About

Hey, I'm Francie!

A multipassionate voice healer, musician, teacher, creative producer and community catalyst.

Neurodivergent, and happiest in my full expression, getting to be every part of me at once... and if I get to be all of me, so do you.

Francie La Flow sitting on a hillside in a purple shawl, holding her guitar

Welcome

Hi, and thank you for being here

Thank you so much for being here, and for taking an interest in my work and my journey.

For the last twenty years I have been travelling the world, finding epic people and epic places to call my soul home. Celebrations, gatherings, rituals, expressions. It has been a truly magical and rich time of my life.

Somewhere in there I had a yoga retreat company, and over eight years I ran more than 200 retreats and trainings with people from all over the planet. Giving back to the community, connecting people to practice, infusing as much joy and freedom into a room as it could hold. It was also where I learned how to start a business, how to run one, and how to produce events.

Being in service as a teacher and a leader was true purpose for me.

Ubud, Bali has been my home base for sixteen years now, on and off, with Koh Phangan in Thailand a close second. Since coming back full time, I have had the privilege of teaching, producing, performing and cultivating with the BaliSpirit Festival and with The Yoga Barn in Ubud, one of the yoga and spiritual meccas of our time. I produce the BaliSpirit Festival podcast, and Soulful Sundays, a weekly event dedicated to giving voice to musicians from our local and expat community here.

Alongside the teaching and the producing, I am a songstress and a devotee of flow. I was a professional hula hooper for many years!

Francie hooping at sunset on the beach in Koh Phangan, one arm lifted with the hoop above her
Sunset on Koh Phangan, back in the hooping years.

Music is the thread running through all of it. I think of myself as a song carrier: these are mantras and heartsongs that were handed to me and asked to be sung, and my work is to carry them well and pass them on still warm. My record Wise in Her Ways is free to keep, seven more songs are being recorded now, and it all lives on my music page.

I am here for the collective upleveling.

So much of the magic comes from togetherness and collaboration, and I am dedicated to that mission: singing with people, curating and creating events, and bringing us together in celebration, co-creation and connection.

And alongside all of it, working in the field of Compassionate Inquiry has been an utter privilege and a deeply healing part of my own journey. It keeps teaching me what it truly means to hold space, and to let someone find their way back to their own authenticity and empowerment.

There is one more piece to my story, and it is the reason this work exists at all.

The story underneath all of it

My voice went first, and I had no idea why

In 2016 something happened to me that I didn't have words for, and then, quite literally, I had no words at all. My voice left. Not for a week or a rough month, but for over a year and a half.

I was already carrying depression. Losing the ability to say what I needed on top of that was devastating. It felt like a part of my soul had been switched off, and I couldn't find the switch. I tried everything I knew, and I knew a lot by then, and none of it touched it.

Then a friend asked me a very simple question. "Has anything emotional happened to you recently?"

Everything I had ever studied in yoga and psychology arrived in the same room at the same time, and I understood: my emotions, my nervous system and my voice were never separate things.

Mindfulness had taught me to watch the clouds go by and notice something was there. That wasn't going to be enough. I needed to go down into the trauma itself and into the relationship between how we feel and whether we can say it out loud.

That took me out of the yoga world I knew and into plant medicine, then into long-form integrative somatic therapy, then into play and expressive joy practices. Music and ritual are where it finally landed. Since 2012, creativity, self love and worthiness have been the ground of my own healing, and singing is how I reached the parts of myself that talking never got to.

That's the whole reason this work exists. What I hand you is the way back that I had to build for myself, one piece at a time.

What came out of it

The Vocal Flow Method

Your voice is the most honest instrument you own. When it's held back, it's usually holding something else back with it. The method blends three bodies of work that most people are taught to keep in separate rooms.

Yoga and bhakti

Breath, embodiment and devotional sound. The ancient technology for getting out of your head and back into the body that is actually singing.

Flow psychology

How presence, play and the right kind of challenge move you out of self monitoring and into full expression, on and off the mat.

Somatic trauma integration

Nervous system repair, so that opening your throat feels safe rather than exposing. This is the piece that's usually missing from voice work.

Pure Flow, the short version

Since 2008, holding rooms

I have been teaching since 2008, and teaching yoga since 2011. Teaching turned into facilitation, and facilitation turned into leading my own teacher trainings. That is where I found the work I am best at: people who are new to yoga, and people who are new to teaching.

In 2016 I founded my own school, Pure Flow Yoga, in Koh Phangan, Thailand, out of my love of yoga, nature and community. "Life changing" was the review that kept coming back. We won awards two years running and The Guardian named us one of the best retreats in the world.

