Flow In The Fall
We've been busy this week! Stop by our P Street studio and enjoy our renovations. We're still putting up some finishing touches and welcoming another partner in addition to our private gym!
Stay tuned to find out who it is plus another announcement we think you'll love (and enjoy!)
We are looking for one more partner for our upstairs smaller room either full or part-time- great for healing services, therapists, or for anyone looking to bring their business into a gorgeous spot located right next to Whole Foods, 14th Street & Flow!
Did you see who's teaching?
Make sure you look at the schedule as we welcome back some dear teachers. Hello Shawn, Dan, Chris, and Catherine! Make sure you sign up for in-person classes ahead of time. Fall is getting busy (in a good way) and we want to make sure you get a space!
Best of DC ends Oct 15. If you feel a connection to Flow from near or far, we'd be honored if you'd vote for us! Need a little inspiration? Send us a screenshot and get a free virtual class!
warmly,
Debra
debra@flowyogacentr.com & instagram.com/finding_flow_dc
ps. pic of Debra & Marie Belle - we started our Fall TT this weekend!
Did you see our latest newsletter? Enjoy this preview and for the full look click here!
Welcome To Flow In The Fall
Stress Less Series
Post Covid stress & mental health challenges are real -- so many of us are not feeling our best & need support. Drop into these classes, feel more at ease & learn coping strategies. Free for members (or drop in). Watch our Instagram for FREE virtual community spaces too!
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Best Of DC
This Best of DC annual accolade is a sweet spot for small businesses and we always appreciate being recognized. This year you can put a vote in for Flow and for a special teacher you'd like to honor. It means so much to be recognized. Thank you! Favorite coffee shop, restaurant, hardware store? Vote for home grown local spots you care about!
Meet Our Free Video Library
Ever wonder where all of our livestream classes go? Flow members can access a rotating menu of FREE classes led by all of your favorite teachers. Classes get refreshed and there is always something new to choose from- of varying lengths too! You'll also find recorded meditations for sleep, desk stretches too!
Studio News:
We've been busy this week! Stop by our P Street studio and enjoy our renovations. We're still putting up some finishing touches and welcoming another partner in addition to our private gym!
Stay tuned to find out who it is plus another announcement we think you'll love (and enjoy!)
We are looking for one more partner for our upstairs smaller room either full or part-time- great for healing services, therapists, or for anyone looking to bring their business into a gorgeous spot located right next to Whole Foods, 14th Street & Flow!
Did you see who's teaching?
Make sure you look at the schedule as we welcome back some dear teachers. Hello Shawn, Dan, Chris, and Catherine! Make sure you sign up for in-person classes ahead of time. Fall is getting busy (in a good way) and we want to make sure you get a space!
Best of DC ends Oct 15. If you feel a connection to Flow from near or far, we'd be honored if you'd vote for us! Need a little inspiration? Send us a screenshot and get a free virtual class!
warmly,
Debra
debra@flowyogacentr.com & instagram.com/finding_flow_dc
ps. pic of Debra & Marie Belle - we started our Fall TT this weekend!
Reiki 1 Training
If you are looking for ways to connect more deeply with yourself, enhance your intuition, move through transitions with more ease, or would like to help others in a really big way, learning Reiki could be the thing that transforms all these things for you—as well as your life. Led by Jessica Mahler. For teachers, health care workers, compassionate people ;).
Why Yoga Is So Good For You
You most likely have your own reasons for loving yoga and science is backing you up!
Yoga and CBT Provide Long-term Improvement in Insomnia, Worry
Researchers Identify Link between Decreased Depressive Symptoms, Yoga and the Neurotransmitter GABA
Coupon $60
For an entire month of unlimited classes in person, outdoors & online! Includes our video Library too!
Are you ready? Follow these links and meet us on the mat. We appreciate you so much!
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Small Kindnesses
Thank you so much to our beautiful team- our staff, teachers and their families 😍for all the way you show up and support this community.
From all of us here at Flow - wishing you a new year filled with kindnesses, big and small...
