SPECIAL EVENTS

'TRANSCENDENCE'

with RICARDO TORO (Chile/Belgium)
Saturday 26 April 12-7pm & Sunday 27 April 27 April 10-5pm 2025

In Biodanza the concept of transcendence consists of the natural function of human beings to establish essential connections with everything that exists.: other human beings, animals, vegetables and mindeerals – in short, with the cosmic whole.
Therefore we learn to overecome the force of the ego and go beyond our perception
of ourself in order to identify with the unity of nature and with the essence of our human companions.
Peopld who cannot leave behind self-consciousness are unable to enter into a transcendent experience.
The effects of Biodanza in Transcendence are to throw much light onto the experience of the whole.
A feeling of intimate connection with nature and with another person is a peak experience we rarely have in our lives.
To experience it only once enables us to start to change our attitude towards ourselves, and towards other people.
To know ‘for sure’ that we are not isolated beings, but that we are participating in the unifying movement
of the cosmos, is enough to alter our scale of values.
But this knowing for sure is not an intellectual knowing. It is a more moving and transcendent knowing.
The Egyptains in their Book of the Dead refer to a feeling of onto-cosmological unity:
‘I am a particle of the particle
of the Great Incandescent Soul’
Come join us – we can together enter into this experience of ‘Transcendence’ and experience the sublime
benefits for our daily lives.

Place: St Werburghs Primary School, Willows Site, James Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9US

Cost : £135 | Reservations in Advance   antoinette@biodanza4all.com

Ricardo was born in Santiago Chili, trained by the Creator of Biodanza Rolando Toro Araneda,
his father. Trained in Psychology in the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil he worked in Psychiatric
Hospitals in Human Rehabilitation. He is Director of the Biodanza School Liege, Belgium
and travels the world teaching Biodanza.

SPECIAL WORKSHOP WITH HELENE JEANNE LEVY BENSEFT 

' WISDOM OF THE DANCES OF LOVE'  

Are We Ready to Love?
Saturday 23 November 10am - 8pm & Sunday 24 November 9.30 - 6pm 2025

It has the hearts of poets sing. It has children and teenagers of all ages dream; it burns the soul and body of all:
those who seek it, those who have found it, those who desire it or those who are afraid of it.
Its names are Eros, Pornoia, Phylia, Agape. We call it Love. However, our language is very poor at accounting for its many facets,at accounting for its infinite power.

It has the power to give us life, to sustain us on the path, to make us kneel on the ground or to lift us up to seventh heaven and beyond.

It makes us see the beauty and the wonder when it shines in the depths of our eyes.

It transforms everything and everyone it touches.

It is a force of bonding, of cohesion, of surrender.

We rejoice and shudder when it inhabits us. We are cold when it leaves us. It is still Love.

What are we ready to do to make our being the sweet, welcoming, joyful and sacred home that it will like to inhabit without feeling jailed?

Are we ready to dance it?

 

Are we ready to celebrate?

Are we ready to rejoice?

Are we ready to give ourselves away like the utmost present?

Are we ready to love?

In the richness of its repertoire of dances, Biodanza offers us some that put at the center all the subtleties capable of enriching our relationship with love in its most concrete form:

The Dances of Love.

They depict moments of discovery of the other, of enchantment, of passion, of adjustment, of adaptation, of deep understanding, of complicity…

and even those where difficulties may arise.

They offer us the opportunity to incorporate what we dance into the most meaningful relationships in our lives and whose richness we sometimes forget.

This weekend of Biodanza will be an invitation to enliven the different possibilities of love and to “love” ourselves in dance, in abandonment to tenderness, in the celebration of bodies vibrating with pleasure, in an unconditional yes to life.

To the love of life. From a life full of love to the love of life, there are only dance steps leading us to one another…

NB; It is essential to underline the absolute necessity of have a solid experience in the Biodanza practice and process, to be able to join this unique workshop.

Helene is trained by Rolando Toro Araneda (Creator of Biodanza) and travels the world teaching – as well as establishing

a project in Brazil Amazon . She is Co-Director of the School in Nice, France

Place: St Werburghs Primary School, Willows Site, James Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9US

Cost: £135 Reservations and payment in advance : £135

Car parking through the gates in front of the school

Please ring the bell for entry

antoinette@biodanza4all.com

BIODANZA SHAMANISM : THE WAY OF THE HEART ‘A NEST’

Saturday 21 March 10am - 8pm and Sunday 22 March 9.30-6pm 2026
with Andreina Acri (Chili/Italy)    

Shamanic culture offers us a way of looking at life that leads us to let ourselves be led by the heart. When the heart leads us and takes us by the hand, we realise that we are all part of something greater, more imposing than our daily demands. The memory of the earth is engraved in our DNA and from there we link to the loving expression of our highest Self and transcend the boundary in which the beauty of the mystery of life is confined. We thus help to break the spell of division, of Illusion, to reach the deep freedom in each individual united with the Whole and thus the possibility to settle down in a lasting peace which is the beating of this one heart in a Nest where we are all united.

