Rolando Mario Toro Araneda was born in Concepción, Chile, on April 19, 1924.
He trained as a teacher of basic education at the “José Abelardo Núñez” Normal School in Santiago, Chile in 1943. He taught in Valparaíso, Talcahuano, Pocuro, and Santiago (Chile) from 1944 to 1957.
In 1964, he graduated from the School of Psychology at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile.
He led the Chair of Psychology of Art and Expression at the Aesthetics Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. As a professor at the Center for Medical Anthropology at the School of Medicine of the University of Chile, he conducted research on the Expression of the Unconscious and on the States of Expansion of Consciousness. He was named Professor Emeritus of the Open University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Between 1968 and 1973, he began his experiences with Biodanza (referred to as Psícodanza during this period). He implemented this system at the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago and at the Aesthetic Institute of the Catholic University of Chile.
He has lived successively in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Italy.
Rolando Toro was also a poet and painter. He published several books of poetry and psychotherapy and held painting exhibitions in Brazil and Italy.
According to Rolando Toro, his most intimate profession was that of a poet.
