Flow in the Forest

18/08/2025

If you haven’t already come across Void Space then you are in for an absolute treat - Void Space – Where Fire Meets Art pride themselves on making exceptional quality and unique props for beginners and pros at reasonable price points - homegrown in the U.K. and they have been supporting the Flow in the Forest dream since early doors and we can’t thank them enough for their support throughout this wild ride - from posting, to giving up their valuable time and skills to teach at Flow in the Forest so check them out, give them a follow and DM them if you’re looking for new toys or something bespoke 🔥✨

Born in 2020, Void Space is more than just a fire prop brand—it’s a passion project fuelled by creativity, precision, and a deep love for the flow arts community. Every piece is handcrafted in the UK with high-quality materials, ensuring durability, performance, and that perfect burn.

Looking for something unique? We specialize in bespoke and custom fire props, tailored to fit your flow style. With a vast range of prop types and wicks, we’re here to bring your vision to life—whether you’re a seasoned performer or just stepping into the world of fire.

🔥 Your flow, your fire, your way. 🔥

Let’s create something extraordinary together. What will you ignite today? 💫

10/08/2025

Up next on the Flow in the Forest workshop agenda — and this one’s perfect for anyone ready to step into the world of hoop dance, - led by the fabulous Red Rootz!

Workshop title: Beginner Hula Hoop Flow

When: Friday 19th September 2025

Description:

Discover the joy of movement, creativity, and self-expression in this fun and supportive beginner-friendly session. Red Rootz will guide you through the fundamentals of hoop dance and flow arts, helping you build skills and confidence while having a great time.

You’ll learn how to:

• Keep the hoop spinning on your body (and how to recover if it drops!)

• Explore some simple off-body tricks to add variety and flair

• Use smooth transitions to perfect at home to make your movement look effortless

• Find your own unique flow and rhythm

By the end of the 60-minute workshop, you’ll be able to start to combine moves into a short, flowing sequence and take home the skills to keep practicing.

Prerequisites: None — this is for absolute beginners, no fancy moves required.

Workshop length: 60 mins

Capacity: 20 people max

What to bring: A polypro hoop is recommended — lighter and smaller than a standard waist hoop, ideally 16mm–19mm thickness and 30–34 inches in diameter for off-body work and tricks. Hoops will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you have one. Wear comfortable clothing you can move freely in.

07/08/2025

Catch New Age Collective and there banger of a new track this September at Flow in the Forest.

Start or level up your flow journey and learn from some of the best in industry including Staff Doctor, Mika Hell, Red Sarah, Lucas Stephanides, Red Rootz, Cosmo Hardy, Calvin Lok, Ben Jammin Sutton and many more from 18th-22nd September in Cambridgeshire.

Celebrate the flow and fire arts, express your learning journey and jam to some of the best bands the 2025 festival season has to offer ..

Find New Age Collective at the fire space, dance, jam and play at Flow in the Forest - tickets start at £100

🌛EYES OF THE MOON OUT ON AUGUST 8th🌜

You can pre save via the link in our instagram bio!

The tune you’ve all been asking about will be released on Spotify on August 8th, we can’t wait for you all to hear able to listen to the whole track!

Big love from the team 🔊🎩🎸

30/07/2025

Our next workshop for Flow in the Forest , let us introduce the ever-fluid, ever-fabulous Indigo Rivers!

Workshop title: Liquid Motion Pole

Description:

Liquid Motion is a movement modality synonymous with fluidity, accessibility, community, and sensual exploration. In this workshop, you’ll be guided through movement with, on, and around the pole — with a special focus on seamless static rotation.

Indigo Rivers is a certified and licensed Liquid Motion instructor (1.0, 2.0, Heels & Liquid Motion Pole), and brings almost a decade of experience in the pole world. She teaches pole, chair, and floorwork in North Wales, with a deep love for choreography, flow, and freestyle.

As a performer and international competitor for over 6 years, Indigo brings both skill and passion to her teaching. Being disabled and neurodivergent herself, she places a strong emphasis on accessibility in the classroom, offering tailored variations and a welcoming, supportive environment.

This workshop is an invitation to explore your sensuality, connect to your body, and flow like liquid. Expect to leave feeling empowered, embodied, and inspired.

