This week in class we'll spread our wings, our hands, arms, and shoulders. From the heart in the center of our ribcage we'll spread our wings wide, forward, and up. Our shoulder blades will expand out to the sides and lift up toward the top of the head creating more space for the heart and the breath and creating a buoyancy to our posture.

Join us this week!
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"You're ahead of me, striding into the arch of oaks that opens onto the fields
and stone walls of the road--
as a V of geese honk a path overhead, and you stop--
in an instant, without thought, raising your arms toward sky, your hands
flapping from the wrists,
and I can read in the echo your body makes of these wild geese going
where they must,
such joy, such wordless unity and delight, you are once again the child
who knows by instinct, by birthright,
just to be is a blessing..."
from "Moment" by Margaret Gibson

In our Tuesday class this week, this week of Thanksgiving, we'll celebrate the joy of being by raising our V-arms toward the sky. We'll flap our wings like the wild geese, embodying the delight of being.

Join us 9:30-11am Tuesday, November 26, at Matthews Community Center. Drop-ins $12. No classes November 27-28. 

​This week we'll focus on our roots, our feet, legs and hips. First we'll bring them into healthy alignment. Then we'll work to strengthen all sides of our roots, alleviating pain from improper alignment and enabling us to move easier and more freely.

Join us! More information on our homepage.

In this first week of a new session we'll focus on a primary alignment in Bowspring, Radiant Heart, a spacious and full ribcage. From the heart in the center of the ribcage we'll expand and lift the sides, back, and front of the ribs.

Join us as we stay light and lifted in our poses and movements. 

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In many of our poses we keep our eyes on the horizon, not gazing up or down, with our head balanced on our neck. This allows us to keep our eyes soft and relaxed and encourages an expansive view of both Earth and Sky.

Join us this week, the last week of the session, as we practice Horizon Eyes.

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This week in class we'll pulse in our poses as we practice to Halloween music. We'll talk about how cats and spiders have become associated with Halloween, and we'll practice several cat poses and climb the wall like Spiderwoman.

We'll honor this time of harvest with Harvest Hands as we celebrate the beginning of this darker half of the year.

Join us! Drop-ins are $12.
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​"All my dawns cross the horizon
and rise, from underfoot.
What I stand for
is what I stand on."
from "Below" in "The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry"

This week in class we'll focus on aligning and engaging our feet, legs, and hips, what we refer to as our "roots" in our Bowspring practice. Staying rooted in healthy alignment enables us to move easier and lighter. With every exhale we'll root down from the core of our pelvis through our legs and feet into the earth.
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Join us as we connect to "what we stand on."

Come spread your wings from your heart! Unfold your wings (your shoulders, arms, and hands) from your heart, and then from your fingertips, connect your wings back into your heart.

Learn how this week in class. Bowspring Yoga Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30am, Wednesdays at 6pm. Drop-ins are $12.
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The benefits of physical movement are widely known. "Move a muscle, change a thought" is a familiar slogan in recovery groups, recognizing that exercise can have a positive impact on our mind.

Another benefit of movement is pain relief. A recent study found that walking for 30 minutes at least 5 days a week significantly reduced pain.

Our Bowspring Yoga practice is dynamic. We pulse, we move, in class. This dynamic practice benefits our body and our mind. We also hike on nearby trails on Tuesdays and Thursdays after class, offering the added benefits of exercising in nature.
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Join us to reap the many benefits of exercising in healthy alignment. Classes are 9:30am Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6pm Wednesdays at Matthews Community Center. Drop-ins are $12.

This fall a local high school student is collecting dog food, cat food, and cat litter for the Humane Society of Charlotte. He has placed a donation box in the Matthews Community Center lobby.

Let's support this student and the Humane Society by donating these items when you come to class. The box will be in the lobby until October 10, 2019. ​

​Happy Fall!