About Us
Flow is an Immigrant, Queer and sister-led, integrative healing practice. We work to create access to holistic, responsive, community and justice-centered care, especially for those who have been systematically denied that access (i.e. folks who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer, Trans and Nonbinary, Poor/Working Class, Immigrants, Disabled, Large Bodied, and other marginalized groups).
We (Chance and Henaz) are both teachers of traditional Yoga, Usui Reiki practitioners, and justice-based facilitators. Henaz is an Acupuncturist and Eastern and South Asian medicine practitioner, incorporating QiGong, Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis and Marma Chikitsa into her work; Chancy brings her experience as an educator, teacher coach, peristeam facilitator and death doula. Coming from a family lineage of Ayurveda, Reiki, Yoga, and Astrology practitioners, we call upon and learn from our ancestors. We are committed to offering and expanding our services for our Flow fam (and fam to be), always guided by the values of non-duality and interconnectedness.
Henaz Bhatt, L.Ac.
NJ Licensed Acupuncturist, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), Owner, Flow Acupuncture
One of the most memorable lessons Henaz learned as a kid was: don’t touch the plants after sundown; they need sleep, too! This lesson stuck with her: all living beings are interconnected and worthy of respect. This value guided her to pursue healing through yoga, acupuncture, and social justice. She graduated from Barnard College with a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Human Rights and then pursued a graduate degree in acupuncture from the Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine in NJ. She studied to be a yoga instructor at the Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India and at Starseed Yoga in Montclair, NJ. She has studied advanced Ayurvedic Pulse Diagnosis and Marma Chikitsa with Dr. Vasant Lad of the Ayurvedic Institute, NM. Henaz is certified in Reiki Level 2. For almost 20 years, Henaz has been working with youth and adults on issues of identity and social justice and for almost a decade on healing bodies and minds through acupuncture and yoga.
Henaz firmly believes that our liberation is intertwined and that our healing is at our fingertips and in our breath—this was the first needle. Seeing the results of acupuncture and the miracles bodies perform when given the space and reminders to do so, humbles her. Passionately, compassionately, intuitively, and wholesomely: this is how Henaz connects with her clients and helps support them on their path to healing.
Chancy (she/her) is an educator, curriculum writer, reiki-practitioner, death-doula, and community and justice-focused facilitator who celebrates the fluidity of all beings and remembers that our struggles are interconnected. Her communities of young (and not-so-young) people have taught her about love, patience, accessibility and reciprocity in the realest of ways. These lessons are forever ingrained in her heart and inform the way she moves through the world. To Chancy, community is the heartbeat of any sustainable change; it is a muscle that needs tending, and when nourished, it is magic. Tapping into universal life-force energy, or ki (reiki), is one way in which she hopes to offer more nourishment, care, and tenderness in the world.
OUR MISSION
to remind us to trust the process of our body. our breath. our healing. to let our fear go and let our qi flow. to find our own rhythm. our own flow and bounce. to believe in the power already within us to get whole. because we were never anything but that to begin with. to focus on the health of the mind, body, spirit and community.
OUR VISION
to create a healing community space that transcends the boundaries of the walls of a building and explodes into the community and culture around it. to be a gathering place. a growing space. a fluid and responsive space. to interbe with all the things around it. to collaborate and partner with others who support this return to our original flow.
OUR COMMITMENT
to honor all the people who came before me in this work—my ancestors and all those indigenous elders* upon whose wisdom I stand. to always seek their guidance. to remember that I am a continuation. to continuously learn and adapt my healing practices to respond to the needs of our community and those of my own intuition so that I can facilitate healing and remove dis-ease insofar as possible. to never let money or finances be a barrier to anyone’s health and healing. to grow and to constantly remember how much I don’t know.
guiding principles:
we are interconnected inextricably—we inter-are
we are responsible to and for ourselves and our community
we are responsible to and in constant relationship with our Mother Earth
we are whole. enough.
our breath will bring us home
healing ourselves helps us heal our ancestors and future generations
guiding assumptions:
they want us to forget ourselves: although we are all inherently enough and whole, our society is designed to profit off of our forgetfulness of this truth.
the dominant messages we receive from society are linear, limiting, and oppressive by design: our culture centers capitalism, consumption, individualism, profit, production, imperialistic thought, domination, expertise, linear strategizing, and a limited timeline of influence (think for yourself and your family’s immediate future only). it is fundamentally racist, sexist, cisheteronormative, ableist, classist, and anti-indigenous. it’s also very yang-dominant.
these social realities effect us differently based on our identities and social experiences: Flow will always be a place for folks most on the frontlines of these oppressive systems: Black/Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), Queer (LGTBQIA+), Poor/Working Class, Folx with Disabilities, Large Bodied, and all marginalized groups, including the ones where my privilege may occlude my vision. i will always do my best to see you as you wish to be seen.
flowing home to ourselves is an ongoing journey: it takes a lot of work to unlearn these basic values that are infused into the air we breathe, news we read, and media we consume.
returning home to our original flow means committing to systematic unlearning of these norms: a reclaiming of femininity, indigeneity, and inward-focus.
healing doesn’t happen in a vacuum: when I work to heal myself, I work to heal the wounds in my ancestors and future generations.
inside is made of outside: when I look within at my internalized oppression and/or superiority, I am also doing the work of creating a more compassionate, responsible and equitable society and world.
our liberation is bound up together, as the Australian Aboriginal Activist Group reminds us. no one can be free until we are all free. let us work together.
these basic understandings of society inform my work in healing: we have to unlearn and return every moment of every day. i hope you join me on this lifelong journey of healing on multiple levels of our existence.