When I was nine I moved to Malta with my parents. We settled in a beautiful house by the sea. Living by the beach was so magical. I loved the waves – how they roared, how they crested, how they foamed, how they splashed. I used to call them “curious curls” and often talk to them. I thought they would hear my message and send it to Santa. I knew Santa wasn’t real at that age, but I wanted to keep the legend alive.

Later in life I tested the memory of water. I sat with priests as they blessed the water. I trained with medicine women who whispered to the water. I ended up dancing in an aquarium, and exploring the water element on stage. The Yogea flow that you are about to do was actually inspired in the water, as I was sailing on a boat to a remote island in Thailand.

All these years I have been refining the flow so it is contained into the form that it assumes – just like water. I find that if you can make your flows run like water – uninterrupted and incessant – you’ve really mastered the yoga of flow. There are so many styles of Vinyasa today – all of them exciting and fun. I like to take class once in a while. But just as I am about to craft a new flow, I let myself spill on the mat. Figuratively I spill, I sail, I float.

Literally, I conduct the flow as a ripple that constantly undulates like a wave. This has led me to explore different levels, different planes of body placement, turning in different directions, and alternating between standing, seated, arm-bearing, reclining, supine and kneeling.

I believe every flow yoga should contain all pose types and seek alternate transitions that allow for the full expression every pose, but are not only Vinyasa driven. I love to toss in a vinyasa as I move from one side to the next, but I prefer to create a flow experience that is not bound by any repetition, and restricted by a certain set of poses.

There is an organic logic of movement that reminisces the rippling of waves. It always takes you where you need to be. Translated into yoga, this principle encourages teachers to design imaginative flows that introduce fluid transitions, and delightful tilts of angle and vision. This is what makes the Yogea flows so exhilarating and loved by all. When we flow with the breath, and sail with our movements, we become conduits of the one creative force that sustains us all.

Flow classes unleash a state of energetic continuity, sparking our somatic intelligence that ebbs and flows into a perpetual chain of dynamic reciprocity. It is a form of moving meditation that always opens the heart, and etches new synapses in the brain.  The synapse is the space between two neurons that enables communication and registering of signals. It looks like a wave that transmits information from one neuron to the other. It is a link in the processes of assimilation and growth. Like a ripple it curls in before it sends the signals out. It is a curious curl of the mind that takes the body to surprising places of rediscovery and growth.

Flow Yoga: Ripple and Grow (open level)

This flow yoga routine integrates forward bends, standing poses, twists, binds, back bends and reclining twists, while it prompts a sense of gradual progression and sequential logic.