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 Inter-American Open University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between the years 1968 and 1973 he began his experiences with Biodanza, called at that time Psicodanza. He applied this system in the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago and in the Institute of Aesthetics of the Catholic University of Chile. This is a period of experimentation where Rolando is building the theoretical and practical bases of what would be the essential matrix of the Biodanza System. Between 1968 and 1973 he began his experiences with Biodanza, called at that time Psychodanza. He applied this system in the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago and in the Institute of Aesthetics of the Catholic University of Chile. This is a period of experimentation where Rolando builds the theoretical and practical bases of what would be the essential matrix of the Biodanza System. In 1979 he moved to Brazil, where he established a private Biodanza Institute, achieving the expansion of this system throughout Latin America.In 1989 he left Milan, Italy, where he lived for 8 years and created Biodanza schools throughout that country, and in 1998 he returned to Santiago de Chile, from where he directed the entire Biodanza movement made up of Training Centers and Schools distributed around of the world. In 2001 he was nominated to apply for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Biodanza and Biocentric Education at the Casa de Las Américas, Spain. Finally he passed away on February 16, 2010 in Santiago of Chile.

Well, as shown in the previous paragraph, he had many really important contributions around the world to psychology by the branch of transpersonal, evolutionary and humanistic psychology, also involving all the biological knowledge that psychology incorporates.Well, as shown in the previous paragraph, he had many really important contributions around the world to psychology by the branch of transpersonal, evolutionary and humanistic psychology, also involving all the biological knowledge that psychology incorporates.