273 - How I Approach Flow Design

The nature of yoga practice and teaching are always evolving, shaped by innovation, personal expression, and diversity. But as teachers we can face challenges when introducing new methods in our classes and studios. And it can feel hard to find our unique voice and approach and to stay grounded in them.

This is why I love Flow School, and why so many teachers do too: it's a way to find both groundedness and freedom as a teacher. Flow School is where I teach my approach to flow design that centers on a peak flow experience, involves lots of repetition and movement science, and that encourages and supports a teacher's unique creativity. 

Today we explore some of the flow design components and I also share some exciting changes to online Flow School to make it more accessible and impactful for teachers.

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Transcript

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (00:00.824)
Hello, my loves. Thanks for tuning in with me again today. I am delighted to be having this conversation with you because this past week, I got a message from one of the people that is currently in flow school with me, flow school online. And they shared how they are getting pushback from their studio, from other teachers.

and from the people who trained them about what yoga is and what vinyasa is and that this teacher wants to bring something new and different and a new type of way to sequence to the studio and is feeling really constrained, constricted, boxed in about what they can teach and why. And I want to talk about this today.

because maybe you're in that place or maybe you're listening and you believe that there's a certain way that vinyasa is taught. I feel like if you're attracted here with me, you might think there's more than one way to be right as well because that's very much what I believe. And that yoga is this practice of paying attention, which means it can look like everything. It can look like ashtanga to yin. It can look like aerial yoga to booty yoga. It can look like vinyasa.

to Baptiste, right? It can look like vinyasa where we are doing a billion sun salutations. It can look like a whole 108, like 108 sun salutations. That can be yoga practice and it can be yoga practice where we don't do any sun salutations at all within our vinyasa flow. It can look like something that's heated or not. It can look very slow or very quick. It could include a handstands. It could include...

Shavasana for 30 minutes, right? That yoga gets to look like a lot of different things and that there are places, studios, belief patterns, systems, that believe that it should look like a specific thing. So right from the beginning here, I want us to remember that yoga, the practice of the physical practice of yoga can look like a lot of different things. And...

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (02:17.3)
There are some studios that want it taught in a certain way. They only want you to teach there if you have done their training. I understand that because then there's a common language that we can speak and much like anything else, diversity drives innovation. And where we learn from a lot of different people and a lot of different perspectives, a lot of different ways of showing up in the room, it...

allows us to expand our curiosity, to try things on, to ask better questions, and to hopefully, in a larger sense, serve our community better.

So as that as our stepping place, I want to kind of share with you then about my approach to Flow design and why I can stand behind it and why when this person from Flow School shared how they are getting this pushback from people in their studio that I automatically felt like mama bear and sent them a voice note back and just drop them.

dropped them a little voice letter and then felt fired up about it. And I understand that there is a learning curve to teaching in general. And that when we first start teaching, we're not very good, right? We have to figure out a lot of things. We have a lot of paying attention to do. Not only to the students in the room.

but to ourselves. We have to learn how to stand up at the front of the room. We have to learn how to get so many words out of your mouth. You have to learn how to hold the space, how to own the space, how to magnetize it, how to lead it, and what that all means. You have a craft of sequencing to create. You have a craft of queuing. You have a craft of presence and of awareness of your body language and...

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (04:14.518)
you're gamifying of your language in general. And then you're creating playlists and then you're meeting people and you're having to navigate relationship and empathy and communication amongst students with students to teacher relationships and students amongst each other and teacher to teacher and teacher to studio owner. There's a lot of things that, you know, we step into as a yoga teacher. So.

I understand when a studio wants a teacher to teach a specific way that they feel like there's maybe a sense of control in that. And there are several different kind of corporate sort of yoga where

there is a prescription of you do this, then you do this, then you have maybe a small part where you can innovate in this way or and you do this or you do it this many times, like you repeat it as many times or you don't lead this part, you just let them go, right? I think lifetime fitness and different students will like different things and some students will not like things a lot. So then they'll go elsewhere and that's totally fine. And some teachers will like it in that place and that's fine. And

Also, I think that there's room for more. Very much like the practice of yoga, the physical practice of yoga has changed over hundreds of years and it continues to change. Every single person that touches it changes it. It doesn't matter who you are.

