Workshops 2025

This workshop will be all about the embodiment of rhythm in a movement practice. That is, to understand the underlying architecture of motion in time and use it to navigate musicality, timing and flow.

Here, you will learn how rhythm acts as a bridge between the physical and the subtle dimensions of ourselves, revealing its pivotal role in creating new automatism in movement patterns, its interactions with motor control, and its ability to build a connection with our internal states. The tools you will gain in this event will allow you to go back home with clear definitions and structures to read an invisible world, made clear by logic and feeling.

It builds its foundation on a ‘temporal geometry’: a matrix-like framework which integrates timing, spatial awareness, and intent to create an adaptive map of coordination to achieve precise, conscious responsiveness to every situation.

This event will be about introducing balance in a movement practice. That is the ability to maintain body stability and postural control through continuous adaptive modulation, coordination of sensory inputs, and precise equilibrium-point maps.

The axiom onto which this curriculum is built is to view this coordinative ability not under one lens but as a general all-glueing principle.
Balancing of objects, on different surfaces, and on various body parts: from the head to the tail, from elbows to the knees.
You will also be exposed to the direct development of the senses to improve the functioning and responsiveness of the vestibular, the visual and the proprioceptive system.
To ensure actual progress is made you will be offered skill maps to navigate and climb through practice together.

Building its foundation on solid decades of practice and up to date theories of coordination such as M. Latash’s “Equilibrium Points Hypothesis”, Kelso’s “self-organising maps” and Bernstein’s inspired “Dynamic systems theory” you will receive something that works, period.

In this two-day masterclass, you will learn the basics of the Tonic Body: a system that aims to increase and optimize life force energy through the integration of breath, movement and intent.

You will learn speed and endurance training methods supported by scientific research alongside complementary and nuanced prehab tools to improve fascial integrity and proper joint collaboration.
To improve energy efficiency, you will be taught breathing literacy tools to improve respiratory structures’ strength, coordination and range of motion as well as progressive CO2 tolerance and stress management work through the lenses of movement practitioners.
Tensegrity restoration and muscular control will ensure you develop surgical control over your torso in both superficial and deep layers.

It builds its foundations on a “dynamic states anatomy”: a tensegrity model which considers the body made of soft matter which is capable of changing qualities as different stimuli are imposed on the system.

Past Events

Here are a few video summaries of some events from the academic year 2021-2022:

– Vienna, Austria – Grand opening of the school
– Bojini, Slovenia – A journey through the elements
– Paris, France – A journey through the elements (hosted by Alain Couturier – Movement Practice Paris)
– Torino, Italy – Raduno Italiano di Movimento
– Lisboa, Portugal – Four faces of movement (hosted by Tiago F. Martins and André Dias – Movement Lisboa)
– Singapore – Four faces of movement (hosted by Sean Tan – Singapore Movement Practice)
– Dublin, Ireland – Four faces of movement (hosted by my good friend and student Adam O’Sullivan)
– New York, USA – Intensive (hosted by Will Torres – WillSpace)
– Boulder and Denver, Colorado – Environmental Movement Practice (hosted by Matt Bernstein, Zack Finer, Liav Memada – ApeCo)
– Brasilia, Brasil – Environmental Movement Practice (hosted by Rodrigo Salulima, Isabela Crema – Pratique Movimento)
– Bratislava, Slovakia – Environmental Movement Practice (hosted by Mathias Cizmarik – Movement Bratislava)
– Amsterdam, Netherlands – Environmental Movement Practice (hosted by Rich Andoh and Jori Meijer – HiddenBody)
– Rome, Italy – Movement Intensive 2022 (in an independent event)