Benefits of the Bowspring
The Bowspring practice brings vibrancy and balance to all levels: Body-Mind-Heart
One of the best ways to hear about the benefits of the Bowspring practice is to hear directly from experienced students of the Bowspring. Please check out some of our student testimonials on the power of the Bowspring
BENEFITS OF THE BODY
- Enhances harmonic proportion between the shoulders, waist, and pelvis.
- Uniform tone in the connective tissue brings a balancing affect to all joints.
- Healthy, curvy figure with lifted glutes, tapered waistline, and a long belly.
Below is a list of health benefits for body, mind, and soul reported by students from their practice of the Bowspring:
The Body
- Pain relief, and eventual loss of pain
- Vitality, increased life force
- Full body functional movement
- Full and balanced breathing
- Lightness
- Strength
- Nimbleness, agility
- More power in movement with less effort
- Weight loss
- Increased sensory sensitivity
The Mind
- Self-knowing
- Accountability
- Openness of mind
- Curiosity
- Ability to focus
- Power of rational thinking
- Discernment & Discrimination
- Mindfulness
The Heart
- Loving-kindness
- Compassion
- Inspired meaningfulness of life
- Authenticity
- Courage
- Strength of will
- Positive mindset
- Emotional intelligence
- Gratitude & Forgiveness
The Bowspring is an antidote to the health issues arising from our modern, sedentary C-curve posture. Anyone can learn to do the Bowspring in standing, sitting or any basic posture to increase health, mindfulness, and a positive mindset. The uniform muscle tonus of the Bowspring makes for maximum functionality in ordinary tasks like walking, sitting, housework, and even more specialized exercise activities like biking, jogging, or any athletics.
With the Bowspring, students of any age can learn to move with springy agility, graceful lightness, whole body strength, and expanded vitality. All movement becomes more efficient with the Bowspring – increased power with less force.
New Approach, New Results!
Bowspring practice is great support for mental and emotional health as well. Skillful Bowspring alignment in dynamic posture positively affects the nervous system, the circulatory system, supports mental focus, emotional clarity, and a skillful management of stress. Bouncing, hopping, pulsing, rhythmic movement of the Bowspring are also mood elevating! It brings back a youthful, spirited, positivity to one’s outlook in life.
The Bowspring is an Open Posture
The shape of the Bowspring encourages maximum openness allowing an individual to feel more. It is a somatically open position so the flow of emotional or psychological energy is not inhibited. This supports a healthy psycho-emotional rebalancing and cleansing. Through the Bowspring practice we can reprogram our nervous system’s autopilot, which can keep us stuck in debilitating patterns of fear, sadness, and lack. By mindfully choosing an open instead of closed posture, students can conscientiously re-pattern themselves, their actions, and words to align with their natural, more authentic selves. Old patterns are shed, and a new, healthier lifestyle is embodied.
The Bowspring is Movement Medicine
To openly feel and honestly perceive ourselves reveals our deepest patterns of closing and blocking. Our painfully blocked areas ranging from chronic physical injuries to emotional heartbreak can be brought to the forefront of awareness to facilitate healing. Through skillful studentship we learn new postural responses of strength and openness. Our intention is to live with fullness in the heart, self-knowing in the mind, and a feeling of love in the body. The Bowspring shape informs one’s self-concept in the most positive way. When we feel good, we naturally extend love and compassion to all life. When we are natural and open in our body and mind, the practice becomes a movement medicine.
Other Benefits of Bowspring noted by experienced students include:
- Increased confidence
- Sense of empowerment & autonomy
- Beautiful, curvy shape
- Bolstered immune system
- Balanced hormonal function leading to mental & emotional clarity
- Cleared and recalibrated old psycho-emotional patterns.