CENTER HERE AND NOW / WORKSHOPS / December 2023 / 01.12.23 - 03.12.23

 “Love is in essence an emotion of eternity The feeling of unity recovered The awareness that we have always been eternal” Maria Flavia Monsaraz

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.

Transcendence is the perception of oneself as part and expression of the whole, it implies a transposition of the borders of the self, the ability to surrender and at the same time being totally anchored in our own centre. It is an invitation to open up to a greater totality, including your fellow humans, the unconscious reality and the entire universe in all it ́s subtle expressions, known and unknown. In Biodanza, connection to the transcendent is the body experiential perception that the divinity is not separated from the individualized being, but the two express themselves in a relationship of continuity. Transcendence is a “natural function to establish essential connections with everything that exists: other human beings, animals, plants and minerals - in short, with the cosmic whole.” R. Toro

“A decisive question for the human being is this: Do you have the Infinite as a reference?”

C.G. Jung

Ancient traditions found different words to describe this phenomenon Hinduism tells us about the experience of Samadhi, Buddhism brought the concept of Nirvana, the Zen describes in detail the experience of the Satori. The modern world founded on science presents us with the “ultimate experience”, the “transpersonal experience”, the “cosmic experience”. All expressions that try to come close to an ineffable conception, which can only be touched through an experiential dive.

Reference authors for this creation: Pierre Weil | Leonardo Boff | Carl Gustav Jung | Maria Flavia Monsaraz | Mircea Eliade | Rolando Toro | Joseph Campbell and Other's

Transcendence in Biodanza is a natural human function to establish essential connections with everything that exists: other human beings, animals, plants and minerals - in short, with a cosmic whole.

The word "transcend" means to cross the line. We often talk about moving to a new level of reality, e.g. after death.

In Biodanza, the concept of transcendence refers to overcoming the power of the ego and going beyond our perception of ourselves in order to identify with the unity of nature and the essence of man. People who cannot abandon self-awareness are unable to enter into transcendent experience.

The word "trans" comes from the term "transir", meaning transit, moving from one state to another. Its most common meaning is a change in the state of consciousness.

The trance induced during the Biodanza exercises and ceremonies is integrative. States of fear disappear and the doors of perception begin to open. Coming out of the integration trance can be compared to "rebirth". Trans in Biodanza enables the process of "re-education".

The experiences of "falling into a trance", "entering a trance" refer to a psychophysiological mechanism in which a person submits to certain external or internal conditions in order to enter a different state of consciosness.

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 splendour 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 (December 1^st)

• 8 PM – 10.00 PM BIODANZA

SATURDAY  (December 2^nd):

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

SUNDAY  (December 3^rd):

• 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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