild, instinctive aspect that lives as a primal force within us. This Minotaur in us is deeply wounded by cultural influences. Our instinctive roots and power are trapped by cultural fears.

The aim of the Minotaur Project is to re-establish contact with this primal force, to free our inner Minotaur, to accept it and to appreciate its beauty and power. Our fear of this force shows itself in various fears in everyday life: fear of going through life, fear of being abandoned, fear of losing one's boundaries, fear of being cheated on, fear of death, etc.

Through individual rituals (challenges) we face our fears and experience their transformation into courage. The encounter with the crisis in our own lives leads to our existential liberation.

The Minotaur Project requires previous knowledge of Biodanza and is a deepening of one's own experience.

For the board and lodging we will help you to find some beautiful place.

The Minotaur, a mythical creature with a human body and the head of a bull, symbolises in Biodanza the wild, instinctive aspect that lives in us as a primal force.

He stands for our fears - he is, after all, a "scary" monster that we try to hide. But fears that we suppress manifest themselves in spite of everything. They "want" to be seen; only then is it possible to overcome them. We do this in wonderful rituals that uncover our original power.

This is how fear is transformed into courage.

The Minotaur Project represents a work of transformation in Biodanza. Its methodology allows a deep access to our identity and a more fulfilling life by overcoming inner blockages. Based on Greek mythology, Rolando Toro created a ritual path to ourselves: deep and powerful.

The labyrinth is an archetypal metaphor for our existence, whose various paths and curves symbolise the doubts and mysteries on our life's journey. The Minotaur is a creature of Greek myth with a human body and the head of a bull; in Biodanza it symbolises the wild, instinctive aspect that lives as a primal force within us. This Minotaur in us is deeply wounded by cultural influences. Our instinctive roots and power are trapped by cultural fears.

The aim of the Minotaur Project is to re-establish contact with this primal force, to free our inner Minotaur, to accept it and to appreciate its beauty and power. Our fear of this force shows itself in various fears in everyday life: fear of going through life, fear of being abandoned, fear of losing one's boundaries, fear of being cheated on, fear of death, etc.

Through individual rituals (challenges) we face our fears and experience their transformation into courage. The encounter with the crisis in our own lives leads to our existential liberation.

The Minotaur Project requires previous knowledge of Biodanza and is a deepening of one's own experience.

The workshop takes place in a beautiful, ecologically oriented conference house near Osnabrück; it is located directly in the forest, offers space for extended walks, peace and spoils with excellent vegetarian food. The rooms are equipped with several beds, only a few single rooms are available. Therefore, please mention it in your registration if it is important to you.

"The secret of renewal in life lies in its correspondence to the origin.
No organism can survive without the ability to renew itself.
This process is only possible through a form of going back and going forward again,
a kind of resonance with the primordial."
                                                                                                       (Rolando Toro)

Every birth is a miracle - a new life emerges and wants to unfold. At the same time, birth is a great challenge for parents and child. The newborn leaves the protective and warming environment of the womb and breathes independently for the first time. The parents are confronted with many new tasks in order to care for the baby in the best possible way. Each of us has experienced birth differently.

And this experience of birth has a formative effect on the rest of our lives and the way we deal with different situations. Traumatic situations immediately before, during or after birth can therefore have a stressful effect on our everyday life today. Unconsciously, the adult carries on the emotional wound of the child.

Through rituals of rebirth, we enter into resonance with the origin of the trauma and from there strike a new, self-chosen path: a path towards more freedom, optimism and joy of life.
In doing so, we initiate a paradigm shift in our lives. We gain a new perspective on ourselves and the world.  "Choosing life instead of nourishing death," says Rolando Toro, meaning replacing the constant mourning of the past with living now!

We all experience the circle of lthe year or certain phases and passages in our life, even if it is unconscious. In spring for example we often feel - like nature around us - in a state of awakening, we feel the growing intensity of the sun, more light brings us energy and more motivation to embark on new projects. Each of theese situations is a reason to celebrate, to honour and to come on very consciously. With this we change our perception, it makes more sense. We become satisfied. so, we can create ceremonies in the most diferent situations, as a celebration of a life phase.
Egal, ob sie privat oder beruflich relevant sind; sie alle haben sinnstiftende Bedeutung haben.

