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About us

Biodanza Today was established by Kristine Stray-Knudsen in January 2023. The center is located in Tønsberg in Vestfold. The name reminds us that every day (today) we have the opportunity to choose the direction of our lives and actively choose joy and vitality. You won't get super strong from going to the gym once. You won't get super fit from going for a jog either. That's how it is with Biodanza too.

Your life will not change overnight by attending a Biodanza class, but as you choose to come back and dance, explore and play week after week, your joy of life and vitality will gradually increase. Little by little, joy, enthusiasm, confidence and power (just to name a few resources that biodanza promotes) will spill over into other parts of your life. Biodanza invites and asks, for example, "Hi, do you want to experience flexibility and freedom?" and then it is up to you whether you say YES, thank you, and accept the invitation.

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Kristine Stray-Knudsen

Hi, my name is Kristine and I have always been interested in the big questions in life. Why are we here and how can we live rich and meaningful lives? Focusing on existential and spiritual questions has taken me through life with both ups and downs and today I wholeheartedly believe that there is gold to be extracted from even our darkest and most painful experiences.

Life finds a way and life is nourished by life – This is exactly the core of what Biodanza offers – an opportunity to say yes to more life in life.

In the encounter with Biodanza, a lot clicked into place for me. I came home to myself. Today, my great passion is to share all the possibilities that Biodanza provides for human growth with others. Over time, Biodanza has helped me develop trust in the life forces and trust that life wants me well. Again and again, I experience how rich, nuanced and changeable life is. I myself have found a lot of healing through dancing myself into the water, dancing myself into my own core and into my own essence. The music, the movements and the encounters with people have helped me find the center within myself so that I gradually live more and more authentically. Biodanza has functioned as a door opener into myself so that today I meet myself, others and life with curiosity and compassion.

Courses and education

Work experience

  • Held Biodanza groups since 2021

  • Course leader and developer of the mastery course Joy of Life and Vitality

  • Broad experience from retail including store operations, chain development, motivational training, sales training and employee development (HR).

  • Kindergarten employee

  • Business owner

  • Coach and supervisor with NLP and integral therapy

Kristine is a member of NBL (Norwegian Biodanza Teachers' Association) which is affiliated to IBFed (International Biodanza Federation).

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Gunvor Aasland

My name is Gunvor, and I love music, dance and singing! Throughout my life I have always been into singing and dancing as a hobby. In 2008 I started dancing biodanza in Tønsberg. It gave me a feeling of coming home. From the very beginning I was inspired by the music we dance to. We have music that stimulates both energetic and more gentle movements.

The combination of an active dance phase followed by a calm phase of rest before we activate again feels like the ideal recipe for coming home to oneself. I am a social person, and the community that arises in the group when we dance together is an important part of the dance experience. Through dance we practice communicating without words.  

I am also interested in communication, language and culture and have worked as a teacher in secondary schools and in adult education throughout my professional life. Gradually, a desire to share biodanza with more people grew, and I started at the Norwegian Biodanza School to take the teacher training there. Now I have completed my education and am ready to start a biodanza group in Tønsberg. I hope many people find their way to biodanza in our area. It really gives life to life!

Courses and education

  • Biodanza teacher at Norwegian Biodanzaskole (2025)

  • Biodanza for children and young people (2024). Teacher: Alejandro Balbi Toro

  • The Hero's Journey (2022). Teacher: Flavio Bofetti

  • Identity and the four Animals (2022). Teacher: Unni Heim

  • Master of Education (2012). University of Oslo

  • Cand. mag. in law, Spanish and Nordic languages and literature (1987). University of Oslo

Work experience

  • Biodanza teacher at Ringhøyden senior center in Bærum (2021-2025)

  • Teacher of Norwegian and social studies at Tønsberg Learning Center (2016-2025)

  • Teacher of Norwegian and Spanish in secondary school (1996-2016)

  • Teacher of Norwegian at the Immigrant Center in Tønsberg (1994-1996)

  • Teacher and head of the Refugee School in Aurskog-Høland, Fet and Sørum (1990-1994)

  • Teacher of Norwegian at Sørreisa Adult Education (1988-1990)

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