1 - 9 JULY 2025, SPAIN

hormesis

During these past years we have gone through extraordinary experiences every summer, sharing the practice with more than 500 people from different parts of the world. It’s been a delight to feel the evolution of Play-Fight Practice as well as to witness the growth of those who have been following the practice over the years.

We are thrilled to invite you to embark on a new camp adventure with us in 2025 - one of the highlights among all events organized by Formless Arts.

For the second consecutive year, the Play-Fight Camp will be held in the same stunningly beautiful location in Cartijo, nestled in the magnificent Spanish mountains, conveniently situated near the cities of Granada and Malaga.

Join us in this 9-day delightful self-discovery journey led by Bruno Caverna. We will study human movement, body-mind connection through partnering drills in order to access the falling principles and the concepts of Hormesis. All well integrated in a harmonious blend of marital arts, dancing, somatics, breath-work and biotensegrity.

This year the Play-Fight Camp is celebrating its 10th edition, a very special occasion!

HORMESIS is a concept intimately related to the very essence of how Play-Fight Practice has been growing and evolving over the past 30 years. Hormesis in the biology and medicine fields is defined as an adaptive response of the cells and organisms to a moderate and usually intermittent stress. In the Play-Fight language the stress is represented by the confrontational aspect present during the physical interactions, which are dealt with and cultivated from a space of cooperation, mutual respect and enduring playfulness. Play-Fight is not merely a way of fighting one another sweetly and mildly. The invitation takes participants way beyond that. Actually, our style and lineage values and proposes with crystal clarity a dwelling space for non-fighting cultivation, paradoxically.

Participants will no longer need to occupy their minds by fighting others as there is none to fight against but the self. To remove the outer target requires, though, tremendous individual integrity and committed self-honesty to deal with the possible discomforts of facing own blind spots and self-deceptive mechanisms, albeit participants will always be welcomed and received from a safe space of a sincere care, sensitivity and abundant wholeheartedness.

Yet, In the making of this safe container we may discover and realize the outlines of our own inner fighting patterns and subconscious dysfunctional tendencies. Through a non-fighting confrontation certain mental frames and other behavioral conditionings may eventually and gently be revealed. In that sense the "Hormesis" concept offered through our Play-Fight Practice lens does not lead only to the biological and physiological positive adaptive responses on the cellular and physiological levels, Above all, it invites every and each of us to undergo a potentially profound emotional, existential and spiritual transformative process, inasmuch as the nature of the practice brings light of consciousness into stored blockages locked into the body-mind organism.

HORMESIS is a concept intimately related to the very essence of Play-Fight Practice growth over the past 30 years

We welcome on board movers and non-movers from all kinds of physical disciplines and backgrounds to enjoy a delightful self-knowledge journey through a body-mind-spirit practice that has the power to ignite healing processes by retrieving an important sense of wholeness and integrity of the self.

Bruno Caverna

Creator of Play-Fight and Liquid-Body practices as well as the founder of Formless Arts and GFP methodology.

Since 1985 Bruno has been studying and integrating various body-mind practices such as Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contact-Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Qi-Gong, Russian Systema Watsu, Freediving, Butyeko Method and Oxygen Advantage. Bruno has made his movement practices a "spiritual"path of self-knowledge and self-actualization, a way to connect to the essence of the being and to realize what human existence is about.

Bruno Caverna

Bruno's first teaching experience was in 1995 as a facilitator of capoeira activities for the inmates of a psychiatric hospital. For a couple of years Bruno tried helplessly to follow an academic path through the studies of Psychology and Physiotherapy. However he grew skeptical upon noticing how the perspective and tendencies of his professional future was sneakily being shaped and imposed onto him.

In 2000 Bruno decided to take a radical decision and dropped out of his comfortable zone from a middle upper class in Rio de Janeiro to go wandering aimlessly alone in the Amazon rainforest. It was an important decision to consciously challenge the establishment at that time, not to conforme or succumb to the flow that society was trapping him into one very narrow life perspective. Such an action allowed Bruno to take the responsibility of his future and destiny back into his hands. Such an impulse led Bruno to leave everything he had behind, to merge into a huge dreadful unknown, facing his deepest fears. This amazonic experience profoundly transformed his perception towards life and death, work, purpose, relationships and even the meaning of love, fear and freedom.

Ever since the Amazon experience Bruno has become a wanderer sharing his visions, practices and philosophy all over the world in more than 35 countries. In these past 30 years Bruno has been committed to teach from a place of authentic, integrative and holistic cultivation, weaving and honoring nearly 40 years of knowledge accumulation he was gifted by coming across distinguished teachers and masters.

Alexander Solovev is one of those rare geniuses who has been directly transmitting to Bruno a concealed knowledge from ancient russian martial arts. The encounter with Alexander in 2016 had a major revolution on every level of Bruno's life and profession, particularly in the way of sharing the embodiment of a very unique falling principle.

Currently Bruno is undergoing a creative process in structuring his own methodology and pedagogy GFP (Gravitational Field Principle) with a clear purpose to bridge this unknown gravitational language to a broader audience. By seeing the effects of this principle applied into people's life beyond the classes contexts, Bruno has become convinced that GFP has the potential to become a deeply transformative tool, a powerful healing knowledge in the individual processes, inasmuch as all of us relate to gravity carrying inevitably the burden of functioning in its field 24/7.

We offer accomodation in comfortable and cozy shared rooms in beautiful old fashion house style. There is option to go camping. You are welcome to take your own equipment or rent camping equipment for an additional fee.

El Cortijo has a swimming pool with streaming mineral waters without usage of chemicals. You will find open terraces, spacious common areas where you will be welcomed to spend your free time in communal spaces to swim, read, write, and rest.

We are privileged to have 3 spaces for our practices: 2 indoors and one outdoors. The expansive grounds are covered in flowers and vegetation, with gardens that will provide your daily meals.

3 delicious vegan-vegetarian daily meals. Farming at the Cortijo is fully organic and biodynamic. Three meals a day can be protein based vegetarian. Our chefs can meet most dietary requirements.

The nearest airport to Cortijo Caseria del Mercado is in Granada however flying to Malaga is often a more convenient option due frequency and affordable prices well. We can arrange a bus from Malaga Airport straight to Cortijo, which takes approximately 2 hours. The price varies between 15 - 25 euros depending on the amount of people committed to share the chartered bus. This communication will become more clear as we approach closer to the event once the group becomes defined as well as knowing participants routes and arrival preferences.

Shared Rooms

CAMPING

400 €

520 €

This price includes 8 nights and 3 meals daily per person. Course fees are not included. See the block below for information.

Regular price

OTHER PLACES

FIRST 10 PLACES

Early Bird

330 €

390€

This price includes participation in the camp's program. Accommodation and meals are not included. You can find the fees of accommodation in the block above. The participation will only be confirmed upon a deposit of 330 euros.

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