About Flow & Stillness

Flow & Stillness is the integrated expression of everything that has shaped my life, specifically movement, rest, and creativity.

For years I explored these practices separately, building businesses around some, studying others in depth. Flow & Stillness is the first time I’ve brought them together fully, offering a unified approach to living, creating, and moving with integrity and wholeness.

At its heart, Flow & Stillness is a multidisciplinary practice of growth. It blends athletic coaching, intuitive and meditative art, and restorative embodiment practices that are grounded in the rhythms of movement, creation, and renewal.

This is not about choosing one path or perfecting a single skillset. It’s about becoming the most integrated version of yourself through practices that cultivate resilience, presence, joy, and meaning in every dimension of life.

About Kristen

Hi - I’m Kristen Phillips, an artist, cycling coach, yoga and yoga nidra teacher. Flow & Stillness is not just a brand. It is a living practice, the way I move through life, create, and guide others back to their own natural rhythm, resilience, and creative vitality.

For more than two decades, I have woven together movement, mindfulness, and art. These are not separate skills, but interconnected pathways leading to the same center: presence, wholeness, and purposeful living.

Everything I offer, from art journaling to endurance training to meditation, is grounded in one intention: to help people return to themselves, remember their innate wholeness, and create from a place of truth.

Flow & Stillness is the integration of these practices. It is an open invitation to explore your own cycles of movement, creation, and renewal, and to live more deeply connected to the strength and beauty already within you.

Education & Certifications

Academic Background

  • BFA, Visual Communication – Northern Arizona University

  • BA, Art History – Northern Arizona University

  • Wellness Counseling Certificate – Cornell University

  • Advanced Painting & Drawing – Honolulu Academy of Art School

Yoga, Meditation, & Mindfulness Training

  • Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) – Yoga Alliance

  • Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification & Mentorship – Tanis Fishman

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) – Mindfulness & Health Institute

  • Kids Yoga Teacher Training – Workshops with Deven Sisler

  • Extensive Study with Sri Dharma Mittra – Dharma Yoga Center, NYC

Athlete Coaching & Endurance Training

  • TrainingPeaks Level 1 Certified Coach

Note: I was a USA Cycling Certified Coach for many years. While no longer current, that experience shaped my early foundation in structured athlete development. Today, my coaching integrates endurance training with embodiment, recovery, and sustainable performance.

Additional Study & Influences

Artists Who Inspire Me

  • Agnes Martin – breathing stillness into subtle grids and washes

  • Wassily Kandinsky – expressing the soul’s inner life through color and form

  • Hilma af Klint – painting spiritual visions beyond her time

  • Mark Rothko – creating emotional presence through luminous color fields

  • Georgia O’Keeffe – translating the rhythms of nature into powerful, essential forms

Mindfulness & Embodiment

  • Judith Blackstone – embodiment and subtle awareness (The Realization Process)

  • Jon Kabat-Zinn – mindfulness and stress reduction

  • Thich Nhat Hanh – presence and compassion

  • Tara Brach – mindfulness and radical self-acceptance

Personal Growth & Human Behavior

  • Carl Jung – individuation, mandalas, active imagination, and the integration of wholeness

  • Bessel van der Kolk – trauma healing, embodiment, and reclaiming the body’s wisdom

  • Dr. Richard Schwartz – Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Brené Brown – boundaries, vulnerability, and values-based living

  • James Clear – identity-based habit change

Endurance Coaching & Athlete Development

  • Joe Friel – endurance training, periodization, and athlete development

  • Stacy Sims – female physiology and performance

  • Steve Ilg – the original outdoor endurance athlete-yogi

  • Ned Overend

"Beauty is the mystery of life.
It is not in the eye; it is in the mind.
In our minds, there is an awareness of perfection."

— Agnes Martin