Miguel Bento


Pramod Miguel Bento Born in Portugal in 1966, Pramod has a colourful history of various degrees and trainings throughout his life. He obtained an MBA and majored in Engineering. Since his childhood he practices judo, traditional karate, kung-fu and taido. Since 1984 he has been teaching taido. Through these he was initiated to Zen meditation and to body mind transcendence. He also has a long practice of contact-improvisation, contemporary dance, and performance art, a door to other techniques and dimensions of living with totality. In 2000 he creates the Bellybutton Encounters, his sintesys of the teachings of masters and friends, from shamanism, bioenergetics, the Humaniversity and Osho's inspiration. More details and photos? Click here
^Back to top^ Details The Martial Arts since early age Practiced Judo from 1974 until 1977 and traditional Karate-do (Nippon Kempo stile) since 1977 until 1979, both with Mitsuharu Tsuchiya.
	With martial arts begins a long lasting relation with Za-Zen meditation and body transcendence, also with Mitsuharu Tsuchyia, in Portugal and in several stays in Japan. Since 1979 practices Taido, in Portugal and in Japan, a fluid Japanese martial art, and teaches since 1984. In 2001, in the island of Okinawa, Japan, Pramod got the 5th Dan Kyoshi degree from Taido's creator, Seiken Shukumine, Since 1997 he practices a meditative form of Kung-fu, the "Water Lilly" stile, and since 2002, he initiated a regular practice of Nunchaku, both with Guilherme da Luz.
Since 2006 starts to practice Muai-Thay regularly with João Cardoso. For Pramod fighting is a place to meet himself and the masculine aspect, a space of meditation and harmony beyond confrontation. This Zen master's stick is implacable and always present. In 1992, Pramod begins his learning of dance, movement, and performance techniques: Contact-improvisation: Daniel Lepkoff, João Fiadeiro, Angela Guerreiro, Peter Michael Dietz, Howard Sonnencklar, Jordi Cortés, Didier Stilhol and Sebastian Garcia Ferro. Contemporary movement: Sofia Neuparth, Amélia Bentes, Eva Tremel and Peter Michael Dietz. Cunningham with Paula Massano. Voice and singing: Francine Zerfas, Pedro Ramos e Sara Belo.
	In 1997 was involved in the creation of CEM, "Centro Em Movimento" (moving centre), a multidisciplinary center for artistic formation, experimenting, investigation and creation in Lisbon. In 2002, teached regular classes of Contact-Improvisation in "1001 danças" dance school, in Ateneu Comercial de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2002 he helps to form the Dance section of space EVOÉ in Lisbon, Portugal, where he teached Easy Motion until 2006. Since 2003 works regularly with Inimpetus, a theather school in Lisbon, teaching Easy Motion. Self-growth and self-knowledge techniques. In 2003 he started an intense practice in several methods: Bioenergetic (Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen). Shamanic inspired technics: Root-Trance, Sweat lodge or stone people lodge. Voicing, dicovering our total voice, a voayge through the chakras, by Pratibha. Active meditations (Osho and Sufi Chakra breathing) AUM social meditation (Awareness Understanding Meditation) Leadership trainning with Veeresh in Humaniversity, the Netherlands in April 2005. 1st year of the Humaniversity Therapist Trainning, the Netherlands 2006.
Since November 2006 lives and studies Humaniversity Psychology in Osho Humaniversity, the Netherlands. Other "journeys" Since 1982, practices Shiatsu, a japanese massage, and other kinds of hands-on techniques. Since 1998 practices african percussion, Djimbe and Dumbas, with the group Dumdumba and Nuno Patricio, Filipe, Conny Kadia Eckert and Gueladjo Sané and the group Djamboonda. All these aspects of life move together with an active Naval Engineering and MBA background. He is a good comunicator in English, French, Spanish, some Italian, and Japanese.