when life dances through us

“Life calls the tune, we dance.”

_John Galsworthy

When we shift our engagement with life away from a philosophical perspective to a deeply experiential one, we encounter the Biocentric Principle, a beautiful and pivotal aspect of Biodanza. Through our dances we move away from ideas and imaginings that life is something “contained” within us, as if we were merely vessels, to a recognition that we ARE life itself in expression.

This experience can be both disorientating and liberating at the same time. If I am not “doing” the dance, then who am I? Through the dance we answer this question beyond the cognitive instead we engage with it as a lived experience. Through this lived experience that we call the “Vivencia” we are not objects that accompany music. We are music in motion flowing as space and time, not in space and time.

In these moments when we “lose” ourselves in the dance, identity becomes porous. Where there are rigid edges we soften into something more fluid and relational. When we stop experiencing ourselves as separate beings that interact with life, we encounter life itself through sensation, movement that becomes the dance. The dance of life!

_Christos Daskalakos