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.