Answering the Call: A 2025 Reflection on Growth, Community, and FlowWell’s Year of Return

When Spirit Calls, You Get Up

In February 2025, we heard the call of Spirit — and the echo of grandmamas’ prayers — telling us it was time to get up and get back to work.

And we’re so glad we listened.

What followed was a season of movement, expansion, and deepened purpose — a reminder that when you answer the call with faith and integrity, the work will meet you halfway.

What We Built Together This Year

Since returning in February, FlowWell Yoga has experienced a year that exceeded anything we could have imagined:

1. Over 5,000 people practiced with us, bringing their breath, bodies, and stories into shared space

2. Our partnerships expanded, including collaborations with
   ACT XXIV, Union Market DC, Eaton Hotel DC, March on Fest, DC Department of Parks & Recreation, NMAAHC, Bridge District DC, The Brand Guild, Royal Sands DC, Frank N The City, The Bullpen DC, Penn Social DC — and many more

3. Yoga Beyond the Studio brought embodied practice into five wards across Washington, DC, making wellness more accessible and rooted in community

4. Our community now spans ages 12 to 65, affirming that healing, movement, and belonging are not bound by age.

   Each class, each partnership, each new face reminded us why this work matters — and why community care must remain central to wellness.

Yoga Beyond the Mat, Beyond the Studio

FlowWell has always believed yoga is more than poses. It’s about presence. It’s about access. It’s about building spaces where people can be free, healed, and whole.

This year, Yoga Beyond the Studio became a living expression of that belief — meeting people where they are, across neighborhoods, across generations, across lived experiences.

And the work continues.

A Time to Reset

As we approach the close of the year, we’re also honoring the sacred practice of rest.

Our final class of the year will be Thursday, December 18th.

This pause is intentional — a chance to reset before the new year and prepare for what’s next. In 2026, you can look forward to:

• More intentional programming

• Expanded partnerships

• New teachers joining the FlowWell family

• And maybe even a pop-up or two 👀

Captured With Care

A special thank you to the photographers who helped document our ever-growing community with such care and beauty:

@hawamayaa, @nyseyez, and @fredomarxelo

Your work helps us remember what we built — and who we built it with.

From Our Family to Yours

From our family to yours, may God bless you and keep you.

Thank you for practicing with us.

Thank you for trusting us.

Thank you for helping make FlowWell what it is.

We’ll see you in the New Year.