It doesn't matter where you were born. doesn't matter the color of your skin. It doesn't matter your gender. It doesn't matter your age or your ability. If you touch yoga, you change it because none of us are the same. None of us are the same. None of our bodies are the same. They never will be. None of us will ever look like each other. None of us will ever sound like each other. We are different. And so we automatically bring change to the practice.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (06:23.946)
just by being human and showing up. And I think it's really beautiful to acknowledge that and to embrace that. To say there is a tradition of yoga that is being passed down and very much like storytelling. Think way back before the days of creating books. How do people pass down stories and wisdom? I wasn't from reading. This was an oral tradition. This is something you say.

This is something you listen to and it's passed down and it's passed down and it's passed down. And so here we are part of a practice that has been passed down and we know that every time we tell a story, it changes a little bit and our memories change and that's okay. So I'm here to embrace that and I'm also here to help teachers as they want to do something different.

give them a blueprint for how to do it differently, but grounded with a solid why. Because you might get pushback from studios if you want to do things different and teach in a different way than perhaps you were taught to. And perhaps there was an order that you have to teach to and perhaps there were certain rules that you're like, you can never do this and you can never do this and you can never do this in flow. We do this and then we do this, we don't mix the two.

So there's a lot of rules that might have been given to us. I'm here to help you ask questions about those rules and to see which ones actually still fit for you at this time. And it can be really disorienting to say, just blow it all up. There are no rules, ready, set, go, because it's such a big pool of options to pull from. And so that's actually not very helpful.

because it's overwhelming. And because you'll go back to the easy thing, which is the thing that you've done a billion times, which is the thing that you've been taught, which is like the pattern of sun salutations, the pattern of what a dancing warrior flow is, which is probably pretty similar if all of us were to say it's this and this and this and this. And that's cool. 100 % have that in your pocket. And it is my...

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (08:49.47)
goal, my mission as leading flow school to help you learn how to flow and how to lead flow with enough of a blueprint and enough of an explanation of why that can ground you in what you have to offer and in how you can respond to people who are asking you, why are you doing that? And that's not what we do.

We do this and this and where you can come back to it and say like in a very grounded, compassionate, but clear way of why you are doing what you're doing and why it matters and how it's still yoga and how it can exist alongside all the other types of yoga that are given. It opens up the way that I lead teachers, it opens up a...

big possibility of innovation because we really turn our practice into a transition practice.

and

and a positive.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (10:05.006)
Okay, great. My internet was saying I was trying to disconnect, so it looks like it's connected again. So just in case that did something weird, here we go. So what we're doing with Flow School, So what we're doing is really turning the flow practice into a transition focus practice. And the poses are 100 % necessary in that.

but we bring more attention to how we're getting into and out of them. And not just guiding poses, but guiding how to get into poses. And using a very clear language of cueing that examines the order of operations that we're directing in. That say what is the biggest move with the smallest amount of words that then makes sense, especially if we're gonna do some funky sequencing. So there's a lot.

There's a lot in here. This is really rich. Flow School has been really powerful for so many teachers and I'm continuing to do it. So as I dive into this, just a heads up, in person Flow School, there is an option in June in Vancouver, BC, July, just outside London, the UK and in November in Portland, Oregon. And exciting new thing is that I have decided to, if our current age of

moment of time in money and in different administration and politics and just economy, it is possible for me to create a longer payment plan. So if five payments, you can do one payment, that's always there. And instead of a five payment plan, I'm going to double that. I'm going to make it a 10 payment plan just because I have people asking me and because I can.

The max number of students is of teachers, right in the room is 10. I'm not trying, sorry, not 10 is the 18. And so it's small, smaller group. And already for Vancouver, BC and London, have five people in both of those. So it's so affordable then you don't have to pay before it happens. It will just continue to go. So you're paying $150 a month or $190 USD a month.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (12:30.216)
And that's so, that makes it so much more touchable. just you're hearing it here. This is possible for you now. So there's going to a link in the show notes. So if you want to come learn with me in person, that's the thing. And there's more online coming. will share something exciting at the end of the episode about that. Okay. So let's dive into this. My approach to a flow design. I'm going to give you a quote here from Alison Wonderland. In Alison Wonderland, she is talking to the Cheshire cat.

