The Hero’s Path – Bowspring workshop with John Friend and Desi Springer
Austin, TX
The Dance Spot, 4400 Sam Bass Rd, Round Rock, TX 78681
This is a beautiful new dance studio just north of Austin.
For more information about lodging, food, etc in Round Rock, please click this link.
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This workshop will also be available online via Zoom and recorded live — available as a Course at a later date.
This is a 10-hour, 5-class Bowspring course for all levels of students.
The student walks the path of the Hero, not towards a fixed destination or fate, but in the upward direction of self-knowledge, skill, wisdom, integrity, and mastery over years.
The Hero’s Path can be marked by 4 distinct periods of time or Turnings in which 4 major virtues are highlighted in order to empower the Hero to skillfully handle the various challenges of each period along the path.
Friday – Nov. 8: 10:00 am – Noon CT: Courage — Radiant Heart
Friday – Nov. 8: 6:30-8:30 pm CT: Resilience — Source Current
Saturday – Nov. 9: 10:00 am – Noon CT: Wisdom — Pulsation
Saturday – Nov. 9: 3:00-5:00 pm CT: Integrity — Central Channel
Sunday – Nov. 10: 10:00 am – Noon CT: The Hero’s Path – Full Circle
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- Special Bowspring Public Class – Thursday Nov. 7 — 9:30 am – 10:45 am – taught by Keren A. and Shanda B. — https://www.bowspringatx.com/publicservices —- Join Shanda and Keren for a 75-minute vibrant up-tempo Bowspring practice designed for practitioners of all levels. Both Shanda and Keren are passionate Bowspring teachers committed to guiding students on a healing path towards personal empowerment. There will be opportunities to amplify and modify as needed. You can join us in person or online.
- Special Teachers class – Friday Nov. 8 – – 2:30 – 4:00 pm (link)
4 Stages of the Hero’s Path:
- The first stage of the Hero’s path is highlighted by the shocking revelation of a major challenge in life. The key virtue that is required to be cultivated at this critical cross-roads in order to truthfully face the challenge to take the Hero’s path is courage. To start to learn a new paradigm of alignment like Bowspring, the practice requires an open mind to postural ideas which contradict what we have all been taught is “correct.” And the practice takes a fortitude of heart to open to our unconscious somatic shadows and unhealthy patterns of alignment.
- The second stage of the Hero’s path is focused on steady, diligent practice to cleanse and refine body and mind. The key virtue required at this stage for the student is resiliency and determination to keep climbing the path of transformation, redemption, and mastery. Skills including concentration, mindfulness, temperance, and discipline are cultivated at this stage of the Hero’s path to meet the resistance of old, unhealthy habits.
- The third stage of the Hero’s path reflects a level of experience of practice in which there is a cultivation of wisdom to navigate new level of challenges in life more skillfully. For the Bowspring practice, students at this level of experience refine their ability to work wise, not work hard. The practice becomes more graceful and fluid, while being more powerful with less effort.
- The fourth stage of the Hero’s path represents the cultivation of integrity in practice and in life. This is a level of practice in which the student has gained proficiency and excellence such that they become an inspiring teacher or honorable role model. In the Bowspring practice, the student has gained a higher degree of self-control, self-knowing, and the skillfulness to create more harmony, health, and happiness in their life.
