notes from Alejandra Villegas talk on YouTube
Introduction
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Do´s and Don’ts FOR TEACHERS OFFERING ONLINE GATHERINGS
- Consider classing your virtual sessions as Biocentric Activities rather than Biodanza
- Avoid starting the sessions with music and dance
- Prioritise the accompaniment of the process
- Consider the possibility of giving more time to heart-felt verbal expression, of staying in the world of the heart, of poetry, and of feelings, which might be the only way people will feel fully received.
- In a session with music and dance, allow extra time for the initial verbal sharing of individual needs and emotions
- Use the power of the poetic word during enunciations
- Concentrate on dances of motor integration to gradually dissolve dissociation
- Stay in the concrete, invite people to stay present to the space they are in
- Avoid the world of imagination, e.g. in fluidity don’t encourage people to imagine they are in water, but rather to connect with the water within them which would help them flow with life, etc.
- Avoid triggering potent emotions – many people are feeling very vulnerable right now
- Opt for short dances - and avoid going too deep because no one is there to help hold and contain any emotions that might be triggered
- Avoid anything that might trigger catharsis
- Focus on self-regulation (emotional and physiological)
- Invite people to reconnect with their sense of self & their inner calling
- Encourage connection with self to overcome the fear of the inner world
- Focus on cosmic integration, the cosmos in me, the luminous
- Affectivity and transcendence
- Select music for hope
- Remind people that life needs to be celebrated each and every day
YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO AN AUDIO INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH HERE
(*1) However, research has also found that 3 months are not enough to increase the capacity to love, which requires facing fears re. attachments and letting go of body armour, energetic blockages, etc.
* Please make allowances for potential errors or misunderstandings in translation - Spanish is not my mother tongue!