Bodily experience through biodanza in people with visual impairment

Abstract

Objective: to reflect on body experience in people with sight loss. Content: people with visual impairment are offered few opportunities to experience their body in motion and to experience their corporality, in a world where connection with the body is increasingly distant in daily life. The method used was drawn mainly from Rolando Toro Araneda, as regards the importance of teaching environments, such as Biodanza, for the experience of corporality to be restored. Conclusion: this reflective process made it possible to assert that, for the people in question, the practice of Biodanza contributed to restoring their corporality by enabling their motor repertoires to be expanded through dance and an emotional relearning through lived experience. It offers a contribution to nursing, since it broadens the range of possibilities for expanding nurses’ empathetic regard to these issues as they practice their profession.