Between culture and nature

Faced with the abyss created by human contradictions, I felt the desire to conquer paradise, a shared paradise. I wanted to find the sources of Original Love.

Rolando Toro

Wisdom to live, it was always my existential desire. With a significant amount of clarity, creativity and confidence to determine the focus, plus love as elixir. The formula is simple, based on cosmic principles and the memory of a childhood in nature.

In my fortunate childhood I liked to make mud cakes, recite poetry and dance among the vineyards. At twenty I chose a career that allowed me to express myself (without first having gone through one of the hard sciences). From that time until now, I dance and write. My identity has been changing and yet I am still that spoiled and dreamy child.

When passing through the best years of the journalistic ego also came from modeling and had a boyfriend, as wealthy as he was unfaithful, with whom he shared the complicity of crazy sex that bring young years. He lived without magic, in automatic mode and putting into practice everything learned institutionally.

In dance, however, I found a refuge to explore the intimate sensibility of genuine gesture. In the cenesthesia I found the tenderness, simplicity and eros of noble play that I had forgotten in the trunk of memories.

Before knowing biodanza, I danced other disciplines of dance but in this system I found something deeper that made me transcend the edges of time and space. In these experiences I felt that I inhabited paradise.

“The conceptual basis of Biodanza comes from a meditation on life, from the desire to be reborn from our torn gestures, from our empty and sterile structure of repression. We could say with certainty: the nostalgia of love.”

Biodanza had everything that fascinated me. Poetic word, hope in humanity, music, affective continent, simplicity, nature, bare feet and mud in the hands. The scientific touch on biological, anthropological, pedagogical, psychological, cultural and cosmic knowledge closed my circle of preference. I had found the vocation and cause to continue nurturing my commitment to communication as the protagonist of every experience.

I began the path of the so-called “school of life” with the hope of the traveler. The biggest challenge was to recognize the acquired identity in order to unlearn it and re-learn. From the logic and thirst for information that characterizes me, it was a chaotic process to feel that I had to learn to walk at 33. In those years the experience of the learning process had me wrapped in a cosmic bubble of very deep existential reflections.

The methodology was very different from my learning habits. The study was lived with the comfort of knowing at home, learning in community, feeling part of a tribe, link in a chain. Both the theoretical understanding and the body register were transmitted from experience, in a legitimating round of voices.

I remember that my initial expectations were related to bonding, the environment and the vital need for love. But with the customary practice of questioning all theories, I was afraid to ask questions like: What does the sociocultural system teach us? What does religion lead us to? What are institutions disguised as? Who has access to opportunities? Because, as a species, we share the feeling of loneliness? What do we share with other species? What is it that human beings desire most?

The socio-economic system that we humans are part of shuts us down. In all cultures, we get used to pain. We learn to live on the basis of the functional, to block our creativity, to silence the instinct, to hide the emotions, to lower the look before the unjust not to stop belonging to that known way of living. We grow in the dichotomy of Being/ Should be and that dissociation damages the totality of our potential. We walk without looking or admiring the magic of the creation discrediting even, to one who retains the power to dream.

Our social forms are dissociated from the rhythms of nature, our true home. Culture, said Rolando Toro, should be organized in terms of life and not vice versa. The disconnection of human beings with the cosmic matrix of life is so profound that destructive cultural forms have been generated throughout history. The dissociation of body and soul has led to the profound cultural crisis in which we live.

If we are aware that the social system creates forms of human destruction which are concealed under progress, war, civilization, the media, discrimination and violence in any of its manifestations, We will be able to find the way back to paradise. But are we willing? What arguments are needed to re-cultivate an open, curious and cheerful attitude towards life?

The feeling of original love is the supreme experience of contact with life. Through biodanza we come to connect with that source and from the biocentric principle, we conceive the universe as a gigantic hologram where life has a sacred quality. Paradise, of which Rolando Toro speaks, is the intrinsic energy that drives life and connection with the environment.

Human beings who are made up of cosmic particles possess that memory of fullness.

The dormant potential under existential hearths can be awakened by enabling conscious listening states of the body and connection with the spirit to perceive the pulse of the heart, unison movement that connects us to the original love from which all things come and achieve an experience of life aligned with nature created by the divine pulse, where dancing without choreography for example, is part of everyday life.

Isadora Duncan, a German dancer considered the mother of modern dance, in 1900 claimed that great skills were not needed to dance, because dancing is a human condition. Inspired by nature and art, he claimed that anyone could dance as there is a connection between the body, emotion and music.

Rolando Toro, in his first writings on the biodanza system, said: Games and exercises are a set of experiments of body expression. They refer to the musical power to cure diseases, invoke the forces of nature, awaken love, desire and harmonize societies. To achieve this, he maintained “it is necessary to awaken in man the lost inner musicality and restore his animal vitality.”

So the biodanza that is an accelerator system of integrative processes at organic and existential level, merges science and art, to achieve through music and movement excited, awaken the essential meaning of love that is the organizing force of life. Feeling aligned with that force leads us to experience a life in harmony and fullness.

As I am being, the revelations of all that I dream and such a cosmic gift appear the possibilities, impregnated with lightness and mystery, to give them shape.