Eliza - Feel Good Flows

Thank you so much for your amazing kindness and support! Last Saturday the team held a wonderful yoga, dance celebration in St Kilda with all proceeds coming directly to Children First Foundation.

Thank you to the incredible Eliza and everyone who attended, the funds raised will directly help disadvantaged children from developing countries access the surgery they so desperately need!

~ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 ~ shows up not just on the “good” days but all year round.

Going strong for 4.5years… why we never just take a break during the “low season”, why we always show up for each other, especially on the low days…?

We were originally motivated to offer reconnection in nature as mental health medicine post isolation… but studies show it’s so much more.

Healthy social connection is scientifically proven to be a leading preventative for life threatening diseases… for instance cancer mortality cut in half for those living with healthy social networks (article linked in our bio)

We are interconnected beings.
We are not meant to do this life alone.

So we thank you for showing up not just for yourself…
but also for each other.

This is such a special community; this is the powerful healthy human connection they’re talking about, this is the medicine that we need.

A community that shows up lighting & lifting eachother up… consistently especially on the low days… living a longer happier life thanks to each other… that is

🔥

🌻WIN🌻 We are going on an adventure to the blooming meadows of sunflowers… and inviting you to come along 🌻 is having their last day on Sunday 24th March which is also the day of the Full Moon.

We have asked founder Ange to come along and bring you an afternoon of Sound Healing whilst .with.love guides you through rejuvenating Restorative Yin Practice.

will bring Tibetan bowls, native flutes, crystal bowls and shamanic drums… to create an experience unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

Link in bio to join.
Any questions let us know.

🌻WIN🌻 we will be choosing one duo to come along complimentary… tag the friend you’d like to take along for the ride below 👇

🫶🏼♥️

Secret to life… is to detect the miracle that is always happening.

Let life & love unfold itself; let it take you on a wild ride… from the head, through the heart and back to the soul.

♥️ thank you for taking a moment to celebrate life, connection, community, you, me, us. 🫶🏼 with.love

Captured by the wonderful 📷

Dream. Come. True. 🥹🙏🏽

After what feels like a lifetime… it is such a pleasure announce we are reuniting this Sunday 9.30am in possibly the most spectacular location imaginable.

With the public beach no longer an option for our weekly gathering, the last two weeks were spent visiting private outdoor spaces who could home Feel Good Flows… and what an incredible result.

The St Kilda Sea Baths Rooftop - a dream, a miracle, an icon, our Feel Good Flows Sunday home. 🙌

The warm welcome came from St Kilda Sea Baths Captain Baxter Republica St Kilda Beach & South Pacific Health Clubs who reached out opening their doors; hearts; & beautiful big rooftop to the local community group in need of safe space to reconnect.

Thank you. ♥️

Same vibration, higher location, all free/ by donation
- so same same but a lil fancy shmancy? Did we just get upgraded to first class? 😏🫶🏼

Pleasure as always.
My heart to yours,with.love
🫶🏼

Link to join…
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feel-good-flows-sundays-st-kilda-sea-baths-rooftop-930am-tickets-370940231217

Community Announcement.

For the first time in four years… your weekly wellness gathering, rain hail or shine, will be taking a pause this coming Sunday 19th February.

We are still in discussions with the council for the future of our community gatherings, however, the council has specifically stated that this Sunday due to the St Kilda Festival we are not permitted to gather.

So let’s take a pause.

Please know that we will re-unite the following Sunday 26th February brighter than ever before - stay tuned.

In the mean time, tomorrow we have the Thursday sunrise & mobilise gathering in Elwood… why don’t you join us bright & early? 😉☀️


A note from .with.love ♥️

It has been such a privilege and pleasure to host your Sunday mornings for the past four years. My love for us grows every minute. Your passion and support for this community blows me away - my inspiration always has been and always will be: you.

So yes this pause breaks my heart deeply.

But it’ll be fine.
More than fine…
… let’s promise we all make the most of it. 🫶🏼

I’m going to take lil break from St Kilda this weekend, immerse deeeep into nature, and recharge before what is bound to be a big 2.0 update for us.

