Coming home is pure medicine!
- Feb 5
- 2 min read
Being whole - human integration - ❤️
Biodanza brings me back to myself, to my own core and into my own essence. So that I stand firmly within myself in the encounter with life. Again and again I experience how rich, nuanced and changeable life is. Over time, Biodanza has helped me develop trust in the forces of life, trust that life wants me well. Biodanza has given me beautiful and effective tools for living a life rich in energy, love, trust and power. I dance Biodanza simply because it makes me happy, strong and joyful!
Can I dance myself into harmony?
A goal of Biodanza is to promote and support human integration, so that we recreate and restore unity in our bodies, in our emotions, in our thoughts, in our movement patterns and in our interactions with society and life. Simply put, Biodanza offers a gentle process for integrating body, mind, emotions and spirit.
The opposite of integration (wholeness) is dissociation (piecemeal and divided). Through a comprehensive dance and movement system, Biodanza stimulates our inherent possibilities to integrate on several different levels. Biodanza offers and facilitates, among other things:
Motor integration - our ability and access to move in many different ways, and through that gain access to resources and qualities
Sensory integration - our ability to notice what our body is telling us through our senses
Sensory-motor integration - Our ability to be sensitive and express through the body
Affective integration - our ability to feel compassion, tenderness, love, friendship, altruism
Affective-motor integration - our ability to feel and express what we feel through our body and our actions
Social integration - our ability to be in meaningful relationships with people around us
Transcendental integration - our ability to feel oneness with nature and all living things.
Instinctive integration - Our ability to hear the body's instinctive messages, self-regulate and be autonomous.
In the long run, we want to create harmony and integrate our thoughts, our actions and our feelings. Energy leaks and illness occur when, for example, we act contrary to what we feel or think is right. An old saying from the Bible (Mark 3:24) says:
A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.
It is the same in our bodies. When the different parts of us talk to each other and have the same truth, we create health. When we act contrary to what we think and/or feel, we create disharmony and dissociation. Or conversely, when we feel and think that we should act and fail to do so, disharmony also arises. Through movements, Biodanza builds bridges between the different parts of us, so that we feel whole and can come home to ourselves. It is integration. It is medicine. It is a recipe for happiness and joy.