And Cheshire Cat's up in this tree and Alice says, would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here? And then Cheshire Cat says, well that depends a good deal on where you want to get. And Alice says, I don't much care where. Then the Cheshire Cat says, then it doesn't matter. Then it doesn't matter much. Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (13:26.05)
I think this little dialogue feels really important for how I teach flow and how I help teachers because I design flow to a peak flow experience. Now, peak flow does not mean it's the hardest things. A peak flow means that it has all of the ways that we can use our body in one flow, in a 10 pose or less. Sometimes it's a little bit more than 10, but it's so many things to move through.

that you don't need very much. And sometimes the editing down is the hardest part. So you only have 10 poses. I give flow prompts to people so you have a place to begin. You have ingredients to begin with. What is when you think I have 10,000 poses I can choose from, how do I just choose 10 and how do I string them together? I teach people how to string them together and where to start. And then there's such a large space for you to play in that has nothing to do with what I'm giving you, but I give you a starting place, right? Like here, start here.

and then you gotta weave it together. So a peak flow includes all of the elements of flow, all of the body positions. Every single way you can move your body, you got a single leg, you double leg, you have a squat, you have a hinge, so have a bent leg, you have a straight leg, you have a square hip and an open hip. You're using your core throughout class, but we don't have a core focused section because if you're gonna have control in your movements, in your transitions to land from posture to posture,

in like a fluid way? Yeah, that is using your core. We're gonna have twisting, we're gonna have side leaning, we're gonna have a single arm and a double arm and backward bends and maybe you play on your hands only. Maybe there'll be an inversion or an arm balance. That's not necessary and it depends on the who you teach, like what students you have that there might be some subtraction of the whole list. Otherwise, these are all the ways we can use our body.

So your peak flow includes all of those and your peak flow is going to include forward and back motion, sagittal plane, up and down motion, which means on the ground, getting on and off the floor in your flow, side to side emotion and twisting. These are normal things we do in everyday life. And sometimes there's pushback between different teachers and studios about

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (15:50.382)
why we're having people get on and off the ground and oh, I just like, I feel passionate about this because y'all, we are getting older. We teach older people getting on and off the floor is a life skill. And sometimes in yoga classes, we can have just a seated part. And that's great. And sometimes in those classes, we have just a standing part. Great. And it very much can exist for us to lead flow smart, like

smart, intelligent flow, where we get on and off the ground and we help guide people through that. And I am not talking about being on your back and rocking and rolling and getting your feet down and standing up in chair or forward fold. That's not what I'm talking about. Hefting yourself in that way. There is other ways to get off the ground and they're not taught very often in yoga. And I feel very passionate about that because

creating fluidity of getting on and off the ground translates directly over into real life. We move side to side. How do you get into a car? What's happening with your hips? What happens when you step up? How do you move side to side? How do you move forward and back? How do we twist? How do we do this consciously and incorporate into those 10 pose, like a 10 pose flow? So the why behind creation of flow where there is a choreography element.

where it's very much on purpose of what we're putting in order, how we're doing it without a sun salutation. Sun salutation is also a flow circle. You're starting in down dog, you get back to down dog and you get back to down dog again, right? Or if you're standing, start in Tadasana, you'll come back to Tadasana. So you're going through a circle. I'm teaching people to do the same thing in a circle, but where a sun salutation, your feet and your arms are doing the same thing on both sides of your body. So it's very symmetrical.

we can take that same lesson of moving in a circle for a sun A and now turn it into an asymmetrical, a warrior two on one side. Now your body's not symmetrical, but we can get to the next pass and we can do a warrior two on the other side. And so we alternate between sides, but we don't put a sun A in it, right? Because the sun A is its own circle, so we can create other circles. So helping teachers learn how to do this is some of my favorite work.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (18:09.666)
because it is a free space, but it is a grounded space. And we have spent a lot of time not doing it in this way, so it can also be tricky because there's a bit of unlearning. A big part of it though is gonna be to include repetition. I'm big on repeating. Repeat a class for an entire month. I mean, you're gonna talk to your people. So this is also part of my offer is you have to learn how to be with your students and learn how to speak to them.

how to get their buy-in and not be so removed from them that they don't feel like you're understanding their experience and that it does not take very much in order for them to feel like you see them.

