A person who I admire
Rolando Mario Toro Araneda, the creator of biodanza, was born in Concepción, Chile, on April 19, 1924. In his childhood he lived with his parents and four brothers. And he attended elementary school in the Plaza Condell neighborhood. Later he entered the José Abelardo Núñez Normalist School in Santiago de Chile, obtaining his degree in 1943 practicing for 16 years in different cities of Chile, such as Talcahuano, Valparaíso, Santiago and in the rural town of Pocuro, in Los Andes. In 1964 he graduated from the School of Psychology of the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile. He was in charge of the Chair of Psychology of Art and Expression, at the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. As a professor at the Center for Medical Anthropology, at the University of Chile School of Medicine, he conducted research on the Expression of the Unconscious and on the States of Expansion of Consciousness. He was appointed Emeritus Professor of the I...