Facilitators in Weekly Practice

The benefits of presence...

• Embodied learning cannot be taught intellectually.
  Biodanza is a vivencial system—its method is learned through lived experience, not theory. Weekly sessions allow the facilitator-in-training to feel the methodology in their own body, emotions, and nervous system outside of the once a month two day theoretical/vivencial training modules.
  
  
• Integration of movement, affectivity, and music requires repetition.
  The nervous system learns through consistent exposure. Weekly practice helps develop sensitivity, fluidity, emotional presence, and the capacity to modulate vivencias.
  
  
• You must experience what you will later guide.
  A facilitator must know from the inside what each exercise awakens—trust, regression, vitality, tenderness, trance. This ensures responsible, ethical facilitation.
  
  
• Group identity is formed over time, not in isolated sessions.
  Biodanza works through the affective intelligence of the group. Being part of a stable weekly group teaches how bonds form, deepen, and transform—a skill essential for future facilitators.
  
  
• Regular practice strengthens emotional containment.
  Facilitators must cultivate centeredness, grounding, empathy, and emotional containment. Weekly classes help develop the inner stability needed to hold a group safely.
  
  
• Observation of facilitation in action is critical.
  Trainees learn by watching the facilitator’s timing, use of voice, sequencing, and modulation of music. Weekly exposure provides real models of good facilitation.
  
  
• It builds the facilitator’s authentic vivencial vocabulary.
  Through repeated experiences, trainees develop genuine emotional resources—presence, connection, lyrical expression—so their future facilitation comes from authenticity, not imitation.
  
  
• It strengthens personal processes essential for facilitating others.
  Biodanza requires self-awareness, emotional maturity, and ongoing transformation. Weekly immersion supports personal healing, vitality, and integration.
  
  
• Ethical responsibility requires deep personal practice.
  Biodanza touches profound emotional and archetypal layers. Only someone who has personally navigated these processes consistently is equipped to guide others safely.
  
  
• It ensures coherence between training, lifestyle, and facilitation.
  A facilitator must embody the Biodanza proposal in movement, behavior, and relationships. Weekly practice cultivates coherence between life and vocation and thus, integrity.

Michelle Dubreuil

Director Biodanza Maryland DC School USA