And there is a craft build with all of it.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (19:07.744)
When we really show up as teachers, I think that there is a large space for us to gamify our language, to examine how we say things, to bring humor into the experience, to personalize the words that we use, to maybe set down a little fear of being weird, of saying weird phrases, of bringing our own...

love of instructing and the ways that other things in our life might filter into the things that we say. Like there's several examples of things popping into my head, but this doesn't feel necessary at the moment, but like the way that we get to play here. And I think as teachers, especially if you're in the vinyasa world, there's this desire to bring play out. And I think

The yoga space is serious play. I love that combination where we're serious about what we're doing, but we're playing hard. And I love having a room that's less heated so that I'm not interested in playing with the heat. I'm interested in playing with my body. I like using heat as a tool to feel warm, to feel a little bit liquidy, to get a little sweaty.

but I don't want to fight the heat. The same as I love using music in a class, but I don't wanna fight the music. And I want my students to feel like they're fighting the music. And so with heat, I'm like, turn the heat down, like keep it lower than 90. Like you keep it like 85, 90, somewhere in there, and then let us play with our bodies. Let us play with our bodies. Let us learn how to move them, right? And to really personalize,

this experience and to repeat it. So repeat your flow a lot of times. How many times do you do a Sunday in class? It's so often thought out there, thought like throw it out there, you're to do five sunnys. Okay, I'm going to give you the same exact thing. You're going to do five repetitions per side. Because remember it's asymmetrical where a sunnye is symmetrical. You're doing the same thing on both sides of your body at the same time. Chair pose, both same sides of the body, right? Down dog, same thing. Chaturanga, same thing, both sides of your body.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (21:26.67)
where if we now turn it asymmetrical, you're doing just a warrior one on your left side and you do a warrior two on the right side. So then that's two passes, one per side. So the same thing, you're gonna repeat that five times. And I've had teachers worry if, well maybe it gets boring, but if you have all the movement planes and all the body positions and you're gonna end up in down and side to side and forward and back and sequencing it in an order that.

really make sense intuitively in your body where we are combining movement science with the body experience. And as teachers, we're not just designing this shit on the go. So many people, I have loved it because I found this as well, but so many teachers have come to me and told me how much more creative they are now that they...

are getting themselves on the map that flow school was this reconnection to their own practice and why they started teaching in the first place. And then to hear from them when they tell me about their students reactions and the feedback and how they're getting so much more feedback than they ever have as a teacher because of this approach that they're taking both in the sequencing and queuing, but also in how they're holding the room and how they're magnetizing the room and how they're showing up and really being with their students. Y'all.

It is such a gift and it can be tricky to do something different. It can be tricky if you are getting pushback because the people around you aren't used to it. And that might be in a very established yoga area where yoga has looked like a specific way. And it can also, this might be because you're so isolated and you are the only yoga teacher and people just don't understand what yoga even is. Like it might be that too.

My encouragement for people is to start slow and flow. Like start slow. And if you are new to teaching flow, starting slow is really helpful because you don't have to get so many words out of your mouth at the same time. I love teaching breath to movement. It's not breath from pose to pose, which is often taught. Like you have breath on poses. There has to be breath on transitions as well. Not every transition.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (23:46.712)
but the transitions cannot be overlooked and make a huge impact on the experience with the flow. It's how you breathe the flow.

And when people begin, it's more approachable to teach a little bit slower, to go into slow flow, because flow is this innovative sort of way where we're bringing this attention to detail of transitions and postures and the planes of movement and the body positions, and we're weaving them together. And that doesn't have to mean fast. And we can...

Play with how many times repeat it, because the slow flow sometimes is less repetition, more like chilling.

And sometimes then it moves to breath pace. Can you flow if people are seated on a chair? 100%. Can you flow if you have an injury? Yeah. You know, one of the times I taught a class this past year, I showed up and I was supporting somebody's retreat that was not a yoga retreat. And they asked if I could come in and...

teach yoga and be part of the experience with the participants and it was a delight to be there. And there's one person who was healing still from a shoulder injury. And I knew that because I didn't teach the first day. And so I got to meet everybody and I knew that and she was feeling quite nervous but also really emotional because she missed yoga practice so much. And

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (25:30.03)
I just told her, was like, oh, you're gonna be totally fine. Because I knew where we were going. I knew that the people that I was teaching were a lot of people who are new to yoga. And so the sequence that I put together for them was with that in mind. And people who are new to yoga often have a little bit more difficult time with their hands on the ground. So being really conscious of that is important to me.

