On this page you will find information about:

• The African Encounter – Why?
• The African Encounter – Promoting Biodanza in South Africa & Africa

The African Encounter has traditionally provided the South African Biodanza community with the worlds most accomplished Teachers to expand our personal experiences and to improve our facilitation skills.

This is the 18th African Encounter and we are proud to be holding the event at Magalies Manor, Gauteng, South Africa.

The African Encounter is an annual event over four days from Friday afternoon to Monday lunch time.

The African Encounter – Why?

The African Encounter has become a tradition of gathering Biodanza participants together from many countries and from around South Africa to dance as one; to come together in a community representative of a future world in which life is placed at the center of our awareness and love is the norm, not the exception to the way that we as individuals treat each other.

Rolando Toro, The Founder of Biodanza is well known for his desire, “….to see the whole world dancing….”.

Participants experience something profoundly wonderful in the coming together of like-minded, like-hearted people, softened by the warmth of each other over the four day event of an African Encounter; and as we return to our home communities there are profound feelings of – harmony; peacefulness; joyfulness; feelings of more authentic yet pragmatic love flow that requires no effort – it just is; which in itself seems to open into a natural exuberance for life. At home the difference is noticed, even if only subconsciously at first; something has changed in us – sometimes the change is a little challenging for our loved ones, but always there is value for everyone.

Its as if the atmosphere is more alive with life when we return from an African Encounter.

The seemingly ethereal joyfulness, becomes a reality that stays with us long into the year that follows until we return once again to the next African Encounter.

In humility we gradually change the world around us, simply by being in the heart of life, seeing ourselves and our brothers and sisters as moving inexorably forward toward a community that encompasses the whole of humanity and all living things. With no need to defend and thus no need to attack. However, to come to this point requires our honest and deep individual appraisal of ourselves – accepting the shadow and the light within us; getting to know what and who we are; what we are capable of – then choosing what we want for ourselves and each other; experiencing the chaos – yet able to transform it into the glorious. This is the human potential.

And that is the purpose of the methodologies of Biodanza – to open the way to the opportunities that culminate in the development of authentically joyful communities, in a self sustainable world – of a diverse unified humanity.

The African Encounter – Promoting Biodanza in South Africa & Africa:

Biodanza in South Africa is still relatively new and underdeveloped, with most classes found only near our  major cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.

The African Encounter is the fertile ground upon which a brighter future rests.

WELCOME TO THE  AFRICAN ENCOUNTER,

AN EXPERIENCE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR EVER. 

   Welcome to South Africa