The Bowspring Method: Transforming Pain Through Posture and Play | Paris Latka 🎙️

Bones (posture) follows fascia, which molds itself to our consistent shapes. Join us for a lively discussion about the postural risks of modern yoga and the healing potential in a new movement method.

Jul 08, 2024

Dear friends,

My mom is visiting me in Colorado right now - for the first time ever.

We’ve been going for walks and short hikes, and basking together in the dry, warm summer air of the mountains.

Much of our conversations have centered on trauma (hers, mine, ours, everyone’s), pain, illness and healing. A few years back I let go of any hope or expectation of being able to have these kinds of conversations with my mom. Within a year of my decision to let go of the wishes of my wounded inner child, my mom’s long-buried traumas began to surface, asking to be healed.

My mom has struggled with health issues for as long as I can remember, and after my dad died last year she’s come to the realization that she has all the symptoms (both physical and psycho-spiritual) of chronic fatigue syndrome. Which doesn’t surprise me at all.

After settling in a tiny town in South Carolina in 2002 (a location chosen primarily because of the financial relief of dramatically lower overhead than they could find in the west) my parents rarely left. This is my mom’s first trip west in 22 years.

I’m typing these words on Saturday, but you’ll be reading this on Monday (or later).

Tomorrow (Sunday) I am taking my mom to a small mountain town called Buena Vista to spend a night at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs. She’s always loved hot springs, and hasn’t been to any in decades. I’m hoping it brings her and her body some healing, rejuvenation and joy.

We carry so much in these bodies of ours: memories, fears, longings, hopes, and pain of all kinds, from the unhealed wounds of our childhood to the physical pain of injuries, surgeries and illness. Within these bodies we also carry the potential for healing and regeneration.

Last week in my conversation with Rafe Kelley (which is still impacting me profoundly) we dove really deep into trauma’s impact on our bodies, and the body’s impact on our psyche, and the need for touch literacy in our modern world.

This week’s podcast guest will bring a lighter tone and a lot of laughter, but the theme is similar: our bodies hold the key to freedom, and we need movement to heal.

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Movement that heals:

In this conversation I’m joined by my friend Paris Latka, a practitioner of both Kinetix and the Bowspring method.

Paris shares her journey from chronic pain (and fear of pain) to the empowerment that comes from turning towards it with curiosity. We challenge traditional yoga norms and expose modern “postural yoga” as quite detrimental to human physiology - from a fascia, posture and pain perspective.

We explore the Bowspring method and its potential for resolving pelvic instability (a modern epidemic) and pain caused by postural dysfunctions while fostering a deeper mind-body connection.

Please join us for a light-hearted perspective on movement, joyful physical expression and healing.

You really need to see Bowspring to appreciate its healing potential, so if you’re curious about what it looks like I recommend heading to Paris’s Instagram page.

Here are a few pics from her page: