what is flow?
In the most direct and technical terms, flow is a state of mind that arises when an individual with greater-than-average competency in a specific problem domain encounters and is immersed in a challenge of greater-than-average difficulty in that domain. In other words, it's what happens when talented people do difficult things.
At flowthought, we're concerned with the development, training, and epxression of flow as a lifestyle and practice. When immersed in the flow state, we lose consciousness of self and other, we lose conscious explicit thought, and we experience the totality of the problem and our solution to it as a natural expression of spontaneity and awareness.
Over the past few decades, new forms of movement-oriented meditation, collectively referred to as the 'flow arts', have developed to take advantage of these holistic and uplifting qualities of flow. In practicing the flow arts, we develop a set of physical skills--usually in the manipulation of objects such as staves, poi, hoops, etc--and use this learning practice as the problem domain in which we develop and experience flow.
As part of our everyday commitment to a life of flow, we work to teach and disseminate the flow arts through workshops, performances, and craftsmanship. We host regular spin sessions at our warehouse studio in Orlando, Florida, we connect interested beginners with exceptional teachers in practice workshops, and we make and sell the tools and props of the flow arts.