As a part of my healing journey, at one
point i participated in several biodanza workshops and classes.
Biodanza is a kind of therapy and also a dance style. It was created
and developed by a psychotherapist and anthropologist from Chile
called Rolando Toro. He was working with people who had learning
difficulties who could not communicate with others, then he
discovered that when he was playing certain kinds of music they start
to move and connect with others through dancing. From then on he
started to refine and develop biodanza and discovered that it also
helps ordinary people to get more connected with themselves and
others. It seems disconnection from ourselves, from others and from
the nature that surrounds us is the main illness of the modern
humanity.
Anyway i tried biodanza for the first
time in a community called Osho Leela in UK in 2006 or so. It was a
really beautiful and touching experience. When i grew up at my home
we were not very emotionally expressive and we rarely hugged or
touched. In biodanza hugging and gentle physical contact is a big
part of the healing. So for the first time people were hugging and
touching me i started to cry, to let out all my rarely expressed
emotions. From that moment on for the next 3 years i started to go to
more classes and more workshops. In 2008 i went with a few friends to
a biodanza congress in Italy where we were around 1500 people in
total. It was great! Rolando Toro himself was there so i have met the
man. He died on February 16:th 2010. For many years i have not gone to
biodanza classes but if the opportunity presents itself i will go
again :)
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