History
Biodanza was created by Rolando Toro Araneda, a Chilean anthropologist and clinical psychologist, in 1976. Also well known throughout South America as a painter and poet, he supervised the Biodanza world movement as this system extends to all continents. Rolando was nominated in 2001 for the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to humanity. Rolando “walked his talk”, dancing and travelling the world until he passed away, early 2010, at 85 years old.
Catherine Borgeaud
Accredited by the International Biodanza Association IBF, I have taught Biodanza in Switzerland and France. Living in this beautiful Australia I have the pleasure to present the first Biodanza weekly classes and regular workshops.
- Biodanza® facilitator and Biodanza Training Schools instructor
- Voice Dialogue® practitioner
- Diploma in Business Management
More about Biodanza
Biodanza is a heartfelt approach to personal empowerment through the authentic self expression. Biodanza was born from the Rolando’s desire to live in a peaceful world. Based on anthropological studies of dance, life-celebrating rituals, and human instincts, Biodanza is a scientifically proven method which has evolved over the last 40 years as a system to develop human potentials.
Biodanza helps to relax and release the effects of stress. Work tensions, emotional difficulties, family challenges, economic pressure, and a life with little existential meaning affect our mood, our immune system, the whole organism.
These needs include:
- Expressing ourselves through a healthy being. Having a good vitality with an appropriate balance between energetic and relaxing times.
- Enjoying the touch of an intimate relationship. Taking time to welcome each others with tenderness and open heart. Embracing, caressing, loving, and feeling nurtured by the intense beauty of this relationship. Supporting each other, expanding and blossoming together.
- Expressing ourselves in a creative way in our today life. Being imaginative and practical. Cultivating hobbies and passions.
- Being empathetic. Communicating our emotions and feelings with respect and tenderness for ourselves and others. Sharing affection and joy with the loved ones. Welcoming the unknown, socialising, and discovering others’ particularity and richness.
- Fulfilling our need for transcendence. Feeling totally divine, whatever it’s means for everyone. Feeling integrated to the cosmos, to the earth, united with the nature and all beings. Living every moment of the existence at its full intensity.
Biodanza offers a large range of exercises and dances to explore and accomplish our wonderful potential.
The development of these potentials occurs through the “vivencias”. The Spanish word vivencia means a moment lived intensely, which confers to our emotion the existential quality of what is being lived in the “here and now”.
This word refers to a psychological-physical state of full integration to oneself, to the others, in relation to the surrounding environment. For example, when we jump, stimulated by happy dynamic music, we are experiencing a vivencia of vitality, whereas when our movements are slow, merging from a soft music, we are living a vivencia of tenderness and affection.