And sometimes we forget as yoga teachers, how much being in quadruped, in your hands and knees, or being in bird dog with one leg extended, one arm extended, and then being in down dog. Like all of those things, it's so, it's actually so much. And especially for noobs. But this person, I told her, you're going to be fine. And to talk with her after class where I knew what I was going to teach. I knew how approachable it's going to be. And that

We had a full on breath paced flow experience where we're standing and doing all the different things and she was able to participate and her emotional experience of that was so lovely to be able to offer that space where she could drop into that flow experience where flow is where time disappears. Flow to me is where we have this combination of challenge and success.

feels interesting enough that your brain stays on, that we can find this connection to body. We repeat it enough times so that your brain stops braining and you can get into your body. And then once you get into your body, you get out of your body, because you're your breath. And then you're less thinking and you're more feeling. And so having this combination of challenge of how the hell do I do this things, then combined with success where you can scale it. And that's a huge piece of what I teach of rather than starting at

Perhaps the most difficult, where do you start? Where do you begin? Where do you give people the opening? And then if they want more, give them the ways to then choose their own adventure. If you want this, great. If you want to play with this, go here. You could maybe try on this if you want it spicier. Choose your own venture if you want to go over here and maybe step this here. And if it's not interesting, great. And if it feels like play, do that.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (27:51.8)
And the way we invite people in with our language where, gosh, like it creates an opening where we're an expander with language rather than if you can't do that, do this, where it goes backwards, how do we grow it upwards? And how do we let people choose upwards where it's a win from the beginning? How do we simplify it down? It requires us to sit with what we're teaching more. It requires us to spend a whole lot more time with what we're teaching.

And sometimes that's a difficult thing within flow school because teachers are like, this takes a bit of time. I love it. I like what is being taught here, but does it get easier? And I say, yes, it does. But we've not been doing it this way for a minute. We've not been thinking about it. We've not been preparing our students in this way. So it's going to take a minute, but over time you stick with it. It's going to get easier. And people are going to feel that success because they're going to realize where they can personalize the practice.

So flows is combination of challenge and success where your brain all of a sudden is like, I'm just right here right now. And it's And when as a teacher, you can see students drop into that space and they're in their bodies and they're moving and where we went from a pose practice and held it to when the, the lines between postures then disappeared and they're just floating from one thing to the next.

you can see it in them.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (29:27.98)
I live for that. And to guide teachers to that experience.

is such a gift.

So.

If you're getting pushback from a studio and if you're using the flow school method for that, we have some solid wise of what we're doing. And I am putting together actually a resource of, you know, how do you respond to studios with different things and how do you give a quicker answer? And, and I'm to use some of my language and then give it to you. That's going to be coming shortly.

And if you haven't participated in flow school and you're like, wow, this is all lighting me up. This is interesting. You can come find me in person. Like I said, and also create some wise, why are you doing what you're doing? If you're getting pushed back, it literally can be that you're like, well, this feels fun. Great. Why are you doing what you're doing? And be willing to be uncomfortable in that too, where maybe you don't have an answer.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (30:37.774)
You're like, you know what? Let me think about that. That is an okay answer. And maybe the why is, well, I was taught that way. That's what you do. And then you can say, huh, is that what we do? Why, I was taught that way. Is that way resonate? that still the thing? Is that what I need to do?

there's a wicked room in there to ask some questions. And if you are not interested or currently able to do things in person with me, it's magic, y'all. It's magic to be in the room. And the people who are called to flow school are the people who feel lit up about this sort of approach. And they are generous as fuck, like, these teachers and curious.

and interested in being real humans.

with each other and with themselves, even though they're trying to figure out like how the hell to own their voice. They show up together in a space that it's like, okay, we're gonna step and we're gonna all know that there is like not a particular end goal that we're all getting to that we gradually unfurl ourselves over our whole lives. Yeah.

If you're interested in learning with me in person, or sorry, not in person, yeah, online. Well, in person, yes, but if you're interested in learning with me online, I am redesigning at the current moment as I record this. am redesigning, and as you're listening to this, if you're listening when I'm dropping this episode, Flow School Online is having a makeover. In August, which is four months away, Flow School will be five years old, which is very exciting.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (32:37.086)
And I have been thinking about doing this for a couple of years, like probably at least a year and a half. And I finally decided it's time for Flow School Online to have a makeover and to make it a little bit more accessible.

and potent where it includes all of the lessons I give in Flow School currently with so much room for more and still personalized live time together. And where Flow School has run as a container of somewhere between six to eight weeks over the years that I've done it, I've played with six to eight weeks.

