"The (wo)men in rural places when
they stop to talk and visit will
not stand, for that would make it seem
they're in a rush. Nor will they sit
on ground that might be cold or wet.
Instead they squat with dignity
on heels close to the ground and chat
for hours."
Robert Morgan from his poem "Squatting" in Topsoil Road

Join us as we practice squatting in class this week!

Photo is Irene on our hike after class at Colonel Francis Beatty Park.

​In our Bowspring practice we can not only imagine our heart, hips, and head to be apple-like spheres, but we can also think of our waist and neck as narrowing apple cores.

We elongate and narrow the waist and neck as we bow them forward and up. When we do this the belly and throat release and open. The lower back and the back of the neck curve softly in.

Come bow your belly long this week! Bowspring!

The first apples of the season are beginning to appear now in local farmers markets. It's time to think of apples when aligning our body. In Bowspring we can think of the heart, hips, and head as apple-like spheres. We expand them outwardly in all directions. 
In class this week we'll expand our ribcage (heart), hips, and head circumferentially. And next week we'll talk about apple cores...

In our Bowspring practice we pulse, we move, in the poses. This action of opening and closing, pushing and pulling, rooting and rising, strengthens all sides of our body. Just as our cells, our heart, and our breath pulse with life, we actively pulse our body.
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Join us as we root and rise in class. Drop-ins are $12.