Prerequisites: Open to all levels — some pole experience is helpful but not required.

Workshop length: 60 mins

Capacity: 15 people max

What to bring: Shorts, knee pads or leg warmers, and socks — anything that helps you move comfortably and feel yourself!

14/07/2025

We’re so excited to announce another workshop for Flow in the Forest— let me introduce you to the one and only Staff Doctor themselves, Patryk Burdecki!

Workshop title: These Sticks Are Strange — A Reflection on Tricks That Defy All Classification (Double Staffs)

When: Friday 19th September 2025

Description:

Patryk Burdecki (aka ) has been deeply immersed in the world of stick spinning for over 15 years. Practising mostly alone in his basement, Patryk has developed a truly unique style, creating original tricks that push beyond traditional categories. While he rarely ventures out, he’s always eager to share his knowledge with fellow spinners.

In this 60-minute advanced workshop, Patryk will introduce three short double staff tricks that defy easy classification — a playful fusion of spin, juggling, and contact that will spark your creativity and challenge your technique.

These tricks are taught as a 3 part mini-sequence you can incorporate directly into your own flow, offering fresh inspiration and an impulse for growth.

Prerequisites:

Level: Difficult — this workshop is for experienced double staff spinners ready to explore new territory.

Workshop length: 60 mins

Capacity: 20 people max

What to bring: Please bring your own sticks with good, grippy outer tape — these will be essential for the tricks covered.

06/07/2025

We’re so excited to announce another workshop for Flow in the Forest — without further ado, let me introduce you to the dragon staff wizard themselves, Mika Hell!

Workshop title: How to move with Your Dragon: Footwork, Movement & Beyond

When: Friday 19th September 2025

Description:

Mika He’ll is a Berlin-based flow artist and fire performer, passionate about exploring the playful and technical sides of Contact and Dragon Staff. With over 10 years of experience teaching and performing worldwide, Mika brings a powerful mix of knowledge, clear breakdowns, games and challenges to help you level up your dragon flow.

This 90-minute workshop is all about learning to move with your dragon staff — not just tricks, but how to step, pivot, and travel through space in a way that feels fluid and connected. We’ll cover foundational footwork patterns and movement drills so you can dance with your dragon, rather than just spin it.

Mika will offer additional challenges and advanced variations for those ready to push further.

Prerequisites: All levels welcome — but it would be preferable if you could at least do Chi Rolls as a core technique, and if you’re more advanced, Mika has extra challenges up their sleeve!

Workshop length: 90 mins

Capacity: 20 - 25 people max

There will be a few dragon staffs available to borrow, but please bring your own if you have one (or borrow a friend’s!).

05/07/2025

We’re so excited to announce our first workshop for - without further ado, let me introduce you to the OG fire mamma themselves, RedSarah

Workshop title: 7 ways to twirl tassels

When: Sunday 21st September 2025

Description:

Red Sarah is a Burlesque performer with over 20 years mastered the art of tassel twirling from the original twirly girl Indigo Blue - having also mastered fire tassels a few years later she is one of the worlds most predominant fire tasellers (and teacher and maker of the fire tassels)

But before we set anything on fire it’s essential to learn the skills sans fire first so this workshop teaches you 7 different ways to spin your t***y tassels.

Sarah is available for fire tassels class at The Fire School should you wish to progress after this.

Prerequisites: none- this is also a non gender specific / anyone can attend regardless of breast ownership

Workshop length : 45 mins

capacity: 20 people max

02/07/2025

Check out this epic Video from Liverpool Fire Arts Festival - the First Fire Arts Festival of its kind in the U.K.

Every time we see this video, it sets the hairs on our arms on end - it’s fantastic and it’s so wonderful and satisfying to see something this spectacular taking place in the U.K. and the projection mapping 🥹 - amazing!

We could go on and on all day but just give it a watch and let them know how amazing they are by commenting and giving their page a like and subscribing to their YouTube ❤️

Great work guys! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

02/07/2025

MEET THE TEAM - Intriducing the amazing and magnificent aka Luke Harries!

Luke Harries has over 20 years of Fire performance experience with over a decade of that making his full time income mainly through the corporate and wedding industry in the UK.