The ojective of this seminar is to emphasize the importance of ceremonies in our life: rituals of relationship, passage rituals or birth of something new.
My invitaiton is to experience the miracle of life with Biodanza and to feel the wisdom in it.

The seminar is a celebration of life at the end of the year

We all experience the circle of lthe year or certain phases and passages in our life, even if it is unconscious. In spring for example we often feel - like nature around us - in a state of awakening, we feel the growing intensity of the sun, more light brings us energy and more motivation to embark on new projects. Each of theese situations is a reason to celebrate, to honour and to come on very consciously. With this we change our perception, it makes more sense. We become satisfied. so, we can create ceremonies in the most diferent situations, as a celebration of a life phase.
Egal, ob sie privat oder beruflich relevant sind; sie alle haben sinnstiftende Bedeutung haben.

The ojective of this seminar is to emphasize the importance of ceremonies in our life: rituals of relationship, passage rituals or birth of something new.
My invitaiton is to experience the miracle of life with Biodanza and to feel the wisdom in it.

The seminar is a celebration of life at the end of the year.

Biodanza in a beautiful environment in the style of a small family.

Often we are in conference centres and have to pay relatively high costs. This time I would like to propose a trip with Biodanza where we cater for ourselves and organise the day together. It is possible to go to the beach or doze by the pool, read or go hiking. What unites us all are the Biodanza sessions and having breakfast and dinner together.

The week will allow us to totally relax, to dance lively or loosely, to find ourselves again and to experience ourselves in all our intensity. Being in harmony with yourself, with others and with the universe - that's what we all want. These holidays offer you the opportunity to set a starting point for this and possibly live with more self-care and contentment afterwards...

The house is fantastic, has 6 rooms and four bathrooms, several places to eat and relax indoors and outdoors, a pool with sunbeds, a large space outside for dancing, and the beach is also very close (4 minutes by car). The cost of the accommodation is 270 euros per person per week. We share the cost of food and any travelling expenses.
Here we can get the feeling that we are in control of our own lives: Connection with the essentials, enjoyment and joie de vivre.

We can also organise our own transport to and from the destination or fly (Faro airport).

Das Haus

Life is a mystery. The rational mind cannot fathom it. Many philosophers have tried, but they have all failed at some point. They tried to use their minds to approach things that are beyond reason. The mind is a marvellous tool and very useful for many things, but it cannot grasp the big things. However, there is another way to approach the meaning of life and that is to STUN. Life becomes beautiful when you see it as a miracle every day. When was the last time we marvelled at something? Marvelled with heart and feeling and a great inner joy?

When the heart rejoices, our own vibration immediately rises, joy in existence arises and at the same time we help the earth to transform into light. Life is basically a game and that is why we should remember that we are children. As a child, we had a tremendous desire to learn, to discover and to marvel at what we discovered, no matter how small and insignificant it was to adults. As a child, we were open to new experiences every day and as a result, new miracles kept happening in our lives. When did we lose this childlike trust in the kindness of the universe? Is it because of our expectations of how things should be or our fear of letting go and trusting the universe? Where is our joy of adventure? We have traded it in for security - and that is not the best way to live.

We should be open to everything new again and live from the now. We can only be amazed in the present moment and miracles happen suddenly without warning. Mindfulness is absolutely necessary, because it is all too easy to overlook the signs and coincidences. Those who are intent on distraction will hardly be able to recognise anything of the mystery of life. If all our desires are for material goals, we should know that these will one day be fulfilled and boredom will set in. Then we only perceive the familiar, the everyday, live either in the past or the future and one day ask ourselves the question: "Is that all there is to it?

If we focus instead on beauty, love and the wonders we are always surrounded by, these will grow.  Nature can be a great help to us, because it is full of surprises, greatness and beauty. If we look closely and focus on it, it gives us strength in the form of energy and love for everything that exists. Marvellous sunrises and sunsets, forests, the sea ..... Sylt is an ideal environment to go on a journey of discovery and experience this mystery. Our conference centre is in Wennigstedt, right on the beach; there are plenty of double rooms and a few single rooms. We have a large group room and also dance outside near the house and on the beach. Come with us on this Biodanza holiday!

