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About the Facilitator:
Cristiano is a Biodanza (Rolando Toro System) Facilitator, certified by the Biodanza SRT School of Portugal and also a Didactic of the same System. He is part of the teaching staff at the Institute of Applied Psychology in the postgraduate course "Human Development and Therapy through Expressive Arts" and also collaborates with the Portuguese School of Biodanza in the accompaniment and supervision of students and new teachers.
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In the last few years he has dedicated himself to the creation of diverse signature workshops such as: "Roots in the Earth, Roots in Heaven"; "Chaos, Creativity and the Return of the Sacred"; "The Birth of the Cosmic Man"; "Under the Sign of Affection"; "Surrender to Love"; "Sacred Warrior"; "Ecstatic Lover"; "Mystic Magician"; "The King the Queen"; "Equinox and Solstice Celebrations" in Nature. Regular Didact In Berlin and Portugal; Also with agenda in Spain (Gran Canaria, Seville, Merida), France (Toulouse and Nantes), Montreal (Canada).
Born in 1979 in Freiburg im Braisgau, Germany, finally settled down in Oporto, Portugal. After graduating in clinical psycho-pedagogy, Cristiano was trained in Gestalt therapy; these tools permitted him to work during some years in the field of behavioural deviations. Simultaneously, he attended different theatrical and dance workshops.
Cristiano is one of the teaching staff at the Institute of Applied Psychology in the postgraduate course "Human Development and Therapy through Expressive Arts" and also collaborates with the Portuguese School of Biodanza through supervision of students and new teachers.
School:
Cristiano Martins Combines In His Teaching:
- Biodanza (Rolando Toro System)
- Tantra and work with sexuality
- Psychology
Biodanza (Rolando Toro System)
Biodanza is a human integration system of organic renewal of affective re- education, and of re-learning of the life original functions. Its application consists in leading vivencias (vitality, sexuality, creativity, affectivity and transcendence potentials) through music, singing, movements and group encounter situations. Biodanza integration process is carried out through the stimulation of primordial functions connected to life that allows every single person to be integrated with himself, with species and universe.
Biodanza was created in the 1960s by the Chilean anthropologist and psychologist Rolando Toro, the Biodanza system is now found in 54 countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Chile, France, Norway, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Uruguay, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Colombia, Venezuela, and Belgium. Biodanza encompasses a central Foundation, a set of schools, thousands of teachers, operating as individual businesses trained to the model who are linked by a non-profit Federation to which they pay annual dues, engaging with hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dancers around the world.
Workshops:
1. ECSTATIC FIRE
Fire alludes to the original spark that animates all beings. If we could look properly to our story, we would see that we are sons and daughters of massive combustion of a giant star. Carl Jung speaks of this original fire, as the dynamic core of psychic centre. It represents our vital energy, our motivation to live, the capacity of expansion and irradiation, our passion for life, our magnetism and our erotic frenzy. Chinese masters defined fire with what clings (grabs). Without support the fire goes out, is consumed, fire burns through any physical or psychic firewood that serves as food.
It “Shines in paradise and burns in hell” as Gaston Bachelar describe it.
With this workshop my invitation is to be able to ignite this fire that lives in the depths of our inner mountain, wake up this creator fire, transforming fire. If at some point we have to die, may it be because we live so intensely!!!!
We are going to explore:
- Irradiation
- Projection
- Enthusiasm
- Potency
- Magnetism
- Grip
- Fusion
2. THE SERPENT – ANCIENT ARCHETYPES ENERGY
One of the oldest animals. Primordial indivisible “thing” that never ceases to unravel, disappear, be reborn. Its present in all ancestral cultures, of prehistoric origin and with shamanic influences.
"Where is a serpent, a god precedes it" says Klaus Wentz.
A snake is an animalized root. Like the root it enters the interior of the earth, representing our darkest, lowest, chthonic world most primordial much. Dancing the snake itself generates contact with potent psychic energies. In same path of Tantrism we have the snake representing the Kundalini that coils at the base of the spine, ascends through successive chakras, rising the libido and renewing life.
We want to invoke the qualities:
- Seduction
- Fascination
- Magnetism
- Attractiveness
- Sinuosity
- Eroticism
- Visceral Depth
3. SACRED WARRIOR (FOR MEN)
"Being a warrior does not require perfection or invulnerability. He is the absolute vulnerability. That's the only real courage."
It is part of human universals, seen in all cultures throughout the flow of the time. In the search for truth, meaning and human potential, each society metamorphosed this strength to their specific needs. Many of the Great Civilizations have it in its traditions and symbolic narratives. It exists in Shamanic traditions of American Indians, Incas and Mayans in monastic warriors orders from China in the Celtic tradition of the “Knights of the Round Table” and the medieval Templar Order. In Greek mythology we find the gods Ares and Athena, and his Roman equivalent Mars and Minerva, in the Old Testament are stories of the warrior for God. From the ancient Sparta we ear the legendary stories that tell us about the bravery of Leonidas and his 300 warriors. From Japan comes the familiar concept of the Samurai, people trained from an early age to follow the Bushido, the way of the warrior.
Waking the Warrior Path means taking our own personal power in our hands, claim the sacred heritage of being able to accomplish the Identity, it’s the courage to Be.
4. THE ART OF TOUCH
The skin is what binds us and what separates us from the world. Everything that exists has a purpose integrated into the great wise plan of life. The skin is part of that mystical plan! If we have sensitive skin and not feathers or scales, it is because our sensitivity is part of Life's intelligence. Listen! The skin clearly tells me how you feel, how you live, how you love and how you are loved.
We want to Promote:
- Understanding that Touch is a Bridge for Ecstasy
- Create the path from contact to caress
- Learn how to give and receive feedback
- Understand the physiology of touch and caress
- Affective equalization between giving and receiving
- Reveal myself in the space of intimacy
- Ability to put limits on what is toxic
- Create Nutritional Bonds
EVENING RITUAL:
Biodanza - The Ritual of Human Encounter
In this minutes concentred outside of the chronological time, I’m going to invite you to make a simple journey that starts with strip tease of your ego and allow our individual identity to melt in the same unique Fountain of Life were we all sprout from!!!
What is Biodanza?
Biodanza is a dance of heart and freedom straight from South America, which was created in the 1960s. His father is a psychologist, anthropologist, poet and artist Rolando Toro from Chile. As a method of personal development, Biodanza is used in over 30 countries around the world. It is based on personal, direct experience - individually, in pairs, subgroups or a group of all participants. During the class, it uses music, movement and dance to create harmony and closeness in interpersonal relationships.
Biodanza is a deeply transforming, and at the same time delicate work on personal development and awareness based on body work, movement and dance. It integrates body, mind, emotions and soul. It awakens vitality, creativity, sensuality, sexuality and emotionality. It teaches openness, joy, building good relationships and expressing emotions.
Biodanza led by Cristiano Martins is a great dance journey that travels through landscapes of emotion, joy, dance and movement. It's easy. You do not have to learn any dance steps. All you need to do is to move your body and enter into a relationship with music. We start straight - meet, connect with other people in the group, use games to relax, let things go and get to know each other. We move deeply into the dance, passionately devoting ourselves to music, experiencing it individually and as a group. From this place we go deeper into exercises that combine meetings and connections with others to heal, discover and express oneself.