Spiritual Vital Development
A journey 
of
- 'fanning into a flame' the forgotten spark of sacred dignity in everything.

 -  setting free of Passion and Compassion 
that still dances in your heart 
- connecting 
with the Pulsating Empowering Energy within you.

'To be fully alive is to shine/dance  with the radiance of Paradise'

 OUR
FIRST
 'Dance of Life'
Spiritual 
Vital Development
 Training Programme.

Director: Catherine Mc Inerney rsm

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 Vital Development Biodanza is a system of human development and emotional awareness and expression and has been in the UK for 20 years, pioneered and founded by Patricia Martello & Marcelo Di Matteo. 

Biodanza Vital Development (BVD) uses positive experiences like, emotions, music, movement and expression to awaken a warm sense of human communion to enable the person to open up and discover a profound and enjoyable connection with our profound and true human potentials. 
It does this through specific vital dances and exercises; unique intense experiences of aliveness known as 'vivencias'

How can BVD help you? 

Who is BVD for?

If you are experiencing
stress, worry, anxiety or frustration, or maybe depression, anxiety or fear

• or even if you simply feel lonely and wish to meet new people -

• or
•  if you want to dance, move freely and have a good time with like minded people
   or
• just give yourself the gift of a second chance in Life (or third, or fourth…)

The 'Dance of life' IS FOR YOU
 AND
FOR 
ANYONE 
AND 
EVERYONE!! 

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Are you capable of making good everyday decisions? 

Do you believe that you respond appropriately to other people in your life? 

By returning to a state of holistic well being and profound enjoyment through BVD classes, people make meaningful decisions in their pathways of life and respond more appropriately to the daily stresses that a normal life presents to us.
 
After taking a few months of regular classes, people find that they improve their well being and the quality of their style of life on the whole. 
This can only happen when we take our lives in their own hands. 
Regular participants start to understand life at an existential level and learn that life can be lived in a more profound, positive and meaningful way.
They then begin to live from another positive perspective.

There is a very wise saying that says,
" In order for the  the light to shine one has to fill the lamp with oil"

Regular Classes are vital for on-going experience  of health and well-being


The Vital Vivential System of Life Awareness

The potential of the person taking part in BVD is awakened in a group process by living in the here and the now, all with intensity and enjoyment! 
This moment of full awareness and aliveness, the vivencia of BVD, may be felt physically, psychologically, emotionally, in the joy of movement and the sense of a free body, in connection and communion with yourself and with others in the group or, sometimes, in contact with Nature.

Vital Development brings new objectives, upgraded techniques and an a wide theoretical net of support which are original and unique.

This is based on an appropriate and well founded incorporation of elements other techniques like, for example, the awareness in motion – Feldenkrais method, shamanic dances of afro-Brazilian, west Canadian and south pacific origin, and the application of techniques taken from the Psycomagic of Alejandro Jodorovski and the Sacred Psychology of Jane Houston.

The whole in itself appears as a new movement-therapy proposal with an original input and unique substance.

In this way, this vivential(lived-experience) method gives light to a new technical context and amplifies the horizon of other known body systems. The appropriate and subtle blend of movements and music allows the participants into a vital and therapeutic experience of profound transformational power.

Another element within the roots of VD of Patricia Martello & Marcelo Di Matteo is the amplification of the concept of love: from Love/eros towards the Greek tradition of Love/agape.

Within this same line and from the biological point of view, this is also supported by the theory of the three brains: reptile brain, mammal brain and human brain mentioned by Claudio Naranjo.

Finally, is common to find in VD works shops the intelligent, progressive and appropriate incorporation of exercises of tantra, meditation, family constellations and NLP, among other systems and methods.

We can say that VD is a more contemporary, balanced and dynamic version in the horizon of body-movement systems.

This has been achieved through the incorporation of around 120 new exercises and dances (on top of the around 250 currently in use), the majority of them challenging, extraordinary and transformational creations of Martello & Di Matteo.

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Patricia Martello

Patricia during a teaching moment on our Second Vital Development Training Weekend

         
About The Director of The First School of Biodanza in the UK.
Patricia Martello

Patricia and Catherine during a Biodanza Workshop in an exercise of tenderness and reverence

Patricia, teaching from her Heart during the Opening Day of the Training School

Happy Students of Our First Spiritual Vital Development Training School in Ireland with Patricia and Catherine.

Connecting together in the Circle of Life Dance.