Bruce is a certified Anusara(TM) yoga teacher, author and a fine artist living in Tucson, Arizona.

Bruce took his first yoga class in 1978 when still in high school in Rome, Italy but only practiced occasionally. Several years later, while working as advertising Creative Director in Melbourne, Australia, he began to study yoga in earnest. Since his teens, he had practiced a lot of martial arts and developed a lot of injuries in the process. By contrast, he found yoga to be so much kinder and loving—it felt so healing and seemed so full of spiritual potential. He immediately appreciated these qualities, yet also liked the physical orientation. Bruce eventually returned to the US where he studied with Patricia Walden and other select Iyengar yoga teachers. He later found Anusara yoga and began studying closely with its founder, John Friend, establishing a relationship that has changed his life in very deep ways. He had the good fortune to be one of a handful of chosen students to apprentice directly under John.

Bruce’s specialty is yoga therapeutics. He has taught many national and international workshops, intensive courses, teacher trainings and therapeutic workshops, and most recently served as Senior Practitioner and Head of Teaching at SPACE yoga studio in Taipei, Taiwan. He currently teaches workshops and weekly classes at Yoga Oasis in Tucson.

During classes and workshops Bruce’s goal is to create a lighthearted atmosphere where each student can safely push his or her boundaries, reaching beyond perceived limitations to a more expanded, more creative experience of themselves. One of his guiding principles, which he strives to impart to students, is that when we know how to make our bodies feel better the effect ripples through us, powerfully influencing our state of mind and heart. We actually feel happier, more enthusiastic and brighter about life as a whole.

Visit www.bruce-bowditch.com for videos, books and articles by Bruce related to the practice of yoga.