We are one of the few Yoga schools in the world that combine groundbreaking teachings in Somatics, science and art of Embodied Yoga, Non-dual Tantra, Embodied Awakening, permaculture and regenerative life, with the intention to be the change & Natural Movement Agents of the world.
Where infinite becomes intimate
"It is my belief that we carry in our cells, in our tissues, in the very throb of our existence an underlying flow that urges, inspires, flares our nostrils and beats our heart. This encompassing atmosphere of love has its own destiny — perhaps using humans as its messengers, this love has arrived on Earth."
-Emilie Conrad
MANIFESTO
We, the members of the Authentic Flow community, seek to facilitate the recognition that all human beings - our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, children and elders, ancestors and yet-to-be-borns - are interconnected and are, in fact, one indivisible Whole, known as Humanity.
Insodoing, we promote practices designed to remind us of our connection to each other and our responsibilities to each other as co-creators of our collective reality.
When we recognize each other as our very selves, we naturally abide in Love and are compelled to act in ways which nourish and protect the wellbeing of each other.
We stand for the embodiment on earth of loving awareness and undivided unity. We stand for interconnectedness with nature and all life on Earth. We join article 1 of the Human Rights Declaration 1948: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of community”. We stand by wisdom traditions such as non-dual Tantra and Buddhism, as well as animism that embrace a non-dual approach to our collective existence together.
We seek to assist all humans, regardless of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, or ethnic group, to shed fear-based, "othering" as a way of thinking and acting, and to embrace the reality of our interdependence on and intimacy with all that is.
We uphold non-violent means to bringing material conflicts to solutions promoting the wellbeing of all of humanity, thus furthering the universal recognition in ourselves and others, of our indivisible Whole and the Love that has been, is, and always will be revealed as the foundation and center of our existence.
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We have been a part of Tree sisters since 2019 and donate for every training we hold.
Know that you are contributing to trees planted all over the world through us and the Tree sisters every time you book an in-person training with us ❤️
Our total trees funded is 3775 (november 2023). As treesisters are not counting trees anymore we wont be able to keep you updated! But every month we donate for everyone that traveled to our gatherings and trainings 🤗
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We offer SCHOLARSHIPS.
We believe in inclusiveness, equality, and diversity.
In each teacher training we offer full and pay what you can scholarship opportunities, the total cost of training tuition, for any marginalized person in need. (please specify this in your application).
We are committed to offering our unique and life-changing experiences to all people, including those that are under-represented in wellness and/or with low income.
Faculty
Our new and improved all women (main) faculty is no mistake.
It’s been in the works for some time now.
We believe in raising the voices of strong women teacher trainers in the yoga and movement world to change Guru mentality and the male-dominated trajectory that especially alienates the people under represented in wellness even more. This has been prevalent for many many moons.
This is NOT to alienate men, quite the opposite, we have many men in our trainings and hope this will bring even more in!
This is also NOT to divide but to bring together.
It has continuously been our experience on this field of wellness and spirituality- women and womxn need to be lifted as teachers of teachers more.
All of us are dedicated to service and our own continuing curiosity toward life and movement, to serve and hold you the best way possible.
Satu Tuomela
Satu Tuomela is our founder and lead teacher trainer.
Satu has been teaching for more than 25 years and is known for her very unique, otherworldly and authentic transmission. Satu is specialised in Somatics and Embodiment practices. She is an experienced yoga teacher (ERYT2000) with more than 13000 teaching hours under her belt, Embodied Flow™ senior teacher, a teacher training facilitator, Creator of Authentic Flow (born 2009), Shake the Dust (reborn 2020), Embodied Yin (born 2007) and Co-creator of Embodied Flow™ Yin program and a Reiki Master.
At the moment (year 2023), Satu is a registered BMCA student and enrolled to a Somatic Movement Education Program (Body-Mind Centering) that she hopes to finish in 2024.
Satu charms with her intuitive, all seeing facilitation, her Shamanic roots, goddess vibe and a big big love for classical non-dual Tantrik teachings. Her exquisite use of music, harmonium playing, singing, humour, loving presence, Somatic brilliance, immense space holding abilities and clear understanding of human body and how everybody is unique, is well known around the world.
Satu has a background in dancing (ballet, contemporary etc.) and basketball. She fell in love with yoga and somatics in her teens and started teaching almost immediately. Satu has studied two different 200h trainings in vinyasa flow and Hatha. Immersed in Anusara yoga, continued with two advanced teacher trainings in yoga (both 300h), the latest being Embodied Flow™ in 2014. She keeps on studying and practicing daily. Her main teachers at the moment are Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Adyashanti, Shambhavi Sarasvati and Sally Kempton. Satu continues studying Body-Mind Centering, classical Chinese Medicine, Tantra, and newly again, Buddhism.
Satu is a Non-dual Philosophies devotee, and honours her sādhana with passion. She is especially devoted to Trika Shaivism and The Way of Liberation by Adyashanti:
The Way of Liberation teachings are the spiritual teachings I have developed over the many years of being a spiritual teacher. Their primarily aim is to be practical and useful aids in the quest for spiritual liberation. In this sense they are a Way, or path, to liberation. They are not meant to be understood as metaphysical statements about the nature of reality, as much as they are a means to realize spiritual freedom in one’s own experience. The Way of Liberation teachings are oriented toward the task of awakening to your true nature as efficiently as possible, and embodying the awakened condition in your humanity, within the context of your everyday life.
