It’s Earth season. The past few weeks I’ve been quietly re-designing theflowspace, breaking it down into smaller, even more intentional spaces—and the timing couldn’t feel more right.
This season is about rooting, tending, coming back to the body. And at theflowspace, that’s exactly where we’re building from: the ground up. But not in the way you’d think.
This journey wasn't linear
This change didn’t start as a product decision. It started about six months ago, when I left my teaching job in Bali thinking I was heading home to Austria. Only one month later, I ended up in Thailand instead—a little stranded, a little undone and not ready to go back yet.
That in-between became a question I couldn’t put down: what am I actually offering? Beyond the cues and the classes, beyond being someone’s teacher—who am I and what do I want this space to hold for people?
A deep dive
The answer didn’t come quickly. It started with a simple idea that I launched in December: The Ritual—free, grounding Pilates sessions during one of the busiest times of the year. But then? What next?
This took four months of honest looking: at why I initially left Austria, why I left Bali, what I’d been running from, what I’ve learned and what I’d been moving toward. A slow, sometimes uncomfortable inventory. One that can’t be rushed, only felt. A tiny idea leading to the next. Like taking one baby step at a time. Like peeling an onion, layer by layer.
The missing piece
Until one night, during Spring Equinox, I was laying in bed wide awake.
And the dots started to connect themselves. I quickly got up to grab my phone and jotted down the missing layer. What surfaced was this:
I’d been giving without filling up for a long time. Longer than I’d realized. Looking back, I wasn’t even balanced when I was living and teaching in Vienna. That’s how deep the tiredness went, and how normal it had become.
The week & a watch: both proved it
By then I’d already been shifting gear in my movement practice (on doctor’s orders, bless her for this very unconventional advice)—away from all-in and pushing, toward calmer practices. Unexpectedly, I was feeling amazing.
Curious about what they were actually doing, I wanted to understand them from the inside. So I signed up for a week to learn.
I didn’t know it was going to be a week of real stillness. That part I hadn’t planned.
A couple of weeks later, my watch told me what my body had already started to know: something had shifted. My energy came back like never before. My students noticed the difference before I said a word—the look in my eyes had softened, my presence felt different. Even the things no watch could measure had changed. My aura. My voice. I couldn’t unfeel it. And I haven’t looked away since.
That week became the quiet thesis of everything I’m building now.
Stillness isn't the opposite of movement. It's what makes movement sustainable.
The timing felt almost suspicious
As a Taurus, Earth season tends to flood my feed every April. And this year I couldn’t help but notice it was speaking the same language as the space I’d been quietly rebuilding—with the intention of grounding, tending, coming back to the body. The timing felt almost suspicious.
What's changing at theflowspace
Theflowspace is becoming a space for every season of you and less like a single menu. Smaller, more intentional spaces, each one doing its own work—so you can move with where you actually are, not where a schedule tells you to be.
Here, the grounding happens in stillness. Because stillness is preparation—for movement that doesn’t deplete, for dynamic flows when you want them, for everything your body is asking for.
But this isn’t only about slowing down. Some days your body wants to be challenged. To sweat, to build, to feel strong.
Soft and strong. Stillness and movement. Not one or the other—both, in balance.
Theflowspace holds every version of you. Because real consistency isn’t about picking one pace—it’s about knowing which one your body is asking for.
New flows are coming soon. I’m building this space in real time and you’re here, live with me, as it unfolds.
If any of this lands, theflowspace is where the practice lives.
When we learn to listen to what the body truly needs, we are able to meet every season of ourselves—strength when we want it, softness when we need it.
With love
— Siri
PS: I’ll be sharing more of the thinking behind theflowspace here—my travels, my evolving thoughts on Pilates and training, the things that don’t quite fit in a newsletter or a caption. Looking forward to welcoming you back soon.
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