Monthly NYC dates on Saturdays, weekly Maryland classes and monthly discovery workshops, Philadelphia dates, classes for adults and kids, after school activities in Laurel, Maryland and more!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
BIODANZA LAUREL/SAVAGE MARYLAND OCTOBER 09
BIODANZA FOR MOMS/DADS&TOTS (babies to 4 years)
October 14th 9:30 to 10:30 am
Savage Mill at Uniquely Salomon Dance Studio
Come dance with your child and explore your creativity together!
COME TO A BIODANZA DISCOVERY CLASS FOR ADULTS!
I will facilitate a morning session for those available on Wednesday Oct 14th from 10:30am to 12:30 noon and then another for evening free people on the same day from 7pm to 9pm. These are classes for men/women adults of all ages from 18 to the highest age possible! Come and check out what the buzz is about!
Call me at 410-736-9311 for more info or click on my web link!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
BIODANZA NYC Sept 26
Biodanza returns to NYC at Dance Forum near Union Square for a class to celebrate our connection to the earth with appreciation, joy and peace. Join us for a discovery talk and two hours of pure bliss dance from 2pm to 3pm. For more info go to www.movingartsnetwork.com or Biodanza, SRT-East Coast USA http://web.me.com/biodanzazambia
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Website
Go to Biodanza, SRT-East Coast USA http://web.me.com/biodanzazambia for more info on classes with Michelle in the US and abroad
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
BIODANZA DC/MARYLAND
Weekly evening Biodanza sessions for adults will commence in the Tacoma Park area at a venue TBA starting in September and in the Laurel/Ellicott City area of Maryland, as well.
Afternoon children's classes will also be offered in the Laurel area for Moms/Dads & Tots, toddlers on their own, youth and adolescents.
Please contact biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Permanent Biodanza Classes and Workshops Available on the East Coast of the USA
Michelle Dubreuil Macek will be moving back to Maryland/Washington DC area after 14 years in Africa! Weekly classes in the Baltimore and DC areas will commence as of September 2009.
Weekend Discovery Workshops will be available if you contact me. Let's make a plan in your neck of the woods! I'll be there from Maine to Miami!
write to me at biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
or check for workshops at www.movingartsnetwork.com
Michelle Dubreuil Macek will be moving back to Maryland/Washington DC area after 14 years in Africa! Weekly classes in the Baltimore and DC areas will commence as of September 2009.
Weekend Discovery Workshops will be available if you contact me. Let's make a plan in your neck of the woods! I'll be there from Maine to Miami!
write to me at biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
or check for workshops at www.movingartsnetwork.com
Monday, May 18, 2009
Zambia Update May 2009
Come dance in May and June 2009 with Michelle!Moms/Dads/Nannies & tots
Thursday May 28th at 3pm
Saturday May 30th at 11.30 am
Thursday June 4th and 11th at 3pm
Saturday June 6th and 13th at 11.30
Youth Groups
Every Tuesday at the American International School from 2pm to 3pm
Saturday at 10am May 30th, June 6th and 13th
Adults Groups
Every Thursday morning at 9am
Every Wednesday evening at 19h
Sliding scale pricing available! Come give it a try! See what it is like to dance free with abandon!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
BIODANZA for kids in Zamiba
NEW TOTS CLASS
Tots&Nannys baby group (for tots of working moms) bi-monthly on Thursdays 15h to 16h
for babies to 5yrs. 30.000 per family. Max two children per adult.
April 16, 30th
May 14th, 28th
June 4th and 18th
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL After school activity
Every Tuesday from 14h to 15h for 1st to 4th graders
Begins April 28th and last class is June 9th.
$40 for term
biodanzazambia@gmail.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
BIODANZA-Miami July 2009
BIODANZA, Sistema Rolando Toro,in Miami, Florida! July 18, 2009
venue: Synergy Yoga, Miami Beach, Florida, 435 Espanola Way
time: session 1 from 13h to 16h and session 2 from 17h to 20h
cost: $69 for both or $40 for one pre-registered; or $45 at the door for each.
contact: community@synergyyoga.org or 305-538-7074
Flavio Boffetti, Director of the School of Biodanza in Naples, Italy, returns to southern Florida to facilitate a weekend Biodanza workshop in Miami, Florida, USA. As a graduate in Economics and Commerce, Flavio worked as an accountant for 7 years. His encounter with Biodanza in 1994, completely redefined his vision of life. After 3 years of Biodanza training and an apprenticeship under the direct guidance of Prof. Rolando Toro Araneda, creator of the Biodanza system, he decided to dedicate himself completely to teaching. He is the director of the Biodanza school in Naples and specialized in the following extensions: Aquatic Biodanza, Identity and the Four Elements, The Tree of Desires, Biodanza and Massage, Biodanza and Contact Education, The Minotaur Project, and Biodanza and Clay. He conducts weekly groups in Bergamo and Brescia, in Italy, as well as workshops in various cities around Italy and Europe.