The Way of Liberation teachings are also The Way, or the view, of the liberated condition itself. They express how existence is experienced from various levels of realization. And finally, The Way points to how the awakened condition can be manifest and lived in daily life. To awaken to your true nature is one thing; to live and express it in daily living is quite another.
Satu is one of the founders of Pranama Yoga Studio in Helsinki and the owner and co-founder of Cocoon Tavira, Portugal and Cocoon Stockholm, Sweden.
Satu has had the privilege to teach and offer workshops, retreats, trainings and classes around the world from Hawaii to Europe, Australia and Asia.
Satu and her Authentic Flow Tribe run 20h, 50h, 100h, 200h and 500h-teacher trainings and advanced teacher trainings (we are a Yoga Alliance RYS200 & RYS300 school ) all over the world.
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“True words of wise yogis have paradoxically pointed us towards this wordless Yoga, towards this practice, towards this Love, for thousands of years. Meet one of the world’s latest yogic magicians, Satu Tuomela.
In her teachings, Satu bridges these two truths seemingly effortlessly, gently, lovingly, and fiercely, using words which are somehow also wordless, sounds which are somehow also soundless and and time as though it were timeless ; her cadence, her intonation, her questions, her gestures emanate into the room, somehow weaving themselves together to then land gently in our Bodies, to guide us into a fully embodied experience of our Selves, to our own great Heart, a Heart which lives in and speaks to us from every cell of our bodies and in every breath we take, and is connected to every thing.
She is an alchemist, living in and speaking from her own deeply felt connection to the great ocean of consciousness, the Heart, the Center Center, she transmutes seemingly mundane energy, space and time into a sacred, healing vibration within the body, warmly and compellingly inviting you to explore and experience the profound flow of life, of energy, of Qi, streaming through you, as you, in every moment of the practice, and beyond.
She is a shaman, using her harmonium, her voice, her touch, her poetic language and her music to transport you into a deeper layer of your Self, your embodied Self, where you can tap into your own healing energies.
She is a virtuoso, her classes intuively and intelligently curated from a deep well of insight, wisdom and creativity, offering an integrated experience between body, mind and spirt.
For anyone seeking a true practice of yoga, she is the real deal. Period. What a gift to all beings. Om. “
- Kathrine Perkins, US
Evy Ferraro
Through the path of Yoga and various healing modalities, I have dedicated this lifetime to healing the patterns to which my own mental and physical struggles existed within.
This path has now become one of devotion to facilitate others to do the same.
As my own inner quest for wholeness has continued on its infinite journey, with its ebbs and flows, I have learnt to trust and follow its many tributaries into different modalities including various forms of Yoga, Pilates, Myofascial Release, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Release technique, Contact Improvisation, Shamanism, Somatic education incl: Thomas Hanna Somatics, Feldenkrais, Mind-Body Centering and Franklin method and others.
The marriage of these movement practices with non-dual Saiva Tantra has created infinitely creative recipes for truth. The embodied path of Tantra brings us nowhere but here. The goal is, and has always been exactly we are. It is through the vessel of the body, through its miraculous pathways of connectivity and exploration that we can awaken to the intimacy of presence.
Inna Smirnova
Following her strong intuition in everything she creates Inga’s path is crystal clear. She found yoga many years ago, and it created a profound impact eventually guiding her back, and back again, deeper each time.
Her colourful nature, feminine energy and healing touch can be found in all her yoga classes and offerings. She holds more than 600h and keeps diving back in into the sacred teachings of yoga, movement, connection and somatics every time she gets a chance.
The journey of Embodied Flow™ has been a true home coming for Inga, and it changed both her teachings and practice completely. She is now offering a blend of embodied expressions and teaches Chakra Yoga, Embodied Yin™, Slow Flow & Authentic Flow at Pranama and facilitates women circles, teacher trainings, immersions and workshops. Her main teachers are Satu Tuomela, Tara Judelle & Myra Avedon with which she continues her studies regularly.
Maija Ahola
With a burning heart for exploring movement, the mind, and everything in between Maija’s path took her finally after many years of practicing yoga into, something unavoidable, a full-time teacher and studio owner.
With roots in classical hatha tradition Maija found her way into embodiment with Embodied Flow™ and Authentic Flow Tribe. She has over 500 RYT training hours, her greatest inspiration coming from her teachers Satu Tuomela, Tara Judelle and Scott Lyons.
Her practice and teachings are highly influenced by a tantric view and the search for an embodied experience and connection to ourselves. Her classes are usually slow to allow you to fully be in the flow of the moment with the entire body and mind. She has also been influenced by a cross discipline of yoga, dance and freediving with a love of the water element. She has been teaching yoga since 2014.
Journal
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
- Hans Christian Andersen
What people are saying.
“So much happened during this week! I went to bed in my enormous tent each night, arms and legs spread and with a giant grin on my face. ”
— Helene, VESSEL teacher training
“In her teachings, Satu bridges these two truths seemingly effortlessly, gently, lovingly, and fiercely, using words which are somehow also wordless, sounds which are somehow also soundless and and time as though it were timeless”
— Kathrine, DEPTH Teacher training
“ I felt safe all the way through and a feeling of, we were in this together”
— Louise, Embodied Yin Teacher training