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"Forced actions
Lose their way.
Going against the Tao,
They collapse."
from verse 30 of Tao Te Ching: A New Version for All Seekers by Guy Leekley

Our Bowspring practice is primal, animal-like. Without forcing we move from within. Each person's pose, position, or movement is different.
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Enjoy moving without forcing this week in class. We'll go deep into subtle positions and movements to create greater openings and to strengthen the muscles that bring us into a healthier alignment. Drop-ins are $12.

The apples here in North Carolina are beginning to ripen on the trees. It's a good time to use the analogy of apples to align our bodies. We can think of our ribcage, hips, and head as apples and our waist/belly and neck as apple cores. We expand our "apples" in all directions as we narrow and elongate our "apple cores."
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Join us this week as we think of apples and align our bodies. Bowspring!

Join us this week as we participate in the pulse of life. Drop-ins are $12.

​This week we'll focus on aligning and strengthening our arms. From our full ribcage we'll spread our arms wide, forward, and up. We'll lift our arms to the sky as we root down through our legs.

Join us as we refine the alignment of our hands, arms, and shoulders. Refining our alignment helps us move more freely and helps prevent and alleviate pain.

Check out our schedule on our homepage.

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"Let stability be the source
Of your lightness;"
from Tao Te Ching: A New Version for All Seekers by Guy Leekley

Practicing the Bowspring we become lighter, more buoyant. We do this by keeping our ribcage full, but also by building strength in our lower body. This week we'll build more strength in our feet, legs, and hips. We'll ground ourselves as we lift up and move lightly.

Build stability in your legs this week. Drop-ins are $12.
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"A bowl is created by the molding of clay.
It's usefulness, however,
Depends on the emptiness inside."
from Tao Te Ching: A New Version for All Seekers by Guy Leekley

We move into alignment by creating space -- more space in the ribcage, more space in the hips, and more space between the hips and the ribcage. Come experience how we do this...

A new 9-week session begins this week. Join us!

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​We'll practice to music in class this week. Enjoy the rhythm, enjoy the dance, as we move up and down, side to side, front and back. Join us!

"Being able to yield 
Keeps us whole;
Being able to bend 
Keeps us straight;
Being able to empty
Keeps us full;
Being able to let go
Keeps us new."
from Verse 22 of Tao Te Ching: A New Version for All Seekers by Guy Leekley

This week we'll balance fire with water as we practice some Bowspring backbends. We'll keep our upper back full and our pelvic floor open as we bend back. Exhale, we softly widen like water. Inhale, we rise like fire. Join us! No class Thursday, July 4.

"Be like water,
Flowing everwhere
Without striving,...
Live in touch with the earth."
from Verse 8 of Tao Te Ching: A New Version for All Seekers by Guy Leekley
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We'll focus on our hips, legs, and feet (our roots) this week in class. We'll softly widen and open like water as we root down into the earth. Join us!

This Friday, June 21, is the Summer Solstice, the day of the year when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky. What has this first half of the solar year brought us? Where will the second half of the year take us?

In this time of brightness we can imagine a central channel of light extending from the floor of the pelvis to the top of the head. We open and inflate the length and width of this channel. We expand the whole wavy central channel with light.
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A fiery practice awaits you this this week, including a Bowspring adaptation of sun salutation. We'll keep our central channel bright throughout. Join us at Matthews Community Center Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30am or Wednesday at 6pm. Drop-ins are $12.