Then 2020 arrived, the world shut down, and the studio closed with it. That ending is what sent me deeper into the voice work, and I'm glad of it now, even though it didn't feel like a gift at the time.

These days I teach at The Yoga Barn in Ubud, run private retreats in Bali and Thailand, train facilitators, mentor people one to one, and play music. Same devotion, smaller rooms, much deeper work.

Francie leading a singing circle in the jungle, seated around a flower mandala with her guitar

Who I am here for

Curious yogis, aspiring singers, and people who went quiet somewhere along the way

Maybe you were told you couldn't sing. Maybe you can speak perfectly well in a meeting and still can't say the true thing to the person in front of you. Maybe you hold space for everyone else and have nowhere to put your own sound.

I work with women and men, teachers, therapists, facilitators and people who've never taken a singing lesson in their lives. What I offer is a safe and sacred room to meet the block, soften it, and let your own voice come back through. This is about presence, and your own sound coming back through.

Training and study

The lineage behind the work

I'm a lifelong student. Thousands of hours with master teachers around the world, and still going.

Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 and RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School RYS 200 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider YACEP IPHM accredited, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine

Degrees and certifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Humanistic Studies, minor in Philosophy, McGill University, Canada
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Compassionate Inquiry Mentorship Program, 142 hours over six months, with Dr Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur ND, 2026 (see certificate)
  • Yoga Alliance E-RYT, Registered Yoga School (RYS 200) and Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), 1000 hours of certified yoga training
  • IPHM accredited, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine

Somatic, trauma and voice

  • 100 Hour Embodied Trauma Integration, Tina Nance Yoga Therapy
  • 100 Hour Embodied Flow Mind Module, Tara Judelle
  • 100 Hour Yoga Nidra, Blooming Lotus Yoga
  • Freedom Through Movement, Bex Tyrer
  • Unwind the Feminine, menstrual cycle awareness and body literacy

Yoga lineages

  • Ashtanga Yoga Research Center, one month intensive with Prem and Radha
  • 100 Hour Shantaya Anusara Yoga, Jonas Westring and Carlos Pomeda
  • 100 Hour Advanced Teacher Training, ISHTA Yoga, Rachel Zinman
  • Anusara Yoga Immersions 1, 2 and 3, Shri Yoga, Julie Smerdon
  • 50 Hour Yin Yoga and Yin Intensive, 5 Elements Yoga School
  • 50 Hour The Art of Bhakti Yoga, Lorraine Taylor and Akari Tamura
  • Beyond the Asana with Emil Wendel, and Yamas and Niyamas with Janet Stone

Meditation and devotion

  • Chakra initiation retreats and temple work with Amma Sri Karunamayi, India
  • 10 Day Introduction to Buddhism, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India
  • Silent retreats, Suan Mokkh International Dharma Hermitage, Surat Thani, Thailand
  • Silent retreat, Dipabhavan Meditation Center, Koh Samui, Thailand

Community and business

  • The Yoga Barn, Bali Spirit and BaliSpirit Festival, business and community development
  • Elizabeth Anura and River City Kambo, consultancy and project management
  • Uma Sai, community and business development

In conversation

Interviews and podcasts

Sing to Heal: Finding Your Voice, with Annelie Sing to Heal: Finding Your VoiceAnnelieListen on Spotify Finding Your Voice, Embracing Emotions and Letting Go of Labels, with Nuki Finding Your Voice, Embracing Emotions and Letting Go of LabelsNukiListen on Spotify Story of Healing and Wanderlust, with Lou Kelle West Story of Healing and WanderlustLou Kelle WestListen on Spotify Rediscovering Harmony, with Nessi Gomes Rediscovering HarmonyNessi GomesWatch on YouTube Awakening Joy and Authentic Expression, with SELF with Amanda Awakening Joy and Authentic ExpressionSELF with AmandaWatch on YouTube Awaken Your Voice Summit, with Rush Dorsett Awaken Your Voice SummitRush DorsettWatch on Vimeo
Francie La Flow smiling, seated by a window

A free place to begin

If any of this landed somewhere in your chest, start with the free Somatic Voice Starter Kit. Three practices to get that voice back into the room: a guided meditation, a ritual to care for your voice, and a soundscape to sing along with. It lands in your inbox within a minute.

Send me the free Starter Kit or book a free 20 minute call

Thank you again for being here. Please feel welcome to book a call, or just say hi any time.

With love and song,
Francie