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NEW YEAR RETREAT
facilitator: Bruno Caverna
28 December 2023 - 5 January 2024
Italy, Tuscany
Italy, Tuscany
PLAY-FIGHT
programme
Recognizing dysfunctional moving patterns
Mapping the inner landscapes of physical blockages
Embodying principles of effortlessness
Pursuit of mental relaxation by confronting discomfortable zones
Releasing internal blockages and recycling stored resistances into forms of power ad personal strength
Primal fear of falling as a coping mechanisms and its multi-dimensionality implications
The cultivation of non-resistance as a doorway to enter into the flow state
Play-Fight is one of the pillars of Formless Arts. The practice weaves physicality with movement philosophy, shedding awareness into the unconscious resistances towards the gravitational force and the pervasive fear of falling (physically and existentially) that appears as an inherent human condition. Tensions and adversities are necessary frictions to spark evolution and growth, however when stagnated, accumulated and suppressed below the conscious radar, it may potentially turn out into traumatic events, the source for a myriad of dysfunctionalities externalized on the body-mind system. The physical drills, orientated in playfulness, focus on recognizing, acknowledging and recycling those harmful lifelong storage of unnecessary hidden tensions and blockages into a self-empowerment cultivation. Play-Fight Practice also regards the ecology of life as an inherent and inescapable interplay between cooperation and confrontation.
7 DAYS THROUGH PLAY-FIGHT PRACTICE TO CELEBRATE AND SHAPE TOGETHER THE UNIQUE TRANSITION INTO THE NEW YEAR
TO WHOM
Open level, that's to say, the practice welcomes everyone sincerely curious to embark on a deep and fine self-knowledge practice through physicality, playfulness and embodied philosophy.
28th December 2022:
Arrivals in the afternoon (dinner included)
5th January 2023:
Departures in the afternoon (lunch included)
Arrivals in the afternoon (dinner included)
5th January 2023:
Departures in the afternoon (lunch included)
when
where
fee
● 5 Early Bird spots: 600€
● 17 Regular spots: 680€
PLACES ARE LIMITED - 22 !!
● 17 Regular spots: 680€
PLACES ARE LIMITED - 22 !!
Casa Monterosi
(the Play-Fight Camp house)
in Anghiari - Italy
(the Play-Fight Camp house)
in Anghiari - Italy
PARTICIPATION
ACCOMMODATION
● accommodation in the house in shared bedrooms
● house facilities
● 3 vegetarian meals p/d
● daily and night activities & New Year's Eve celebration !
● pick up Anghiari - Casa Monterosi
* bedrooms are double (limited places), triple, quadruple + 2 single rooms. The particularity of the single rooms is that they are located in small corners of the house and they are separated by a curtain only.
** if you come with your own van, the prices is reduced.
● house facilities
● 3 vegetarian meals p/d
● daily and night activities & New Year's Eve celebration !
● pick up Anghiari - Casa Monterosi
* bedrooms are double (limited places), triple, quadruple + 2 single rooms. The particularity of the single rooms is that they are located in small corners of the house and they are separated by a curtain only.
** if you come with your own van, the prices is reduced.
BRUNO CAVERNA
Founder of Formless Arts - Movement Philosophy.
Originator of Play-Fight and Liquid Body Practices.
Originator of Play-Fight and Liquid Body Practices.
Bruno Caverna is a pioneer in creating authentic multidisciplinary body-mind practices sustained by an embodied movement philosophy drawn from over 35 years of studying and immersing in various of disciplines such as Gymnastics, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Contact-improvisation, Taiji, Russian Systema, Watsu, Surfing and Freediving. Bruno began teaching in 1995 as a capoeira project leader at a psychiatric hospital. The highly demanding context supported his auto-didactic nature to flourish whilst the process configured deconstructive in its essence, the pedagogical ground for all the other future teaching projects that eventually expanded over 30 countries worldwide in the past 20 years.
FACILITATOR
Bruno Caverna - Founder of Formless Arts - Movement Philosophy.
Originator of Play-Fight and Liquid Body Practices.
Originator of Play-Fight and Liquid Body Practices.
Bruno Caverna is a pioneer in creating authentic multidisciplinary body-mind practices sustained by an embodied movement philosophy drawn from over 35 years of studying and immersing in various of disciplines such as Gymnastics, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Contact-improvisation, Taiji, Russian Systema, Watsu, Surfing and Freediving.
Bruno began teaching in 1995 as a capoeira project leader at a psychiatric hospital. The highly demanding context supported his auto-didactic nature to flourish whilst the process configured deconstructive in its essence, the pedagogical ground for all the other future teaching projects that eventually expanded over 30 countries worldwide in the past 20 years. Bruno eventually transformed and recycled his lifelong experiences through his own inner resistances as the core subject of interest present in his practices and embodied philosophy. In 2012, Play-Fight and Liquid Body coalesced as authentic practices out of a need to label his lifelong research in the body-mind field. In 2016 he founded Formless Arts, an international cross-disciplinary hub that represents a moment of maturity coinciding with the foment of a community of self-responsible individuals.
Bruno's teaching philosophy consists in becoming a revealing mirror to one another by sensibly exposing the boundaries of our crystallized social masks and the acquired self-deceptive mechanisms. In the end, Bruno is convinced that is mainly through the hurtful exercise of constantly looking after our own shadows and confronting the human flaws that we may find a sense of wholeness from within, while at the same time acknowledging and honoring a diversity of artful expressions with substantial tolerance towards conflicting perspectives.
Bruno began teaching in 1995 as a capoeira project leader at a psychiatric hospital. The highly demanding context supported his auto-didactic nature to flourish whilst the process configured deconstructive in its essence, the pedagogical ground for all the other future teaching projects that eventually expanded over 30 countries worldwide in the past 20 years. Bruno eventually transformed and recycled his lifelong experiences through his own inner resistances as the core subject of interest present in his practices and embodied philosophy. In 2012, Play-Fight and Liquid Body coalesced as authentic practices out of a need to label his lifelong research in the body-mind field. In 2016 he founded Formless Arts, an international cross-disciplinary hub that represents a moment of maturity coinciding with the foment of a community of self-responsible individuals.
Bruno's teaching philosophy consists in becoming a revealing mirror to one another by sensibly exposing the boundaries of our crystallized social masks and the acquired self-deceptive mechanisms. In the end, Bruno is convinced that is mainly through the hurtful exercise of constantly looking after our own shadows and confronting the human flaws that we may find a sense of wholeness from within, while at the same time acknowledging and honoring a diversity of artful expressions with substantial tolerance towards conflicting perspectives.
If you have never experienced Play-Fight by FormlessArts, please tell us briefly about your background of movement experiences and motivation to join
If you are admitted, you will receive a confirmation email within a week after submitting your application. A maximum of 22 participants will be accepted.
APPLICATION FORM
