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In the earliest stages of life, the human body is primarily fluid. We begin as liquid beings. Re-entering this internal sea awakens a deep, pre-verbal intelligence that can support individual and collective healing.
Over time, stress, habitual tension, and a nervous system conditioned to resist gravity accelerate the loss of fluidity. The body gradually crystallizes, storing unnecessary effort and weight in its tissues.
Liquid Body proposes another way of inhabiting ourselves. Here, movement is understood as an expression of consciousness. By exploring movement qualities — especially through the support of water — we cultivate a more plastic, resilient, and adaptable nervous system. This is not a technique to master, but a living process: one that unfolds, transforms, and continually renews itself.
Liquid Body
is a holistic somatic practice in water and on land - a philosophy in motion that invites reconnection with our aquatic origins and ancestral memory.
The Water Sessions take place in a pool heated to 35°C, an ideal temperature for deep immersion, nervous system regulation, and effortless floating. Warm water creates a holding environment where the body can soften, release weight, and rediscover movement beyond habitual effort.
Supported by buoyancy, participants explore free, multidirectional movement - on the surface and beneath it - accessing gravity-reduced, expansive states of embodiment. Elements inspired by Watsu and Underwater Dance offer a safe and supportive gateway.
From there, the practice unfolds into individual and collective underwater explorations, allowing each body to find its own rhythm, depth, and movement language. Breathwork is central to the process.
Through progressive guidance, participants learn to move calmly and safely in gentle apnea, cultivating trust, relaxation, and grounded awareness. These sessions are not about performance, but about listening, sensing, and reclaiming the body’s innate aquatic intelligence.
WATER Sessions
Weightless Bodies
The Land Sessions are grounded in the Gravitational Field Principle (GFP) and offer a clear somatic container to explore how the human body organizes itself in relationship to gravity, breath and connection.
Form is approached not as a fixed shape, but as a living response - emerging moment by moment within a relational field. Spheres and spirals remain central gateways. The sphere embodies unbroken wholeness, the original organization of the human body, while spirals express how life force gathers, transmits, and redistributes through movement.
These archetypal patterns open a dialogue with gravity, rather than a resistance against it. Drawing from GFP principles - gravity, field awareness, breath, connection, and effortlessness - alongside insights from biotensegrity, the practice invites the body to be sensed as a coherent, responsive system rather than a collection of parts.
Through guided explorations and embodied drills, participants refine perception, soften excess effort, and discover how movement can arise with greater ease, adaptability, and internal support. Breath acts as a bridge between inner space and external field, while connection expands beyond the individual body into the collective and environmental context.
Land Sessions
Gravity, Spheres, Field & Breath
Water is resilient, adaptive, and without fixed form. In dialogue with gravity, it yields rather than resists. It molds itself to every container, every surface it meets.
The Fascinating Properties of Water
Under gravity, water moves through waves and spirals, yet it does not merely follow these patterns; it becomes them. And still, beneath all motion, water is always tending toward its original form, a sphere.
In the absence of gravity, this truth is revealed with striking clarity. In outer space, water gathers itself into a perfect fluid sphere, whole, continuous, complete. A form that symbolizes totality without rigidity, coherence without tension.
The sphere is water’s memory of wholeness: never fixed, never defended, never broken — yet fully itself.
It molds itself to every container, every surface it meets
The human body begins as a single cell, mostly fluid, a living liquid sphere from which all structures emerge.
At birth, the body still carries this aquatic memory. Its anatomy is designed for freedom, articulation, and movement, yet this very mobility introduces a quiet paradox.
As articulation increases, the original sense of fluid wholeness begins to fragment. With time, gravity, habit, and aging, what once moved as a unified continuum starts to function in parts.
This tension between mobility and wholeness lies at the heart of human embodiment, and forms a central inquiry of the Liquid Body work.
living liquid sphere
It is for those drawn to nature, water, and embodied experience, and for anyone wishing to soften habitual tension and rediscover freedom of movement.
The work also supports somatic practitioners (manual therapy, yoga, meditation, movement, and related fields), offering experiential tools that can be integrated into both professional practice and daily life.
No prior experience is required, only curiosity, presence, and a willingness to listen.
TO WHOM
Liquid Body is open to all body types, ages, and backgrounds
Early Bird fees are limited for the 6 first applicants who complete the registration upon deposit
4 - 6 beds
- 700 € Early Bird
- 780 € Regular fee
Yurt tent (heated)
Shared rooms
(double or triple bed)
(double or triple bed)
6 - 8 beds total
- 800 € Early Bird
- 880 € Regular
PRACTICAL INFO
8 - 13 April 2026
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Napmajor Farm, Hungary
Gödörállásidüllő Tanya 31 Ladánybene H-6045
Gödörállásidüllő Tanya 31 Ladánybene H-6045
The newest airport is in Budapest. From Nepliget bus station there runs frequent buses to Ladanybene. Seems like it's not possible to book the ticket online in advance though. You must purchase the ticket at the counter in person. For an overview of timetable go the link below and enter the name of the cities.
