Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual: How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play
Steven Budden is a speaker, catalyst, and the author of Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual - How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play, The Flow into Joy Journeybook, and The Flop Eared Gospels (a Novel). An awakening experience in 2005 and a broken neck in 2008 were catalysts to a new way of being, which he refers to as Flow. "Our physical and emotional pain contains sacred messages from our body. There are no "accidents." Our past can be used as an excuse for not living a rich, full life, or it can become a gateway to surrender and spiritual awakening; a catalyst to physical and emotional unfoldment." (From his website) He is the founder and owner of Flow Healing Arts in the bay area, where he supports a diverse group of luminaries in releasing the past, embracing the present, and creating the future, through custom programs and acclaimed private sessions. He is a certified health and wellness practitioner, master bodyworker, and holistic life coach, coaching and consulting on sacred intimacy and trauma release. For the past 5 years, he has been innovating with entrepreneurship, running an assortment of innovative businesses, often while living a minimalist lifestyle on farms, in a renovated vintage airstream, and on a sailboat. He is a published poet, graphic designer, songwriter (Saint Milkweed), and visual artist, earning his MFA from the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. Find him ruminating on love, creativity, life, and the human experience on his blog at flowhealingarts.org.