Flow Art Wikia



Welcome to the Flow Art Wikia
The flow art encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.

We're brand spanking new, so why not check out our Wiki Plan, then join our community and help this (awesome) resource to grow?

What are Flow Arts?
Flow Arts is a general term used to describe the intersection of a variety of movement-based disciplines including dance, juggling, fire-spinning, and object manipulation. The broad category Flow Arts includes a variety of pursuits that harmonize skill-based techniques with creative expression to achieve a state of present-moment awareness known as Flow.

Common forms of Flow Arts include poi, staff and nunchaku spinning, hooping, juggling, contact juggling and fan dance. New props and expressions are emerging all the time as flow artists cross pollinate with martial arts, yoga, circus, belly dance, and beyond.undefined

Why do it?
Most of us start doing Flow Arts because they are so fun! We begin to incorporate Play back into our lives. Enjoyment is usually the hook, but we soon find a wealth of reasons to keep up our practice. The basics of a prop are easy to learn, but the possibilities of moves and personal expression are truly infinite. Flow Arts are body-mind activities like Yoga that help us focus our minds at the same time as we hone our physical abilities. Many people describe their flow activity as a “moving meditation”.

There are many health benefits to Flow Arts as well. A skill-based movement art naturally brings more of our awareness to our bodies. As we use our muscles to control props through space and to dance with the props we are engaging in an easy and fun form of exercise. Many flow artists achieve a greater degree of fitness, and are even driven to do additional strength and flexibility training simply to perform better at their art.undefined

Wiki: Currently focused on nunchaku
This wiki is for all flow arts, but to start with we're focused on nunchaku as that's the prop the admin team know best. We'll try and make some inroads with that section while we reach out to other communities.

We'd love to have your help expanding the other prop sections, so if you're interested in getting involved, please do get in touch!