Madrid Five years ago, the first place that Desi Springer and I introduced the Bowspring alignment to the European yoga community was in Madrid, Spain. We had over 100 students in that initial workshop, and the OMs were grand and the standing ovation at the end was so moving. Yet, most students didn’t return to …
This month we spent 2 weeks sharing Bowspring with yoga studios in Switzerland – a wonderful week with the Swiss French of Nyon, Switzerland on Lake Geneva followed by another extraordinary week with the Swiss Germans of Worb near Bern. Each place has its own distinctive culture and language, yet both areas of Switzerland are …
My last trip to Bologna and to Italy to offer a yoga training was 8 years ago with Anusara yoga’s ‘community of the heart’. In May of 2018, I returned to Bologna with Desi to introduce a radically new alignment and profoundly different yoga practice to about 40 students of modern postural yoga (MPY), who …
The Bowspring method is growing in The Netherlands, in large part to Laura Pijnenborgh and Petra Kool, who live in Den Bosch – about an hour south of Amsterdam. Laura and Petra were first introduced to Bowspring in the 2016 Berlin weekend workshop that Desi and I presented there. Both Laura and Petra, who have …
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After a most extraordinary 4-month Bowspring tour of 9 countries: Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Croatia, Desi and I arrived back to the US in the last week of July full of loving gratitude for so many beautiful hearts that compose our expanding global Bowspring community. We were blessed to …
The last stop on our 2018 European tour was on the Croatian island of Brac, which has paradisiacal beaches for sunbathing in crystal clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. Our local host, Smili Primorac began regularly practicing the Bowspring 2 years ago, and teaching Bowspring classes at her Yoga Camp Kanun in the town of …
In June of 2018, Desi and I spent a week each in the cities of Regensburg, Munich, and Berlin to work with the local Bowspring communities there and to teach public weekend workshops. The Bowspring method has grown in Germany since our first workshop in Frankfurt in October of 2013 at the Young Ho Kim’s …
Last month in July, Desi Springer and I presented a Bowspring weekend workshop in Copenhagen to our growing Danish Bowspring community. Over the last 3 years, Bowspring in Denmark has grown into a sparkling community with several excellent teachers leading the way: Ditte Bykaerholm, Sisse Dall, Senay Jensen, Helga Halkjaer Laursen, Signe Rassmussen, and Thor Lenz with many teachers …
This Summer of 2018 in the countryside of northeast Austria in the fertile valley of the Danube river, Christian Wimmer offered a gigantic outdoor Bowspring class to over 200 students! Every year since 2014, when 40 students first attended this special Summer event, Christian’s “Yoga in the Park” class has become increasingly popular. Now whole …
An old professor once said, “the one single thing that makes me optimistic, rather than cynical and pessimistic, are my students.” This rings true for me particularly in how I feel about our Chinese and Japanese Bowspring students, who recently attended trainings with me and Desi in Xi’an, China and in Tokyo, Japan. Xi’an, China …
