I wrote a book!
For 4 years, I’ve been immersed in the writing of this book.
And now somewhat extraordinarily, it’s finally out in the world! 💛
If you’d like to read more about the journey of writing the book, and what it meant to finally cross this particular threshold of completion, I wrote about it on Substack in Crossing the Threshold.
Dance Yourself Happy: Let Biodanza Light Up Your Life, began with Biodanza, but the questions at the heart of it are much bigger.
What helps us flourish as human beings?
What allows us to feel truly alive?
What happens when we experience ourselves not as separate, isolated beings, but as part of a wider humanity — in relationship with ourselves, each other and Life itself?
The book explores these questions through movement, science, lived experience and story. It’s about vitality and pleasure, connection, creativity and the fundamental human need to belong, and the wonderful possibilities that can emerge when we feel safe enough to meet each other more fully.
Perhaps this is why the book feels so at home within JOYAA.
JOYAA grew from many of the same enquiries; into love and belonging, intimacy and embodiment, creativity and relationship, and what it might mean not simply survive our lives, but to truly flourish within them.
Different expression. Same terrain.
And perhaps most simply, an invitation to fall in love with life again.
Dance Yourself Happy: Let Biodanza Light Up Your Life
by Claire Pierce & Priya Mahtani
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Praise for the book
“A substantial, patient and rigorous work, created with great care and depth, that illuminates the foundations of Biodanza and demonstrates its profound relevance for human health and flourishing.”
— Giovanna Benatti
Director, Centro Gaja, Biodanza School, Vicenza, Italy
“With scientific evidence now turning a worldview of sole materiality and separation on its head and inside out, Biodanza recognises that we are instead unique, yet inseparable members of a living — and loving — Universe. Understanding that our bodies are essentially microcosms of its innate meaning and evolutionary purpose, Biodanza’s ability to nurture a re-membered and embodied way of healing and flourishing, and as shared so beautifully in this timely book, is a precious gift and a joyful path to dancing ourselves to wholeness and to happiness.”
— Dr Jude Currivan
Cosmologist and Co-Founder of Wholeworld-View, Wiltshire, UK
“This kind of book is vital for widening the reach of Biodanza, because it shows that Rolando Toro’s vision continues to touch real lives, real bodies, and real communities. Through personal stories and case studies, Claire and Priya help to translate the depth of Biodanza into a language that can inspire people beyond our immediate circles.”
— Pablo Escorcia
Business Consultant, Biodanza Facilitator, Berlin, Germany
“Having witnessed the transformative effects of Biodanza for many years, it still amazes me that this incredible system still languishes in relative obscurity. It is my fervent wish that this book will help bring Rolando’s message to a much wider audience at a time when humanity so desperately needs to recover its capacity for compassion and humility and remember its place in the great web of life.”
— Milarepa Burgin
Didactic Biodanza Facilitator, Activity Provider for Older People, Fordingbridge, UK
“There are books that inform. There are books that inspire. And there are rare books that do something more difficult still: they bring you home. Dance Yourself Happy is such a book.”
— Professor habil. Marcus Stueck
Director, International Biocentric Research Academy (IBRA), Leipzig, Germany
“With scientific evidence now turning a worldview of sole materiality and separation on its head and inside out, Biodanza recognises that we are instead unique, yet inseparable members of a living — and loving — Universe. Understanding that our bodies are essentially microcosms of its innate meaning and evolutionary purpose, Biodanza’s ability to nurture a re-membered and embodied way of healing and flourishing, and as shared so beautifully in this timely book, is a precious gift and a joyful path to dancing ourselves to wholeness and to happiness.”
— Dr Jude Currivan
Cosmologist and Co-Founder of Wholeworld-View, Wiltshire, UK
“Dance Yourself Happy is essential medicine for these times. As someone who supports people on the journey of healing and awakening from disconnection, Claire Pierce and Priya Mahtani have identified so lucidly: The world is more connected than ever digitally, yet modern societies are lacking in the embodied contact human beings need to flourish. With an abundance of examples and scientific grounding, Dance Yourself Happy shows precisely how Biodanza restores the aliveness and belonging that the nervous system, and indeed the whole human being, requires. This book is a liberating read for anyone who feels called to authentic fulfilment and who seeks a real, lived, playful, and energizing path back to wholeness.”
— Jeff Vander Clute
Author, Mentor, and Coach from the Future, Baja, Mexico