The balavidya is a practice of motor re-education conceived by Barbara Barbarani that combines yoga and theater. Also based on the observation of feline movements, with the balavidya he teaches again to manage his body. Let's find out better.
Origins and description of Balavidya
Re-education blends with eastern knowledge and here is Balavidya . Let's start with the meaning of this word, which has roots in Sanskrit and is dense with the integral philosophical depth of yoga .
"Bala" means "Force", and imagine it as the force that can be impressed against something, the force with which one can say what we really want to convey. A force that expresses and creates reactions.
"Vidya", on the other hand, is a term used in Yoga that is translated as "Awareness". A type of awareness that passes through experience and that permeates the way in which one lives the real. A form of qualification for the right to proceed in the days that are adopted, in fact, by living, keeping open and listening.
We could therefore translate as a whole Balavidya as the force exercised consciously, mastered and used efficiently.
In this discipline come together not only yoga, mainly Hatha yoga, but also actorial work and animal observation. Believe it or not, the technique has a lot to do with the domestic feline, as its creator, Barbara Barbarani, researcher and Contributor of Yoga Journal Italia, over the course of fifteen years of experience has condensed the actor's training for the stage, the Hatha Yoga and the observation of the cat, animal that has always accompanied his life.
In the official website of Balavidya you will find information, notes, in-depth information on origins and practice, and an interesting space dedicated to female symbolism, the study of cat physiology and symbolic astrology.
What are the benefits of theater?
What is Balavidya for?
Essentially, this method serves to stay in one's body while maintaining a centrality that conveys the gesture. Through a series of guided movements and breaths, we come to develop an internal consciousness that leads to "inhabiting the body" differently. You learn again to move, breathe and manage your body.
The orientation of the work is towards the development of a "Central Body", opposite to the Peripheral Body ". While the second is completely external, based on the mere use of the muscular force of the surface, the first goes to exploit the deep musculature, that to covered in bones.
It is an excellent practice for joint release and for psychophysical balance . It removes the energy blocks that hinder the relationship with the Other from itself.
A typical Balavidya session
The baggage of practices that Balavidya includes is very large and the lesson changes a lot depending on who is leading the session. Basically, however, the tools available to the guide are:- Sensory training (self-manipulation and passive movement);
- Guided breaths (work on the diaphragm and global re-education on respiratory movement);
- Stretching (to get to use the deep musculature the superficial stretching is well spread);
- Deep stretching;
- Enhancement (long held positions and slow movements);
- Views. t
We work in small groups, we practice barefoot, lessons are measured on the identity that the group gradually assumes.
Who can operate in Italy
Pay attention to improvised operators. To check if a guide is really enabled, you can contact the Balavidya Ashram, whose headquarters is in Milan. The teacher of Balavidya must have developed a certain capacity for observation, such as to allow him / her to see the group as a single organism that moves with its own identity on which to perform specific exercises and training.