once a week or twice a week, like there's been a lot of play with all that where I really thought, okay, how do I hone this experience? How do I help teachers? Like, what do we really need? Because yeah, it's like sequencing, but it's also how to hold yourself. If people are gonna, you if you're gonna show up in the room and do something different, how do you own yourself in that way? How do you own your voice? How do you stay tapped into your joy and your pleasure and your creativity? How do you gamify the language and play with your experience as much as with them?

because we had to hold our own hand to our heart first as a leader, right? So in all of that, in all my experimentation, I am turning Flow School into an online membership. I currently have a studio, online studio called Studio B. Studio B has more than 400 classes in it where I combine yoga, there's a lot of flow yoga and strength training. There's more strength training coming. So that's another piece.

with strength training from led by the yoga in a way that I have not seen it done. And I have a three month training program on there already, but that's going to expand to nine months and be a part of the, the whole regular practice membership. So it's going be a practice membership. the current moment it's all just practice membership, but coming May 1st, there'll be a practice membership and a flow school membership. The flow school membership is going to include all the content.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (34:55.458)
that I give in flow school. So I'm doing quite a bit of recording. It is going to be the lessons of the what, why, where, how. It's going to include so many flow prompts, which there's a lot in there, but they're getting a whole makeover. It's going to include flow sequences for you to teach, to try on, to experiment with, with the breath, with the cueing and...

I'm just gonna leave it at that. Like there's gonna, there's a lot and there's a lot of ways to grow. And I'm excited about it because of the way that I've held flow school. There's some other things that I have felt would be really helpful for teachers, but haven't had the space to give them because of running flow school like I have. So now there will be space for that. And part of this membership, oh y'all, is we're gonna meet once a month as a master class and once a month as sequencing hot seats.

So we get to come talk about sequencing. We'll have a flow prompt of the month that we're working with as a community. And so we'll have a community space where I can drop information on that and then we'll meet on Zoom. We can have a lesson together. So it's a continual support space. And I really am designing this with my flow school teachers in mind. So if you haven't taken flow school, you're invited, but those people who've come to flow school, I have alumni that want to return all the time and get a brush up because I have changed in my ability to teach it.

and to help you do something different, to help you create the place that you want to go, right? So that it matters where you begin, just like Cheshire Cat, like, I don't know, where do you wanna go? So I'm like, okay, let's figure out what do we wanna do? Why are we teaching like we are? What is yoga, like, why does it matter? And yeah, it's just an hour, an hour and a half a day.

Does it make that big of a difference? And yet it does because all of us are here listening to this. It changed our lives. And we hope to create an impact on students in a way that it helps them find themselves too. So it does matter. And it feels really important to me that in this transition time and in this transformation of what FlowSchool Online has been to what it is.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (37:18.1)
now going to continue to evolve into is that you and I still get to meet for a lifetime. That feels so important to me. It's so impactful. We get to learn together. So we're going to have twice a month meetups. They're optional. There will be the replays for all of these things. So they will be easy to get to no matter where you're at or if you can attend or not, but that we have live experience.

plus recorded lessons where you're like, great, I'll take a 10 minute flow school lesson a day, easy. And you'll have places to be in, places to play and understand like so many things. I can understand like the way to really make something yours and bring your voice to the room. Because you already are. And give yourself this grounding and permission and play.

to really own it.

Because you my are making a difference and your voice impacts the room like nobody else's. I believe that. I believe that.

Okay loves.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (38:38.35)
Come play with me, yeah? Come find me in flow school, online, in person. Stay tuned for May 1st. Come find me this year, 2025, in Vancouver or London or Portland and think about your whys. Why are you doing what you're doing? And how do you stay grounded in yourself even when other people don't understand you and let them not understand you?

and let yourself evolve.

Bonnie Weeks (she/her) (39:14.445)
and

You're very much like a plant, plant, a plant's roots will take the shape of the thing it's planted in. So if you're, if you've been planted in a box and you've become root bound and all your roots are like, okay, we got to our max place and you were to pull that plant, your plant out of that box, your roots are going to be the shape of a square, but you can rustle those roots. You put your fingers in those, you rustle them.

or shake some dirt loose, you're no longer in a box. You can put yourself in whatever shape you want. Plant yourself somewhere else. Yeah? And if it's something with me, then lucky us that we get to meet in this way. Talk to you soon.