Info: biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
BIODANZA in New York City, USA July 2009
Biodanza, Sistema Rolando Toro in NYC! We will have the extraordinary experience of tapping into spontaneous joy and connection like never before by participating in this expressive dance workshop with American facilitator Michelle Dubreuil Macek and guest facilitator from Italy, Flavio Boffetti.
This unique workshop will take place on Saturday, July 25th from 9:30 to 5.00pm in New York City at Dance Forum, 20 E 17th Street near Union Square Park an important and historic intersection in NYC located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the 19th century.
Workshop cost is $75.00 into safe and secure paypal account ($40 non-refundable due by June 30th, the rest payable the day of workshop). For more information and to secure your reservation contact me at biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
Biodanza is a system of human development that fuses music, movement, and emotions building a sense of community for those who practice it regularly. This unique combination of elements expands our creativity, vitality and our ability to love. Biodanza is about feeling the fullness of every moment and awakening our passion for life. It is about loving life and putting life in the center!
With carefully selected music that evokes specific experiences and invites movement, the participants will discover JOY and happiness within themselves. With Biodanza movement becomes a free expression of self, and is not choreographed or structured. No previous dance experience is required and there are no age requirements. Biodanza is for everyone! The magic of Biodanza will open your sense of joy, self-esteem and self-confidence. Come dance with life!
This workshop is a way to discover the pleasure to...
Expand our creativity, vitality and ability to love.
Feel the fullness of every moment and awake our passion for life.
Opening our sense of joy, self-esteem and self-confidence.
Tenderly integrate feelings, mind and actions.
Increase our health and organic harmony.
Biodanza is based on sound biological and physiological principles, developed over the past 40 years by Chilean Professor Rolando Toro, a psychologist, anthropologist and poet. It originated in Chile in the 60’s and is now represented all over the globe.
For more information consult: www.biodanza-thedanceoflife.blogspot.com.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: MICHELLE DUBREUIL MACEK
Michelle is a graduate of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven and Middlebury College in Vermont holding a BA and MA in French/Education. Her first encounter with Biodanza completely redefined her vision for life and lit it on fire! After three years of Biodanza training in the South African School of Biodanza with Carolina Churba-Doyle, where she was living, she decided to dedicate herself to the teaching of Biodanza worldwide. Michelle has since been training with Rolando Toro and others worldwide. She has opened up a Biodanza space in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa where she currently facilitates classes for Moms/Dads & tots, Youth groups, adults and hospice caretakers as well as in corporate groups. Classes can be facilitated by her in French and in English.
This unique workshop will take place on Saturday, July 25th from 9:30 to 5.00pm in New York City at Dance Forum, 20 E 17th Street near Union Square Park an important and historic intersection in NYC located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the 19th century.
Workshop cost is $75.00 into safe and secure paypal account ($40 non-refundable due by June 30th, the rest payable the day of workshop). For more information and to secure your reservation contact me at biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
Biodanza is a system of human development that fuses music, movement, and emotions building a sense of community for those who practice it regularly. This unique combination of elements expands our creativity, vitality and our ability to love. Biodanza is about feeling the fullness of every moment and awakening our passion for life. It is about loving life and putting life in the center!
With carefully selected music that evokes specific experiences and invites movement, the participants will discover JOY and happiness within themselves. With Biodanza movement becomes a free expression of self, and is not choreographed or structured. No previous dance experience is required and there are no age requirements. Biodanza is for everyone! The magic of Biodanza will open your sense of joy, self-esteem and self-confidence. Come dance with life!
This workshop is a way to discover the pleasure to...
Expand our creativity, vitality and ability to love.
Feel the fullness of every moment and awake our passion for life.
Opening our sense of joy, self-esteem and self-confidence.
Tenderly integrate feelings, mind and actions.
Increase our health and organic harmony.
Biodanza is based on sound biological and physiological principles, developed over the past 40 years by Chilean Professor Rolando Toro, a psychologist, anthropologist and poet. It originated in Chile in the 60’s and is now represented all over the globe.
