Bruno Caverna

Bruno Caverna has been immersed in multidisciplinary body–mind studies for nearly four decades, beginning with capoeira in 1987 and gradually unfolding through acrobatics, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Russian Systema, Watsu, freediving, and breathwork.

His teaching path began in 1995 through a capoeira program developed inside a psychiatric hospital. That formative experience became a ground for questioning conventional approaches to teaching and learning, shaping the deconstructive, adaptive, and person-centered pedagogical principles that continue to inform his work today.

In 2012, Bruno gave birth to the Play-Fight and Liquid Body practices, both emerging from years of research into embodiment, relational intelligence, adaptability, and the dynamic interplay between conflict and cooperation.

In 2016, he founded Formless Arts, an international platform dedicated to cultivating a community of self-responsible practitioners across disciplines and to supporting forms of learning that remain alive, experiential, and free from rigid methodologies.

Drawing from decades of embodied inquiry, and particularly from the internal martial principles transmitted to him by Alexander Solovev, Bruno began distilling this body of knowledge into GFP, the Gravitational Field Principle. Formulated as a somatic education approach, GFP explores our relationship with gravity through falling, adaptability, perception, and co-regulation with natural forces. In 2025, he formed the first generation of GFP practitioners.

Alongside this work, Bruno is a certified freediving instructor with the Molchanovs school and the founder of Functional Apnea, a breathwork methodology informed by the Buteyko Method and Oxygen Advantage.

Across the different expressions of his work runs a common inquiry: how to become more available to change, more intimate with uncertainty, and more capable of meeting both ourselves and the environment with less unnecessary resistance.