Flow’s Core Values

These core values inspire our staff family as we work to bring Flow’s mission to life for you and our community…

Lift Each Other Up
We create opportunities to uplift the lives around us - especially by being proactively kind, positive and service-oriented.  

Create Common Good
We cultivate solutions that are good for Flow, good for the larger Flow community, and good for the lives beyond our doors.

Be All In!
We support Flow’s mission, work and community with heartfelt enthusiasm.

Teacher Resources

Contact Info

  • The best way to get in touch with Flow’s management team and fellow teachers and subs is through Flow’s Slack workspace. Please see your welcome/orientation email for details.

Code of Conduct For Yoga Teachers

  • We recommend all teachers follow to the Yoga Alliance Policy on Sexual Misconduct (excerpts below are helpful guidelines)

    Assisting /Touch Code of Conduct

    Background: Understand power dynamics.

    Even when no malicious intent is present, energy can shift easily from healthy classroom relationships to an unhealthy power imbalance. If you’re a teacher, hold yourself accountable to the inherent power dynamic at play in the yoga teacher–student relationship. At minimum, you may be viewed by your students as a more advanced practitioner and an experienced guide. At maximum, you may be viewed as a master, guru, or enlightened being. Either way, do not abuse the power that is enmeshed in the relationship. Teaching yoga comes with great responsibility to individual students and the community you serve; maintain an appropriate boundary, and let the yoga practices themselves become the teacher for all students. (Yoga Alliance)

    Ask permission before all hands-on assists: 

    Suggested approach is to mention at the start of class while your students are in child’s pose (so it is a private moment) that you will be offering hands on assists and if someone is not into getting them, they can raise their hand to let you know. Also let them know that as the class progresses - if they change their mind at any point- they are also welcome to let you know!

    Every student deserves to be empowered within their own practice. Always ask permission before touching a student. Using clear communication, make each assist an empowering co-creation, inviting students to choose or decline your help, to change their mind, and to alter their answer from moment to moment. All types of hands-on assists require consent, including nurturing presses, manipulative adjustments, and press-point assists. To safely support all students in each class, strengthen your skillfulness with non-touch assists: Use precise verbal cues and invitational mirroring.

    Teacher Student Relationship

    Yoga teachers may not invite, respond to or allow any sexual or romantic interactions with their students or clients during the period of the professional relationship.

    Article of Interest

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Class Details

  • Sub form - How to coordinate your subs & list of approved subs

  • Injury Report- If anyone is ever injured in any way in your class, this must be filled out asap by you.

  • Studio Handbook - How to's on using heating/cooling, opening the windows on 14th Street, stereo tips, etc! - (xxxxmake sure bluetooth is current; reminder to check in with desk before starting, leave spots for latecomers etc)

  • Connecting BLUETOOTH! is how we recommend playing your music.

  • Always let the front desk know when you are staring class- and if possible the count. Ask them if you should put a mat (s) down for anyone who is signed up but running late. We let folks in late up to 10 min if you are not to capacity. This is not typically but we try to be accomodating.

  • Please read announcements to support what is happening at the studio- this is optional but nice to do for your fellow teachers ;).

  • Any room issues/suggestions, heating things, broken things- let us know asap!

Teaching Insurance, Payroll & Direct Deposit

Teaching Insurance

To teach at Flow you must have updated teaching insurance; this is non-negotiable and you are responsible for submitting & keeping it up to date. Please add Flow Yoga Center to your insurance documents. You cannot assist or teach at Flow without a current policy.  Here are the names to add:  

1. Flow Yoga Center  1450 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20005

2. Flow Yoga Center 1508 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005

3. Hersh Enterprises MD, LLC Property Management 1508 LLC 11 Argosy Court North Potomac, MD  20878

We pay monthly on the 2nd of each month (or if it falls on weekend /holiday - the next business day) via direct deposit. As a contractor you must submit your payroll to me on the 1st of each month. Tip: You can track your classes in mbo. mbo does not completely update its reports until the 1st of the month so if you taught a class towards the end of the month and mbo does not report it - you may need to wait until the 1st of the month to see your full schedule of classes taught. Your invoice can be of your own creation or you can use the mbo generate report (below).

Submit via email to debra@flowyogacenter.com, subject line “your name” + “invoice”.

  • Generating 1099 Invoice REPORTS

Log in to your Mindbody account by clicking this special link: http://flowlove.me/PayrollReport it will bring you to your payroll report! Make sure you use your TEACHER login (ask Deb for it!)

If that does not work (it should!!) go through these steps!

1.  Login:  https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/home?studioid=736

2. On the top menu bar, click on "reports" (if you don't see "reports - your screen may not be large enough.  If so - seek the > on the right and click - you will find it there!    

3. Click on "payroll"

4. Change the date to include the entire month and click "generate"

5. Take a screenshot or pdf of the list it generates and email to debra@flowyogacenter.com

Direct Deposit Forms  

Half price and Free Classes

  • Teachers may reserve classes and add themselves to waitlists at half price (in studio and online using your client login).  Or you may get a free class, space permitting, by waiting until in studio check in is 100% complete - and if a spot is open - it's yours!  Remember - any sort of reserving will incur a charge of half price the normal drop-in rate. Your presence in a teachers class does not count towards their pay - so make sure the folks who pay get in first - 99.9% of the time there will be a space for you, promise!


  • When you attend classes, you will continue using your regular "client" login.  It is completely separate from your Teacher's Login.  


mat set up:

  • 14th Street - 7 rows - spaced this way from classroom door to the window: 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 6, 6

  • P Street - Rasa - 5 rows of 7- and we suggest all facing in same direction. If you have folks facing in the center…make sure there is a nice amount of space in the face to face row to give folks room to forward fold. If you have folks face in one direction, make sure your mat is in front of the first row so everyone can see you (and the front row does not have to turn their backs to see you.

**Please keep your class capacity in mind and help students make space if needed so others aren't turned away :). We allow students in the room up to 10 minutes late so always arrange mats as if the class is going to be filled.

Before beginning your class, check in with front desk with your class count and to see if we are expecting any latecomers to make space for.

Always end on time. This honors our managers/staff schedules, fellow teachers start times and students expectations.