About Us

This school is a living, breathing ecosystem devoted to healing bodies, cultures, and practices.

Through sound, movement, presence, and collective responsibility we show up. Rooted in somatics, trauma-aware facilitation, and music and sound as medicine, we understand healing not only as a private or individual act, but as something inseparable from social, ecological, and relational contexts.

Music remains our central teacher and collaborator, we listen beyond harmony and preference into our history. We recognize that sound, rhythm, and movement have always been means of liberation and tools of resistance, remembrance, and communal survival, especially within Indigenous, Black, diasporic, queer, and earth-based traditions. We approach music not as a commodity or performance product, but as a relational, emotional, ancestral, and political force. Sound here is not neutral; it carries stories, power, and responsibility.

Our pedagogy is explicitly trauma-aware and anti-oppressive. We acknowledge that trauma does not arise only from individual experiences, but from systems of oppression: colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, racism, ableism, transphobia, extractivism, and spiritual bypassing. Therefore, nervous system healing must be accompanied by structural awareness, cultural humility, and an ongoing commitment to unlearning harm.

We actively practice non-oppressive facilitation, which means:

Intention of centering consent and agency at every level
Intention of decentering hierarchy and guru culture
Valuing lived experience over credentialism
Intention of designing spaces that are as accessible, inclusive, and adaptable as can be

Inclusivity is a practice done in relationship. We acknowledge we do not always get it right. We continually ask: Who is this space built for? Who is being asked to adapt? Whose knowledge is being centered, and whose is being erased? We understand inclusion as an ongoing process of listening, redistributing power, and making material changes, not simply a welcoming language.

Our movement, dance, yoga, and somatic practices are taught through anti-extractive and decolonial lenses, as much as possible. We resist the flattening or aestheticization of embodied traditions, honoring their roots while remaining accountable to the present. Intuitive movement becomes a way to reclaim bodily autonomy from systems that have disciplined, commodified, or erased it.

Nondual Tantra informs our work as a philosophy of wholeness and interdependence. There is no bypass, no indulgence, no domination. It reminds us that liberation is not found by transcending the body or the world, but by meeting reality as it is, together.

Pleasure, grief, anger, tenderness, and rest are all welcomed as they are.

We are deeply committed to degrowth values. This school does not exist to scale endlessly, extract labor, or produce hyper-branded facilitators. Instead, we prioritize:

Slowness over urgency
Depth over productivity
Sustainability over expansion
Care over optimization
Community over consumption

We question hustle culture within wellness spaces and resist the monetization of healing as a constant output. Rest is treated as a political act. Simplicity is honored. Clarity is important. More is not always better.

Spaceholding in this context becomes an act of activism. To hold and to give space is to interrupt harm, to name power dynamics, to stay present through discomfort, and to cultivate collective nervous system resilience. We train facilitators not to position themselves as healers above others, but as skilled participants within a shared field.

This is a school for us all, householders, lovers, writers, artists, musicians, movers, healers, activists, and cultural workers who understand that: Healing without justice is incomplete, Regulation without liberation is limited and Embodiment without accountability can cause harm.

Founder · Lead Teacher Trainer

Satu Tuomela

A living lineage shaped by devotion, embodiment, and decades of practice.

