Biodanza Maryland-Transcendence
Transcendence is considered the pinnacle of the five lines of vivencia in Biodanza. It represents the moment when the individual experience expands beyond the personal self and opens into a wider sense of belonging to life itself. In this dimension, we move from the “I” toward the “we” and ultimately toward the living universe.
In Biodanza, transcendence is often experienced through the deep, embodied states that arise in dance—moments of bliss, profound connection, and what Rolando Toro described as the oceanic vivencia. In these moments, the boundaries of the ego soften. The dancer may feel a sense of dissolving into the rhythm of life, as if the body, the music, the group, and the surrounding world are part of one unified field of existence.
This state is not an escape from reality, but rather a heightened perception of it. Through movement, music, and authentic emotional expression, the participant can access a state of harmony where personal identity expands into a sense of cosmic belonging. It is a moment in which we remember that we are not separate beings navigating life alone, but living expressions of a vast, interconnected whole.
In transcendence, the body becomes a bridge between the personal and the universal. The dance invites us into a space of unity, where love, vitality, and presence merge into an experience of profound integration. Here, the individual touches a state beyond the ego—a living awareness of our participation in the great dance of life itself.
Come join us for the dance of life, Biodanza in Maryland.
Friday night open class for anyone.
Sat and Sun will be the workshop with Zora.
Member
Biodanza USAEvent MemberMichelle Dubreuil is an intuitive space clearer of the body, mind and spirit.
She trained as a life coach with Martha Beck and uses unique techniques that are heart opening and life affirming directing clients to find each their North Star.
She is also a BARE certified life coach which is a program that addresses the issues of young girls and women who want to care for their bodies, look and feel great and who desire to blossom in their personal lives.
Michelle fuses her coaching practice into her movement coaching sessions called Biodanza which is weekly group dance sessions created to help you become more in the body compass and less in the head space. In the Biodanza space, we are set free to feel all the feels and to move organically as we need. The body doesn’t lie and Michelle will help you discover what your body is trying to tell you.
Other energetic modalities assist Michelle in creating a brilliant wellness space. She is a Master Reiki (Usui & Metta™) Practitioner and Teacher, a certified hypnotherapist which is an amazing addition to coaching sessions, a certified QiGong teacher offering 4 different Qigong forms to clients online or in person. Most recently, the study of the mind, body, spirit has further developed as she studied the science of Ayurveda with the Shakti Ayurveda School and is now an Ayurvedic counselor.
Again, movement of all kind is medicine and Michelle can life dance you if you desire!
Michelle has been featured on radio shows and podcasts, and has taught both internationally and nationally in the USA, including at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.
She loves traveling having lived all around beloved Africa for 14 years, first as a Fulbright scholar in 1995, and is fluent in French having been a teacher in the USA and abroad for 38 years. She grooves on audio books, superb music of all genres and dancing, of course. She loves hanging with her family and dog.
