SPECIAL EVENTS

IBFed BIODANZA SCHOOL BRISTOL, UK: BIODANZA ORGANISATION & COMPANIES SPECIALIST TRAINING 2026

Biocentric Principle for Organisations
with Pablo Escorcia (Columbia/Berlin)
2 Modules:
Module 1 : 4/5 July 2026
Module 2: 7/8 November 2026

Who can attend?

1. Biodanza teachers and students in training to be Biodanza teachers, who are interested in applying the Biocentric System for Organizations (BSO), for the facilitation of workshops aimed at companies, institutions and organizations. These will receive a certification of teaching diploma.

2. and also participants who are not Biodanza students and teachers can attend ie: – Organizational development consultants, human resources managers and managers of organizations who want to know the BSO model and/or apply the model in their organizations. NOTE: The extension does NOT grant the title as Biodanza teacher

Many Biodanza teachers feel called to bring Biodanza and the Biocentric Principle beyond regular groups and into teams, institutions, and companies. At the same time, organizations today operate under increasing pressure: rapid change, uncertainty, performance expectations, and cultural fragmentation.
This complexity makes relational intelligence, embodied awareness, and human connection more necessary than ever — yet also more challenging to introduce. Decision-makers often struggle to understand how a vivencial methodology can contribute to leadership, collaboration, and measurable organizational development.
This specialization addresses precisely that gap: how to translate the depth of Biodanza into language, structure, and interventions that organizations can recognize, understand, and integrate.
Rooted in the developments of teachers who opened this line of work, further updated through regenerative approaches to organizational development, and informed by my own 20 years of experience as a coach and organizational consultant, this training bridges:

• Vivencial depth and strategic clarity
• Relational intelligence and organizational performance
• Human vitality and systemic resilience
What Participants Will Learn
• Apply the Biocentric Principle within organizational systems
• Translate vivencial processes into professional organizational language
• Design Biodanza-based interventions for teams and institutions
• Understand regenerative approaches as a bridge between relational depth and measurable outcomes
• Clarify the role of the Biodanza teacher as consultant in organizational contexts
This specialization expands the field of application of Biodanza into professional organizational environments without losing its essence.

Program Structure 4 Days – 28 Hours – 2 modules Daily schedule

• Saturdays: 10:30 – 19:00 • Sundays: 09:00 – 16:00

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

Cost: £165 each module weekend

Payable in advance: antoinette@biodanza4all.com

The specialization combines theoretical input, vivencias, and application cases based on official IBF exercises.

Certification: This specialization is officially recognized and certified by the International Biodanza Federation.

About the Facilitator

Juan Pablo Escorcia is a political scientist, ontological coach, Didactic Professor of Biodanza, organizational consultant, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of international experience.

His work integrates the Biocentric Principle with systemic and regenerative approaches to organizational development, bridging human relational depth with structural clarity and strategic impact. He has designed and facilitated transformation processes for NGOs, corporations, public institutions, and educational organizations across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and beyond.

As a Biodanza Didacta, he brings a deep understanding of vivencial methodology; as a consultant, he contributes expertise in leadership, communication, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational change. Within this specialization, he supports teachers in translating Biodanza into credible and effective organizational interventions without losing its essence. His focus is on expanding the professional field of Biodanza into contemporary organizational contexts with rigor and integrity.

THE FOUR ANIMALS IN BIODANZA 2026

WITH ANTONIO SARPE (Brazil/Portugal)
Saturday 24 October 2026 10.30-7pm
& Sunday 25 October 2026 9.30-5pm

The four animals in Biodanza—snake, tiger, heron, and hippo—are archetypal movements.

~These archetypes allows participants to express instinctual behaviours, awaken dormant potential, and access deep, primal facets of human identity.

Snake: Represents fluidity, sensuality, flexibility, and the ability to surrender and release.

Tiger: Embodies strength, agility, passion, direct action, and power.

Heron: Symbolizes lightness, grace, mental clarity, and connection to the spiritual or higher perspective.

Hippo :Gregarious, Pleasure

These archetypes are danced to help individuals transition from conditioned, rigid roles to more fluid, instinctive ways of being, often working to balance these elements within their personal identity. The balance of the four within us will allow a high level of health,. Pathology occurs when we ‘specialise’ in a single animal and the consequence is an existential lack.
Antonio Sarpe: Clinical Psychologist Worked in medical and psychosomatic psychology in Rio de Janeiro Hospital Specialised in Reichian and Bioenergetic therapy. Director of Biodanza School Lisbon, Portugal
Place; St Werburghs Primary School, Willows Site, James Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9US Car Parking through the gates in front of main school

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

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*

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 : £265

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

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

BIODANZA SCHOOL BRISTOL, UK

BIODANZA & SHAMANISM;'FOLLOWING THE ANIMAL PROTECTORS' 2027

WITH ANDREINA ACRI (Chile/Italy)

20/21 March 2027

Saturday 20 March 10.30-7pm

& Sunday 21 March 9.30- 5pm

After the potency of the weekend experience of Biodanza Shamanism with Andreina we have asked her to return to further our experience with the Animal Guides.

In Shamanism animal protectors are spiritual guides who accompany and protect us on our journey. Each animal has a special meaning and power, and is believed to help us overcome challenges and find balance and harmony in our lives. Remember that your animal protector is a personal and unique guide, and that you can connect with them when you are prepared to accept them.

We will explore Shamanism and the concept of Protectors and Animal Totems through the Biodanza system where we will learn the wisdom of animal protectors through specific dances. Finding your animal protector is a deep spiritual and maturational journey.

This weekend will offer a comprehensive overview of animal protectors from global Shamanic traditions and Biodanza dances allowing you to connect with the energies and teachings of these powerful guides.

It will be two intense days of dances and rituals to prepare us to relearn, remember and reapply the mysterious and wise world of our ancestors who believed in the power of the animals. We invite you to join us on this Shamanic Journey.

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

Details :
antoinette@biodanza4all.com
www.biodanzaschoolbristol.co.uk
BIODANZA SCHOOL BRISTOL, UK

BIODANZA WITH CLAY  with Andreina Acri (Italy/Chile) 2027

WITH ANDREINA ACRI (Chile/Italy)
Saturday 10 July 10.30-7pm
& Sunday 11 July 9.30-5pm
On a biological level clay works directly and deeply on the vital unconscious creating internal changes of cellular reparentalisation. It is a connection with the primordial, the most primitive part of the human being in its evolution.

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

Cost: £135
Details :
antoinette@biodanza4all.com
www.biodanzaschoolbristol.co.uk
Reservations in advance

email to book

antoinette@biodanza4all.com