Biodanza and the Energies of Spring – March 20th – 22nd

We are fortunate enough to be granted a date for this workshop over the Spring Equinox, an important time in the calendar since time immemorial, where night and day are of equal length. It signifies a change in the seasons, where the cold, dark, wet winter months give way to the return of the light and warmth and the regeneration of life in the plants and animals and indeed ourselves as we turn our faces to the sun once again and feel the natural lift this gives to the spirit.

With cooperation from the weather I am optimistic that we will be able to dance outside in the hallowed grounds of Leela where many a transformative experience has occured over the twenty years of my career leading Biodanza here. There is something extraordinarily special about vivencias in nature. They truly are uncannily more than the sum of their parts and some of the deepest, most profound connections in the line of Transcendence can and do happen with regularity.

We shall explore themes of renewal and rebirth, fecundity and fertility, change, awakening, the celebration and honouring of natural cycles, harmony, growth and the return of Life!

This is a weekend for experienced dancers and beginners alike and will feature four full length vivencias, two each from Niraj and Mila plus a Saturday evening happening to be decided.

You are warmly welcome to join us to dance your way through this transformative time and spring to life the Biodanza way!

https://osholeela.uk/event/biodanza-and-the-energies-of-spring/

Touch is essential to human development and well being. Babies need to be coddled, cuddled, kissed, caressed and played with or they suffer. Adults too need regular doses of healthy human contact. Biodanza is a paradise for giving and receiving this essential existential nourishment. We have scores of exercises and hundreds of matching pieces of music dedicated to the art and ceremony of meeting and touching the other. We become masters of the caress. We feed the organism with the quality contact that it requires for optimal functioning and sense of repleteness. Join us for this winter warmer of a weekend and bathe in bliss!

Touch can be many things. It can be reassuring, celebratory, empathic, comisoratory, loving, erotic, tender, sensitive, life saving, affectionate, consoling, stimulating, exciting, harmonious, inclusive, calming and many, many more, particularly when combined.

Biodanza is one of the foremost techniques in the world for utilising the variety and quality of human touches to nourish and rehabilitate the body. It even has the capacity to compensate for a lack of Touch in infancy and childhood by regressing to states similar where new imprinting can take place!

How many of us receive an adequate amount of healthy physical contact? There is an epidemic of loneliness and isolation in the west, and consequently depression and other ailments that spring from that. Add on the increasing phobia around touch that seems to be trending in our cultures and we have a crisis on our hands. Teachers are no longer allowed to console a crying child, for instance, just one of a litany of lunacies that overlook or underplay the fundamental role interpersonal touch plays in the very fabric of a healthy society. Biodanza, therefore, has it’s role to play…

In this weekend we will exchange contact and caress with ourselves, another, in small groups and as a collective.

Specific areas of the body to receive such magic are the hands, the hair, the face, the back, the feet, the belly, the chest and arms and the whole body.

You will learn what the terms differentiated and undifferentiated eros means and practice them with each other.

The focus will be on the lines of vivencia of Affectivity, Sexuality and Transcendence rather than Creativity and Vitality.

You will receive a full body, holistic reset of your nervous system leaving you feeling nurtured, loved, included and refreshed.

In order for this to happen at the deepest level and for the entirety of the weekend we shall not be engaging with our phones or laptops at all from start to finish, so a 48hr digital detox from arrival to departure will be experienced. This has proved revelatory to many so far since we restarted in October.

For more information and booking details – https://osholeela.uk/event/biodanza-the-art-of-touch-2026/

Biodanza at Leela: A New Beginning with Niraj & Milarepa

Special Introductory Early Bird Price £250

Biodanza weekends are back! Niraj is back! After a 9 year break, what was once a regular monthly occurrence returns to Leela with a vengeance! And reinforcements! Milarepa steps up to the high table to co-facilitate the return of the dance of life to the heart of the Dorset countryside, bringing his irrepressible good humour and nature to the party to make one helluva dynamic duo!

This weekend kicks off a series which intends to generate momentum towards a new cycle of the Dorset School of Biodanza (DSoB) sometime in 2026. That clientele will include enthusiastic new trainees who want to dive into the heart of the Biodanza technique, develop and grow and eventually go on to be teachers in their own right. It will also include ex trainees, graduates of DSoB or other schools that want to immerse themselves in the depths of experience that only residential weekends can offer. It may include teachers who may need inspiration to regenerate their careers or again who just love the feeling of being in An established group. It may include lovers of the dance who know teaching is not for them, but are happy to support others by being companions in their journey and being part of the infrastructure of a Biodanza group that helps everyone grow and learn.

So a school is a multi-faceted beast and caters to many needs and different types of intentions. But that is for next year!

This year, in autumn we return during the season of change to bring you upliftment, inspiration, embodiment and community in the best way possible…through authentic and expressive dance in optimal surroundings, the house and grounds of Leela!

The weekend will consist of a broad sweep of Biodanza music, exercises, themes and flavours to tickle the palate of the seasoned veteran or the enchanted newbie. Friday evening will commence with a vivencia (dance) of Vitality and Affectivity to allow you to shake off your journey, enliven your body and drop into harmonious connection with the others in the group. After a good night’s rest we resume with dances of Creativity and Affectivity to start to expand our range of bodily expression and deepen our bond with the peer group.

A break before lunch to wander at your leisure in the grounds or relax in the foyer prior to the afternoon session based around pleasure and sensuality. The evening is an open book at this stage, but could include a sauna and/or bonfire, a drink at the bar and some dancing. We may be privvy to an activity that another group we share Leela with each time (up to 3 groups running simultaneously) depending on who they are and what they are doing.

Sunday sees us engage with the final group of exercises Biodanza has to offer, the line of Transcendence, where we connect beyond ourselves and the group to reach a state of communion with the All That Is, the beyond, the totality, the Universe. If we’re lucky!

Again, time and space is given to digest these more intense and peak experiences before and after meals, then we close out the weekend with a shorter vivencia integrating all that has gone before and a sharing circle to bear witness to everyone’s description of what has happened for them and their learnings and realisations.

What will participants gain from this weekend:

a broad experience and understanding of the breadth and scope of Biodanza music, exercises and the differing States it can put you in.
a feeling of plenitude, contentment and integration akin to the feeling after a good sauna!
the experience of safely expanding your limits to create more space for yourself
connection and acceptance by a group of dancers of life like yourself!
a restored sense of wellbeing, harmony and balance to take back to daily life.

Niraj and Milarepa are vastly experienced facilitators in their own right and will co direct the new cycle of the Dorset School of Biodanza in 2026. Niraj ran 4 cycles of the training, mostly at Osho Leela from 2006-2019 and Mila graduated from the first cycle and has been active almost weekly in and around Dorset ever since.

Note from Niraj

I have zero interest in running anything where people are free to zone out and disconnect at any and all times by getting their phone out and becoming completely distracted from the people and the environment surrounding them (see contemporary social life in all circumstances and situations). Therefore anyone choosing to work with me by default opts in to a total digital detox by surrendering their devices from minute 1 at check-in till the time of departure from the venue. If you are unwilling to accede to this requirement please do not book onto the event. Thank you.

Booking

Visit Osho Leela’s website for more information and to book your space – https://osholeela.uk/event/biodanza-a-new-beginning/

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