WHY

to learn how to make the most out of your own resources, discover new tools for your well-being and to face everyday life, to see problems as an opportunity for growth and personal improvement, not to depend, but to sustain oneself wherever possible.

through the nourishing repetition of movement sequences ranging from yoga frames and principles (mainly from anusara and vinyasa approach), meditation, postural gymnastics, somatics, movement of the body and of the being in its fascinating totality. The sequences will respond to the needs of the person/group and can be adapted and modified during the journey based on the feedback. There will be the possibility at any time to ask questions and work together on specific aspects, but the dedication to practice will be solely the responsibility of the person.

HOW

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM THE FACILITATOR:

Since I won't have (unfortunately, for the moment) the possibility in presence of guiding, observing and giving direct feedback, I will make sure to recommend exercises to be carried out safely. At the same time this approach automatically requires a lot of listening on your part, a particular attention that is often silenced when you have the chance to follow a teacher during a class. So it's an opportunity: a physical and mental exercise of extreme care and listening to yourself.

Here are some example guidelines for building the practice on the person in case of the one-to-one approach. But then it's up to you to listen and understand with sincerity where you would like to work right now.

• Postural problems
• Stress - calming the activity of thinking
• Feel the body
• Strengthening of muscles and structure - tone
• Joint mobility
• Fluidity of movement
• Refine self-listening
• Perception of the body in motion
• Discipline - concentration
• Better awareness of breathing
• Anxiety
• Sleep better
• Start the day with more energy
• Backache
• How to give yourself support in this moment and so on ...

FORMATS OF STUDY

LEADING

ESTER BRAGA

Her background of experiences and interests mainly interconnects intensive training in contemporary dance, contact improvisation, instant composition, with her later studies into yoga (mainly anusara and vinyasa), postural gymnastic and somatics. The first encounter with Bruno Caverna happened in 2014, first through Liquid Body, later through Play-Fight. Ester works for Formless Arts as Play-Fight facilitator while she is particularly deepening her research in the line between Play-Fight & Contact Improvisation. At the moment she is also integrating her important experience in the Yoga panorama within Formless Arts activities, connecting the approach from the very essence of Formless Arts philosophy.

Through Yoga Ester wishes to cultivate tools for the individual healthy practice, flowing between asanas with deep awareness and careful listening. Yoga principles of alignment and activation of the joints and of the whole body structure find a great integration with the principle of non-resistance and the falling research present at the core of Play-Fight and Liquid Body; by becoming aware of our inner resistances, both in the body and in the mind, we can flow more freely and at the same time build strength, grounding, a whole-body-being integrity fundamental for sustaining everyday life with resiliency and self-care. While in Play-Fight the relationship with the partner is a key element to dig deeper into one-self, in the solo practice through Yoga & Somatics we can work within ourselves, within and through our limits and personal resources, an opportunity to craft endlessly our perception and awareness so to be able to bring more honesty and presence when we enter in a relationship with the other.