CONNECTING

“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…”

_Abraham Joshua Heschel

Biodanza is about connecting to life. This connection can be understood in many ways, yet at its deepest level it is a connection to life itself—cosmic life. Through this connection we not only come to appreciate LIFE, but connect and honour our own individual journeys within it.

Existentially, we can dance into states that transcend our ego boundaries to enter states of transcendence where we can sense a fusion or unity with the totality. In many traditions, the shamanic pathway to this experience is often through connection to nature. In our dances we are surrounded by nature in the form of the other dancers. Connecting with others in the dance is not only fun and pleasurable but also opens the doorways beyond separation, where we can experience our oneness, or in other words, our unity of life.

To be able to dip into these beautiful experiences we need to be fully present. Dance brings us into the present where we not only connect with others but more importantly we connect more deeply with ourselves. We dance ourselves into presence by connecting to the physical movement, inhabiting our bodies, and through feelings we open our hearts. From the depths of our internal world dance forms bridges that allow the internal and external worlds to connect in seamless wonder and awe.

_Christos Daskalakos

FLOW

Πάντα ρεῖ - “Everything flows.”

_Heraclitus

Dance teaches us to flow. Whether we are moving with intense rhythm or slowly with lyrical music, there is a current moving us forward. Dance is a unified experience, it is an unfolding of movements or stillness that commences with the first sound and continues uninterrupted through elaboration and exploration that finds its own completion.

We learn to adapt to space and time in the presence of others. Dance is about responding, not resisting but allowing the body to learn to navigate obstacles by yielding to find new pathways through movement. This flow becomes an embodied practice of trust as dance unfolds as a lived experience. Listening to the body is the key to creating this trust. We know in our body that the dance will emerge and expand not only into space but internally too as it touches the soul.

In Biodanza flow is less of a metaphor and more a biological and existential function. Through dance it restores our natural capacity to move with life. Movement dissolves the rigidity and armouring of a protecting body. Within this freedom of the dance we learn that life is not something to resist and overcome, but a flowing that we learn to dance with.

_Christos Daskalakos

What now?

“Life is a matter of choices, 

and every choice you make makes you.”

_John C Maxwell

In many cultures, including the San peoples, life is understood as unfolding across two coexisting realms. The “First Order” is a mythical dimension of fluidity and transformation, while the “Second Order” is the material world of form and structure. In Biodanza, this same pulsation is lived through dances that anchor us in presence alongside those that gently dissolve our limits and open us to transcendence.

This transcendence is not an escape into another world, but an expansion of identity to include broader and deeper meaning. Through dance, we move beyond the ordinary not because we leave the body, but because the body itself becomes a bridge between dimensions. Dance is not merely physical exercise. It is one of humanity’s oldest technologies for accessing the cosmic and the sacred through lived experience.

Within this fluid space, the body improvises, explores, and generates possibilities. As our perception becomes interdimensional, our capacity to meet life’s challenges expands beyond the limits of the material world and the thinking mind and into the wisdom of embodied knowing. In life, we never have to wonder, “What if?” because when we dance we have already created, explored, and know the answer.

_Christos Daskalakos

DANCE - Framing Life

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy,

a quickening that is translated through you into action.”

— Martha Graham

Just as we frame our dance in space, so we frame life through movement. Just as an artist meets the boundaries of a canvas, so too do we dance through time and space giving expression to life. Yet life itself is not bound and flows through it all. Dance like a painting, like all art reflects the infinity and mystery of life and when we totally surrender to our dance, so do we touch this cosmic flow.

Each Biodanza vivencia unfolds within a clear structure of time, music, and encounter, creating a safe container for movement to arise organically. Here this no performance, this is real. Dance becomes the direct expression of our life force, bypassing analysis and returning us to an embodied truth.

Dance does not imitate life, it is a movement towards remembering as we participate in its ongoing creation. We reconnect and reframe life, freeing it from the illusion of boundaries and limitations. Our individual movements and gestures open up into a larger flow of existence we call the “Biocentric Principle”. In these spaces we reframe our own lives creating a context far greater and more magnificent than anything we can imagine. This is true freedom.

_Christos Daskalakos