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Ever since taking the biggest and scariest leap from the corporate job I had lost during the pandemic to creating a Patreon to be able to sustain myself and pay my rent, you all of been here to support me and help make my dreams a reality. Teaching the art of hooping and creating tutorials for you all to learn all of the tricks you’ve always dreamed of learning and helping you elevate your flow has always and will always be my biggest dream. It means the world to me that so many of you have entrusted me in some way to help you along your journey, and I appreciate you all so much. Communities rise together by lifting each other up and helping each other grow, and it has been my greatest honor to give you all a boost in your journey through Patreon over the last 8 years. But as things grow, sometimes we realize that growth also incurs change. I have felt a bit like I am in a box while using Patreon as a platform and wanted more space to grow, and more space to help you all grow in return. I am over the moon to introduce you to my very own flow arts learning platform app, Flows!. I am immensely excited to help you learn and grow on this new platform. I have been tenaciously creating new content for the app and have close to 100 tutorials already up. I am recreating ALL my content plus new content for Flows!, which has been such a tedious but magnificent feat to create the highest quality content I possibly can for you all. If you’d like to check it out and see what you can expect, you can search “Taylor Flows” or search “Flows!” in the App Store and when you register for the app and sign in, you get access to a FREE 20 tutorial Single Hoop Basics course. No strings attached :) To be transparent, this change has been exciting, but also a little scary. It feels like taking a leap out of a comfortable, familiar place into a big and expansive unknown. But I can’t help but remember this is exactly how I felt when I started my adventure on Patreon and started work as a full-time creative. Good, big things can feel scary at first ~ but it is crucial that we follow through and tenaciously chase our dreams. 💭 With love, Taylor Flows 🖤 ~ video by @alexwebermedia ✨

🔥😋🧯 Currently sitting at the Chicago airport waiting to board a flight to Seoul, then hit a connecting flight to Bali to spend the next few weeks there running my retreat in collaboration with @thehulahoopinstitute , IGNITE, and teach at Hoop Dream Retreat! And thennnn I come back to America just in time to teach at @jamboreedenver ✨ weeeeeee! 🤠

Hiiii guys 🖤 This week I am trying to micro-dose some “normalcy” back into my life while traversing the overwhelming amount of grief I am experiencing. Part of that is very (VERY) slowly and softly coming back to social media/work. Using social media as a conduit for work is a strange thing to navigate in general, but even more strange when you are navigating tumultuous experiences in your personal life. But, I also know that being human and sharing some of that humanity is important too 🖤 These last few weeks have been immensely tough in ways I can’t even begin to explain ~ but I have seen and felt every ounce of love that you all have given and I appreciate it beyond measure. Accepting help and support is something I have never been great at ~ so this has been a very arduous process alongside this level of grief. So, if I haven’t gotten back to you, please know that I love and appreciate you so much 🖤 To softly come back on here and to reintegrate into some of the joy I have experienced, I wanted to share this video from a month ago at @thehulahoopinstitute Hoop Dream Retreat on the beach with my dear friend @mishiehoops who filmed this video. I love you soooooo much, Mishie🌴 if you got this far ~ I love youuu & hope you all are having a wonderful day today 🌺✨🫂

💖Gratitude is my biggest feeling right now. With what life has put in my path lately, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on friendships, relationships and Hoop Dream & IGNITE. To my facilitator team @missmojangles , @photographlee , @taylor_flows . Thank you for showing up 110% as real team players & friends. What we offered at Hoop Dream & IGNITE, I could not do this alone. Our collaboration made both retreats more incredible than I could ever imagine, and all the feedback tells us we created not only a wonderful learning & playing environment for our participants, but a true life changing experience. 💖 🐧 Lee @photographlee , we spent 2 weeks together and I feel like I’ve known you forever. Your open heart, willingness to share & learn, team player attitude and incredible hoop dance are just next level and I’m so grateful to call you my friend. 🦄 Morgan @missmojangles , to our 11 years of friendship 💖🥂Thank you for always believing in my hoop dream and being on the Hoop Dream team from the beginning. You’ve been my #1 confidante & advisor on all things hoop and I appreciate you and all the love & effort you put into everything you do. 🔥 Taylor @taylor_flows , 10 years ago you showed up at the very first Hoop Dream to learn, and the next year you taught with us for the first time. Thank you for saying YES to IGNITE! I can’t tell you often enough how inspiring you are, how much respect I have for who you have grown into becoming, how you are so dedicated to your work, and how important you are to me now. Our friendship & business partnership is something so incredibly special. I love you all very much 💖 Thank you for being my friends. Photos by @odedpeled and some selfies 😍

On Monday April 20th, while being in Bali together, I unexpectedly lost my best friend. But LeAnn wasn’t just a best friend to me, she was a sister, a soul mate, and an immensely bright beacon of light in my life and all that had the honor of knowing her. Not only was she constantly the most wonderful, insightful, emotionally intelligent, hilarious, strong, and empathetic person in every room she entered ~ she is the reason I believe that there are genuinely good people in this world, without any strings attached. The world was truly a better, more kind place because she graced it. She was a one in a billion type of person in this lifetime, and being in her life was one of my greatest honors and privileges. LeAnn taught me the sanctity of sisterhood and friendship, the power of a well placed and timed sarcastic remark, that true friendship pairs with working together to be your best selves for each other, and she taught me that it is always a good time to give someone a complement and lift others up. When she passed, a piece of me feels like it passed too. There will never be a day that goes by that I won’t miss her more than I could ever explain. I love you to Pluto and back LeAnn, always forever. I promise to do and be all of the things we wanted to together for you. Please give me some grace and space at this time. I know LeAnn would want me to continue to do the things that I love but right now I am so shattered, fragile, and I need time. 🖤 please send all of the loving thoughts and vibes you can to her incredible family and friends during this inexplicably difficult time.