If I don’t see you tomorrow in Elwood…
… have a beautiful weekend, enjoy the St Kilda Festival Fun & keep energy flowing to all those around you.

🙏🏽BEACH CLEAN UP - FAM ASSEMBLE 🙏🏽 This Sunday 9am just before our usual gathering time please join for a beach sweep.

Because leaves the land and the he people better than how we found them 😉💪

Community ♥️

Life is a lot, times are tough, economy is in crisis, people are struggling… some more than others… wellness gatherings should be available for all.

Our honesty donations model is either come for as little as $8 and enjoy yoga, breath, music, meditation, community, chai, fruit, or if you can’t then come for free and let the rest of the community sponsor your place.

We’ve had big brands offer to sponsor our events… but that’s not what we are about. We are an organic gathering. Not a commercial event. Not selling anything.

For the community, by the community ♥️

Thank you to the dear .theartist who guided us back into our hearts… with special service around expressing what struggles we keep bottled up inside.

“… and I mean this from the bottom of my heart: thank you for being a part of the happiest and most awakening chapter of my life.

My name is Eliza, your host and this is my story…

Having suffered recurring severe joint dislocations growing up, my childhood was spent in physical rehabilitation rather than on any running track or podium.

My self worth growing up was so low… I would hide in the bathrooms or library instead of going to PE where I would inevitably be the last chosen for any group activity.

I was told by surgeons that my future would be one of life long pain management and dislocations unless I went ahead with reconstructive surgery… “that’s just the way it is in your case.”

After accepting my fate, one day a distant relative suggested an alternative - yoga.

I resisted, avoided, finding every moment of it agonising.

Then one day everything changed.

My joints slowly strengthened, the suffering began to dissolve, and as a result the most important part of it all happened… my heart deeply softened and opened.

12 years later my knees still shake when I’m challenged, my voice still trembles when I’m nervous, and my heart still races when I’m about to do something for the first time: and it’s all good - they’re exactly the moments I love for it’s when I feel the most alive.

No longer a little child hiding from the world… I pinch my self every day realising I have the privilege and pleasure to stand before you all sharing the practice that - hand on heart - saved my life.

Now the only thing that truly scares me is to imagine what life would’ve looked like had i accepted “that’s just the way it is in my case” and to imagine others may be thinking the same.

In 2020 I started Feel Good Flows as an all inclusive, honesty exchange where you pay as you can… so no one is left behind… and that will never change.

What I didn’t expect was to meet all of you.

Wow.

Our growing community continues to draw in such beautiful supportive honest gorgeous humans.

Inspires me every day.

Thank you for choosing yoga.
Thank you for choosing
Thank you for choosing me 🥹♥️with.love xo

We come here as strangers… we leave as friends… we reunite again and again as family. 🫶🏼

Safe travels sweet - thank you for all the love you pour into this life - till we meet again my love.

The best part about ? You. ♥️

Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when you walk into the room… 🫶🏼 Riley, Kat, & Erin

Rising with the sun ☀️ is living in harmony with nature.

Sunrise, yoga & chais every Thursday in Elwood ♥️

📷 from this morning by

We are officially on the front page of The Age! 🙏🏽🥹

Thank you to each and everyone of you who show up to a challenge with the biggest open arms & hearts.

You made this moment happen.

On New Years Day morning celebrating unity & community as THE way forward into 2024.

Thank you for sharing this moment with the rest of Australia The Age ♥️

11,664 Sun Salutations completed on 01.01.24 by the community ☀️

Now that is a BIG energy shift 👏

☀️ Picture this: 108 of us practicing 108 sun salutations on the beach - it’s our New Years Day Special Event ☀️

… add intention setting for the year ahead, sprinkle some community connection over chais et VOILA 👌🏼

Why 108? In the Yogic tradition, 108 is the sacred number represents the wholeness of existence… connecting the Sun, Moon, and Earth.

How? The average distance of the Sun and the Moon to Earth is 108 times their respective diameters.

So the ancient meditative practice of doing 108 Sun Salutations connects the body, the mind, and soul - with the universe we live in.

