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