Biodanza: The Dance of Life + The Poetry of Human Encounter
Schedule
Fri Oct 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Cocoon Philly | Bala Cynwyd, PA
Join us for an evening of movement, music, community, and heartfelt, intentional connection! Our “vivencia” (from the Spanish word “vivir,” meaning “to live”) will include a series of artfully guided dances and encounters designed to evoke core emotion and authentic expression. Together we will move, play, explore, and celebrate our collective aliveness. Come cast off the shackles of inhibition and swirl into the embrace of pure, unfiltered existence!What is Biodanza?
The word “Biodanza” literally translates, from Spanish, to mean “The Dance of Life.” Founded in the 1960s by Chilean anthropologist and psychologist Rolando Toro, it is an elegant system of somatic and relational self-development that combines dance, music, archetypal gestures, and intentional connection to stimulate five lines of life force: vitality, sexuality, creativity, affectivity, and transcendence. It fosters reconnection with our vital instincts, our emotions, our bodies, and our in-the-flesh relationship with each other as dynamic, feeling human beings. Sometimes referred to as “The Poetry of Human Encounter,” it is truly a Masterclass in embodied Love!
Link to purchase tickets is live! Early bird rates through 10/5. Don’t delay—out last Vivencia sold out! https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/cocoon_philly?k_class=859253&k_class_tab=56239
About the facilitator:
Ashley King, M.S.Ed., Ed.M., LPC is a somatic psychotherapist who has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups in private practice for the last 16 years. She is trained in the Hakomi Method (a method of mindful, somatic therapy) and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). In addition, she is a certified Circling facilitator (Circling is an interpersonal meditation practice), a trained sex and relationship coach, a certified meditation instructor, an intuitive energy healer and Reiki Master, a certified yoga teacher (with 500+ hours of training), and a certified Biodanza facilitator. As a writer and former English teacher, Ashley brings an artful poise to her facilitation, and her body of work, more largely, is about the poetics of embodied relationship. Over the last two decades she has led workshops, run groups, and given presentations on myriad topics including yoga, meditation, energy medicine, somatic therapy, Authentic Relating, Circling, mindful communication, human sexuality, writing as a spiritual practice, and more. Once hailed, “A catalytic invitation into vulnerability and connection,” Ashley is deeply passionate about the intersection of dynamic embodiment and relational practice. You can find out more about her at her website: www.psychoalchemy.com
