Johan Borghäll came to the University of Southern Denmark in Odense in 1982 from Orebro University in Sweden. At this time, he had just finished the book Movement Communication together with his friend John Steinberg, PhD. in Pedagogy.

When the bookBevægelseskommunikation (Movement Communication),
only in Swedish and Danish,was published in 1982,a new concept
and a new method to personal development through the body was born.
Today Johan is a lecturer at the Institute of Sports and Clinical Biomechanics
at the University of Southern Denmark, body drama teacher at the Actors'School,
Odense, and movement therapist from Laban Art of Movement Centre in London.
As PE teacher, dancer, choreographer, teacher for actors and as movement
therapist he continues to explore the borderland of movement and the possibilities
of the body.

In Brazil and Cuba, where he stayed for 1 year respectively 6 months,
he became absorbed in the movement cultures, capoeira and salsa.
This obsession has resulted in two books
Capoeira - kampdans og livsfilosofi fra Brasilien (Capoeira - Fight Dance
and Philosophy from Brazil), which he wrote together with Nestor Capoeira,
and the book about Salsa och livet i Havanna (Salsa and Life in Havana)

In his work as a lecturer at the Institute of Sports Science at SDU in Odense
he has developed his theories and views on sport. In the book Pædagogik
for forrykte (Pedagogy for Teachers from Mars)he presents the third standpoint
in sport, e.g. expressive sport, the sensious body and existence.
"My aim is to encourage a participant, who believes in himself and knows his limits".
or as he writes in his book:

A participant"who believes he is something,
who trusts his own strength,
who is sympathetic in the interaction with others,
who can participate on his own terms,
who lets the technique be subordinate to the unified whole,
who finds pleasure in the present.

Who expresses his experiences,
who accepts the irrational,
who is aware of his limits and is curious to move them."