Flow Hood River: Yoga Move Connect

11/08/2025

When we awaken the bandhas—the subtle inner engagements that connect our biomechanics and energy—the body begins to organize itself through sacred energy flow.

If you’ve ever wondered why some poses feel like a struggle while others feel alive and easeful, it might not be your flexibility or strength—it might be your bandhas.

Strength becomes effortless. Movement becomes meditation.

Stephanie Adams Ruff writee about this transformation in her latest article: 👉 Bandhas & Kinetic Chains: Tapping into Sacred Energy Flow to Revolutionize Your Practice

It’s for anyone ready to move from mechanical alignment to embodied awareness.
✨ Read it here:

The True Meaning of BandhaThe Sanskrit word bandha is often translated as “lock” or “energetic seal,” but it also means bond, connect, unite, combine, join. In this sense, the bandhas are not rigid locks—they are conscious engagements that connect the body’s energetic and anatomical inte...

10/31/2025

We take ourselves way too seriously around here.

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10/31/2025

Stillness is Transformative.

Join us for a restorative day of Yin Yoga with Gail Lordi (E-RYT 500, LMT, YACEP, SAYF)—a teacher whose years living in Japan studying Shiatsu and energy medicine continue to shape her deeply grounded, therapeutic approach.

🌙 Yin Yoga Workshop (Students)
12:30 – 2:30 pm |
$45 early / $55 regular

📚 Yin Yoga Teacher Training (Teachers/Trainees)
12:30 – 7:00 pm | 6.5 CE Hours (Yoga Alliance) |
$120 early / $140 regular

Experience how stillness restores balance, clarity, and connection—both in your body and your teaching.

✨ Spaces are limited—reserve your spot today at the link in Bio, Events Calendar page.



10/29/2025

From a small village in Japan to the Columbia Gorge, Gail Lordi (E-RYT 500, LMT, YACEP, SAYF Certified) has spent decades exploring how energy, breath, and stillness shape the body’s natural intelligence.

Her studies in Shiatsu, Yin Yoga, and mindful movement create a teaching style that feels like medicine—anchored in patience, compassion, and deep awareness.

Gail teaches 4 classes/week at Flow Studio and offers a First Sunday Restorative Sound Bath, as well.

Experience her guidance in our upcoming Yin Yoga Workshop & Teacher Training and discover how slowing down transforms everything.

🌙 Yin Yoga Workshop (Students)
12:30 – 2:30 pm | $45 early / $55 regular

📚 Yin Yoga Teacher Training (Teachers/Trainees)
12:30 – 7:00 pm | 6.5 CE Hours (Yoga Alliance) | $120 early / $140 regular
Experience how stillness restores balance, clarity, and connection—both in your body and your teaching.

✨ Spaces are limited—reserve your spot today at the link in Bio, Events Calendar page.




10/28/2025

What do you think of when you hear a yoga teacher say they teach “real” yoga? What makes yoga “real”?

After more than 30 years of practice in the west (and five journeys to India studying with two Master teachers), I’ve seen yoga expressed in countless forms—some more physical, some more meditative.

So, what makes yoga real?

Simply this: Any practice that arises from yoga’s tradition that integrates presence and awareness as a path to self-realization is yoga. Whether through asana, vinyasa or kriya, breathwork, pratyahara, meditation, mantra, or drishti, yoga begins the moment we awaken awareness.

Patanjali defines yoga clearly:

Yoga Sutra 1.2: Yoga is the ceasing of the modifications of the mind. When the stories and identities of the mind and emotions settle, we experience our true nature.

And as Sutra 1.1 reminds us: Yoga is presence.

If your practice honors that—if it cultivates awareness, presence, and union/connection—then you are both practicing and honoring yoga.
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10/13/2025

Here's What People Are Saying About Our RRR Weekends:

“The most relaxing weekend you’ll ever have — and it just might change your life.”

“A deeply restorative alternative to traditional meditation retreats — with Yoga Nidra, sound healing, and the natural sanctuary of Breitenbush. Experience the benefits of meditation and beyond — without the joint pain of long sitting sessions.”

“Where rest, sound, and nature reconnect you to your truest self. Five practices. Infinite peace.”

“Deep rest. Real healing. Renewed clarity.”

“Relaxation is not escape; it’s remembrance of who you truly are.”

“Yoga Nidra: Experience the still point where rest becomes revelation.”

Radical Restoration Retreat (RRR) ~
Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, & Sound Healing Weekend:�

Experience blissful relaxation as a radical path to self-realization, supported by an empowered intention-setting process from the tradition of yoga. Retreat into deeply embodied peace and contentment as we explore mindfulness, purpose, intention (sankalpa), and grace through the restorative practices of Yoga Nidra, Restorative & Gentle Yoga, and Sound Healing.��

Even for those who have struggled with meditation in the past, these practices resonate deeply. Yoga Nidra guides the body and mind into an optimal brain-wave state—opening and healing the mind-heart-body connection so that we may realize our truest selves with greater wholeness and ease.

Learn more here: https://www.flowhoodriver.com/radical-restoration-wkend.html

10/11/2025

When you “Trust Her,” you’re reclaiming the sacredness of your inner voice and honoring the divine feminine energies that shape your intuition, emotion, and purpose. It’s a journey of self-trust, integration, and empowerment—acknowledging that every phase, every emotion, every inner goddess has a place and a message. To trust her is to trust yourself fully.

To “Trust Her” is to stop apologizing for your inner power. It’s to listen when your inner goddess whispers (or roars), and to know that your spirit is sacred, cyclical, and connected to the cosmos itself.

To “Trust Her” in this deeper sense is to trust the parts of yourself that may have been silenced, doubted, or shamed—the wild woman, the healer, the mother, the warrior, the sensual being, the wise crone. Trusting her means allowing those inner aspects to speak, lead, and guide you without fear or suppression.

10/09/2025

if one of these mats with a sticker on it is yours, your mat has missed you! 💛 We’d love to welcome you back to class—come reclaim your mat and reconnect before Monday. On Monday we will move all mats with stickers remaining into storage.💛

10/07/2025

Hey, Wild Ones, check out our new merch! Loving these slouchy muscle tees that show us your hard earned muscles!

09/26/2025

💫 Whether you’re here to move, reflect, or reconnect, Flow Studio welcomes you just as you are. For 23 years, Flow Studio has been a sacred home for movement, breath, & transformation. Here, yoga is more than poses—it’s a journey into growth, self-discovery, & awakening. Alongside soulful yoga, our Strength45, Tempo, & Cycle programs build power, balance, and vitality. Step through our doors exactly as you are—leave more connected, grounded, & alive.