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3 vegetarians daily meals
Creator of Play-Fight and Liquid-Body practices as well as the founder of Formless Arts and GFP methodology.
Since 1985 Bruno has been studying and integrating various body-mind practices such as Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contact-Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Qi-Gong, Russian Systema Watsu, Freediving, Butyeko Method and Oxygen Advantage.
Bruno has made his movement practices a "spiritual"path of self-knowledge and self-actualization, a way to connect to the essence of the being and to realize what human existence is about.
Since 1985 Bruno has been studying and integrating various body-mind practices such as Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contact-Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Qi-Gong, Russian Systema Watsu, Freediving, Butyeko Method and Oxygen Advantage.
Bruno has made his movement practices a "spiritual"path of self-knowledge and self-actualization, a way to connect to the essence of the being and to realize what human existence is about.
Bruno Caverna
FACILITATOR
Bruno Caverna
Bruno Caverna is a somatic educator, facilitator, and pioneer in body–mind integrative practices, with over 30 years of dedicated study, teaching and embodied research across a wide spectrum of movement and awareness disciplines.
His background includes long-term immersion in practices such as Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Taiji, Russian Systema, Watsu, breathwork, and freediving. Rather than accumulating techniques, Bruno’s path has been guided by a continuous inquiry into how movement, breath, and awareness shape human experience.
A defining influence in his work has been a ten-year apprenticeship with Alexander Solovev, an encounter that profoundly transformed his perception of connection, falling, and gravity. This relationship reshaped Bruno’s understanding of how bodies organize themselves within a field—deepening his sensitivity to effortlessness, relational support, and the intelligence of yielding rather than resisting.
In 2012, he created the Play-Fight and Liquid Body practices. In 2016, his work expanded into a broader philosophical and pedagogical framework with the founding of Formless Arts—a living, mosaic-like container that supports physical practices, theoretical research, and experiential learning. Formless Arts is dedicated to self-knowledge through the contemplation of movement, breath, and perception, beyond rigid forms or stylistic identities.
Since then, Bruno has been training and certifying facilitators, organizing educational programs and retreats, and collaborating within interdisciplinary and international contexts. His work continues to evolve as a living process rather than a fixed methodology.
A pivotal chapter began in 2018 with his exploration of freediving. Through this practice, the ocean revealed itself not only as a physical environment but as a gateway to inner dimensions, profoundly influencing his relationship with breath, pressure, and altered states of awareness. Bruno is a certified freediving instructor with the Molchanovs School, and freediving remains a central pillar of his somatic and philosophical research.
He is currently launching the GFP PRACTITIONER TRAINING, a year-long study structured in two modules, marking the latest evolution of his teaching, research, and knowledge transmission.
His background includes long-term immersion in practices such as Capoeira, Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Taiji, Russian Systema, Watsu, breathwork, and freediving. Rather than accumulating techniques, Bruno’s path has been guided by a continuous inquiry into how movement, breath, and awareness shape human experience.
A defining influence in his work has been a ten-year apprenticeship with Alexander Solovev, an encounter that profoundly transformed his perception of connection, falling, and gravity. This relationship reshaped Bruno’s understanding of how bodies organize themselves within a field—deepening his sensitivity to effortlessness, relational support, and the intelligence of yielding rather than resisting.
In 2012, he created the Play-Fight and Liquid Body practices. In 2016, his work expanded into a broader philosophical and pedagogical framework with the founding of Formless Arts—a living, mosaic-like container that supports physical practices, theoretical research, and experiential learning. Formless Arts is dedicated to self-knowledge through the contemplation of movement, breath, and perception, beyond rigid forms or stylistic identities.
Since then, Bruno has been training and certifying facilitators, organizing educational programs and retreats, and collaborating within interdisciplinary and international contexts. His work continues to evolve as a living process rather than a fixed methodology.
A pivotal chapter began in 2018 with his exploration of freediving. Through this practice, the ocean revealed itself not only as a physical environment but as a gateway to inner dimensions, profoundly influencing his relationship with breath, pressure, and altered states of awareness. Bruno is a certified freediving instructor with the Molchanovs School, and freediving remains a central pillar of his somatic and philosophical research.
He is currently launching the GFP PRACTITIONER TRAINING, a year-long study structured in two modules, marking the latest evolution of his teaching, research, and knowledge transmission.
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