May Day Weekend Immersion – John Friend & Desi Springer — Indianapolis, IN
Through Bowspring practice, we align the body and nervous system with the rhythms of Nature, cultivating radiant strength, elastic resilience, and embodied vitality.
Through this immersion, we explore how to welcome increasing life-force with clarity, resilience, and embodied vitality, allowing expansion without strain, excess, or collapse as we step fully into the bright half of the year.
Venue: Dance Works Indy 537 E Ohio St Suite 100, Indianapolis, IN 46204
Friday – May 1: 6:30 – 8:30 pm ET
Saturday – May 2: 10:00-Noon; 2:00-4:00 pm ET
Sunday – May 3: 10:00-Noon; 2:00-4:00 pm ET
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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 May 1st.
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.
Indianapolis, IN — May 1-3, 2026 – May Day weekend Immersion – Desi Springer & John Friend
Price range: $30.00 through $250.00
In many earth-based traditions, May Day marks a cross-quarter threshold – between the Spring Equinox (March 21) and the Summer Solstice (June 21) – known as Beltane — the energetic beginning of Summer. It’s a time when light, warmth, and vitality rise, moving from potential into outer expression throughout the northern hemisphere of the Earth. Rather than static balance, this season is about the momentum of life in its growth and rejuvenation.
In Bowspring, we align with the rhythms of Nature, seeking to expand the life force within us, particularly to lengthen and open through a central channel between the floor of the pelvis and the top of the head. In the core of our mind-body field is the Central Channel — the axis between the polar opposites of the head and the tail. This central line functions like the Maypole, around which spiral patterns of connective tissue organize movement and breath. These spirals reflect the dance of complementary polar forces—often symbolized as the divine masculine and divine feminine—moving in harmonic relationship rather than opposition