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Barbara Tapia Salvans (Babi) was born in 1982 in Vic, Catalunya.

She grew up in a small town surrounded by nature, love and her nurturing family. 

 

Creative spirited and always listening to the invisible. 

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At the age of 18 she traveled to England where she studied English at the International Department of Chichester College.

During that time in College, she also pursued Swedish Full Body Massage, Reflexology and Indian Head Massage as well as Performing Arts & Drama.

 

In 2002 she returned to Catalunya where she studied Psychology in the University of Barcelona.

She was then introduced to Biodanza and started attending a weekly class with a regular group.

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Studying the body and mind through art have always been one of her sources of inspiration and during that time in the city, amongst transcendental psychology and questioning reality, Babi worked in a series of mixed media Faces named "CARES". She also hosted a few exhibitions of her work.

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The first Biodanza Teacher Training in the recently inaugurated School of Biodanza in Barcelona, was starting at the end of 2004 with the Facilitators and Didactas Luis Otavio and Silvia Eick.

It became clear for Babi that her path was to become a Biodanza Facilitator.

She started Facilitating/teaching groups after graduating from the Biodanza School of Barcelona a few years later, during the Summer Solstice of 2010 after some world traveling, living in different cultures, studying, integrating, growing and a lot of transformation.

 

In 2006 Babi returned to England; London. The journey unfolded into an awakening dance filled with daily meditation practices, poetry nights, a deeper love for performing arts and the call of Satsang with whom would become her spiritual teacher Mooji, and a true invitation to freedom.

In 2008 the wings of transformation flew Babi to India where she devotionally studied yoga and Kathak; the classical dance of the North of India.

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After returning to Europe in 2009, she integrated the dance of Kathak into the roots of Flamenco with the creation of Katenko; following up with performances and collaborating with various artists.

Throughout her life, she has explored a variety of different dance modalities including Contemporary Dance,

5 Rhythms, Kathak, Contact Dance, Flamenco, and more recently; Contemplative Dance Practice,

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The Eagle magic and her traveling wings, guided Babi to California, usa, in 2010.

After some traveling along the West Coast, remembering the love for gardening, growing organic food and offering Biodanza classes along the way, she met Keith; who later became, her loving partner and soul companion.

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During 2011-2012 applied and followed through with a cultural exchange working at the San Francisco School of Biodanza during their Teacher Training with Belisa Amaro while also facilitating Biodanza classes and workshops in Northern California.

 

Babi lives in the West Coast of the US since then.

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In 2012 Babi & Keith welcomed their first son Luke to life and in 2014 their second son Dylan was born.

Motherhood transformed Babi and her dance with life and Homeschooling and Life Education has become ever since the dance floor where she applies the tools of Biodanza and Biocentric Education.

Her homeschooling continuously unfolds with a lot of learning and growing along with her children. 

Conscious parenting, Educació Viva, The power of Play, are a few tools she keeps using in Homeschool Education.

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In 2016 Babi took the Music Together Teacher Training in Seattle, WA after attending and really enjoying to several sessions with her sons and weaved that into their homeschooling curriculum, and also in her Biodanza classes with Families.

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Their daughter Nayel was born in the summer of 2018.

During that time she dove deeper into Waldorf Inspired Home Education as well as starting and growing a garden with her children in community: Mothership Farm.

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In her homeschooling journey she has attended to several workshops nurturing her journey with education with an open heart. Some of them are:

-Educacio Respetuosa in 2022 with Elisenda Pascual Martí

-And she is currently immersed in the Restorative Storytelling Teacher Training with David Sewell McCann

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Babi has practiced and continues studying Biodanza with a variety of facilitators/teachers from different Schools around the world. 

Some of those Biodanza extensions/trainings include;

-Biodanza and Tarot with Silvia Eick in 2023

-Biodanza and the 4 Elements with Silvia Eick in 2023​

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Lover of Nature and the Arts

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Breathing life in consciousness and awareness practices

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Dance weaver

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Latests classes; Danza en Familia; a space for dance, family, spanish and community 

 

Passionate about mind, heart & spirit, working with the elements and growing a garden

 

Currently living on Vahson Island, WA

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Daily practice; Gratitude

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You can also visit:

http://biodancelife.blogspot.com/