Picture 108 of practicing 108 sun salutations on Monday January 1st at 9.30am under the open skies with the moon, sun, stars, sea & breeze…

…you + me, kicking off 2024 fresh, renewed, connected, & inspired.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feelgoodflows-new-years-day-special-challenge-108-people-sun-salutes-tickets-764259028327?aff=oddtdtcreator

Reconnect with the truest version of you… the real you… which is pure love. ♥️

🙏🏽 Our Mondays in Middle Park are on pause whilst .with.love is in India 🙏🏽 Good news? You are invited to a rooftop dinner TONIGHT after our yin class. Cost? Just bring something to share. 🫶🏼

See you tonight family. ♥️

Surya shining bright for us in Melbourne even on the coldest of mornings… see you this Sunday as we celebrate the last weekend of Winter ❄️ ☀️

Feeling a little uninspired? Or stuck?
Let’s fix that in two easy steps…

1. Understand that all anyone really wants is to feel like they belong, feel good about who they are…

2. Realise that in a few carefully chosen words, you can help anyone achieve that…

Now you see how powerful you really are?

Love is your gift, give away freely.

🙏🏽

… & then, on this frosty winter, even surya came out in full force offering her love.

Have faith; after the darkest chapters in life… really do come the brightest days. Brighter than ever before. ☀️🙏🏽

The real miracle is not to walk on water… but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle we don’t even recognise:
a blue sky,
white clouds,
green leaves,
the eyes of a child… our own two eyes.

All of this is a miracle.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

How gorgeous was last weekend ☀️ thank YOU.

See you this Sunday friends… as we unite to share a miracle moment under the sky, by the see, together, you & me. 🫶🏼

✈️🌍 ONLY SUNDAY ST KILDA SESSIONS IN MAY ✈️🌍

Hey family ♥️ with.love is off overseas for a family reunion… but don’t you worry, your Sundays will continue!

Note: Monday Nights in Middle Park & Friday Sunrise in Elwood - are on pause.

Sunday St Kilda Sessions are ON ♥️ same link for donation,
same location,
same feel good vibration..
all delivered for you by the sweetest of yogis 🫶🏼

🌊the river that flows in you also flows in me 🌊 - Kabir Das

Words written by a 15th Century ancient poet still resonate today… we are all connected; your actions do have a significant impact on life for us all, as do mine.

For those who have come to classes we refer to it as 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁.

So what… 🤔

It means we have the power to make someone’s day… a beautiful day… every single day.

And the best part, is that it’s been proven by psychs all around the world, that the easiest and most sustainable way to 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱…
is it 𝙙𝙤 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙.

🫶🏼♥️

🫶🏼 life can be challenging, life can also be incredibly beautiful.

The best way to describe this moment is… if Mother Earth chose a single vessel to express her sorrows, her hopes, her pain, her love… she chose .theartist 🔥

It was like we could hear the voices of the distant mountains, the crashing seas, the skies above us; connecting us as one. 🙏🏽

📷 captured and gifted by ♥️ angel.

🙏🏽Together, we will always fly a little higher.

… after all, yoga comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” meaning union.

See you by the sea 🌊
with sandy toes,
for

♥️ my heart to yours, with.love

🙏🏽 our Sunday ritual.

On Fridays we rise up with the sun on Elwood Beach… ☀️ rewiring the mind, remoulding the body, one at a time 🫶🏼

Yes, even when it’s cold, actually - especially when it’s cold 👏

☀️💛Rooftop Yoga - Mondays in Middle Park 💛☀️

Loving our Monday nights together in this happy haven… community vibes are s beautiful 🫶🏼

New updated schedule based on what you’ve asked for… a later yin class.

Voila…

5.30pm Dynamic Vinyasa - suitable for beginners & advanced alike; celebrating the body, embracing & uniting for moments of challenge as part growth.

6.30pm Restorative Yin - dissolving tension, & melting away stickiness, relax, restore, unwind.

Cost? You choose your contribution 🫶🏼

Max 12 spots 🤍 booking link in bio.

From heart to yours,with.love ❤️