Satu Tuomela is the founder of the school and its lead teacher trainer.
She has been practicing and teaching for over 30 years and is widely known for her unique, otherworldly, and deeply authentic transmission. Her work is rooted in somatics and embodiment, offering movement as a living, relational, and transformative practice.
Satu is an experienced yoga teacher (ERYT500). She is a senior Somatics, Yoga, Shake the Dust, Somatic Dance teacher, a teacher training facilitator and a Reiki Master.
Satu is a practitioner and teacher of the non-dual Tantrik lineage of Trika Shaivism. Her main teacher is the late Sally Kempton.
As of 2024, she is a registered BMCA student and is enrolled in a Somatic Movement Education program in Body-Mind Centering®. She continues to study alongside her ongoing professional development.
Satu is the creator of several influential embodied movement practices.
Authentic Flow (born 2009), Embodied Yin (born 2007), Shake the Dust (born 2007/reborn 2020) and co-created Somatic Ecstatic Dance (born 2023).
She is also the co-creator of the Embodied Flow™ Yin program and has facilitated teacher trainings and advanced trainings internationally for over 15 years.
Satu is known for her intuitive, all-seeing facilitation, her shamanic roots, and a presence often described as both fierce and deeply loving. Her teaching weaves together music, harmonium, singing, humour, somatic brilliance, and profound space-holding.
With a clear understanding of the human body and a deep respect for individual uniqueness, her transmission invites students into direct embodied experience rather than conceptual understanding
With a background in dance, including ballet and contemporary forms, and basketball, Satu developed an early relationship with movement. She fell in love with yoga and somatics in her teens and began teaching soon after.
Her studies include multiple 200h trainings in Vinyasa Flow and Hatha, deep immersion in Anusara Yoga, and two advanced 300h teacher trainings. The most recent was Embodied Flow™ in 2014. She continues to study, practice, and refine her work daily.
Her current and long-standing teachers include Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Adyashanti, Shambhavi Sarasvati, Daniel Foor, and Sally Kempton.
Satu is deeply devoted to non-dual philosophies and honours her sādhana with passion and commitment. Her primary influences include Trika Shaivism and The Way of Liberation teachings by Adyashanti.
These teachings emphasize awakening to one’s true nature and embodying that realization within everyday life. They bridge spiritual realization with lived humanity, presence, and relational integrity.
Satu is one of the founders of Pranama Yoga Studio in Helsinki, Finland, the owner and co-founder of Pranama Tavira, Portugal and the upcoming somatic education center The Feels in Stockholm, Sweden.
She has taught workshops, retreats, classes, and teacher trainings across the world, from Hawaii to Europe, Australia, and Asia. Together with the Authentic Flow Tribe, she facilitates 20h, 50h, 100h, 200h, and 500h teacher trainings and advanced programs as a Yoga Alliance RYS200 and RYS300 school.
“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 time as though it were timeless.
She is an alchemist, living in and speaking from her own deeply felt connection to the great ocean of consciousness. She transmutes seemingly mundane energy, space, and time into a sacred, healing vibration within the body.
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 embodied Self.
She is a virtuoso, her classes intuitively and intelligently curated from a deep well of insight, wisdom, and creativity, offering an integrated experience of body, mind, and spirit.
For anyone seeking a true practice of yoga, she is the real deal. Period. What a gift to all beings. Om.”
-Kate Perkins, USA

Meet the Team

Bridget Inglis

For over 30 years, I have been practicing and teaching yoga, creating a hub in the UK village I lived for over 23 years. Holding space for people to come and practice, for connection, for those to feel and flow. To experience both stillness, movement and centre.
When I met Satu and joined the Authentic Flow Tribe I was blessed to be able to taste a different sweet flavour that is within somatics and embodiment, Body-Mind Centering and the non-dual Tantrik teachings.
Stability, continuity and creativity in any community is what I feel my roles are in life, and this follows through in my work as an administrator - the anchor, the glue, the earth and fire.
I have worked with Satu and the Authentic Flow Tribe for a few years now and love the marriage between yoga and administration. Learning through the non-dual allows me to harness my abilities as an administrator to guide, to harness, to weave my magic into the company as well as ground and stay connected to those I come in contact with.
Anja Bergh

Anja is a movement educator, yoga teacher, mother, business owner who has been teaching movement for 20+ years. Her passion is teaching slow transformative embodiment processes and practices for the wise, ordinary human being.
The processes are of the kind that work immediately but take time to weave into the fabric of our being.
She is a certified Embodied Flow Yoga Teacher, Body Mind Centering student, practices Fajardo Method of Holistic Biomechanics for clarity and uses nervous system informed somatics to gently bring more coherency to herself as well as offer a fusion of all the above in her classes and trainings.
As someone who has had the experience of life coming at her, somatics have offered the experience of co-creating with the world, of life rising through us, ultimately a gift, something that can be continious, holding all the experiences of effort and ease.
Fanny Olsson

Yoga has been a growing part of Fanny's life for 14 years, and she has been a teacher for five years. She has a keen interest in the transformative processes of awareness, and her passion in teaching is to facilitate people towards an ever freer experience, both in the body, and in life as a whole.
As a former medical biologist, Fanny is something of "body nerd"; though, today, her primarily focus is to know the body through the felt sense of the various layers and systems - something that she shares in her classes. With her deep love for Kashmir Shaivism and it's non-dualistic worldview, she also often weaves philosophy and tantric practices into her teaching, in an easily accessible manner.
Silvana “Sisa” Saveri

Sisa is an ISMETA certified Somatic Movement Educator and Embodied Flow™️ Yoga facilitator. She aims to support people to find more freedom and ease in their body-minds, without denying the reality a lot of us live with - chronic pain, physical and emotional restrictions, oppressive systems, or mental obstacles we might have constructed for ourselves.
Sisa’s offerings weave non-dual tantric philosophy, somatic practices like Body-Mind Centering ®️, and astrology-guided rituals to help connect back to our bodies and the full spectrum of what life has to offer. Acknowledging space for joy, grief, pleasure, anger, and love, allows her to not only nurture herself but also provide unwavering support to those she works with on their own journeys.
Her astrological practice is based on Hellenistic tradition and is, just like her somatic practice, informed by the deep-rooted belief that we are already whole. In recent years she has combined both passions into what she calls AstroSomatics, bridging the gap between the celestial and the bodily spheres, fostering a sense of belonging and interconnectedness between ourselves, the universe, and the world we live in.
Agnes Jovaisa

