Some people try Biodanza, do it a few times, feel wonderful, and then stop. In no time they go back to their usual feelings of being exhausted, stressed and depressed. Then, they return to Biodanza for a boost. So how can we keep the benefits of Biodanza? And when will we be able to keep the progress we have made if we stop practicing it? |
Practicing Biodanza regularly will enable you to check your progress in each line and eventually integrate its many benefits.
Line of Vitality
In the first stage of developing vitality you notice an increase of vital energy, motivation to live, and energy available for action, e.g. to go to parties, to travel, to work. Your endogenous mood improves, and you experience a sense of physical wellbeing. You feel alive, feel the vitality of your body, have plenty of energy, and rediscover the joy of living. |
The third level of developing vitality is biological renewal. You wake up renewed. In short, first, you get energy to live, to get going, and to go get it! Then you experience freedom from psychosomatic symptoms. And finally, you look at yourself and say, "I look ten years younger!" This is biological renewal.
Line of Sexuality
In the first stage of developing your sexuality you let go of guilt and begin to experience sexuality as the purest, most beautiful, sacred and innocent thing in the world. So you let go of guilt, overcome Plato’s dissociation of body and soul, and exorcise 2000 years of Christianity that denied the body and associated it to sin. You overcome all this by letting go of guilt. |
The third level is sacred erotic fusion, where sexuality finds its transcendent dimension. It is through orgasm and fusion with another that you experience "la petit mort," as the French say. You're so happy that you could die after these wonderful orgasms that involve the whole being.
Line of Creativity
The first stage of developing your creativity is the expression of emotions, which is the best prevention for psychosomatic illnesses. We need to express, express, express. Otherwise we become sick and our guts contract with psychosomatic problems, which can lead to cancer and autoimmune diseases where the immune system attacks its own body. |
The second stage is existential creativity, so that you are able to choose where to live, what to do, and with whom to live. Wherever that is, in another city or on a different continent. The world is small. You can get on a plane, discover your place in the world, and create your own life. You can sculpt your self. If your expression is heavy, aged, caved in, that is because you live in that way. You become the creator of your self and of your own life.
The third level is artistic creation. You start playing the guitar, writing poems, dancing, cooking, and adding beauty to the world. You listen to your hunger for beauty and follow your aesthetic instinct.
Line of Affectivity
The first stage of developing affectivity is the elimination of toxic relationships. You become as smart as an amoeba (Reich). If you put an amoeba in a nourishing environment, it opens its membrane and expands. If you put it in a threatening environment, it contracts and moves away. So the first level is the development of this type of intelligence, which allows you move away from disqualifying and toxic relationships. |
The second level is about reciprocity, equality and balance when it comes to giving and receiving. You no longer feel the need to rescue the whole world. Learning to receive is often the most important learning in this stage.
And the third level consists in working for the welfare of others. We’re all social beings, and we’re all going through a transformation process that promotes social change. The personal growth that results from attending a regular group also impacts society because in Biodanza we’re spreading love.
Line of Transcendence
In the line of transcendence the first stage of development is non-duality, the holistic perception of the universe, the perception of wholeness, the realisation that there is nothing separate. It is about going beyond the dichotomy I-nature, nature-culture, and earth-universe, and experiencing oneness. |
The third level is the creation of your personal, intimate, inner space. The numinous unconscious is revealed in the intasis. It’s what you have within you and nothing can take it away from you. People with this level of transcendence become indestructible. Nothing can annihilate them. Whatever happens to them, they will resurface again, pure, free and enlightened. Reaching this stage means that you are always free, because you recognise your infinite, cosmic and sacred dimension and nothing and no one can take that away from you.
This blog post consists of an altered and edited version of an explanation of the levels of evolution in Biodanza given by Antonio Sarpe during one on his training courses.