About Flow & Radiate
Flow & Radiate was born from the desire to support anyone in their creative process trough embodiment and meditation, a pathway that we know intimately from our own experience as artists and meditators, and a more than a decade long working practice of helping performers birth their creations.
On our journey from ‘show business to slow business’ we encountered systems and tools that have helped us keep our creative self alive trough the many changes and challenges of life. The wisdom gathered on this path is what we are here to offer you.
Everything we share comes from our lived experience and professional training. Our services are bespoke to your specific needs and rooted in Embodiment Coaching and Meditation, Checkov, Laban, and Lecoq technique, Contemporary Dance and Somatic practices.
Listen to our founder Viola talk about her journey into coaching and the way she works here.
Come to meet us and experience how we work at one of our events or online classes!
Viola Bruni
Founder / Creativity Coach / Embodied Meditation Teacher
Dancing with Rinko Kawauchi artworks at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
“Movement is our primary language, what we communicate with before speaking. We can easily forget this as adults, especially in cultures that elevate mind over body instead of viewing them as one whole. Developing an ability to listen and respond to what the body is saying is a great tool for anyone that yearns for a deeper understanding of the self and others.”
Growing up in Italy surrounded by art and artists, daughter and assistant of a natural birth midwife, Viola developed through her upbringing, work, and studies an ability to hold space for anyone in need of support with their creative process. She likes to see herself as a midwife that helps birth art and creative projects instead of little humans!
Trained in Movement Direction & Teaching (RCSSD, London), Directing Circus & Physical Theatre (Circomedia, Bristol), and Embodied Meditation, she loves coaching all types of artists to support their creative expression, as well as helping performers and companies with movement and show creation. She leads 1:1 Creativity Coaching sessions as well as group workshops and classes across different arts universities, bringing embodiment and meditation to fine art and performing arts students.
Viola’s expertise and passion for movement spans across 20+ years of stage experience. Performing since 1997, she graduated from Accademia d’Arte Circense as an aerialist and dancer, working across Italy in many street circus festivals, touring with Circo Soluna, and later performing for Big Dance 2012 and Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali. Her movement studies continued through the years attending regular classes and workshops of Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Dance Theatre, Physical Theatre, and Acting. She practiced for many years Yoga and Dao Yin Qi Gong and is currently training as an Embodiment Coach with Embodiment Unlimited .
In 2012, she was injured while working as an acrobat for the London Olympic Festival/LIFT. Along with a severe physical exhaustion and chronic fatigue, this led to the impossibility of training and performing for many years. With the help of Equity Charitable Trust, Viola was able to move to a career as a coach and creative, offering her vast knowledge in service to the performing industry. Since 2016, she has worked as Movement Director and Choreographer in London and Bristol for theatre, film, circus, dance, music videos and taught workshops at UAL Central St Martin, Circomedia, Sadler’s Wells, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Courtyard Theatre Training Company. In 2021 she founded Flow & Radiate with the dream of creating a dedicated platform to support artists and creators of any kind trough the ups and down of the creative process.
Connect with Viola:
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For more information on help available through Equity please visit:
https://www.bapam.org.uk https://www.equitycharitabletrust.org.uk
Valeria Chiara Puppo
Embodiment Coach/ Tarologist/ Choreographer
Using tarot as a tool for dramaturgy at Istituto Marcelline, Genova
“It is the mind that belongs to the body, not the opposite. We can start from the body to obtain a transformation in our thoughts, our emotions, our relationships”
Valeria is a ICF accredited, trauma informed Embodiment Coach as well as a professional dancer and choreographer trained at Susanna Beltrami Professional dance program “DanceHaus”. With a BA in Educational Sciences, since 2011 she teaches dance, choreographic composition, and movement for theatre, as well a offering 1:1 Embodiment Coaching and leading tranformative embodiment sessions with Supernova Community.
She leads creative retreats and workshops of embodiment, as well as research seminars on movement, dance theatre, and character study across Italy. Years of training and a varied work experience, paired with a passion for movement science, make Valeria a formidable teacher to both adult and young audiences. Working as Embodiment Coach expanded Valeria’s knowledge of non performative movement and deepened her research interests into the connection between movement and psychology.
Valeria is also a Tarot researcher and reader, collaborator of Fabiana Spagnuolo, a direct disciple of Cristobal Jodorowsky. Valeria and Viola offer together workshops and retreats of Tarot and embodiment, as well as using Tarot to help artists with their creative process.
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Tessa Blackman & Think Emerald
Meditation Teacher and Clairvoyant
“The creative mind has so much to offer us and if we can learn to use it as a tool of exploration into the subconscious we can guide ourselves back to stillness, peace of mind and therefore gain a better relationship with our self.”
Tessa Blackman is an energy healer, meditation teacher and clairvoyant, currently studying herbalism and Bach remedies. Previously an international circus performer, she describes herself as an empath and a sensitive being. Tessa has a BA(Hons) degree from the National Centre for Circus Arts and is the founder of Think Emerald, a female-run holistic company offering meditation courses, 1:1 sessions, events, talks and creative collaborations.
Alongside her work as performer, she has offered energy readings and healings for the past 10 years. With 5 certificates in Clairvoyance from InVision Psychic School, she uses her knowledge and practice to create the Think Emerald method of combining visualisation, freewriting, meditation and mantra setting. Tessa now incorporates the Think Emerald method into her creative collaborations with Viola and Valeria.
Think Emerald and Flow & Radiate offer together a range of workshops and events where movement and meditation combine to support creativity and wellbeing. For the past three years Viola and Tessa led free, community women circles as well as regular Full Moon Dance Circles in Bristol and online.
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