https://vimeo.com/946402455?share=copy One of the most common physical exercises to build big, strong butt muscles is to do leg lifts in the back plane of the body. On the Internet you can find hours of videos with young, fit people doing these leg lift exercises — straight leg and bent leg — pumping the lifted leg backward …
Sally Kempton, a great yoga teacher and devotee of the Shakti, passed away peacefully on July 10th at age 80 in her home in Carmel, California after struggling with waning health for the last couple of years. Over the last 40 years in the modern yoga world, Sally Kempton was an exemplary teacher that inspired …
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In Bowspring we form an optimal template of postural alignment in any pose by making a general bow-shape in the spine, a fullness of the inner body, and then creating a spring-loaded integration of all the muscles along the back body. Finally, by rooting and rising the two ends of the spine—the pelvis and the …
As a long-time student of yoga I will always endeavour to grow and develop in my character and in my body and mind every day. If I don’t assume ultimacy in my yoga practice, then I will be ever inspired to explore and test new ideas for expanding health. If I find the new ideas …
In the first 120 days of teaching Bowspring, Desi and I found that a wide range of students are increasingly positive and enthusiastic about the transformative powers of the Bowspring postural alignments. However, almost universally, new students have difficulty with embodying the new Bowspring alignments for the first initial classes. For this reason, Desi and I …
A July magazine article in Runner’s World entitled, “Sitting is the New Smoking – Even for Runners,” presented the latest findings that indicate regular exercise each day may not be enough to counter the harmful health effects of sitting 9+ hours a day. With a large percentage of Americans sitting at their desks each day, …
With the health of the neuro-glandular system representing a key biological bridge between psycho-emotional memory, consciousness, and the shape of our posture. Lack of curve or harmonious proportion in one’s waistline and lower back and buttocks directly relate to a disengagement of the myofacia on the back of the body, a weakening of our “anti-gravity” …
All animals have a natural ability to gracefully run and jump with easeful efficiency, notably, 10,000 lbs elephants, 1000 lb horses, or 200 lb cats. A tensegrity of posture is created in the balanced form of animals in which the bones of the body are suspended within a matrix of uniformly toned myofascia. When this …
Although the system is designed to be easily comprehensible for any level of student, Bowspring is not easy to practice at first. First and foremost, Bowspring alignment targets 4 areas of the body-mind posture, which tend to be the most habitually misaligned. The 4 key somatic areas of the body-mind in which Bowspring focuses on balancing …
Throughout 2012 I adamantly held to my technical knowledge in alignment and biomechanics, which I had gathered and developed for over 25 years, as I disagreed with Desi’s postural ideas on a weekly basis. For decades I have been in search of an elegant set of alignment principles for a universal ‘optimal blueprint’ for the …
