When it comes to dancing, people think about ballroom or putting on ballet shoes or doing choreographed steps in jazz. It's hard for us to think of dance that goes beyond aesthetic standards, and even more unlikely to envision a system of dance designed specifically to induce existential modifications in life.

Well, that's precisely the innovative proposal of Rolando Toro Araneda with the Biodanza system which is relatively new in the USA but spreading organically.

To create this system, Rolando Toro, a Chilean teacher,

anthropologist and psychologist, researched ways to humanize medicine and to create system health advocates (facilitators) beginning in the 60's.

Through his anthropological studies he noted that dance had always been used since ancient times as a tool of communication and commitment and expresses deep emotional human meaning.

A vehicle that generates communication and unites group members, establishes rites of passage and celebrations, dance can evoke and translate many dimensions of deep and revealing humanity.

This is the greatest invitation of Biodanza : the dance as movement full of meaning with integrated movement.

Integration means that mobility, perception, affectivity and
behavior are part of a single whole. Integration…to do, say and feel the same action,thought, feeling and not to say one thing, but do another, etc.  The simple act of achieving integrative consistency is healing in itself and the possibility of acting with faithfulness to your own feelings can lead to profound and magical changes in your life. The idea is that this consistency can incorporate and expand many possibilities in our existence.

This consistency is gradually achieved with the process of regular Biodanza classes every week.

The primary purpose of Biodanza is, thus, to generate integration:

Existential Level: integration between feeling, thinking and acting, seeking consistency and spontaneity in everyday actions.

Physiological level: integration between body parts and creating homeostasis in the body by dissolving tensions, creating regular rhythms, integrating one’s emotions. Biodanza classes address a respect for the body, dissolving stress and aiding you to shed poor physiological functioning generated by a hectic lifestyle.

Existential Level: integration between the individual and the group, rescuing the possibility of creating affective bonds, carefully dissolving competitive and defensive patterns of communication.

Biodanza does not mean simply to dance, but rather to let your movement express its truth.

This movement is what leads to experience. Experience means being in touch with everything that's happening in this moment here and now: How I feel, what I think and how I act. This contact with the present time gives you the possibility to become aware of your own needs and desires. This is a seemingly simple process, but often lost within our educational standards and the rhythms that are imposed by our hectic urban lifestyle and cultural dictates.

Biodanza is an extremely broad system and difficult to explain in a few lines, but to recap, we propose that through dance, listening to your body and feeling your feelings, you can generate real integration: feel what you feel, communicating authentically with others, moving in existence to meet your needs while respecting the cycles of life.

Only your body and your movement can connect to its own depth.
No doctor, guru or confidant can do this for you.

Biodanza uses the sacred body along with music, movement and heartfelt emotion to shift towards integration and a fuller expression of our uniqueness.

The actual experience of a class of Biodanza is the best way to understand its life changing effects.

Join us in Maryland for the dance of life!

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Getting out on the Biodanza dance floor connects you immediately to LIFE from the first song. 

The rhythm is beating like a heart.

Other shiny humans are present.

You are breathing in the air of first-time excitement or the knowing of the bliss to come.

Connecting to the sacredness of you and of life weekly in the Biodanza space creates movement in the universe that only the collective unconscious can feel. 

We Biodanceros become more emboldened to speak up for life, defend it and fight against the injustice that prevails with each dance we make. 

Feeling like you can't do that just yet?

Join us in Maryland every Thursday evening at 7:30pm and let the magic of you begin.

www.biodanzausa.com