Francie La Flow

Francie La Flow is a yoga teacher, singer and voice guide who has lived mostly in Ubud, Bali, for about sixteen years, with Koh Phangan in Thailand as her second home. She studied psychology at McGill University, holds 500-hour Yoga Alliance registration, and spent eight years running the Pure Flow yoga school, leading more than two hundred retreats and trainings. A long spell in 2016 when she could not speak at all sent her looking at how feeling, the body and the voice meet, and that question now shapes everything she teaches.

Her approach, which she calls the Vocal Flow Method, brings together mantra and kirtan, simple vocal warm-ups, body-based inquiry, asana and breath, and the psychology of flow. Students do not need any singing experience; the aim is to feel at ease being heard rather than to perform. She leads weekly vocal activation and bhakti yoga classes at The Yoga Barn, sings and teaches at the BaliSpirit Festival, offers one-to-one sessions online and in Ubud, hosts private retreats in Bali and Thailand, and trains facilitators to lead voice circles of their own. She also writes devotional songs, has made an oracle deck and a songbook, and records chants and yoga nidra.