Introducing GFP

GFP arises from decades of somatic research in conjugation internal martial arts from Solovev Methodology exploring how human life unfolds within the invisible yet ever-present pull of gravity. Far beyond a mechanical force, gravity is recognized in GFP as a primary intelligence — a constant field that shapes our movement, our nervous system, and our capacity to relate to the world.

Through refined observation, study, and practice, participants are guided to sense how every action — from standing to speaking, from breathing to relating — is an ongoing dialogue with the gravitational field.

At the same time, GFP acknowledges that this same field, when met through habitual resistance, becomes a gravitational burden.

Over time, this unconscious fight expresses itself as tension, rigidity, fear of falling, exhaustion, and premature aging.

The core intention of GFP is to restore the fluid relationship that allows gravity to nourish, support, and sustain life rather than drain it.

Through refined observation, study, and practice, participants are guided to sense how every action — from standing to speaking, from breathing to relating — is an ongoing dialogue with the gravitational field.

At the same time, GFP acknowledges that this same field, when met through habitual resistance, becomes a gravitational burden.

Through refined observation, study, and practice, participants are guided to sense how every action — from standing to speaking, from breathing to relating — is an ongoing dialogue with the gravitational field.

At the same time, GFP acknowledges that this same field, when met through habitual resistance, becomes a gravitational burden.

Over time, this unconscious fight expresses itself as tension, rigidity, fear of falling, exhaustion, and premature aging.

The core intention of GFP is to restore the fluid relationship that allows gravity to nourish, support, and sustain life rather than drain it.

The Gravitational Field Principle (GFP)

GFP invites a radical shift of perception: instead of seeing gravity merely as an external directional force to overcome, we begin to experience it as a source of empowerment and coherence.

Bruno Caverna, creator of GFP

Backbone

Every phase of human neuromuscular development — rolling, crawling, standing — unfolds through a continuous exchange with gravitational forces.
The vertical alignment we eventually achieve is not a static structure or even posture to be pursued, but a dynamic negotiation between yielding and uprising, falling and recovering.

But as life progresses, environmental pressures, emotional experiences, and cultural conditioning begin to shape our nervous system.

The spontaneous dance with gravity turns into a subtle battle against it.

Resisting gravity and the pervasive avoidance of falling — both physical and existentially symbolic — gradually replaces the innate fluidity that once sustained our growth.

Our first relationship with gravity begins before language, as infants learning to rise from the ground.

Children embody this dynamic naturally. Their play with gravity is exploratory, joyful, and full of trust. Falling is not yet failure — it is curiosity in motion.

HEALING THE RELATIONSHIP WITH GRAVITY

Through precise somatic inquiry and experiential anatomy, the practice unveils how defensive motor patterns and mechanisms of compensation form, how they consume vast energy, and how they can be unlearned through awareness, breath, and intelligent movement.

In this sense, GFP becomes a pathway to restore a relationship with gravity that for most of us has become distorted through years of tension, fear, and unconscious self-protection.

We are born surrendered to gravity, yet we spend much of adult life obviously resisting it.

Rather than fighting gravity, we learn to cooperate with it — to rediscover the original harmony between weight and freedom.