January 2009 sees the first anniversary of the Dorset School of Biodanza at the Leela Centre. It has been a fantastic year of integration and development and a very solid foundation from which to build on. New members have been joining with each successive weekend, joining the 16 brave men and women who said yes from the start. Some of the personnel have changed but it is a healthy and affective bunch that progress into the second year, ready and eager to embrace necomers whenever and whoever they may be. Surprise us with your presence!

The school of Biodanza is primarily, but not exclusively, to train Biodanza professionals. There are 28 school weekends taken over three years, which will contain all the usual yumminess and juiciness of warmth, love, expression and connection you are used to with Biodanza, but we will also be covering the theoretical model and the biological and psychological effects of the technique etc., the scientific framework upon which Biodanza hangs. But, as the training is so heavily based in the practice of "doing" Biodanza, in the vivencia, many people not intending to teach attend the school weekends simply to enjoy more Biodanza and to deepen their experience of it.

Some of these people, myself included, decide somewhere down the line that they would like to use the qualification. I have friends who have been going for ten years or more and choose not to teach. Therefore attendees are under no obligation to become teachers.

Having said that, I cannot recommend the training highly enough. For me personally it alleviated the pain and suffering of being an estate agent in London Docklands for 8 years, and eventually opened the door to dropping that way of life completely. The School will not only teach you how to lead classes, earn extra money and eventually make a living, but will also teach you how to lead a life. That is the greater purpose of Biodanza, a re-education and re-connection to the essential and the good in life. All training courses worth their salt attempt to extend their influence beyond the classroom into the "real" world, and this one is no exception.

Click here to view the School Syllabus and admission requirements.