For more information consult: www.biodanza-thedanceoflife.blogspot.com.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: MICHELLE DUBREUIL MACEK
Michelle is a graduate of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven and Middlebury College in Vermont holding a BA and MA in French/Education. Her first encounter with Biodanza completely redefined her vision for life and lit it on fire! After three years of Biodanza training in the South African School of Biodanza with Carolina Churba-Doyle, where she was living, she decided to dedicate herself to the teaching of Biodanza worldwide. Michelle has since been training with Rolando Toro and others worldwide. She has opened up a Biodanza space in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa where she currently facilitates classes for Moms/Dads & tots, Youth groups, adults and hospice caretakers as well as in corporate groups. Classes can be facilitated by her in French and in English.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
BIODANZA Zambia goes to BOTSWANA AND NAMIBIA
Sunday March 29th at 19 h join us in Maun, Botswana for an evening of Biodanza, expressive dance. Contact 00 (276) 680 1123 -TJ or tj.afriscreen.com for more info about the Botswana event.
Monday March 30th at 19 h join us further north in Windhoek, Namibia for another evening of Biodanza. Contact me at biodanzazambia@gmail.com for more info on this class.
Join my Biodanza-Zambia Facebook Group page to keep updated about Biodanza in
Southern Africa.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
BIODANZA- AN OVERVIEW
Biodanza, which means Dance of Life, is a system that integrates music, movement and authentic interactions to provide experiences of intense perception of being alive in the here-and-now. These experiences are known as "vivencias", coined from the Spanish root: vivir (to live).
Vivencias are doors to access primal emotions and help movement emerge that is the most natural expression of your true self. Vivencias follow the organic movements of life—its biological rhythms, the pulse of the heart, and the impulse to connect with others.
Continuous exposure to Biodanza strengthens your identity and relationship with life. The practice of Biodanza happens through two hour weekly classes and weekend workshops. The experience is mostly non-verbal, which opens participants' communication and connection regardless of their socio-cultural background.
No dance experience is necessary.
The Dance of Life
Biodanza is a system that follows the natural rhythms and wisdom of life. The prefix "Bio" derives from the Greek "Bios," meaning "life." "Danza" originally signifies "integrated movement full of intention".
Biodanza is an invitation to explore life with authentic simplicity and enhance your natural potentials to further your Emotional Health.
Biodanza has evolved over the last four decades in Latin America and Europe under the vision of founder Rolando Toro Araneda.
La Vivencia
To practice Biodanza means to participate in regular, weekly classes called "Vivencias". The term “Vivencia” also relates to an intense perception of being alive, a vividly felt experience in the here-and-now. A "Vivencia" awakens the intuition of living the moment.
Biodanza sessions, or "Vivencias," are usually held in a big enough space to move freely. They can also be practiced outdoors, in contact with nature, and in body-temperature water.
Each Biodanza class is different from the other, as it uses a different sequence of a selection of more than 300 dances or exercises. Usually, each session will consist of 10 to 14 dances or exercises, thoughtfully stringed into a coherent sequence. Each individual dance or exercise has a specially selected music, from a library of about 1000 "officially designated" musical pieces.
These are pieces as varied as our human emotions, ranging from classical to pop, in a musical journey that can take us from R&B, soul and rock to lounge, chill and electronica. The important issue here is that the musical piece must allow and call for an integration of feeling and movement: it needs to deflagrate an emotion. If a musical piece is disturbing, dissociative, or if it leaves you cold, you will certainly NOT find it in Biodanza.
The typical format of a "Vivencia" or Biodanza Session is non-verbal, after a verbal opening circle to share thoughts and feelings with the group. The main, non-verbal part has different phases, carefully designed to respect human physiology:
It usually begins with a circle to connect with each other and create a common energy field with the group.
The following dances invite you to intuitively express yourself through movement induced by music, in deep connection with a partner, the group, and yourself.
Creative, lively and rhythmic dances in gradual connection with others lead to gentle affective-motor integration.
The “vivencia” softly evolves into an inward-felt phase, which brings about joyful body-awareness and intuitive expression of feelings.
Dances heightening your perception of the interconnectedness of life wrap up the session in a shared, naturally felt celebration.
Emotional Health
According to Rolando Toro, creator of Biodanza, human potential expresses itself through five main categories, which he calls "Lines of Vivencia." These five Lines of Vivencia are:
Vitality
Creativity
Affectivity
Sensuality
Transcendence
These five dimensions usually do not equally develop to their full potential:
You may be very vital but have little creativity.
