Bowspring weekend workshop in Golden, CO — Rewild Yourself!

June 5-7, 2026 with John Friend & Desi Springer

In-person and online (Zoom)

Intrinsic Collective, 922 Washington Ave #200, Golden, CO 80401.
The venue is on the corner of 10th and Washington above Rewind, the Consignment Store. There is parking directly across the street in the Visitors Center. They offer 2 hours free parking. Although they apparently don’t monitor the parking, we will have some parking passes for extended parking if requested. There is also free parking across Washington at the Mountaineer Center. The stairs up to the venue are directly across from the Visitor Center parking lot.

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Rediscover Your Innate Vitality — Rewild Yourself!

 Modern life conditions us into a sedated state of domestication in which we default to being comfortable and not exploring the outer reaches of our creative potential. Long hours in chairs, constant screen use, and rigid postural ideals condition the body toward dullness, stagnation, and the contraction of chronic stress. Instead of responding to life in an organic way, we are programmed to override innate wildness to fit into the control structure without resistance. Over time, this conditioning can leave us feeling disconnected, constrained, and less alive in our own body-mind.

Rewilding is the process of undoing this domestication. It is not a return to something primitive, but a restoration of our natural capacity to adapt, flow, and thrive. In Nature, living systems are never rigid or collapsed—they are responsive, pulsing, and dynamic. Rewilding the body-mind means reclaiming natural curves, increasing sensitivity in all parts of the body, and awakening to our innate power.

Bowspring offers a powerful pathway for this return to our primal nature. Its alignment principles of spirals, dynamic curves, and springy tone mirror the movement of animals. Rather than succumbing to the domestication of modern C-Curve posture, which quiets and dulls us,  Bowspring returns us to a natural, wavy dynamic posture with uniform tone on all sides,  creating strength that is both buoyant and resilient. As the Radiant Heart awakens and the breath becomes more available, the nervous system begins to shift out of chronic stress and into a state of poised, grounded aliveness.

Rewild Yourself is a 10-hour immersive Bowspring weekend in Golden, Colorado, set at the gateway into the Rocky Mountains. Through progressive, all-levels practices, you’ll explore primal alignment, fascia-based dynamic movement, and playful experimentation designed to shed rigid patterns of domestication and restore the wildness of natural vitality. You’ll leave with practical tools to carry this embodied freedom into daily life—walking lighter, breathing deeper, and moving through the world with greater ease, authenticity, and an uplifting vibrancy.

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Friday night class is great to first-time students. The weekend will be progressive so there will be no drop-ins permitted for Sunday classes.

June 5 — Friday Evening — 6:00- 8:00 pm MT: 

June 6 — Saturday Morning — 10:00 am-12 Noon MT:  

June 6 — Saturday Afternoon — 2:00 – 4:00 pm MT: 

June 7 — Sunday Morning — 10:00 am – 12 Noon MT: 

June 7 — Sunday Afternoon — 2:00 – 4:00 pm MT:

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A Zoom link will be sent the day before the classes, as well as in the morning the day of the classes.

Registration closes 30 minutes before the start of the first class on June 5th.
A video for each class will be sent out to registrants the following day, and at the end of the Course, registrants will receive access to all 5 videos on Bowspring.com under their personal account.