Listening to Ourselves
A reflection on emotions, thought, and presence in movement As important as it is to listen to others, it’s just as vital to listen to ourselves. Not in a surface way — but really listen. To the dialogue inside. To the emotions that don’t always get words. Often, our words are at odds with our […]
Mind-Body Dialogue: How Inner Conflict Affects Your Well-being
As important as it is to listen to others, we also need to listen to ourselves. Often, odd words are at odds with our feelings, and this in itself can be a cause of conflict. The Dialogue in our Minds So, this is less about how we express ourselves externally and more about the dialogue […]
From Spider Bites to Soul Healing: A Journey through Pizzica Tarantata and Biodanza
The Ritual Unveiled In the heart of the Salento Peninsula in Italy, a mysterious ritual unfolds. A woman, believed to be afflicted by the bite of the tarantula spider, starts to move in a wild, frenzied dance. The music accelerates, her body twists and turns, and a curious transformation takes place. As she surrenders to […]
The Voice and Silence: Leadership Powerful Tools in Communication
The way we communicate is a complex process influenced by many factors, including tone and inflection of our voice, the words we choose, and body language. The voice holds a special place in our communication, often seen as the megaphone of the soul, according to a Greek proverb. In this blog post, we will explore […]
The Commitment Cycle
The commitment cycle outlined below is straightforward, even obvious. Unfortunately, however, it is rarely followed and commitments are weak or non-existent most of the time. When asking someone to do something for us, in other words, when delegating a task, often there’s a quick conversation followed by an interjection, such as OK? This is […]
Podcast Ep20 – Trance & Dance (Pt 2)
Podcast Ep19 – Trance & Dance (Pt 1)
Dancing the Revolution
On the weekend I presented Human Movement in the Biodanza School of Australia I really struggled when preparing. I felt I couldn’t and didn’t want to ignore the Black Lives Matter movement and my feelings of being so deeply disturbed by global politics and ongoing polarisation and tension built by living in media bubbles, frightening […]
An innocent little invitation
When I was little I had a fantasy of being in a big hall and dancing around freely and happily with music I loved. I was always mad for dancing – Irish, jazz, contemporary, flamenco or just on the road outside our home to my own song in the rain, I had always danced. From […]
The superego hates dancing.
My buttons got pressed super hard when I heard another dance facilitator refer to Biodanza as ‘kids stuff’. Woosh came the anger and fury with lots of “How dare they @#%$&%” etc etc. But if I look at this comment another way I can see that in a sense it is true. In Biodanza people […]