Since 2017 we have been organizing this Biodanza retreats, with people from all over the world dancing together.

We´ve been creating beautiful, powerful, intimate, safe, stimulating, and profound vivencias of deepening the experience of Biodanza. It's a process of personal transformation and a shared adventure.

A retreat is different from a festival, a congress or vacations with Biodanza.

Our retreats are a six days journey, with progressive deepening, where each vivencia is connected to the next, and everybody in the group dances the same vivencias. This process promotes a way of reaching really profound vivencias, and harmonization, supported by the affective bonding amongst the participants. 

And it all happens in connection and synergy to every aspect of the retreat, because we will enjoy meals together, laugh together, share wonderful moments, will have time to rest, and enjoy the beauty of nature and the surroundings… and feel the wonders and the powers of a deep journey of Biodanza.

So, our retreats are meant for people with some experience of Biodanza, so we can all journey together in a deep and meaningful way.

In every retreat our main reference is Rolando Toro, the creator of Biodanza, but we are also inspired by other authors, poets, philosophers, artists, mythologies, etc. to create our themes and vivencias….

Come and dance in this beautiful Paradise!

Through dance and shared experiences, we will integrate and expand our Human Identities, while also enjoying the presence of beautiful people from different countries.

Every retreat is a powerful and wonderful journey of deep vivencias, all lived and shared by everyone, through a magical journey of discovery and revelation of our common humanity…and..

… there are also moments to enjoy the swimming pool, the delicious food, to have interesting conversations, to relax, to walk, to visit the surrounding picturesque towns…

This Biodanza Retreat will promote a powerful and beautiful environment, enriched in positive human factors, becoming a catalyst for the expression of the full potential of each human being, in relation to other human beings and to Nature.

In 2026, the theme or our retreat is «COSMIC EROS - RETURNING TO THE BEGINNING» at the marvelous paradise of Monte Velho Retreat Center, in Portugal.

ABOUT THE THEME OF THE RETREAT:

Our intention, in this Biodanza Summer Retreat of 2026, is to bring inspiration from Myths of the World, Shamanism, and philosophies that are rooted in instincts and the polarities of Humans, Nature and Cosmos.

From our experience, usually when someone hears or talks about Eros, people associate this word (term) with romantic aspects or with sexual desire for someone. Can be that…

But it is so, so, much more than that!

The Greek Philosopher Aristophanes, around 400 BC, described Eros as a primordial cosmic creative force. From Chaos and Nothingness rose a glorious being, Eros, a cosmic primordial force that created Life and all that exists.

From this point of view (vivencia) everything is Eros, because existence came to be from that Original Source.

Eros is the force pulling everything to bond the polarities, to create unity in diversity, to expand the possibilities of creation and existence…

Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and writer expressed:

"For the Philosophical tradition, Eros is a divinity that connects darkness and light, matter and spirit, sex and ideas, here and there. Through those philosophers, it is the dark light that speaks."

So, the vivencia of Eros is not just human, it is cosmic and permeates all existence, since the Origin.

Eros is unfolded and expressed in many ways, with multiple faces and powers that flow in Existence, and through every living being… as us, the humans.

Our Human Identities are much more than our daily lives, or our loving relationships, and if we don't integrate some rich aspects of what we also are, our lives might be poorly lived, and we don't fulfill our destiny as sacred and powerful beings…

How to awaken Eros, Eternity and Infinity in our daily lives, and in our human relationships?

How to Be, to Love, to Act from a cosmic transcendent perspective, and to pour the light of truthfulness and infinite on our gestures, encounters, romantic relations, friendships …

As an example, many world traditions have the invitation to marry Heaven and Earth (the cosmic polarities) because it's a ritual practice that "cleans the doors of perception", uniting the complementary poles on the base of existence.

Usually, Earth represents the feminine womb from which all life is "born", as a base for fertility and the exuberance of life forms, but also the materiality (embodied) and pragmatic aspects of relations, work, creation, love...

