Urban Flow: How This Came To Be

Urban Flow Yoga: How This Came To Be from Urban Flow Yoga on Vimeo.

“If you really believe in what you’re doing and something may be missing, there is your duty right there, to provide for what may be lacking,” Rusty Wells on how Urban Flow came to be.

It started with the belief that yoga should be accessible to everyone. The essence of yoga, after all, is unifying, not divisive.

This belief led to an idea: to create a donation based studio in the heart of San Francisco where ALL people could come to practice yoga. To provide a place where everyone felt welcome, where no one would be turned away, regardless of any financial constraints.

The vision was simple.

Since opening the doors to Urban Flow, the result has been beyond profound. A community, a family, has grown. And, this family continues to grow as this beautiful ripple of service, of devotion, of connection touches more and more lives.

Urban Flow, also fondly referred to as the “living room”, is a place of refuge, a sanctuary even, where every single person who walks through the door is treated with kindness, dignity, respect and, most of all, love.

The notion of Bhakti Yoga is love for love’s sake. Without greed or ambition. Without selfish motivation. This is the foundation of Urban Flow. To love for love’s sake and to encourage the question, “how can my life be of greater service to others?”

When we allow our lives to become a life of service, then our lives become truly full.

Thank you to all of you who have blessed Urban Flow with your presence.

A very special thank you to Daniel Jarvis for creating such a beautiful video!

Please check out these awesome articles about Urban Flow on 7×7.com by Laura Mason and on Elephant Journal by Joslyn Hamilton.

7×7.com \"Rusty Wells\' Urban Flow and Donation Based Yoga Studios

elephantjournal.com \"Yoga for the Peeps\"

With love,
Jennifer