You may be an expert feeling pleasure in everything you do, but feel disconnected from the forces of the universe.
You may meditate with ease, but have difficulties expressing your love with other fellow human beings.
The practice of Biodanza in regular, weekly "vivencias” or classes, stimulates the lesser-developed dimensions while consolidating the more manifested ones.
Vitality
Vitality relates to the experience of movement and the sensation of your own vital energy, your drive and impetus. At the same time it is your organism’s capacity to sustain a healthy balance between activity and rest.
Creativity
This is the dimension of your playful nature and the capacity to articulate yourself in your own unique way, your instinct to explore new behaviors, break out of old patterns and renew your life.
Sensuality
This dimension corresponds to the sphere of our emotional intimacy, to our capacity to feel pleasure in our movements, through all of our senses. It is our lively and passionate impulse to fully embrace all that constitutes an enjoyment, a blissful reward for our existence.
Affectivity
It is our ability to demonstrate love, care, solidarity, generosity, sense of belonging and of fraternity. Tenderness, as an expression of our affectivity, represents the pulsating heart of our identity.
Transcendence
The most subtle human function associated with all internal sensations of abundance, expansion and spiritual union with all life forms. It is the ability to feel as part of humanity, of nature and of the universe.
Origin
Rolando Toro Araneda, a clinical psychologist and anthropologist from Chile, developed the Biodanza System. In 1965, he held the chair of Expressive Arts at the Pontifical University of Chile, Institute of Aesthetics, and was teaching at the Center for Anthropological Medical Studies of the Medical School at the University of Chile.
In the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago, he began investigating the effect of music and dance on psychiatric patients. The Center for Medical and Anthropological Studies, led by Professor Francisco Hoffman had the mission of evaluating diverse techniques of psychotherapy to humanize medicine: Psychotherapy in line with Carl Roger's person-centered approach, art therapy, psychodrama, Gestalt, music therapy, and others.
Toro's approach included physical activity and the stimulation of emotions with dance and human encounters. He began with harmonious and slow dances with closed eyes to induce harmony and quietness. The observation revealed that these exercises had the opposite effect: They easily induced inward states in patients. In these cases, the hallucinations and deliriums accentuated and could last many days.
Without doubt, the patients who by definition had a poorly integrated identity, dissociated more under the influence of movements that induced an inward state. This apparently negative result suggested a strong mobilization of the unconscious. In following sessions, he introduced keyed up dances with happy rhythms that stimulated their motor response. The result was a remarkable increase of the capacity to judge reality. The deliriums and hallucinations vanished.
Vivencias are doors to access primal emotions and help movement emerge that is the most natural expression of your true self. Vivencias follow the organic movements of life—its biological rhythms, the pulse of the heart, and the impulse to connect with others.
Continuous exposure to Biodanza strengthens your identity and relationship with life. The practice of Biodanza happens through two hour weekly classes and weekend workshops. The experience is mostly non-verbal, which opens participants' communication and connection regardless of their socio-cultural background.
No dance experience is necessary.
The Dance of Life
Biodanza is a system that follows the natural rhythms and wisdom of life. The prefix "Bio" derives from the Greek "Bios," meaning "life." "Danza" originally signifies "integrated movement full of intention".
Biodanza is an invitation to explore life with authentic simplicity and enhance your natural potentials to further your Emotional Health.
Biodanza has evolved over the last four decades in Latin America and Europe under the vision of founder Rolando Toro Araneda.
La Vivencia
To practice Biodanza means to participate in regular, weekly classes called "Vivencias". The term “Vivencia” also relates to an intense perception of being alive, a vividly felt experience in the here-and-now. A "Vivencia" awakens the intuition of living the moment.
Biodanza sessions, or "Vivencias," are usually held in a big enough space to move freely. They can also be practiced outdoors, in contact with nature, and in body-temperature water.
Each Biodanza class is different from the other, as it uses a different sequence of a selection of more than 300 dances or exercises. Usually, each session will consist of 10 to 14 dances or exercises, thoughtfully stringed into a coherent sequence. Each individual dance or exercise has a specially selected music, from a library of about 1000 "officially designated" musical pieces.
