Biodanza

"Biodanza is about learning to dance with life and rediscovering the pleasure of living.” - Founder Rolando Toro Araneda

Born in South America, today Biodanza is enjoyed all over the world!

What Can You Expect at a Class?

Music, dance and movement that free your natural flow.
Inspiration and experimentation with free and guided movement (no steps to remember.)
Uplifting social connection and fun.
Shifts in body, heart and mind!

Each week is a re-set away from stress towards joy and freedom.

Adults of all ages are welcome. No experience needed, just bring your curious heart, comfortable clothes for moving in, bare feet and a water bottle.

Heartfelt Review

"I came to Michelle's Biodanza retreat just in time. I felt like all those long-neglected corners of my psyche could finally be attended to, in a safe group of fellow humans. I slowly tuned in to my body, to a slow, cautious pace... coming out of isolation and deprivation. Then, as I allowed myself to relax into the space and the music, I found that I was ready for an encounter, with self and with others, I began feeling joy. My limbs felt happy, I felt more energy. I also cried, all that grief had to go somewhere - and I was witnessed and held by the compassionate presence of others. It felt like in that relatively short time (a movement, or "vivencia" in Biodanza lasts about an hour and a half) I felt like I lived an entire life. I felt belonging and support, I felt seen, I felt "held", I shared, I gave, I received, and I began processing the grief of the collective trauma we all had lived through in the past couple of years. All of that - without speaking a word. Only music, movement and experience."

Mary Magdalene "Lit" Dance/Book Club

I’m delighted to invite you into a 7-week embodied book club/dance sanctuary that weaves together sacred text, community conversation, and expressive movement to explore what it means to be fully human and fully divine through a divine feminine lens.

This is a unique Book Club/Movement Sanctuary extravaganza

7 Weeks · 7 Sacred Powers · Seeing with the Eye of the Heart

This first journey we will take together is inspired by Meggan Watterson’s The Mary Magdalene Oracle and her epic book The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, rooted in one of the earliest mystical streams of the Christ movement. Have you read it? It's fabulous!

Discovered in Egypt, the 2nd century Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals teachings from Jesus that were later excluded from the biblical canon created in the 4th century during the political codification of the Christ's teachings by the Roman Empire. Mary's recovered ancient teachings center on inner knowing, sacred embodiment, unity, and love, rather than fear, hierarchy, or separation.

I am excited to share this divine feminine energy with you!

This course is open to all genders and welcomes anyone drawn to embodied spirituality, contemplative movement, and sacred inquiry.

What we will explore in our time together

Over seven weeks, we will journey through the seven powers of the ego, as revealed in Mary’s Gospel.

Each week the two-hour session will include:

Teaching and guided conversations using the text and oracle deck which you will purchase and read if you don't already have them
Community sharing and reflection in safe and sacred space open to all
A short meditation at the end of each session
A 45-minute gentle, thematic sacred embodiment session to move the teachings out of the intellect and into the body. This will be easy access into your own movement guided by the facilitator. No dance experience required and no steps to remember.

Together, we shift from ideas of separation into an experience of sovereignty with ourselves and unity with each other and the universe.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

Tuesdays from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
The Seven Powers of the Ego that we will explore based off the book and oracle cards:
Week 1, Oct 13th: The First Power: Darkness “Darkness makes vision possible.”
Week 2, Oct 20th: The Second Power: Clinging “I trust what my soul desires.”
Week 3, Oct 27th: The Third Power: Ignorance “Humility is my greatest strength.”
Week 4, Nov 3rd: The Fourth Power: Excess “I am Beloved.”
Week 5, Nov 10th: The Fifth Power: Forgetting “I am a body and a soul.”
Week 6, Nov 17th: The Sixth Power: The Sacred Body “The body never lies.”
Week 7, Nov 24th: The Seventh Power: Holy Rage “Anger is information.”
Through gentle and creative sacred embodiment, deep reflection, and shared presence, these powers become felt experiences, not just abstract ideas. Dancing, which we do barefoot, can be done standing or seated if necessary. Chairs will be available if needed.

TUITION:

$320 paid in advance for the full series - there is NO drop-in possibility
Use Zelle email: biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com / In message write: MM Book Club

Dancing the Divine Feminine

Join us for 7 weeks to dance the theme THE DIVINE FEMININE.

Every week is a new goddess.

Every week is a new doorway into yourself.

Each two-hour session begins with a seated circle, where you'll receive a teaching on one goddess : her story, her qualities, her medicine. From there, we move together in sacred embodiment, letting her energy flow through gesture, breath, and motion. No dance background required, no experience necessary. Just you, the music, and a room full of women ready to remember who they are.

CYCLE 1: WINTER 2026

December 8: Mother Mary, the Mother of God
December 15: Mary Magdalene, the Apostle to the Apostle
January 12: Perpetua, the Saint of Authenticity
January 19: Thecla, the Prophetess of True Power
January 26: Anandamaya Ma, the Joy Permeated Mother
February 2: Khadijah, the Mother of Believers
February 9: Joan of Arc, the Warrior of Light