CEO & Founder
Stephon J. Bradberry is building the infrastructure of liberation— through FlowWell Yoga + Wellness and the Black Folx Wellness Collective.
FlowWell Yoga + Wellness is a community-first wellness ecosystem bringing justice-centered yoga, teacher trainings, large-format events, and VR-integrated practice to Washington, D.C. and beyond. With partnerships at Audi Field, Eaton Wellness, and institutions across the city, FlowWell is rewriting what a wellness organization can look and feel like.
FlowWell Yoga + Wellness
Kripalu Center for Yoga + Health
Yoga Alliance
The Honey Pot Company
Washington City Paper (Best Yoga Teacher Finalist)
The Kettering
Foundation
Audi Field
Black Folx Wellness Collective
The Black Folx Wellness Collective creates space for Black folxs to be well — through free and low-cost programming that nurtures the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our ever-growing community. Weekly yoga, book clubs, meditation, community gatherings. Justice as wellness. Healing as resistance.
"Stephon's practice and pedagogy are deeply aligned with the foundational principles of the Social Impact department and mission of the Kennedy Center... Stephon's work advances those principles, and it is because of that, in addition to his mastery in the practice of yoga, that I would highly recommend his services to any organization or team in search of the same impact.”
— Trés, Kennedy CenterBuilding at the Intersection of Power and Healing
Before building FlowWell, Stephon spent a decade shaping how institutions communicate about justice — from the halls of Congress to city government violence intervention strategy to national political campaigns. That background lives inside every organization he builds: the ability to hold a vision, craft a narrative, and move people toward something new.
Writing + Creative Work
I write fiction, essays, and speeches that explore tradition, faith, grief, and the architecture of American life.
Set in a haunting corner of mid-century Texas, my forthcoming novel Whisper Park, follows the powerful Williams family as the confront heartbreak, legacy, and rebellion.
A Note of Welcome:
It warms me to know you’ve brought your great heart to this here place. My name is Stephon and at my core I am a beloved believer bound to the belief we have the power to free ourselves.
In 1987, Toni Morrison published Beloved, her Noble Prize winning novel. Inviting us into the world of Sethe, Denver, Paul D, Baby Suggs, holy, and the ghost of a dead child called Beloved. Inside the twist and caverns of her language, Toni illustrated the power of written word to transform and ignite the soul. As the novel unfolds lays one of the greatest sermons ever written delivered by Baby Suggs, holy, grandmother of Beloved, mother-in-law to Sethe.
As warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every Black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great hear to the Clearing— a wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what at the end of the path…
Discovering the pulpit withheld from Nanny in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Baby Suggs, holy, called all those great hearts to love their flesh as no where “out there” truly loved it. She didn’t call these great hearts the meek of the earth or its glory bound pure, in every sense, she created space for them to be and become— to stand in the fullness of whomever we are.
Everyday, I’m endeavoring to expand the Clearing, to create space for all to be and become. Across this platform, you’ll find all the ways i’m imagining and working towards a world not yet. I hope you join me.
“I believe through our showing up for life we must decide to Live Well, to do the nessecary work of being and becoming; of creating a world where all people can be free, healed, and whole.”
