The Power of Music in Biodanza: a view from Neuroscience

The Power of Music in Biodanza: a view from Neuroscience

The musical power in Biodanza acts as a primary catalyst that integrates the human organism through «organic» music, awakening the five lines of experience: vitality, sexuality, creativity, affectivity and transcendence.

This semantic selection simultaneously activates the limbic system—amygdala, hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens—and the dopaminergic reward circuit, releasing dopamine that generates coenesthetic pleasure and intrinsic motivation while reducing cortisol to promote deep relaxation.

Music-Movement-Experience Triad: Neural Synchronisation and Echo Factors

Organic music «embodies» itself by transforming sound into movement «here and now» that regulates the limbic-hypothalamic, neurovegetative and immunological systems, promoting homeostasis and existential fulfilment.

The auditory, motor, premotor, and sensorimotor cortex are synchronised, facilitating perceptual-motor coordination, which explains the natural impulse to dance and collective neural synchronisation in groups, enhancing social connection.

Neuroplasticity and Emotional Regulation: The Basis of Integration

Exposure to organic music induces neuroplasticity, increasing grey matter in auditory/motor areas and improving cognitive memory, which supports affective re-education of Biodanza by rehabilitating emotional and motor functions.

Simultaneously, it modulates the autonomic nervous system towards the parasympathetic nervous system, generating cardiac coherence, emotional regulation, and serotonin production, aligning with ecofactors that enhance quality of life through authentic enjoyment.

This integration explains how euphoric rhythms activate vitality via the sympathetic-dopaminergic system, while soft melodies foster tenderness through the parasympathetic system and implicit oxytocin, creating experiences that transcend the sensory to achieve expansion of consciousness.

Transformative Synergy: From the Biological to the Existential

In Biodanza, organic music is not merely a stimulus, but a neurobiological agent where auditory perception, emotional outbursts and integrative movement converge, enhancing the other six powers.

This multifaceted action—dopamine for motivation, synchronisation for connection, plasticity for lasting change—validates Biodanza as a biocentric system of existential rehabilitation, where music awakens genetic potential through ancestral brain circuits.