About Biodanza

Biodanza is the dance of life - 'bios' means 'life' and 'danza' means 'dance'. Biodanza is a unique system of Human integration and growth stimulated by music, rhythm and emotions.. The participant is guided through five lines of 'Vivencia' - the passionate experience of being alive here and now in the intensity of each moment.

What is the background of Biodanza?

The Biodanza system was created in the 1960's by Rolando Toro Araneda, a lecturer in Psychology and Medical Anthropology at the University of Santiago , Chili.


What are the five lines of 'Vivencia 'in Biodanza?

  1. Vitality: to feel our energy, our impulse to face the world
  2. Sexuality: to feel desire and pleasure from our sensuality
  3. Creativity : to be creative in every day of our lives
  4. Affectivity: to feel tenderness and respect for Universal Life
  5. Transcendence: to go beyond our own ego to reach higher levels of integration within Humanity, Nature and Universe.

What do we do in the Biodanza Workshop?

The Biodanza workshop is directed by a teacher and is practised in mixed groups. Each participant works on three levels of communication in the dance: with oneself, with another person and with the group.

What is the effect of Biodanza?

"The courage and desire to live increase. The affective relationships with relatives, partners, friends and others improve. The access to love and sexuality becomes easier. The capacity to be creative increases. More energy becomes available for action at work and study. One feels freer and more harmonious with oneself, and the quality of life improves '
-Rolando Toro Araneda

Rolando Toro's Proposal
The crisis of our times seems a crisis in our way of perceiving, a crisis in our sensitivity.

Town dwellers in particular find themselves submerged under obligations and duties. They have to give in to an altered time dimension, due to acceleration: always more things to do, more tasks, which make them run against the clock.

Stress, the invisible enemy, is part of our life and takes so many names such as tiredness, irritation, anxiety, insomnia, depression etc. etc.

What quality of life can we have with such a doing mode, so fast and frenetic, so far removed from an authentic feeling mode? What quality can life have, without contact with the natural, organics rhythms?

What happened to our sensitivity that tells us when we need rest or more agility in our movements, when we need warmth and human contact?

We end up favouring intellectual knowledge and rationality, and lose our link with the heart of things and living beings.

The interest of Biodanza consists in inverting tendencies, as it seeks to give priority back to our corporal experience and sensitivity.

We can dance our own life in its uniqueness, in harmony with the others and with our environment. We can experience a vivencia of ourselves, living in the moment, dancing a harmonious relationship between nature. We can also abandon our self to the listening of our own perceptions and emotions.

Eating and sleeping, having money and a house are not our only needs, we also need friendship, love, joy and to be able to express and communicate.

What corresponds to our needs is what nurtures us: all those things that touch our heart and generate our gestures.

Biodanza - Rolando Toro System - produces natural gestures that enable us to recover our movement and the most sincere expression of our very selves.