The Syllabus
A School of Life!
The theoretical and practical (vivencial) weekends have the power to transform your outlook on life, they form a comprehensive and unified training programme.
We place great emphasis on the vivencial and experiential process.
Personal Professional and the Social Life.
The First Year:
Our first 10 school weekends will give you a grounding in the theoretical foundations of Biodanza and their relationship to different aspects of human sciences. Whether you are doing the training or coming as a regular dancer, our emphasis on dancing and connecting together in the vivencia will gradually deepen your experience.
You can choose the option to join the school in order to explore in more depth the personal and social aspects of Biodanza without wanting to become a facilitator so you can dance with us regularly each school weekend.
The Second Year:
These next 10 weekends are now targeted more specifically to the mechanisms and effects of Biodanza. This is the heart of the training.
The Third Year:
These final 8 weekends begin the introduction to the methodology - the ‘how’ of becoming a facilitator. After an interview with the Directors to discuss your progress and suitability for the practical training you will be invited to begin this final year of your training. We shift to learning the theoretical and practical skills needed by a Biodanza facilitator to lead a group. These skills are:
Understanding the theory and methodology of Biodanza.
Your own ability to experience vivencia.
Your ability to demonstrate the exercises to others.
Your enunciation (or introduction) of exercises.
Your choice of music and understanding of how it works.
Your design of a class using the appropriate sequence of exercises.
Your observation and reading of the group.
Towards the end of this year a supervisory period will be arranged to help you to set up your own group and to apply the material learned and in the preparation and presentation of a monography.
Investment:
For students
£145 per weekend
The fee includes the theory manual for each weekend
as a print or in PDF format.
For regular dancers
£110 per weekend
£55 for one day
Please use the details below to make payment at least one week ahead of your attendance,
and email Ruth Strupinski to confirm.
Bank transfer:
Account Name: Biodanza
NatWest Bank
Account No 102 629 11
Sort Code 60 17 31
IBAN: GB76 NWBK 601 731 102 629 11
BIC: NWBK GB2L
Reference: Your Name
We look forward to dancing with You!
The School Directors
We bring our own unique way of facilitating to each school weekend. We are delighted in seeing our students evolve and blossom in the safety of our Richmond home. We’re honoured to be passing on our love for the visionary restorative system created by Professor Rolando Toro, Biodanza’s founder.
Find out more about Ruth Strupinski and Altair de Almeida.
The weekly classes:
It is necessary to go to a weekly Biodanza class regularly throughout the duration of the training cycle so as to increase your depth of experience of the vivencia.
If you live too far from a weekly session it is suggested that you attend a Biodanza workshop every month. Some exceptions to this can be allowed with the approval of the school directors.
The School recognizes as valid only the weekly sessions and workshops conducted by Registered IBF Biodanza Teachers (given within the official system and by facilitators and tutors who have the recognized qualifications).
The process + training programme
Theoretical Studies
The Biodanza training course has a minimum duration of three years and consists of 28 modules. Each module is theoretical and experiential and includes a training manual by Rolando Toro Araneda.
Deepening Experiential
During the training modules great importance is given to the relationship between the experiences and theoretical issues discussed.
Methodology
The unique Biodanza Training Programme contains seven modules of methodology. The goal of methodology modules is that the student in training is equipped to be a facilitator.
Supervised Classes
Practical experience presenting weekly groups of Biodanza under the supervison of a Didactic teacher of Biodanza, with a minimum of 8 supervision classes.
Social Action
Students can optionally perform, under supervision, social action in the community using Biodanza ie various groups and institutions, elderly groups, children etc.
Monography
The student will prepare a monography/thesis on a theoretical or practical aspect of Biodanza. The monograph will be carried out with guidance of a Didactic Teacher.
Graduation
It is the submission of the thesis/monography before a panel of Didactic Teachers and will be organised by the School of Biodanza in which the student belongs.
Diploma Teacher of Biodanza
For the teaching Diploma degree all stages of the training programme will have been completed by the student and the student will enrol with the International Biocentric Federation that will provide Professional Registration.
Accreditations
International Biocentric Federation (IBF)
Our school is registered by the International Biocentric Federation which is the governing body of Biodanza.
There are IBF schools in 36 countries worldwide.
On completion of the course you will receive your diploma from the school and the IBF as a certified Professor of Biodanza.
Systema Rolando Toro
We follow the S.R.T. "Systema Rolando Toro".
Developed in the 60's in Chile by psychologist and anthropologist Professor Rolando Toro it has spread worldwide and the original Spanish has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German. Biodanza does, though, retain its original Spanish flavour.
We stay true to Rolando's vision alongside all our fellow Directors worldwide.
