FLOWA training

FLOWA training is a movement practice I’ve been sharing since 2012. It is rooted in Gaga, the movement language created by Ohad Naharin, and explores the relationship with gravity, functional movement, and bodily perception. It is a resource for cultivating vitality, creativity, and awareness.

Concretely, FLOWA training is a 60–75 minute movement flow. Participants are guided through imagery connected to the anatomical movement of the body and perception, activating inner tools for exploration. It’s a subtle balance between moving and being moved, embracing zapping, sharp cuts, shifts, and deep dives.

FLOWA trains bodily availability and perceptual agility, stimulating the senses continuously: we practice with eyes open, maintaining a constant dialogue between inner and outer perception. Sometimes music accompanies the session, but often it is paused to make space for listening to the inner rhythm, gravity, and the forces running through us.

As Kant once wrote, “The intelligence of an individual can be measured by the amount of uncertainty they can bear.” FLOWA is an art of adaptation, of being surprised, of moving within the unpredictable.

FLOWA relies on a specific vocabulary that allows for rapid reconnection with qualities and structures of movement. A regular practice isn’t necessary to benefit from it, but consistency helps root its potential and unfold its richness.

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What is it for?

• Prevention and vitality: improves physical availability and reduces the risk of injury.

• Kinetic awareness: helps understand the forces at play in movement.

• Neuroplasticity: renews neurological connections through movement-based perception.

• Body creativity: opens new expressive and perceptual possibilities and helps decode the body’s language.

For everyone: artists, dancers, athletes, therapists, curious humans. No age limit.

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Weekly open trainings

Open 60–75 minute trainings are held regularly in different locations, with variable schedules and open-contribution participation.

To receive updates on times and places, join the WhatsApp groups:

• Group Ticino – WhatsApp

• Group Svizzera francese – WhatsApp

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FLOWA transmission

Next cycle: September 2025 – February 2026

A path for those who want to guide FLOWA training, but also for those who want to deepen their own practice.

FLOWA transmission allows you to:

• Physically embody the principles of FLOWA training

• Train your capacity to guide yourself and others

• Integrate the FLOWA philosophy into life and other disciplines

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2025–2026 Cycle Dates

• 19–21 September 2025

• 17–19 October 2025

• 31 October – 2 November 2025

• 9–11 January 2026

• 6–8 February 202

 

Module Schedule
Fridays 14:00–20:00
Saturdays & Sundays 09:30–15:30

Sessions usually take place between French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino.

To join or for info: manuelabernasconi@gmail.com

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Train everywhere

Discover the FLOWA Shot channel on YouTube
Short guided trainings (13–18 minutes) to practice wherever you are.
VIsit FLOWA Shot Channel

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Why FLOWA training is a Fundamental Component of Professional Development for Dancers and Actors

 

​FLOWA training is an advanced tool for physical and performative education, designed to develop essential competencies for both movement-based artists and performers whose practice is rooted in presence, voice, and improvisation. Originating from research into gravity, weight and sensorial dynamics, the method offers a rigorous approach that integrates physiological, creative, and perceptual dimensions.

 

Physiological and Functional Benefits

• Reactivation of key neuromotor connections that support coordination, reactivity, and fluidity.

• Improved management of weight, grounding and movement efficiency.

• Enhanced capacity to navigate shifts in speed, intensity and direction with safety and stability.

• Increased muscular tone, elasticity, and overall joint availability.

 

Creative and Performative Benefits

• Immediate access to complex and non-stereotyped states of physical imagination.

• Expanded unpredictability and availability, qualities that are fundamental in improvisation.

• Generation of authentic scenic material through images, qualities and contrasting dynamics.

• Refined stage presence supported by multilayered listening and heightened attention.

 

Perceptual, Philosophical and Relational Benefits

• Development of radical listening towards oneself, others and the environment.

• Ability to remain permeable without losing one’s own centre.

• Activation of a presence that is generative rather than performative, oriented towards process rather than product.

• Strengthening of a rigorous and non-mechanical relationship with unpredictability and change.

 

Through its original lexicon and an approach that avoids the codification of fixed forms, FLOWA training provides dancers and actors with a set of contemporary, profound and highly transferable tools that enhance both the technical and the human/ artistic quality of their work.

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