The term Heaven usually is used in western cultures and traditions, but other cultures have used other terms with the same meaning: The space/time of eternity, infinity and the ecstasy of perfect joy, abundance and harmony.

According to some historians of religion, such as Mircea Eliade, every hierogamy (sacred marriage) constitutes a paradox. By manifesting the sacred, any object becomes something else, yet remains itself, because it continues to participate in its surrounding cosmic environment.

Anthropologically speaking, through these rituals human beings and human relations become "holy", "sacred", and daily life (the profane) is sanctified. All the polarities are integrated and sanctified, bringing wholeness to life and Identity.

So, it's important to dance, and to ritualize, the integration of the polarities Sacred/Profane; Ying/Yang; Shakti/Shiva; Light/ Shadow; Wolf/ Eagle; Masculine/Feminine; Heaven/Earth; etc.

As an example, through such rituals some ancestral religions celebrated fertility, sexuality, and sexual passion as elements that triggered an ecstatic experience.

Many of you know that in the context of Hinduism, especially in Shaktism and Tantra, the hierogamy between Skakti (divine feminine energy) and Shiva (divine masculine energy) was (and it is) a path to achieve the ecstasy of transcendent connection.

This ancient religion reminds us of something some of "western religions" have forgotten. "Spirituality" or Transcendence is grounded in the body. Love and sexual ecstasy also constitute a hierogamy, a manifestation of the sacred.

Other traditions and cultures also have philosophies and practices that integrate the polarities in life:

Another example is Taoism, and the ultimate state of Tao is the integrated flow of Yin and Yang according to the rhythms and examples of nature itself.

But we cannot marry Heaven and Earth without addressing and dancing our instinctive (earthly) drives and needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "To be a good human, first be a good animal"

This phrase suggests that humans must first meet their fundamental biological and instinctual needs to be fully capable of higher human endeavors, such as empathy and compassion.

A "good animal" fulfills basic needs, pays attention to its environment and instincts, and maintains its physical and emotional stability, which provides the foundation for complex human virtues and relationships.

That's why, in many ancestral cultures, individuals and groups learn how to embody the wisdom of "animals of power", to be much more aware of the instinctive, ecological and cosmical forces, and the equilibriums of life and relationships.

In some traditions of the Native American peoples of the Great Planes, or in the Old Norse Myths (Viking Era), the Wolf and the Eagle archetypically represent different possibilities and powers to be integrated in daily lives.

The Wolf represents instinctive rawness and power, but also the cooperation and care within the pack.

The Eagle represents the elevation to the sky and horizon, but also the messenger from the Spiritual world of the ancestors or the gods (archetypes and ecological wisdom).

Integrating the Wolf and the Eagle enables the pragmatism of instinctive power to be enriched by the elevated and aerial point of view, and vice versa…

Ancient mythologies and rituals have some profound wisdom that can help us travel through life, love and Heaven and Earth, to reach the Origin of Cosmic Eros.

Among others, these will be some of our inspirations to create our vivencias…

And to facilitate the deep process of our journey of maturity and wonder…

We could say that maturity it's to give up unreal fantasies about ourselves, others and life, through love and respect, but also to realize how sacred, marvelous and transcendent existence is…

We will create an intimate, sacred, wonderful, pleasurable, deeply profound journey in the Biodanza Summer Retreat of 2026

To be rooted in truthfulness, pragmatism, love, care and respect…

… and to feel vitally alive, passionate, and amazed by the wonders of beauty, pleasure, and sacredness…

To embrace Shadow and Light, Yin and Yang, Wolf and Eagle, Heaven and Earth...

To live and feel that we are Cosmic Eros, that primal force of Origin is still vibrating in each one of us. We just need to ritually open those possibilities and let that glowing and powerful force to flow in us and in our lives.

To feel the unity in diversity, while expanding our universe of being and loving.

That's the vivencia of:

Cosmic Eros – Returning to the Origin