Biodanza

“The aim of Biodanza is to awaken the cosmic force of Love.” –Rolando Toro Araneda, creator of Biodanza (translated to English)

Biodanza, The Dance of Life, welcomes All, no dance or prior experience required, just your humanity!

Come if you are curious about together returning to our natural instincts of wonder, care and aliveness, and enjoying the deep medicinal power of music! We will meet in circle for a short time, and then begin our movement. At times the movement will be vitalizing, and at times relaxing, and you are always encouraged to take care of your own needs.

Biodanza is a unique somatic practice, enjoyed in more than 50 countries around the world, that combines music, movement, and encounter in a way specifically designed to bring ease and coherence to our nervous system, and allow our natural rhythms to connect ourselves with our own heart, with one another, and the Universe. Each person is integral to our circle. We will dance, and so much more.

Biodanza invites us into fully lived positive experiences of natural self-expression and personal and group harmony. This practice tends to be deep, fun, relaxing and enlivening! You are invited to join and create this magic with us within a welcoming and nourishing container.

What is it Actually?

It was birthed in the 1960s by Chilean anthropologist, psychologist, and poet Rolando Toro Araneda, and has evolved and spread throughout the world. It is a system of human evolution steeped in Biocentric philosophy, and born out of political chaos and the belief of love as an act of revolution. Rolando believed love is an organizing force within each of us that transcends the individual, and restoring the reconnection with this biological capacity for fully expressed vitality and affectivity has immeasurable positive impact. From broad and deep research on music, biology, human physiology, anthropology, archetypal gestures, and human movement, he created a comprehensive theoretical model and a precise methodology to induce experiences aimed at integration and reconnection with our natural biological life functions and genetic potential.

If you’re curious to learn more, here are two short introductions from our Rhode Island school:

https://youtu.be/2WgcRTBzfMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4lZP-h6qQ

What it is for me

This beautiful practice is at once profound, simple, and deeply healing. It sneaks up on you. It has permanently changed me, and reopened my heart in the most natural way, at the perfect pace- like sun gently melting the snow, or the pace of an unfurling sunset. I have fallen in love with how it frees me to fall in love with every human, including myself. This is a powerful facilitated practice of being with your own and others aliveness through gentle guided experience. – Jonna