Thank you so much to our beautiful team- our staff, teachers and their families 😍for all the way you show up and support this community.
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SMALL KINDNESSES (by Danusah Laméris)
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”
Ease on down the road with us this season.....
Introducing a special bundle of classes created to support you during this holiday season.
A special gift from us to you!
As this whirlwind of a year comes to a close, and as we all move forward in the best ways we can…..we’re wishing you some extra joy, ease, and comfort with a special series of classes our incredible team of teachers created just for you.
We hope you’ll find time to cozy up with loved ones, enjoy quiet moments on your mat, and give yourself lots of peaceful breaks balancing out the extra business that comes with the holidaze season.
The partial list of special classes for December is below (go ahead and click on any class to get your space) and is free for all of our members. The list is growing, so check back for more surprises and stay tuned in our next newsletters for a huge holiday sale, and a very special series of classes coming your way in January too!
Curious about a Flow membership? It’s the most cost-effective way to take classes with us and is a huge deal if you like joining us 1-2x a week or more. Prices are going up gently in the new year so make sure you join now. It’s super flexible and you can pause (or cancel!) anytime you’d like.
Tuesday Dec. 21
Wednesday Dec. 22
Thursday Dec. 23
Friday Dec. 24
Saturday Dec. 25
Sunday Dec. 26
Thursday Dec. 30
Sunday Jan. 2
The Professional Athletes Who Swear By Yoga
There are many benefits of yoga that are well known, increasing balance and flexibility for example, and there are more people taking it up than ever before. Research conducted by Disturb Me Not shows that participants have increased across the U.S. by over 50% in the last four years. However, it may be surprising to note that a rising number of professional athletes are all utilizing yoga to strengthen their abilities. Yoga can provide physical and mental aids to enhance performance, allowing them to be more aware of their bodies. It was vital to former U.S. Olympic and Women’s Grand Tour cycling winner, Mara Abbott who said: “If you want to achieve whatever your highest level of potential in sport is, you need to have that relationship with your body.”
Below we’ve compiled a list of four of the best current athletes who practice yoga as a way of benefitting them in their professional life.
Michelle Wie West
The LPGA tour player who famously turned pro golfer at the age of just 16 loves yoga. She says it’s important to listen to her body when preparing for time on the course and even more so now as Wie West has recently had her first child. She says that yoga is the perfect method for her to feel refreshed and ready for anything, giving her a calming sensation allowing her to let things happen the way they should.
Cristiano Ronaldo
The Portuguese player is one of the most famous soccer players on the planet and sees the practice as vital in his pre-match preparation. He is well known for his mental strength, and Ronaldo might need that edge, as his Manchester United team are currently outsiders in the latest Premier League odds from Coral. A former teammate of his, Ryan Giggs attributed yoga as the main reason he could maintain the fitness needed to play for the Red Devils until the age of 40. With Ronaldo now aged 36, it may mean that due to yoga, fans may well see him in the Premier League for quite a while yet too.
Blake Griffin
The current Brooklyn Nets power forward has long advocated for yoga as the ideal thing to enhance his on-court performance. Griffin, 32, has worked with Kent Katich, who is the person that many NBA players go to for routines and best practices for yoga. Griffin has three sessions a week to help keep in the best of shape, and he says the benefits are that it keeps his muscles loose so he can function at his highest level. With the Nets starting the season brightly, Griffin will undoubtedly benefit from his extra-curricular activity well into the postseason should they get there.
Tom Brady
Arguably the greatest ever player to grace the game of football, Tom Brady, loves the positive effects that yoga has brought to his game. Brady is the perfect example of someone who has the perfect ‘Attitude, Belief and Determination’ to succeed. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback said that ‘it’s great for flexibility, it’s therapeutic and great for your attitude.’ With seven Super Bowl rings to his name and a career spanning over twenty years, it’s hard to argue against his point.
Getting Good Sleep
You know that feeling when you really want to sleep…but can’t? You’re not alone. One in three of us have sleep issues and getting good rest is not always easy. Read on for our favorite tips!
