Handstand Workshop with The Handstand School
Studio Neukölln
18-19 April 2026
Beginners: 11:00-13:00 | 11:15-13:15 (2 hours per day)
Intermediate & Advanced: 14:30-17:30 | 14:15-17:15 (3 hours per day)
150€ Beginners | 200€ Intermediate & Advanced
Review anatomy, handstand alignment, and master the fundamentals of balance! For beginners to advanced practitioners, we’re offering two workshops for various levels of handstand experience.
Beginner Track
Unsure of where to start your handstand journey? Or perhaps you are stuck and want guidance on building a solid foundation for more challenging skills in hand balancing? This is the perfect workshop for you. We will break the handstand down into its components and help you assess what you are missing and the best way to address it. In this workshop we will cover how to build mobile and strong shoulders, core strength and awareness, and lay out a path to work towards your freestanding handstand. You will also leave this workshop with a clear understanding of how to approach your training going forward.
Saturday, 18 April: 11:00-13:00
Sunday, 19 April: 11:15-13:15
Intermediate/Advanced Track
Already comfortable holding your freestanding handstand and want to level up your practice? In this workshop we will solidify your existing foundation and work on more advanced skills, leading toward skills like the one arm balance and straddle press. Expect to leave this workshop with a clear understanding of the process to identify what you need to work on to unlock advanced skills. You will also receive ideas of how to approach your training of more advanced skills beyond this workshop.
Saturday, 18 April: 14:30-17:30
Sunday, 19 April: 14:15-17:15
About the Instructors
Andrey Moraru was inspired in his early years by martial arts movies to start developing physical skills with his body. Eventually he discovered handstands. As a hand balancing performer, he started his professional journey at the Kiev College of Circus and Variety Arts in the early 2000s. Since then, he has traveled the world performing hand balancing, dance and acrobatics. He has won awards at Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris and performed at special events with Cirque Du Soleil in the UAE. His teaching journey began in 2011 and by working with beginner level practitioners, it helped him to gain a completely different understanding of his own craft. He’s happy to share it at HUB Zone with Dr. Robert Adams, his first handstand student and from whom he continues to learn much about anatomy and functionality of the human body.
Dr. Robert Adams, PT, DPT, OCS, is a doctor of physical therapy, hand balancer, and teacher who combines clinical insight with a decade of coaching and teaching experience to guide students toward greater awareness, resilience, and confidence. His own movement journey began in 2013, teaching yoga and discovering how powerful intentional practice can be. Through yoga, he started to teach himself how to hold a handstand as an adult. In 2016, fell in love with a more playful, strength-based approach to skill work — particularly handstands — at Ape Co Movement School in Colorado, where he currently trains and teaches. Since then, he has continued to study the discipline of hand balancing, working with performance artists and teachers like Andrey Moraru to refine his craft. His teaching centers on assessing each student’s unique limitations to create a path forward that supports sustainable progress. Having learned hand balancing as an adult has given him more tools and understanding of how to not only build the physical base for success but also address the fears and other psychological aspects of balancing on hands. When he’s not coaching or practicing physical therapy, he’s usually baking, reading fantasy books, or hiking somewhere off the beaten path.
Together, they established The Handstand School and developed an expanded system of learning and training hand balancing that provides a clear path toward successfully overcoming many of the challenges on the way to mastering handstands.
Cancellations
Tickets may be canceled up to 30 days before the workshop for a full refund minus transaction fee, and within 30 days and up to three weeks before the workshop for a 50% refund. There are no refunds within 15 days of the workshop date.