The new Facilitators of The Poetry of Human Encounter

It is a time for celebration in our community! Celebration for all, but especially for those who started their journey in March of 2005, when the San Francisco School of Biodanza opened its doors to offer the first Biodanza teachers’ training in the United States.

After two-and-half years of intensive weekend workshops—mostly facilitated by international faculty—a talented team of 15 is ready to start teaching supervised classes. A few other students, who joined the school later, will continue with the training in 2008.

Once again I want to thank all SFSB students for their commitment to the program and to their own personal growth throughout the process.

I am also immensely grateful to my colleges, directors of schools all over the word, who have been coming here to share they humanness and expertise with us, in supporting the San Francisco School in its first cycle. Thank you trainers (Biodanza Didacticians) Marlise Appy and Angelina Pereira (São Paulo, Brazil), Hélène Levy (Nice, France), Sergio Cruz (Bologna, Italy), Monica Turco (Roma, Italy), Myriam Sophia Lopez (Bogotá, Colombia), Gerry Havinga (Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Nelida Perez and Osvaldo Marcón (Mexico City, Mexico). Thank you also Carolina Churba (Jonesburg, South Africa) for her readiness in sending translations of Biodanza texts and offering support in other ways.

Because of the support we received from the students, trainers and members of the Biodanza community, SFSB, the flagship of Biodanza in the United States, has been able to evolve as an organization and affective network. We are proud of this huge step towards the expansion of Biodanza, Rolando Toro System in the United States.

Belisa Amaro, Director of the San Francisco School of Biodanza
September, 2007