VisVita 2.0

“Do not feel lonely; the entire universe is inside you.”

_RUMI

Another aspect of VisVita (Vis = force + Vita – Life) is that life also has a metaphysical aspect. Life force beyond its physical manifestation is consciousness itself, and dance becomes one of the few languages capable of meeting this directly. I have long loved the idea, born out of personal trance state experiences, that each living body is an explosion of consciousness – not separate entities but concentrations of energy given form through movement.

This aligns with Carlos Castaneda’s image drawn from Toltec tradition of the human being, as a luminous cocoon (described in The Eagle's Gift), and refers to luminous egg-shaped energy fields. In dance our attention shifts away from the body as merely an object moving around in space to our bodies as vibrating, responsive, and permeable fields of experience. Pure Vivencia, in Biodanza.

In Biodanza this experience is encouraged and explored intentionally. Rolando Toro Araneda, creator of Biodanza refers to this as experiencing “The Eternal Human Being.” This experience manifests through intense dances in which we experience the vital force of life as something beyond ourselves. A force of life that is cosmic, endless and timeless, where boundaries dissolve and we can experience ourselves as a wave on the sea of consciousness.

_Christos Daskalakos

VisVita

“Movement is the song of the body.”

_Vanda Scarvelli

VisVita comes from two Latin roots: “vis” = force, power, strength—and “vita” = life. Together they speak to life as an irrepressible force. Even when suppressed, this life-impulse finds a way to express itself. Sometimes it emerges as beauty, sometimes in distorted forms when we’ve held back. This primordial movement inside us is not just a metaphor but an actual force in the body that continuously seeks expression through movement.

Francisco Varela’s enactive approach reminds us that mind “emerges” through movement, engagement, and interaction with the world. We literally think by moving. In this sense, every impulse to movement is part of how we co-create reality. When we place ourselves in positive eco-factors like Biodanza, we step into conditions that amplify this creative force. The physical and the cognitive come together, bridging action and meaning, instinct and imagination.

Dance then becomes a dynamic process of integration. Through the movement we weave together mind, body, and heart, allowing experiences to integrate and reorganise us from within. New meaning arises through the subtle intelligence of the lived sensation we call “vivencia” in Biodanza. Each session is a renewal and a reshaping of identity through presence and feeling in our dances. This is why the name VisVita felt right for both the group and the centre. It is an acknowledgment of the living force that animates us and to the way dance helps us remember our connection to that force again.

_Christos Daskalakos

dance...EMBODIED LIFE

“Dance is like dreaming with your feet.”

_Constanze Mozart

Biodanza delivers opportunities which is different from the conventional sense of chasing goals. When we dance we reconnect with a pulsating life that reveals itself the moment we return to ourselves. Through the dance we enter this field which is already alive with possibilities. Our moving bodies soften the rigidity of thought that arises from expectations formed through habitual behaviours.

Dancing opens a more fluid and responsive way that allows intuition and feeling to arise from a deeper place. Guidance is not directed from the mind but rather an embodied sensation that quietly seeds movement, awareness, and new pathways. We simply have to be willing to be open to feel into that which we desire and through the dance gently become that which we desire. This is not an external intervention of life but a deeply rooted flow that emerges from our deepest and most authentic centre.

Dance therefore allows us to embody that which we desire. Nobody gives us joy for example, but if we are truly present and willing we dance ourselves into the “field” until we become joy. The collapse of subject-object mirrors the dance where creator and created, dancer and dance, merge into one. This way we embody and integrate that which we seek so that it is less transient and more rooted, even as ironically the dance itself fades.

_Christos Daskalakos