One element of nature, the earth, is also our planet. The scientist James Lovelock called the earth Gaia, a term from Greek mythology for the earth goddess.He was able to prove that Gaia has the characteristics of a living being: she has a metabolism. She creates it and keeps it stable.

The shamans call the earth ‘Pachamama’, Mother Earth, and honour her.
Earth connects us to our roots, to our immediate physical being in this world.

This workshop is an invitation to go deeper into contact with the earth, through drum rhythms, through contact with nature and with the material clay (earth).
Clay is mouldable earth, the primordial raw material of life. Working with clay connects us with our unconscious and allows our fingers to create shapes
to create shapes that we have not planned: Shapes of our inner self. Clay is soft and pliable and reacts to the slightest movement.
Touching the clay sometimes feels like touching our own origins.

A weekend in contact with our original essence in dance with nature and the element earth - before we move on to the information for the instruction of this work, we will make many of our own experiences with clay. Please also bring a swimsuit/bikini/swimsuit.

An extraordinary seminar that invites Biodanza teachers to experience ecstasy and at the same time qualifies them to realise it with participants.

Ecstasy includes the feeling of being intensely alive, which does not happen often in our lives. It is a vivencia of beautification, enchantment, deep joy and happiness that can be associated with various human experiences: the mystical path, sexuality, dance, poetry, music, contact with nature, artistic and scientific creation, travel, the emotional community of deep bonds such as from a mother to her son and including close friendship.

The spiritual passion of Christian mystics such as St. Teresa of Jesus or St. John of the Cross does not seem so far removed from the worldly orgasms of lovers.
The legend of Eros and Psyche also addresses this duality. Eros is love and Psyche is the soul; feeling and thinking, two paths that are necessary and mutually beneficial. When they are separated, we can have satisfying but limited experiences: limited pleasures, dull thoughts; united, integrated, they can lead us to ecstasy.

Once upon a time there was a king who had three daughters. He had successfully married off two of them, but not Psyche, the third, because she was beautiful and no one decided to conquer her. The adoration that her beauty inspired reached the ears of Aphrodite, and aroused her jealousy and envy: how could a mortal be as admired as she? The worried king decided to consult the oracle. Aphrodite convinced Apollo that he would allow her to answer the question. In this way, she informed Psyche's father that his daughter was to marry a monster. Aphrodite followed through with her plan and sent her son Eros to shoot an arrow at Psyche when she saw the terrible beast passing by.
From there on, the myth took on different forms: In some, Eros remained petrified at the sight of the beautiful mortals, as if he had been hit by his own arrow, while in others he was actually accidentally hit by his arrow. In any case, Eros fell in love with Psyche and, fearing his mother's wrath, he decided to hide this love. So he asked the god of the wind to take the sleeping Psyche to his palace. There she awoke, surrounded by handmaidens and guards who told her that her lord would return at nightfall. He came when it was already dark and stood before her, telling her that he was her husband and that although he was not a monster, she could not see him, but that she must accept him and entrust herself to him. She accepted and they lived happily ever after, unaware that her husband was a god, let alone that it was Eros in person.
When Psyche's sisters heard about her success, they decided to visit her. She told them the story of their romance and showered them with gifts, explaining her husband's absence by saying that he was a travelling salesman. Months later, her sisters came to visit again, and she forgot her earlier explanation and told them that her husband was a teacher who gave lectures and therefore could not be introduced to them. The nuns began to suspect something. Out of envy and concern, they told her that the only reason she was not allowed to meet him was because he was the monster the oracle had chosen for her. They advised her to take care of him and to check who her husband was. That night, when Eros slept beside her, Psyche lit an oil lamp, contrary to their agreement, and found that her husband was the most beautiful man imaginable. Without meaning to, a drop of oil from the lamp fell on Eros' shoulder and woke him up. There he told her who he was: the god of love. At the same time, he told her that he would have to leave her forever because she had broken his oath.
Psyche decided to win Eros' love back at all costs and decided to go to Aphrodite, who could not refuse to give them an opportunity because she knew that Eros loved her intensely. She resolved the dilemma by demanding that Psyche fulfil three tests that she considered impossible for a mortal to complete. However, all the elements, humans and animals, worked together with the girl, who was touched by their love, and helped her to pass the tests demanded by Aphrodite.
When they were finally free to love each other, Eros and Psyche married and soon had a daughter, who was named Ecstasy.
What does it mean that Ecstasy is a woman? Because as soon as she was born, the other ecstasies or their ovules - sons, were already inside her. With the arrival of the first experience of ecstasy, we already have the path to the following ones, because they are in the first in potency.
It is obvious that Psyche's passion for Eros meant a sacrifice to overcome the obstacles imposed by her stepmother Aphrodite. Sacrifice: sacred office, the path of the religious. How paradoxical this is!

