Rolando Toro
I have lived experiences of ecstasy, in a
mysterious and marvellous world.
Summary
Rolando Toro Araneda, the founder of the Biodanza System, is an anthropologist and psychologist from Chile.
He was a lecturer in Anthropologic Medicine at the School of Medicine of Chile where he researched and experimented in expansion of consciousness, a Professor in the Psychology of Art and Expression at the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontificia University of Chile and a Professor at the Inter-American Open University of Argentina.
He created the Biodanza System forty years ago and has researched the effect of Biodanza on Psychosomatic, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases in Argentina, Brazil, Italy and Switzerland from 1974 until 1998 when he returned to Chile.
He is also a poet and painter.
Currently he is the President of the International Biocentric Foundation, which is responsible for the teaching of the Biodanza System in Schools of Biodanza worldwide.
Links
International Biocentric Foundation: http://www.biodanza.org
Rolando Toro Araneda, Biodanza and Parkinson's
Disease: Proposal of Motor Existential
Rehabilitaion
, Positive Health,
Issue 57, October 2000:
http://www.positivehealth.com/article-view.php?articleid=581
Brendan McManus SJ, Making a song and dance about
spirituality The 'Biodanza' method as embodied
spirituality
, Irish Jesuit, Vol 2,
Issue 2, 2006:
http://newsweaver.ie/jesuits/e_article000701048.cfm?x=b11,b4b28SK4,w
Carl Hoffman, Biodanza: The next big thing?
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The Jerusalem Post, 2008:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546437659&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Chris Bateman, Can we dance towards health?
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South-African medical journal:
http://www.biodanza-online.de/texte5.htm
David Tharp, Biodanza - The Art of Becoming Alive
Or How I Hugged My Way Through Brazil
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Tokyo Weekender, 2000:
http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/000317/biodanza.html
Karen Woodley, Biodanza - The Dance of Life
,
Positive Health Magazine, Issue 39,
1999:
http://www.positivehealth.com/article-view.php?articleid=591
Joanna Hunter, Go on, give us a hug
, Body
& Soul, The Times, 2004:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article474848.ece
Marcus Stuck, Tanz mit dem Chaos, tanz! Die
Wirkung von Biodanza auf Aktivierung, Deaktivierung
und Uberlastungshemmung
, Institute for Applied
Psychology, University of Leipzig, 2002 (in German):
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psycho/Projektpraktikum/ss2002/biodanza/
Marcus Stuck, The Newest in Biodanza
Research
:
http://www.biodanza.co.za/uploads/www_biodanza_co_za/File/English_AusdruckA5%5B1%5D.pdf
Sarah Dalles, Dances With Passion - Interview with
Rolando Toro
, Kindred Spirit, Vol 3
No 8, 1996:
http://www.biodanza.co.za/Interview_with_Rolando_Toro_.aspx?Sel=DI,247l1BBY
