This is a 7-day Bowspring challenge — a one-hour online class with John Friend, practiced for 7 consecutive days — Sunday, August 10 -Saturday, August 16, 2025

12:00 pm Noon – 1:00 pm ET

Each class includes a 20-minute Level 1 Bowspring sequence, which will be repeated twice within the hour for deep embodiment and integration.
Each 20-minute routine is unique, giving students 7 distinct practices that target the shoulders, hips, lower back, neck, and other key areas like the feet and hands.

These routines are designed for daily home practice and are accessible to all levels of students.

✦ Planetary Themes & Spiritual Focus

Each day aligns with a planetary archetype and an embodied virtue, offering a metaphysical focus for transformation:

• Sunday – Sun ☉ — Radiant Heart • Sovereignty / Integrity • Soulful Expression — Ribcage

• Monday – Moon ☽ — Compassion • Psychic Receptivity • Pulsation and Wave-motion — Roots

• Tuesday – Mars ♂ — Courage • Grit / Fire of Will • Bold Strength — Wings

• Wednesday – Mercury ☿ — Discernment • Wisdom / Quickness • Lightness of Being — Neck & Head

• Thursday – Jupiter ♃ — Charity • Abundant Expansion • Centering Power — Core / Belly

• Friday – Venus ♀ — Love • Beauty / Spiral Harmony • Dynamic Symmetry

• Saturday – Saturn ♄ — Discipline • Integration / Whole-Body Tensegrity — Matrix Alignment

✦ Shadow Work & Virtue Alchemy

Each day also addresses a shadow quality (vice) associated with the planetary energy:

• Sun — Pride

• dMoon — Sloth / Delusion

• Mars — Wrath / Violence

• Mercury — Envy

• Jupiter — Gluttony

• Venus — Lust

• Saturn — Greed

Rather than repressing these shadows, we harmonize them through embodied virtue — breath by breath, pose by pose.

✦ What’s Included

All participants will receive lifetime access to all 7 class videos at the end of the course. Also, there will be PDF hand-outs for this course for each registrant.

Join us for a week of movement, devotion, and awakening — a spinal sunrise through the sacred geometry of your own body.