From paradox to paradox, we return to Dionysus, the symbol of ‘profane’ ecstasy par excellence, of unbridled passion, drunkenness, orgy. How could his habits lead us to a sacred place, what ecstasy do they speak to us of?

Ecstasy is a state of expanded consciousness. It is not reserved for a few people. It is based on the experience of wholeness and access to the wonderful, drawing on our ability to transcend our identity, our ego, and connect with something greater. The connection with everything is a feeling of happiness that we can only achieve with difficulty in a world where everything happens so fast and where there are hardly any moments of peace and quiet. So this weekend, we are giving ourselves space for a deep connection to ourselves and to everything that surrounds us in nature.
In Biodanza, we can rediscover slightly altered states of consciousness and the richness of each moment, which reveals a sensitive world to us in which the ordinary is extraordinary and evokes wonder and inner freedom.
An investigation into several characteristics:
• Access to the experience of eternity
• A deep sense of belonging to creation
• Enhanced perceptions (numbers, sounds, colours, senses)
• Unconditional love for all that exists
• A sense of freedom and inner expansion
• Increased ease and physical pleasure
• An enlightenment that fluctuates between ecstasy and devotion
 

Through dance and encounters, we drink more and more from the source of life. This path, nourished by music and embedded in a time of here and now, allows us to make the immeasurable accessible.

Our surroundings are a beautiful conference centre in the middle of forests and meadows in Lower Saxony, near Osnabrück, which fits in with the theme of the workshop.

Clay is mouldable earth, the primordial raw material of life.

Working with clay connects us with our unconscious and allows our fingers to create shapes that we have not planned: Shapes of our inner self. Clay is soft and pliable and responds to the slightest movement. Touching clay sometimes feels like touching our own origins.

This weekend will focus on tips and information for leading "Biodanza with clay" workshops. The element is regressive in itself. And so there are a number of important criteria for Biodanza teachers. Please bring a swimsuit/bikini/swimsuit again.

This training qualifies Biodanza teachers to lead the workshop "The Identity and the Four Elements", a special workshop of balancing life energies. Identity and the Four Elements is based on the power of transformation through experiencing and enables participants to restore their balance in life through an individual dance.
The training includes learning the basics of reading the movement to recognise the suppressed element, choosing music and a dance for each participant. The training has a duration of two modules. A prerequisite is the participation in an experience weekend of Biodanza and the four elements.

This first module is primarily about experiencing the different qualities of the elements and the musical semantics.

The aims of this module are:
Awakening the passion of fire and enthusiasm for life.
To awaken security, self-esteem and purposefulness
To discover imagination, creativity and inspiration
Strengthen the ability to adapt, be flexible and flow
Experiencing vitality
Enabling affective expression
Connecting with one's own potential for life and health
Encouraging group integration
Developing skills for life
Developing the ability to communicate and relate
Creating a space for reflection and learning
Celebrating one's own identity

The 2nd module will take place from 8-10.11.24.

This training qualifies Biodanza teachers to facilitate the workshop "The Identity and the Four Elements", a special workshop of balancing life energies. Identity and the Four Elements is based on the power of transformation through experience and enables participants to restore their balance in life through an individual dance.
The training includes learning the basics of reading the movement to recognise the suppressed element, choosing music and a dance for each participant. The training has a duration of two modules. The prerequisite is the participation in an experience weekend of Biodanza and the four elements.

This second module is about reading movements and choosing appropriate music and dances.

The aims of this module are:
Expand knowledge of music
Gain knowledge of the different variations of each element
To recognise the difficulty of a dancer's movements.
To be able to choose between different dances and pieces of music.
Learning to make diagnoses
Learning to build a workshop with rituals
Learning the different elements and their qualities