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Biodanza Retreat: The Tree of Desires

Date

Aug 09 - 10 2025
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Time

9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Biodanza Retreat: The Tree of Desires

THE TREE OF DESIRES
Its roots plunge into the land of instinct.
Its trunk rooted into the power of action.
Its branches unfold in the infinite universe of encounters, promises, imagination, possibilities, and dreams.
It’s seasons alter between presence and absence,
Between what is being offered and what is momentarily gone.
Its abundant fruits have the flavor of fulfillment and pleasure.
It is the alliance between the forces of the depths of need and the promises of life.
Such is “THE TREE OF DESIRES” workshop. Exciting, no?
To support our growth, however, we need to know how to:
•Make the difference between needing, desiring and dreaming.
•Identify the nature and dynamics of our desires.
•Make the difference between expressing a desire and realizing it.
•Make the difference between the satisfaction of a passing whim and achieving a deep aspiration.
•Recognize our contradictions and our paradoxes.
•Learn to choose which desire resides deep within our instinct.
The objective is to awaken our potentials of realization.
…to stimulate our courage, our daring, our passion so that we may at the same time make clear choices when possible and surrender to the unknown.
Dancing our desire, we may free all its vitality and all the poetry of living. We learn how to cherish our own fruit.
Each participant will be invited to filling up his/her/their “Tree of Desires”, identifying the central ones. These will generate the “Star of Desire” and the dances will be proposed in order to “incorporate” their specific energy.
Rolando Toro says, “when I dance it, I become my desire”.
Come join us in August of 2025 for a long weekend of dreaming and dancing.
THE TEACHERS :
We are delighted to welcome Marcelo Toro for the second time in Maryland. He is the grandson of Rolando Toro, founder of Biodanza. Marcello has a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with us from his past directorship of the Biodanza Schools of Cape Town & and current Directorship in Granada, Spain. He has traveled the world for years sharing his presence in many schools and many encounters. Not to be missed!
Michelle Dubreuil is the Director of the Biodanza School Maryland/DC USA. With over 20 years of experience facilitating both in Africa and the USA, Michelle is excited to welcome you to this transformational retreat.
Marina Sastre is an IBFed facilitator in California who, with Michelle in Argentina, completed the Tree of Desires extension training with Veronica and Raul Terren among other stellar teachers. She will assist in the facilitation of this retreat.
WHO CAN JOIN?
The workshop is organized by Biodanza School Maryland, and is open to
-all students at biodanza schools world wide
-all teachers of biodanza
-all students under supervision
-all of you who have been practicing biodanza for two years or more
Facilitation in Spanish, French, English, Italian
Maximum 30 participants – to secure your place today, send an email to Michelle at info@biodanzausa.com whereby a non-refundable deposit invoice of $200 will be sent to you. Twelves spots are already filled by the school students who will be there so get your deposit in soon if you are keen to do this workshop.
The price for this 3 day workshop is $400 for all who want to attend. Your place is secured once the deposit has been paid. If you pay the whole fee up front by April 1st cost will be $350. After April 1st, $400 with a $200 non-refundable deposit.
Tea/treats/abundant snacks and fruit/water will be provided. Please bring something to share with the group for lunch or your own personal lunch daily. Fridge, kettle, microwave available. Diner is in the neighborhood if you want to eat out.
This is not a residential retreat, so find a group of friends and rent an air bnb close by the venue! Make it a fun weekend!
Please note: the workshop starts on Saturday and ends on Sunday
We welcome you to this transformative workshop where identifying and dancing your desires becomes invigorated!

 

Location

Blueberry Gardens Center for Yoga, Growth, and Healing
237 Ashton Rd, Ashton, MD 20861, United States

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237 Ashton Rd, Ashton, MD 20861, United States
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    Michelle 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.

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