Even as a child, I felt an urge to search for answers to the big questions and the great mystery of our existence, for mysticism in my life. I was more of a bookworm than a sporty type and didn’t realize at first, that I was looking for liberation through the body-mind, rather than transcendence through the mind only.
Eventually, I found my way into the body’s wisdom through yoga and on the dance floor, and then: Wow. I got to experience that I this colorful, mystical world I was looking for exists within me, as me, through me, interconnected and interdependent with everything that is.
In Trika Shaivism, I found words and concepts for my experiences and in non-dual Somatics I found pathways to get here, even more. As a movement guide, DJ and sound practitioner, I reside where silence and sound, rest and dance intertwine.
Direct experience has led me into stillness, and at the same time, into the raw vibrancy of movement. I guide somatic movement & yoga, ecstatic dances, sound journeys and cacao ceremonies. I call myself incredibly lucky to weave in my studio BEING SPACE in Hamburg, Germany.
Janni Popp

My way into movements was through physical theatre and performance. I was drawn by the playfulness and explorations, loved dissolving into different characters, qualities and elements, and - despite not really enjoying any sports or exercise - I loved exhausting myself and testing my physical abilities on stage through jumping, repetition and high intensity moves.
Eventually the performance part and outer eye observer fell away, but my love for playing and becoming remained.
Yoga started as a pause and a place to practice being rather than performing, and when I met Satu in 2017 it felt like a true homecoming.
I am deeply passionated and in awe of the human body, anatomy and physiology. I trained as a physiotherapist and am amazed of how everything around us is mirrored within and vice versa. Our bodies are so wise and contains so much knowledge and so many answers, that we just somehow learned not to listen to. In my teachings my main intention is to support the participants in remembering and reclaiming this inner wisdom and acknowledge how wild and beautiful these bodies are. When we connect to that, I believe, we come closer to each other as well - and closer to the continuous nature, we are a part of.
Eduardo Terzidis

My work stems out from the understanding that we humans have co-evolved with plants, animals and all living and non-living beings in this Universe. We are mirrors of everything that is around us, thus it is in our perceived disconnection from the natural world that resides the very source of our environmental and spiritual crises. For this reason, I aim at creating whole-istic solutions to re-connect to that lost sense of belonging this magnificent web of life.
I offer solutions and experiences that sustain that nourish every individual and the connections between us all for many generations to come.
I have gathered extensive knowledge as a Permaculture Designer and transformed my life by engaging with spiritual practices like yoga, meditation, somatics and surfing. In the last years, I have facilitated the creation of many regenerative projects including, regenerative homesteads, intentional communities, educational projects, institutes and agricultural organisations. I have also supported individuals find their mission and purpose by integrating the design principles of permaculture with the tools I have gathered from my spiritual practices.
Today, I am dedicated to offering transformative experiences for people to reconnect to a deep sense of belonging to Life.
Jenny Roche

A movement practise has always been part of my way of being, and continues to shape shift in the call and response with and as life.
I first discovered Yoga when I was a dancer, and initially attended Yoga as a way to inform and strengthen my body as a dancer. Now, a practise is a deep space of curiosity, connection and spaciousness.
Eventually, I decided to embark on a Yoga Teacher Training and trained with Authentic Flow Tribe, when I found the teachings and lineage that aligned with bringing the world IN...not leaving it at the door.
Alongside teaching Yoga, I am a dance artist and work in community settings using dance as a tool to support emotional well-being, as well as dance commissions for performance and film. I also run a Teacher Training School and Studio for Holistic Therapies, Coaching and Movement in Macclesfield outside of Central Manchester UK. I am a trained Somatic Coach and Therapist with ACCPH
I am forever a student, and I am currently working towards accreditation as an Integrative Body Movement Therapist and Educator with The Institute of Body Movement Therapy and Linda Hartley.
Lina Jarl

With roots in ancient oriental practices and curiosity for new experiences, Lina holds tradition in one hand and creation in the other. Lina Jarl is a mover, somatic intuitive, full-time body therapist and movement educator. Coming from a background of multicultural dance, arts and education she stumbled over the teachings of Shiatsu over 20 years ago and immediately fell in love - combining what she cherished so much: touch, energy and deep listening. After practicing Shiatsu for several years she continued to deepen her knowledge in Chinese Medicine and studied acupuncture, qi gong, nutrition as well as other body therapy modalities like Yoga, Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release and Feldenkreis. Encountering Embodied Flow™ in 2014 inspired her into another dimension of awareness and freedom which led her to explore the world of embodiment and yoga. Since 2005 she is an accredited member of the Swedish Association of Professional Body Therapists. She is a certified Body Therapist and Embodied Flow™ teacher and holds certifications as an MSc Health & Social Science and a BA Literature and Modern Languages. Today Lina has a busy clinic while sharing her wisdom in retreats and trainings in Yoga, Somatics, Shiatsu, Qi Gong and Reiki.