CENTER HERE AND NOW / WORKSHOPS / October 2023 / 20.10.23 - 22.10.23

„We Can Only Learn To Love By Loving” Rumi

Biodanza means Dance of Life. It is a dance of heart and freedom from South America. It's a system that integrates music and movement; it also makes possible to establish an authentic relationship with yourself, with other people and with the environment. Biodanza creates experiences of intense awareness of being alive in the here-and-now.

Celebrating life is a goal of Biodanza. It stimulates community bounds and makes establishing relationships easier, as well as helps participants regain joy and vitality to celebrate the sacredness of life. It makes a way to feel happy, healthy and more confident, with strengthened self-esteem, also improving the ability to make choices.

Erich Fromm was saying that the first step to take in this experiential journey is to know that love is an art, just as life in all its splendour is an art, if we want to learn how to love, we need to do what we do when we want to learn any other art, such as music or sculpture. Affectivity in one of the most humanity's essential natural functions. Its rated in our deep history as humans. With the realization of this workshop, we intend to awaken these dormant potential or to celebrate and expand it if it is are already integrated in our identity.

“Change your heart to change the world.” Shams Tabrizi

We can frame “affectivity” a state of deep affinity toward other beings, capable of originating feelings of love, friendship, altruism, maternity, paternity, and companionship. However, opposing feelings such as anger, jealousy, insecurity, and envy can also be considered components of the complex phenomenon of affectivity.

The indicators of affectivity are:

• Capacity to empathically identify with people; that is to say, to feel the one as a part of oneself
• Capacity to experience tenderness for others
• Capacity to express and communicate sincerely
• Capacity to give and receive affection
• Capacity to struggle for the well being of others
• Capacity of self-donation
• Capacity to listen to others
• Capacity to value and qualify others
• Capacity to be linked with the members of the human species

Learning Outcomes & Objectives:

• Ability to Express an communicate sincerely
• Develop que quality of empathy
• Capacity to give and receive affection
• Capacity of self-donation and self-validation
• Capacity to value and qualify others
• Empower the identity
• Develop Ability to set limits to what its toxic (relationships, work, etc), learn to say “no”
• Mature our knowledge about the Instinct, emotion and Feelings

Biodanza represents the primordial energy pattern of deep connection and freedom of expression, beauty, enthusiasm and passion. It lives through the original thirst that our species has of health, love, pleasure and well-being. It is translated by the impulse to dive deep into the world of sensations. It is guided by the compass that lives in our heart, connecting us with the need and the desire to give and receive love. It teaches us to recognize that love is an art, just as life.” (Cristiano Martins)

Life as the most Sacred of manifestations constantly asks us to reborn and become whole in a complete lovingness at every moment of our lives. The first step to take in this experiential Journey is to recognize that love is an art. In the same sense in which life in entire its splendor is an art. If we want to learn how to love, we should do the same things we do when we want to learn any other form of art, such as music or sculpture.

Biodanza is a delicate but deeply transforming work on consciousness which awakens for universal solidarity, based on working with the body, body movement and dancing.

• Integrates body, mind, emotions and soul.
• Arouses vitality, creativity, sensuality and emotionality.
• Teaches openness, joy, building good relationships and expressing emotions.

Feeling the connection with your body, emotions and energy, makes the transformation occur. These experiences are called "vivencias". They allow access to our primal emotions and help with the most natural expression of true self to emerge through movement.

Biodanza also strengthens the "lineas de vivencia", which are lines of vitality within five specific areas: vitality, sexuality, creativity, affection and transcendence.

Biodanza is based on psychological and philosophical research, dance anthropology and traditional rituals. One of the teachers explains the origin of the word "biodanza" from the Greek bios meaning life, and from the Spanish danza which means dance. Workshop is based on personal, direct experience - individually, in pairs, subgroups or in a group of all participants. There is music, movement and dance to enable the creation of harmony and closeness in interpersonal relations.

Rolando Toro Biodanza System is a method that works on every human being’s potential.

It reveals various possibilities and forms of expression to us. It is based on the positive resources of each of us, according to the author's method - the creator of the system, prof. Rolando Toro. Her father is a psychologist, anthropologist, poet and artist from Chile. And since the 1960s, system itself has been distributed in over 30 countries around the world as a method of personal development.

„A man doesn’t live to dance, but dances to live happier”

Biodanza draws our attention into building relationships and bonds between people through eye contact. An eye contact is considered as the fundamental base of a beautiful and meaningful communication without words. This also helps to open the heart, transform person's needs and desires and to be ready for new experiences.

No dance experience or preparation is necessary to start practicing Biodanza and experience its benefits. The dance is done barefoot.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY (October 20^th)

• 8 PM – 10.00 PM BIODANZA

SATURDAY  (October 21^st):

• 10 AM – 2 PM BIODANZA
• 2 PM – 4 PM Lunch break & rest
• 4 PM – 7 PM BIODANZA

SUNDAY  (October 22^nd):

• 10 AM – 1 PM BIODANZA
• 1 PM – 3 PM Lunch break & rest
• 3 PM – 6 PM BIODANZA

Thank you for the opportunity to use beautiful photos from: Agnieszka Cytacka and Magdalena Mogielnicka.

WORKSHOP HELD IN ENGLISH AND TRANSLATED INTO POLISH!

WORKSHOP TRANSLATED INTO POLISH!

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