Workshops:
Workshop:
- Love, Sexuality & Erotism
- Dancing the Archetypes of Love
- The Art of Touching
- Human, this Wild & Sweet Creature
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. Love, Sexuality & Erotism
"Set your life on fire
Seek those who fan your flames. "
Rumi
Sexuality represents the primordial energy pattern of power, beauty enthusiasm and passion. It lives through the original thirst that our species has of pleasure and well-being. Its translated by the impulse to delve deep into the world of sensations. It is guided by the compass that lives in our heart connecting us with the need/desire to give and receive love. So the first step is the recognize that love is an art, just as life is an art, if we want to learn how to love, we have to do what we would do if we wanted to learn music or painting. Erotism its a transgression of sexuality, it does with sexuality what the poetry does with words...
2. Dancing the Archetypes of Love
The archetypes are our fundamental realities, Carl Jung who first identified them called them "dna of the human soul" they represent the foundations that underlie our psychic health and are our drive towards a full enjoyable life. In this workshop I’m going to propose that we can dance some of them, having as a reference the Greek Mithology, Dionysus and Aphrodite will be our guests of honor.
3. The Art of Touching
“Love and humanity begin with touch…"Everything has a purpose in this great cosmic plan. Skin is part of this plan. We speak about the skin but the skin also speaks, my skin speaks, it says clearly, how I feel, how I live, eat, sleep and make love. According to its rigidity, thickness, elasticity, marks and scars it tells my story and the story of my relationships. Skin has needs. Skin has limits...
It is not touch that makes the experience nutritious, but how to touch, the quality of contact. Caress is born of the willingness to offer and the desire to receive. It is born of the quality of an encounter, of the desire to put my tenderness, my passion.
4. Human, this Wild & Sweet Creature
“No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed” Clarissa Pincola Estes
we can only be human to the same extension that we recognize our animal nature. Sexuality results from a deep commitment to life. Far beyond our Personal history, Sexuality and Pleasure were the Great invention in the service of evolution. I propose that we can explore this ancient dimension and from there make a path to Sensitiveness.
May the Savage and the Sensitive inhabit each one of us with maximum power and the most beautiful of harmonies.