dancing towards WHOLENESS

“To dance and to drum is to be alive in the deepest way.

May we walk forward pulsing in wholeness.”

_Malidoma Patrice Somé

To dance is to awaken the primal pulse of life through music and movement. Through rhythm, we remember what it means to be truly alive - rooted, vibrant, and present. Each gesture becomes an invitation to return to ourselves, to come home to wholeness.

The journey to wholeness inspires us to live fully and move in harmony with our essence. As we show up in profound presence through our bodies, we evoke the innocence and unconditional love that flows from an open heart.

To be present - with ourselves, with another, emotionally, physically, and soulfully - is the invitation of Biodanza. Sometimes boldly, sometimes gently, we answer the call of the dance. In this shared aliveness, we discover again and again our place in the great circle of life.

_Christos Daskalakos

BODY WISDOM

“Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. 

Trust the body’s wisdom.”

_Dane Millman

Our bodies are amazing complex ecosystems—self-organising, intuitive, and deeply intelligent. Without needing our instruction, they breathe, balance, digest, and repair. Beneath the surface of our awareness, a beautiful somatic wisdom pulses, moving us toward life, protection, and wholeness.

When we dance, especially in free and spontaneous ways, we tap into this somatic knowing. Movement becomes a language of the unconscious—guiding us not just to express, but to listen. At times our dance is filled with exuberance and motion – and at times a subtle shift into slowness or even a pause. Our practice as dancers is to listen to both the shouts and the whispers.

In a world so often governed by thought, dance invites us to listen, to feel, and more importantly to allow. In these spaces our dances arise not out of logic but from the grace of embodied experience. Trust your body—it remembers what your mind forgets.

_Christos Daskalakos

DANCE: flow...slow...glow

“And the trees dance in the wind

- not because it looks good for us

- but because they are alive."

_Rolando Toro Araneda

The quality of our movements has a direct impact on the existential dimension of our dance. For example, to be fluid means involving the whole body in sensitive, gliding movements that evoke a subtle tactile connection with the air around us. Slowing down—decelerating movement—leads to organic harmonisation. In this slowing, we awaken not only a deep interiority—a connection with the sensations and feelings emanating from our body—but also a sense of cosmic integration that opens the way to a vivencia of ecstasy.

When we are connected to our fluidity, rigidity dissolves, allowing us to access feelings of flexibility and resilience. Through these dances, we learn how to conserve our resources and energies, engaging with life not as a battle of resistance but as a flowing encounter. To give way is a profound strength, and fluidity offers pathways to move around life’s obstacles without losing vitality, passion, or determination.

Fluidity is a quality of the element of water, which alchemically represents dissolution. Psychologically, the dances of fluidity help us find the power to resolve emotions and feelings that would best dissolve—creating a solution, both literally and metaphorically.

_Christos Daskalakos

DANCING THE INVISIBLE

“The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit.

It turns the body to liquid steel. It makes it vibrate like a guitar.

The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice.

The dance is strong magic: The dance is life.”

— Pearl Primus

There is a realm just under the skin of our dancing body where the pulse of life hums invisible yet powerful. When we let go, softening the edges, we find that our inner kinaesthetic sense leads us intuitively to a different type of knowing. It’s not thought that guides us but the deeper whispers of the dance.

The mystery of dance is that it moves both externally in form, and internally with feeling. Each gesture, each movement, is both an expression and a listening. One melts into the other when we are deeply present and connected with ourselves.

These dances are delicate, quiet, yet fiercely alive. Through the dance we awaken our inner seer, the one who knows without knowing, who speaks the language of sensation and silence. In that quiet space between movement and sensation we learn to trust the unseen – to trust life.

_Christos Daskalakos