The Biocentric Principle
The Biocentric Principle, as proposed by Rolando Toro, is the key foundation of the theory of Biodanza. It can be stated simply as Life is Sacred and the starting point is the Vivencia of a universe based on life.
Respect for life becomes the central tenet and the foundation point of all disciplines and human behaviours.
Humanity is now conscious, for the first time, that we live within a disassociated culture. Our current cultural, social and economic conditions are anti-life. Changes are required in the way that people are educated, in order to put life first, and to reverse the crisis we are currently living in. The framework for these changes is that of Biocentric Education.
The Concept of Biocentric Education
- Biocentric Education is an idea completely different to anything envisaged by western educational thinkers,
- Biocentric Education is part of a new paradigm of Human Science which is the Biocentric Principle,
- Its objective is connection with life,
- Its methodology is the Vivencia,
- A priority is the development of internal rules of life, not intellectual or technological information,
- It must stimulate the Genetic Potential, the basic structure of Identity,
- In our culture it is necessary to retrieve the sentiment of the Sacredness of Life, the enjoyment of living,
- The absolute priority is the development of Affectivity and an amplified perception of the expansion of ethical consciousness, and
- Biodanza connects traditional and Biocentric Education.
The Aims of Biocentric Education
- Integration of Affectivity:
- Dances of solidarity,
- Dances of friendship, and
- Encounters in feedback.
- Expression of Identity:
- Exercises of personal challenge facing difficulties,
- Courage to defend one's point of view, and
- Connection with one's own strength.
- Organic Renovation:
- Integration of the Vital Unconscious.
- Experience Vivencias:
- Workshops in nature - geology, botany, zoology and astronomy.
- Induce expressivity and communication:
- Expression of emotions during dance and dialogue,
- Exercises of artistic creativity, and
- Development of verbal expression.
- Development of cinesthetic sensitivity, perception of body and movement:
- Exercises of fluidity, coordination, synergy, eutony, movement and cinesthetic pleasure.
- Integration of Nature and development of an Ecological Consciousness:
- Trips to the sea and mountains,
- Perception of Nature with the five senses, and
- Seek an ecological nest.
- Development and amplification of perception:
- Exercises of musical perception, and
- Perception of human situations using the 5 senses.
- Expansion of Ethical Consciousness:
- Exercises of regression and expansion of consciousness,
- Choirs and dances in nature.
- Joy of Life.
- Development of Affective Intelligence.
Theoretical Structure of Biocentric Education
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