Known for performing in larger group shows at , , , , , and , and now - he has a wealth of experience and knowledge to share when considering performing arts in the fire and flow disciplines as a full-time career path.

Luke has orangised and facilitated flow arts and movement workshop spaces at Lovejam, Medicine Festival, Anthropos Festival and small retreat spaces such as his own project Sequoia Community , helping to widen the accessibility of flow arts, while providing more opportunities to workshop artists.

Luke has continuously spoken about welfare of artists within the industry, he is primarily focused on strengthening the support and values of community lead events.

Whilst Luke’s focus and energy has not been on social media, the personal success and impact he has made within the industry reflects a different path that he has taken and this experience will be shared at the festival.

As well as helping to support FITF in an organisation role organising the Opening, Gala and Closing shows for , Luke will also be leading a talk on a variety of topics on flow arts career paths, he will be available throughout the festival for any questions anyone has - so do find him if you would like to gain valuable insight into any topic on festivals, events, community wellbeing and leadership and performing as a profession.

26/06/2025

We’re bringing the FULL Fire and Flow Festival experience to the UK in Cambridgeshire this Autumn Equinox – and you won’t want to miss it, it's the first one ever - 40% of tickets have gone!

Expect beginner, intermediate and expert level workshops, crafting spaces, chill-out zones, and meeting some of the kindest, friendliest fire and flow jam communities from all over the U.K and Europe.

Whether you’re just starting your flow journey or are a seasoned spinner, our experienced instructors, entertainment and crew will be there supporting you to achieve your festi goals.

Whether your focus is on prop skills, fire and performer safety, prop making, contemporary dance, movement, costuming, working with programmers, funding, connection, crafting or vibing and exploring the beautiful souls that make up the community that is fire, flow and circus whilst taking some much needed time for yourself chilling in one of the hot tubs or dancing your heart out at one of our music stages - we've got you.

🎪🌀 TICKETS ON SALE NOW - Less than 60% left! 🌀🎪

Join us for 5 days of circus, juggling, flow arts, workshops, shows, and community.

🗓 Thursday 18th – Monday 22nd September 2025
📍 Horseheath, Cambridgeshire
🎟 Tickets: £100 – £320 (depending on how long you come for and if you'd like your ticket to exclude or include food)

Register for your tickets by going to: www.flowintheforest.com/shop

What to expect:

🔥 Fire pit complete with Bard
🎪 24-hour juggling tent & plenty of spaces to play
🧘‍♀️ Workshops All Day, Friday - Sunday
🌀 Fire & Flow Jams with DJ's
🪩 A Music Stage for 3 Days from 3pm till Late
🎭 3 Amazing Shows
🧶 Crafting and Prop Making Space
🎛 Boardgames Area
🎫 Raffle Prizes
🏴‍☠️ Renegade Stage
🛍️ Traders with props, clothing, workshops and more!
🛁 Hot Tubs and Sauna
🎨 Art Installations inc. Fire Sculptures
🎊 A celebration of everything Fire & Flow!

Spaces are limited to 350 tickets – grab your ticket now to be part of the magic and let’s make something amazing together!

25/06/2025

Introducing organiser Kezzla Kevlar - , performer & festival production manager.

Founder & designer of RainbowPot Personalised Products handmade organic crochet clothing designed with movement in mind.

Kezzla has 13 year experience with festival crew & business management. Working in various capacities over those years from market stallholding, flow arts / fibre & yoga workshops, aerial art installations, artist liasion, walkabout & performance artist team lead.

As well as these, Kezzla also contributes to our natural world as an Ecologist & Conservation Researcher by trade. Conducting various aerial tree assessments, primarily for UK Bat surveying. However, bringing all these sustainable passions together she provides aerial rigging for performance & art installations.

Recently finalising a 10 year crew journey with grass roots (formerly Performing Arts festival), Kezzla will now be joining us as Flow in the Forest’s Air element event manager as well as head of Art installation team.

You can find her at the event running fibre arts workshops, clothing & providing dedicated talks related to fire safe costume design. Holding space to discuss Q & A of all things fire spinning fashion related.

If you have any Art Installations you would like to share at the festival, please send enquiries to production@flowintheforest.com - we love to support creative artists and would love to hear from you.