Biodanza is a system of affective integration, organic renovation and a re-education in original life functions, based on vivencias (intense experiences in the here and now) created through movement, dance, and encounter situations within a group. Biodanza has therapeutic elements but is not a therapy. The Biodanza System was created in the 1960's by Rolando Toro Araneda. Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία) or treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. ... Rolando Toro Araneda is a Chilean anthropologist and psychologist. ...
Biodanza is not a course, but to benefit fully, a weekly class begins a process of gradual opening of the body, and release of physical and emotional tensions.
Each Biodanza class is a process, an entity on its own, a series of simple exercises designed to bring each person fully into life by working with oneself, with another and with the group.
He is also a member of the Rolando Toro School of Biodanza in the U.K. Biodanza was introduced to the U.K. by my teacher, Patricia Martello, an amazing pioneer from Argentina, who now has schools in London, Paris, and Holland, alongside her husband Marcello who has a school in Belgium.