SPECIAL EVENTS

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!

4th Biodanza New Year Retreat in beautiful Forest of Dean 2027

with Antoinette Lorraine
Saturday 9 January 11am - Sunday 10 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 : to be confirmed 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