A sunrise shot from such an epic week at Hoop Dream 🌅 🌴🌺 It was so special to be able to be a part of the 10th (!!!) @thehulahoopinstitute Hoop Dream Retreat Bali 2026 for so many reasons ~ & it was especially special to reflect on the fact that I was an attendee at the very first Hoop Dream, and making this choice to go completely changed the trajectory of my life 10 years ago. Being in such a supportive and loving community surrounded by amazing, like-minded people solidified the fact that I desired to become an instructor one day. After the retreat, I reached out to @mishiehoops and expressed to her that I would love to be a part of her incredible retreats one day, and the next year I was given an opportunity that altered everything for me and I taught at Hoop Dream Malaysia the following year. Every time I am in a retreat setting I think about this experience and reflect on how scary it might have been for 21 year old me to travel across the world alone and meet up with a group of perfect strangers ~ but did it anyway. And how every single year I get to connect with incredible, brave people who make that very same choice. One revelation that I have always remembered throughout the years from these experiences, is that the world has mercy on the brave. The more you do things that you might feel a little scared or intimated by, the more you put yourself out there and be vulnerable and silly, and the more you make hard but good decisions for yourself the more it comes back to you. I am so insanely grateful in the ways that these opportunities have grafted and guided my life in the ways that they have, and it has been such an honor to witness how it has done the same for others in this same space 10 years later and that I now get to be a part of that process 🖤 Hoop Dream will always have such a special place in my heart, and this year contributed so much to that special place ✨ I had such a blast teaching and getting to learn from @mishiehoops @missmojangles and @photographlee and play with so many lovely humans! I already cannot wait for another year! I love y’all so much! ✨ & thank you so much to @missmojangles for this vid! 🥰 ⭕️: @moodhoops

My #ignitebali family, This year was something absolutely magical and special, I am so honored to have been able to partner with @thehulahoopinstitute to create 6 days of connection, silliness, learning, adventure, self-discovery, and FIRE in one of my favorite places in the world🌴✨🔥 Every single year I fall deeper in love with this beautiful community ~ and I feel like this year catapulted this love to a level I didn’t even understand was possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting trust in us and this experience, and allowing yourself to be seen and take up space. IGNITE would not exist if it weren’t for the love and support from all of you. I’d also love to highlight and express my sincerest gratitude for the best facilitator team I could ask for; @mishiehoops and @photographlee 🖤 This year was so epic as a reflection of the hard work, dedication, patience, presence, and absolute bad-assery of the both of you. I could not have asked for more lovely and epic humans to spearhead this project with and I love you both so dearly. 🖤 thank you, thank you, thank you Tickets for next year are going to be released VERY soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for them! We are only releasing 16 tickets for the retreat next year because we felt the container this year was so perfect and full ✨ ALSO be on the lookout for a different type of gathering later this year in October 2026 ~ limited to only 10 attendees. Think more restorative time, more excursions/adventure, but still daily connection with your hoop! Thank you so much to @odedpeled for being the best and capturing all of these special moments from the retreat ✨ And last but absolutely not least, thank you to each and every one of the amazing attendees for showing up and showing out at IGNITE 2026! 🔥 @ali.in.flow @nixieflows @spacekittykelsey @soul.silver.jewellery @afroola @marleehawkinss @kellyfiredancela @jenosaurus42 @jmoodzflow @ambrosia_apex @just_amanda_91 @tigerspaceman @flowing_kala @dominica.williams17 @ruby.goes.round / @jem_jem_oo @lindsaylouhoop @photographlee @mishiehoops

Forever in my mind… 💭🌴🌺 having the best time at @thehulahoopinstitute Hoop Dream Bali! ✨ we woke up for sunrise this morning and it was so beautiful! #dreamtravelhoop ⭐️: @moodhoops

Today was our final day of @thehulahoopinstitute and I’s retreat, #ignitebali , and I am feeling so happy, grateful, and absolutely exhausted simultaneously 🖤🌴🔥 I’ll have so much to post and say but for right now I’ll just share this video that was taken on our excursion day to Kintamani to visit the volcano until I can find the words to describe how special this year was ☺️ next up is teaching at Hoop Dream here in the next couple of days with @thehulahoopinstitute ✨

Walking around our retreat site at sunrise at #ignitebali with @photographlee ✨ Our retreat has been such a dream so far, so excited for our second full day today 🌴🔥🖤 @thehulahoopinstitute ⭕️: 28” #uvgreencalcitejamhoop by @jamhoopslimited

🔥 Our very first IGNITE was nothing short of incredible! IGNITE with @taylor_flows was so much more than a fire intensive, it was a spark that turned into a radiant, blazing fire! Each person brought their full selves to the circle ⭕️ strength, curiosity, vulnerability, passion, laughter and light. Together, we created something unforgettably special! 🔥 Please join us in watching this beautiful aftermovie of our time together ❤️

Hoopers who want to deepen their practice ~ this is your moment. Learn from Taylor Flows at the Eat. Be. Hoop. Retreat. ✨ Two dynamic hoop workshops ✨ Flow, technique & creative exploration 🔥 Fire demo with Taylor 📍 Burlington, Vermont June 11–14 ✨ Payment plan available through April Link in bio. #hoopretreat #hulahoopcommunity #burlingtonvermont