When we approach the path to shamanism, we connect with the beauty that this earth offers us and see that paradise is here among us and is not an unattainable chimera.

Join this path, without expectation, but with an open heart ready to recognise yourself and your fellow human being as part of a greater project that is life itself.

Andreina Acri, born in Naples (Italy) in 1957. She has a degree in Spanish-American languages with a specialisation in Latin American and Brazilian literature from La Sapienza University in Rome (Italy). She speaks Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English.PhD in anthropology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) where she lived for several years. Resident in Chile for 36 years and now living in Italy. She is a direct disciple of the creator of the Biodanza System, Rolando Toro Arandea, having studied with him at the Escuela Modelo de Biodanza in Santiago de Chile in 1998.She is Director of the school of Biodanza Rolando Toro System in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina. She is the president of the International Biodanza Federation, an international Biodanza federation that unites more than 200 schools worldwide, formed by international biodanza associations. She teaches in Biodanza Schools throughout the world. She is currently organising two important events in Latin America, organising and participating as a teacher to prepare more than 250 future teachers who will be able to teach in Biodanza schools in the world.

Place: St Werburghs Primary School, Willows site, James Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9US

Cost: £135

Reservations: antoinette@biodanza4all.com

biodanza-shamanism
Renewal! Rejuvenation! Nourishment - filled with intention!

3rd Biodanza New Year Retreat in beautiful Forest of Dean

with Antoinette Lorraine
Saturday 10 January 11am - Sunday 12 January 4pm

Dear Friends: I invite you to join us : the description I can use is ‘enchantment’. You will be enchanted in this most magical of experiences – the

relaxation, the sigh of relief to be in such a beautiful experience, the deep healing which comes from the environment, the group and Biodanza – being in togetherness.

warmest love Antoinette Lorraine

We will be in the most beautiful place: lovely accomodation with a lovely lounge and log fire – set in beautiful grounds complete with a firepit and stream running through.

We will be in a place that has been described as ‘Heaven on Earth”. What nicer way to call in the New Year……in lovely company, delicious food, beautiful place in nature…..

The beautiful garden contains a stream and a firepit where will will make a ceremony together.

The woods nearby contain the ancient St Anthonys Sacred/Holy Well which we will visit to make a ceremony together..

We can have a lovely retreat here together: Dancing, connecting, setting intentions and calling in the New Year in a most potent way.

We will be able to dance, to connect, to set intentions by the firepit and celebrate the hailing of a New Year!

Renewing, revitalising, Renourishing ourselves…

Place: Asha Centre, Flaxley,  Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

Cost : £225 includes overnight stay and lunch and dinner Saturday and breakfast and lunch Sunday.

Arrival 11am Saturday 11 January and Departure Sunday 4pm 12 January.

Reservations:
antoinette@biodanza4all.com
www.biodanzaschoolbristol.co.uk

The Minotaur Project

Rituals & Ceremonies to Open Up & Enhance our Life Experience

with Antoinette Lorraine
Dates To Be ANNOUNCED

The Minotaur-Project represents a transformational work in Biodanza. Its methodology offers us access to our identity and a more abundant life by means of overcoming inner blocks.

The labyrinth is an archetypal metaphor for our existence with its pathways and bends symbolizing the doubts and mysteries along our path of life.In Greek myth,

The Minotaur is a creature with a human body and a bull’s head;

Biodanza symbolizes our Minotaur as our wild and intuitive nature, which lives as a power within us.

Our inner Minotaur is deeply wounded by cultural impacts – so very repressed. Our intuitive roots and power are encaptured by cultural anxieties.

We will re-establish contact with our elementary power, to free our inner Minotaur, to accept it and to cherish its beauty and strength

Our fear of this power reveals by various anxieties in every day life. By means of rituals in a safe and loving space, we meet our anxieties and

experience their transformation into courage and liberation.

Place: St Werburghs Primary School, Willows Site, James Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9US

Cost: £135 Reservations in Advance   antoinette@biodanza4all.com

*The Minotaur Project is a specialization of Antoinette Lorraine*

Reservations in advance

email to book

antoinette@biodanza4all.com