In the first week of September, last month, Desi Springer and I presented a 5-day Bowspring training in Tokyo. It was our fifth year in a row to teach the Bowspring method in Japan under the sponsorship of Mr. Kenta Nakano, who has been practicing Bowspring since taking a Sridaiva yoga workshop with us in …
Michaelle Edwards is one of the most free-thinking, iconoclastic, revolutionary yoga teachers in the world. She is one of the first modern postural yoga teachers, who over 20 years ago, began introducing curvy, dynamic myofascial alignment in her public classes in rebellion to the yoga world’s standard model of static, linear stretching. Her leading edge …
In the last week of October 2018, we held a 6-day, 30-hour training titled, Stalking the Shadow at Vital in Denver, Colorado. Over 60 Bowspring teachers from all over the world – Japan, Barbados, Peru, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and many from the US representing Florida, California, Texas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Illinois gathered …
While many people might concede that the quality of one’s posture can accurately reflect and influence their psycho-emotional state, the health benefits of posture are not given significant importance in the public view. After a century of the standard model of alignment dominating medicine, physical therapy, and modern postural yoga, the long-term health benefits of …
Bowspring Europe Tour 2019 This Summer was our 6th year in a row to tour Europe and share the Bowspring method with a growing number of free-thinking students. In a whirlwind 6-week tour, Desi Springer and I taught Bowspring classes, trainings, retreats and workshops in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Italy to a total …
Horizon Eyes Thales of Miletus loved to look up in the sky each day and discover new curiosities. Among the sparkling lights of the night sky, he would look for patterns of a grand organized field of creation.Once he was so engrossed in his nightly star gazing while walking in a field that he tripped …
One of our beloved teachers, Randi Randolf-Liebnau from Linz, Austria, recently started teaching a Bowspring beginners group composed of 13 students, most of whom are over 50 years old. She has observed significant progress in such a short amount of time with this group of students and she proudly wanted to share their experiences with …
1-13-2020: Happy 7th birthday to the Bowspring! When Desi Springer first showed me her radical paradigm-shifting alignment ideas back in the Spring of 2012, I was blown away. The overall postural alignment that she was performing in every pose of her yoga practice was completely antithetical to the universal principles of the alignment that I …
“Coming together is the beginning, staying together is the process, working together is the way” Bowspring teacher, Jennifer Metzger, organized a harmonious and celebratory gathering in Munich, Germany, with 25 students and teachers from across Europe. Each student and teacher participated in a synergistic sharing of the Bowspring method and added trust, energy, and knowledge …
Another related controversial topic is toning the ‘core,’ or strengthening the abdominal muscles in order to support the lower back. The old paradigm is that to help lengthen the lower back and to better stabilize the mid-section of the torso, the soft belly area should become strong through contraction or shortening of the abdominal muscles. …
