OŚRODEK TU I TERAZ / WARSZTATY / December 2024 / 06.12.24 - 08.12.24

“Love is born on earth, In the sky it blooms”

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.

Biodanza is based on psychological, philosophical and anthropological research on dance, as well as traditional rituals of celebrating life. It stimulates social bonds, awakens awareness of universal solidarity, helps participants regain joy and vitality and celebrate the sanctity of life. Dance experience is not required.

We are root beings, anchored to the dark of the earth, from where we drink the sap to be able to Live. We are also cup beings, open to the fire of the sun, sensitive to the sweet winds, and to the crystalline rains, verticals towards infinity, surfing in a horizontal chronological time.

We are made and always to be made. Root and flower, belonging to the same tree! It is the possibility of our existence to fulfil ourselves as Synthesis-beings, points of balance capable of integrating Transcendence and Immanence, opening to infinity and enjoying a (extra)ordinary life. Poetry and prose embraced in a single movement!

We are “condemned to transcendence” as Sanclair Lemos proposes, we are free in creating opportunities that invoke the overcoming of limits. Knowing-beings experimenting individualized unity, a wave of the unique movement of Life, in which we are immersed and that we are the pure expression simultaneously.

Perhaps one of the most abysmal desires of the Human is to live his transcendent nature, to accept in his heart and fully inhabit the need to go beyond Himself, to merge, without losing individuality. The identity that is individual and unique is known to be unified!

The major intention with this workshop is to be able to create a healthy bridge between the earthly world and the transcendent world, to know how to embrace the sensorial material depths and to know how to embrace the infinite depths of this endless Life.

Inspirations for this Work:

Alexander Lowen | Pierre Weil | Leonardo Boff | Sainclair Lemos |

Mircea Eliade | Paramahansa YogaNandha | Joseph Campbell |

Pierre Weil | Carl Jung | James Hillman

SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY (6^th December):

• 8 PM – 10 PM BIODANZA

SATURDAY  (7^th December):

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

SUNDAY  (8^th December):

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

Dancing is barefoot. No dance experience is necessary. You can start Biodanza anytime and enjoy benefits from its practise!

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

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.

Biodanza is a delicate but deeply transforming work on consciousness, 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.

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.

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 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)

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.

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.

WORKSHOP HELD IN ENGLISH & TRANSLATED INTO POLISH

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