Official internationally accredited school of Biodanza training in Cape Town, South Africa. Current training cycle started Feb 2025.
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21/01/2026
Vivencia = Spanish for "Experience". The Five Lines of Vivencia is foundational in Biodanza. A regular Biodanza practice helps us evolve and integrate in these main areas of our lives. But what does that mean? See below...
The source of the information is a newspaper article from an interview with Rolando Toro, the creator of Biodanza.
15/12/2025
See attached the schedule of events coming up in 2026, hosted by the Cape Town School of Biodanza:
💃🏽💫🕺🏻 10 monthly retreats in beautiful Cape Town, as part of the Personal Development Programme and Biodanza Facilitator Training (Feb - Nov 2026)
💃🏽💫🕺🏻 The 19th Biodanza African Encounter in Houw Hoek Hotel with international teachers Irene Franco and José Neves!
Tempted to join us for some weekend retreats in Kalk Bay in the new year? The Five Lines of Vivencia is foundational in Biodanza and would be a great place to start! Contact Annelize email - [email protected] | WhatsApp message - +27 82 9243871 for more information.
Below is an extract from an interview with Rolando Toro by Belisa Amaro which explains the concepts.
THE FIVE LINES OF VIVENCIA - THE FIVE MAIN AREAS OF LIFE WHICH HELPS US FEEL ALIVE
"What do you desire from life?" RolandoToro posed this question to hundreds of Chilean university students and Biodanza groups in his extensive research to develop the vivencias. Here are his definitions of each of the aspects that provide experiences of the intense perception of being alive in the present moment.
"l want to feel healthy." - VITALITY
First is vitality or the energy available to live. We are the result of our fragmented civilisation, which obliges us to be hypocrites and live in a false way. We lose sight of our real identity. Biodanza provides a group of exercises geared to restoring our integration, which restores our vitality. This is pure health.
"l want to enjoy pleasure." - SENSUALITY
The second mode is sensuality, or our access to pleasure and our capacity for enjoyment. Generally speaking, we place an embargo on our erotic feelings and hide behind a code of "proper" behaviour. This gives rise to serious conflict. Biodanza exercises awaken our sensuality.
"l want to create." - CREATIVITY
The third group is creativity, the expression of our identity in art, to communicate with the language of the soul. Not just in the aesthetic sense, but a deep creativity that transforms
our lives. We need to place our creativity at the service of life! That's when it really flows and you become the true protagonist of your life.
"l want to love and be loved." - AFFECTIVITY
The fourth mode I call affectivity, which is the capacity for love. Most of us find love so dangerous! Affectivity, though, is not only personal love. It is the ability to love all living things: plants, animals - even the universe.
"l want to connect with the essence of life." - TRANSCENDENCE
The fifth mode is transcendence, which is the ability to see and feel further than the immediate, to experience our personal relationship with the totality. It is the acknowledgment of our own sacredness. The set of exercises that relate to this mode results in ecstasy and an expansion of consciousness.
Article by Karen Mireao for Conscious Dancer magazine, Spring 2010.