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Svitlana is a Ukrainian born actress and visionary performance artist. She is an International Kung Fu Champion and is known as Wu Woman for developing her own innovative Kung fu style inspired by the complexities of human consciousness translated into physical movement.
- 1.73 m
- Svitlana Zavialova
- Actress, Producer, Director
Svitlana Zavialova, professionally known as Wu Woman, is a Ukrainian-born performance artist, a modern-day philosopher, and a pioneer of The Art of Cognitive Transmission of Martial Movement and Emotion.
Svitlana Zavialova would know: she speaks four languages. The only child of a Solo Mom, the Ukrainian-born performance artist, actress, and producer began her career as an international wushu competitor (a Chinese martial art similar to kung fu), winning multiple world championships.
- How Do You Define Yourself?
- How Do You See Discipline in Your Life, Constraining Or Liberating?
- What Are The Specificities of Your Lifestyle?
- What Do Meditation and Mind Control Bring to Your Life?
- What Are The Main Physical Changes You Notice with time?
- What Does Dedication to Your Art Mean to You?
- Anything Else You'd Like to Share with Our Readers?
I am a martial artist and performance artist and my work is a search for a physical equation for tuning violence into love. I am also an actor and director. My story is a "little complex", to say the least. My athletic background is in wushu in nan-quad (southern fist). I also hold a degree in clinical psychology from a sports institution. I also s...
I've redefined my relationships with discipline multiple times in my life. When I took part in competitions, I was very strict... I ate once a day and, quite frankly, overstrained myself. With time I developed self-knowledge to the point that I know how to achieve the results I'm after with less strain on my body and mind. I also started to be able...
I train at the gym twice a week for strength training and twice for cardio conditioning. And I do wushu basics every day. I also stretch daily and do recovery cardio on the bike.
I've spent my twenties in Asia studying various meditation practices as a way to calm my mind. As a result, I gained even more efficiency. Being a control freak at the time, it seemed like a perfect strategy to me. Nowadays, I teach people meditation, while I no longer need hours of practice. I have a set of mini-rituals that bring me to a meditati...
Mainly my recovery time is significantly longer now. The rest of my abilities remain the same for the moment. I need to be very mindful of the hours of sleep that I get.
Dedication to my Art means to keep going and seeing the value of it myself before the world sees it. When it comes to innovation in arts—unlike in business—I offer a new way of looking at things vs what is the most useful and problem-solving. So in my art practice, I am dedicated to seeing things clearly, and I clearly understand which part of what...
I often think that when we are alive, we are like tridimensional characters and when we die, life becomes linear: it has a point of birth and a point of death. And in a way, we become stories. So sometimes, I imagine myself as a story, which helps me make the most creative decisions in my life. *Watch the conversation between Svitlana and LEMAlab's...
Ukrainian born martial artist and filmmaker. After a decade in China following my dreams in the USA. svitlanazavialova.com and 3 more links. เครื่องอัดกระทงใบตอง เพื่อสิ่งแวดล้อม. THE FLOW. 4,927...
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Huge thanks to The WU WOMAN, Svitlana Zavialova, for talking with me and sharing her important and deeply personal journey from Crimea to Shen-Fa. If you want to follow along, you can go to her website at or check out her instagram page at WU.WOMAN.