These are pieces as varied as our human emotions, ranging from classical to pop, in a musical journey that can take us from R&B, soul and rock to lounge, chill and electronica. The important issue here is that the musical piece must allow and call for an integration of feeling and movement: it needs to deflagrate an emotion. If a musical piece is disturbing, dissociative, or if it leaves you cold, you will certainly NOT find it in Biodanza.
The typical format of a "Vivencia" or Biodanza Session is non-verbal, after a verbal opening circle to share thoughts and feelings with the group. The main, non-verbal part has different phases, carefully designed to respect human physiology:
It usually begins with a circle to connect with each other and create a common energy field with the group.
The following dances invite you to intuitively express yourself through movement induced by music, in deep connection with a partner, the group, and yourself.
Creative, lively and rhythmic dances in gradual connection with others lead to gentle affective-motor integration.
The “vivencia” softly evolves into an inward-felt phase, which brings about joyful body-awareness and intuitive expression of feelings.
Dances heightening your perception of the interconnectedness of life wrap up the session in a shared, naturally felt celebration.
Emotional Health
According to Rolando Toro, creator of Biodanza, human potential expresses itself through five main categories, which he calls "Lines of Vivencia." These five Lines of Vivencia are:
Vitality
Creativity
Affectivity
Sensuality
Transcendence
These five dimensions usually do not equally develop to their full potential:
You may be very vital but have little creativity.
You may be an expert feeling pleasure in everything you do, but feel disconnected from the forces of the universe.
You may meditate with ease, but have difficulties expressing your love with other fellow human beings.
The practice of Biodanza in regular, weekly "vivencias” or classes, stimulates the lesser-developed dimensions while consolidating the more manifested ones.
Vitality
Vitality relates to the experience of movement and the sensation of your own vital energy, your drive and impetus. At the same time it is your organism’s capacity to sustain a healthy balance between activity and rest.
Creativity
This is the dimension of your playful nature and the capacity to articulate yourself in your own unique way, your instinct to explore new behaviors, break out of old patterns and renew your life.
Sensuality
This dimension corresponds to the sphere of our emotional intimacy, to our capacity to feel pleasure in our movements, through all of our senses. It is our lively and passionate impulse to fully embrace all that constitutes an enjoyment, a blissful reward for our existence.
Affectivity
It is our ability to demonstrate love, care, solidarity, generosity, sense of belonging and of fraternity. Tenderness, as an expression of our affectivity, represents the pulsating heart of our identity.
Transcendence
The most subtle human function associated with all internal sensations of abundance, expansion and spiritual union with all life forms. It is the ability to feel as part of humanity, of nature and of the universe.
Origin
Rolando Toro Araneda, a clinical psychologist and anthropologist from Chile, developed the Biodanza System. In 1965, he held the chair of Expressive Arts at the Pontifical University of Chile, Institute of Aesthetics, and was teaching at the Center for Anthropological Medical Studies of the Medical School at the University of Chile.
In the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago, he began investigating the effect of music and dance on psychiatric patients. The Center for Medical and Anthropological Studies, led by Professor Francisco Hoffman had the mission of evaluating diverse techniques of psychotherapy to humanize medicine: Psychotherapy in line with Carl Roger's person-centered approach, art therapy, psychodrama, Gestalt, music therapy, and others.
Toro's approach included physical activity and the stimulation of emotions with dance and human encounters. He began with harmonious and slow dances with closed eyes to induce harmony and quietness. The observation revealed that these exercises had the opposite effect: They easily induced inward states in patients. In these cases, the hallucinations and deliriums accentuated and could last many days.
Without doubt, the patients who by definition had a poorly integrated identity, dissociated more under the influence of movements that induced an inward state. This apparently negative result suggested a strong mobilization of the unconscious. In following sessions, he introduced keyed up dances with happy rhythms that stimulated their motor response. The result was a remarkable increase of the capacity to judge reality. The deliriums and hallucinations vanished.
Friday, February 6, 2009
2009 BIODANZA ZAMBIA
NEW THURSDAY MORNING ADULT SESSIONS
Every Thursday at 9am
BIODANZA - Come Dance with LIFE!!!
WEDNESDAY EVENING ADULT SESSIONS
Every Wednesday evenings at 19h
BIODANZA- Life in the Center!!!
KIDS CLASSES
Next class Saturday March 14th
Youth at 10am
Moms/Dads & Tots at 11.30
BIODANZA - A Biocentric Education for your child
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL-LUSAKA
Tuesday afternoons for 6 to 10 yrs from 14h to 15 h
BIODANZA - Joy, Spontaneity and Creativity for kids
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