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FLOWA training

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

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

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

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“The intelligence of an individual can be measured by the amount of uncertainty they can bear.”
— Immanuel Kant

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FLOWA is an art of adaptation, surprise, and movement within the unpredictable.
It relies on a specific vocabulary that allows rapid reconnection with movement qualities and structures. Regular practice deepens its potential, but no prior experience is required.

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What is FLOWA for?

Prevention & vitality

  • Improves physical availability and reduces the risk of injury.

Kinetic awareness

  • Develops understanding of gravity, weight, and forces in movement.

Neuroplasticity

  • Stimulates neurological renewal through perception-based movement.

Body creativity

  • Opens new expressive and perceptual possibilities.

 

For everyone
Artists, dancers, athletes, therapists, educators, and curious humans. No age limit.

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Why FLOWA for Dancers, Actors and Performers

FLOWA training is an advanced tool for physical and performative education, designed to develop essential competencies for artists working with movement, presence, voice, and improvisation. It integrates physiological, creative, and perceptual dimensions.

Physiological & Functional Benefits

  • Reactivation of neuromotor connections supporting coordination and fluidity

  • Efficient management of weight and grounding

  • Safe navigation of speed, intensity and directional changes

  • Increased tone, elasticity and joint availability

Creative & Performative Benefits

  • Access to non-stereotyped physical imagination

  • Increased unpredictability and availability in improvisation

  • Generation of authentic scenic material

  • Refined stage presence through multilayered listening

Perceptual & Philosophical Benefits

  • Radical listening to self, others and environment

  • Ability to stay permeable without losing centre

  • Presence oriented toward process rather than product

  • Rigorous relationship with uncertainty and change

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Why FLOWA for Those Who Guide Groups

(teachers, facilitators, trainers, choreographers, therapists)

FLOWA is also a practice of guiding. It trains language, perception, rhythm and collective dynamics.

Pedagogical & Relational Skills

  • Development of somatic and imaginal language to activate perception and movement

  • Modulation of rhythm, speed, silence and intensity to sustain group attention

  • Embodied leadership based on listening rather than control

  • Use of unpredictability and play as pedagogical tools

Perceptual & Ethical Dimension

  • Presence: seeing the group while staying connected to oneself

  • Guiding without imposing forms, fostering autonomy

  • Awareness of how words and timing shape perception and behavior

FLOWA becomes a tool for transmitting attention, creativity and relational intelligence.

 

Why FLOWA for Everyone

FLOWA is designed for professionals but rooted in a universal bodily intelligence.

For the Body

  • Restores sensitivity, coordination and ease

  • Encourages a functional relationship with gravity and effort

  • Supports tone, elasticity and clarity of sensation

For the Mind & Perception

  • Stimulates adaptability and neuroplasticity

  • Trains comfort with uncertainty and change

  • Cultivates curiosity and resilience

For Daily Life

  • Develops embodied intelligence for communication and decision-making

  • Cultivates listening to self, others and environment

  • Nourishes vitality beyond performance contexts

No technical background or age prerequisites are required.

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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:

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FLOWA reveal

Next cycle open to registration

A path for those who want to deepen FLOWA, both following and guiding, integrating movement and voice.

FLOWA Reveal allows you to:

  • Embody the principles of FLOWA training

  • Practice guiding as an empowering practice (movement, breath, voice, imagination, language)

  • Integrate the FLOWA philosophy into life and other disciplines

 

July – November 2026 (dates defined with participants)

 

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

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

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To join or for info: manuelabernasconi@gmail.com

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Train Everywhere

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

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