Flowverse / About us

Embodied experiences
for real life.

Digital · In-person · Lifestyle

Sense what you need. Regulate in the moment. Build the capacity to adapt.

Flowverse is a Zürich-based preventive health startup and part of ETH Startup ecosystem. We are building an integrated system of embodied experiences, lifestyle rituals and digital tools for preventive health. From two-minute micro-practices to deep in-person experiences, we bring regulation into everyday life — helping people build embodied intelligence, reshape default patterns and adapt with greater flexibility over time.

We do not adapt alone. From self-regulation, co-regulation to adaptive interaction.

Our capacity to regulate begins within ourselves — but it develops through relationships, interaction and shared experience. Flowverse explores both self-regulation and co-regulation: how we sense, respond and adapt not only as individuals, but with partners, teams, groups and communities. Movement, breath, attention and partner-based practices become ways to train presence, boundaries, listening, timing and adaptive interaction.

From Knowing to Embodying.

We learn not only through concepts, but through experience. Traditional learning often works through explanation and reflection. Flowverse adds an embodied layer — using intention, breath, movement, sensing and interaction to make concepts such as regulation, presence, boundaries and adaptation something we can actually experience, practise and apply. What we understand cognitively, we explore through breath, movement, sensing and interaction — so it can be experienced, embodied and applied in real life.

Understand → Sense → Experience → Embody → Apply

We don’t lack options.
We lack integration.

People already move across many different worlds - sport, outdoor life, fitness, mind-body practices, creativity and recovery retreats, and work-based wellbeing programmes. The challenge is not a lack of choice, but the fragmentation, switching cost and lack of integration between them.

Not another practice to replace the rest.

A system that works with the daily life we already have.

REAL LIFEdaily needs,
states, situations

Sport & Outdoor

running · cycling · hiking · skiing · golf · swimming

One system.
Different entry points.

A flexible architecture that matches real life needs, states and situations.
Not another thing to do. A system that works with the daily life we already have.

Meet the moment

Recognise what is happening now and choose what fits.

Fit into daily life

Works alongside work, sport, family, travel and existing routines.

Build capacity over time

Repeated practice strengthens embodied intelligence and adaptive capacity.

REAL LIFEdaily needs, states,
situations
  1. 01Meet the moment
  2. 02Fit into real life
  3. 03Build capacity over time

Micro

2–5 min · in the moment

A growing library of short embodied practices matched to your needs, state and situation.

Move · Breathe · Sound · Regulate · Reset

Our roots

Living Heritage.
Modern Application.

We reinvent these principles into accessible, measurable practices for modern life — explored through research and collaboration, informed by preventive health practice and science, and enabled by innovation.

Tai Ji & Beyond is one of our signature experience families, including Water Tai Ji · Tai Ji for Golfers · Hikers · Cyclists · Skiers · Partner Practice.

Explore Tai Ji & Beyond
Lake and autumn mountain landscape in the Swiss Alps

Beyond movement, Flowverse also explores sound and listening, breath, sensory practices, tea art, edible tea, TCM-inspired nourishment and everyday rituals — different entry points into the same underlying system.

ETIM — Flowverse Framework

an open, inclusive and evolving system

ETIM is the underlying framework behind Flowverse. It moves from awareness to regulation, from regulation to embodiment, and from embodiment into real life.

Intention builds awareness of your state, needs and direction.

Apply across

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Biological
  • Social

Flowverse translates ETIM into a growing range of embodied experiences designed for people in different states, situations and environments. The same framework can be adapted into private training, community formats, workshops and series, retreats, corporate programmes and tailor-made experiences.

Different experiences. One underlying framework.

Different paths.
A shared belief in
holistic preventive health.

We come from different worlds — embodied practice, science, clinical insight, engineering, product and experience design, and business strategy — but share one belief: health is something we cultivate continuously, not only something we restore when it is lost.

Inspired by living heritage and informed by modern science and real-world experience, we explore and build ways to notice earlier, regulate in everyday life and strengthen our capacity over time. The goal is not only to return from stress or imbalance to baseline, but to become better able to sense, adapt and respond to changing situations — physically, mentally, biologically and socially.

Founders

Founder & CEO

Wei Braunberger

Practitioner ‧ Integrative Systems & Embodied Experience Designer ‧ Venture, Product and Strategy

Wei combines extensive business and leadership experience with embodied practice and cross-disciplinary movement exploration — bringing them together to build Flowverse across frameworks, experiences and products.

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Co-founder & CSO

Bingjie Cheng

Dr. Bingjie Cheng is a psychologist and neuroscientist, holding a PhD from the University of Zurich, and a Taiji practitioner.

Her work brings together scientific research and personal mind–body practice. Beyond Taiji, she practices ballet, plays musical instruments, and engages in outdoor sports in nature — an integration of disciplines that shapes her holistic perspective on the connection between body and mind.

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Team

Yilu Chen

Yilu is a software engineer and computational scientist interested in how technology can support a deeper connection to the body, emotions, and everyday human experience.

She holds ETH Zurich’s Master in Computational Science and Engineering. Yilu works with MeteoSwiss, ETH Zurich, and CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.

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Jana Schader

As a doctor specialising in spinal orthopaedics, Jana knows how important movement is — and at the same time, how difficult it can be to fit into a busy everyday life. Between clinical work, research, and the countless demands that come with a challenging profession, exercise remains her non-negotiable anchor. Whether skiing, cycling, or surfing, movement is Jana’s way of switching off, resetting, and recharging.

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Jelena Duza

Jelena is a public affairs and health policy professional driven by a strong interest in how policy decisions shape people’s lives, particularly when it comes to science and health innovation.

Over the past decade, she has worked at the intersection of policy, business and science across government and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Build the ecosystem
with us.

Flowverse grows through people, shared practice and exchange. We welcome curious minds, thoughtful supporters and people from different fields who feel connected to what we are exploring. Some join through ideas, some through collaboration, some through practice — and some simply by staying close to the journey.

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Ambassadors

People who resonate with Flowverse and help bring the practice into their communities and networks — through sharing, experiencing and spreading the word.

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Partners

Organisations, companies, hotels, communities, universities and institutions that co-create pilots, programmes, events, research or new ways of bringing Flowverse into real-world settings.

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Advisors

Experienced professionals who offer perspective, expertise and strategic guidance when it matters most.

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Collaborators

Researchers, designers, facilitators, photographers, developers, clinicians and other specialists who work with us on specific projects and ideas.

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Join the team

For people who want to build Flowverse from within — across marketing, content, growth, product, technology, operations and other core areas.

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Friends

People who support, connect, encourage and challenge us along the way — often informally, but always meaningfully.

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Different perspectives.
Shared purpose.

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