Antoinette Lorraine
Antoinette Lorraine is from Cardiff, Wales, UK. 
Her background was as a nutrition therapist and psychotherapist and her passion in dance began in 1990 with her own very powerful personal transformational experience 'Shamanic Awakening'.
She taught 5 rhythms dance for 12 years in UK and during that time also trained to be a teacher of Biodanza.
She has been doing Biodanza since 1992. She has been teaching Biodanza since 2000 and she was the first Biodanza teacher living in Netherlands who started the first weekly groups there and taught Biodanza there for 8 years.
She trained over 40 teachers in her school of Midden-Nederland, Utrecht before returning to UK.
She continues to work in Netherlands as well as internationally and is now Director of the IBF Rolando Toro School of Biodanza based in Bristol.
She has specialised in the areas of Biodanza Aquatica, The Minotaur Project, Biodanza with Children, Education to Affective Touch (Biodanza & Massage), Biodanza & Neo-Shamanism, Biodanza with Elderly, Pathways to Ecstasy, and she also specialises in introducing Biocentric ways of working within Companies both with employees and management and works as part of the Genesis Project Consultancy with Company Directors internationally.
Each year she organises a Biodanza Tribal Gathering in Netherlands for adults, adolescents & children sharing in the possibility of existing together in the Biocentric Way - respect, joy, harmony, cooperation and love.
She is passionate to work with integrity, empathy, and pleasure and her experiences means that she has a lot of depth and understanding of the process of personal development.
She knows Biodanza to be a profound system of transformation which gives deep motivations to live healthy and rich lives.
She is sure this system, to those who are ready, is a pathway to help humanity in the search for love, serenity and raising of consciousness and awareness. As Rolanda Toro Araneda Creator the the Biodanza System said ' How could we change the world, without changing ourselves'
Antoinette also has a deep commitment to introducing Biodanza into social/clinical settings and has set up the yearly conference of Biodanza Social/Clinical Forum in the IBF Bristol School.
