Community Highlights: Meet Dashama Gordon of Flow State Institute & Bright Future Foundation

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dashama Gordon.

Hi Dashama, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
My passion for making a positive impact started at a very young age. I ended up living in foster homes starting in 2nd grade, This shaped a lot of my world view as I experienced so many different families & realized each family needs support & healing, which became the basis of my work with mental health & wellness with Bright Future Foundation & the Children are the Future initiative.

Other things that shaped my purpose driven passion: In elementary school I was selected as part of a small group called VITAL (veterans involve teaching and learning) we got to visit the war veterans each friday to bring them so joy, it was a high light ofmy school experience. Later in high school I fund raised for a cause to help save the red wood forest (they were facing a lot of deforestation at the time). In 2000, the day before my birthday i was hit by a car while riding my bicycle, which damaged my spine causing scoliosis. This lead me to discover the healing path, and through yoga and a few other powerful modalities I was able to heal my spine completely and go on to spread my message of healing, health and happiness to over 100 million people world wide online.

I had an incredible career, starting in 2005 as a yoga teacher and wellness expert I wrote 3 books, produced & starred in 32 DVDs, created theflowstate.app and trained and certified over 1000 yoga teachers and health coaches. As one of the first yoga teachers on youtube, i created a viral movement when I launched the first online yoga challenge “30 day yoga challenge” which i had trade marked. this program impacted millions of people world wide and kick started a global movement or yoga challenges online. Later in 2009 I filmed & released on my youtube channel the first paddle board yoga (or sup yoga ) video online which went viral and also catalyzed a new trend. I was sponsored by Starboard, one of the top 3 board companies, with my own signature like or sup yoga boards, and traveled with them for 5 years leading events, certification trainings and classes world wide, and writing 2 books about it (one is called Yoga for Surfers: Tips, Techniques & Living the Flow State.

I was honored to be inducted into the happiness hall of fame at stanford, spoke at the United Nations for international day of happiness and was featured in WSJ, Vogue, Cosmo & many other media outlets.

In 2020 I created Bright Future foundation, my non profit dedicated to bringing healing health and mental wellness to children in schools, veterans and military families in america.

We launched a line of organic wellness products & gift boxes you can purchase as gifts for your wellness lover friends for the holidays (check our newest products at brightfuture.org )

Last year I had my first baby, Legendary, a week before my 44th birthday. I attribute my strong fertility to over 30 years of practicing what I preach and love to share these health secrets with other women who want to live longer and have higher quality of life and feel more youthful. You can learn more at flowstate.yoga or dashama.com

My next big venture is coming out soon, a TV show and impact project that will change the world so stay connected via social media I’ll be announcing more about it soon. I’m on all social channels @dashama

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I had a lot of struggles along the way. I truly believe our challenges are all essential part of the journey that help us grow and lead us to our highest potential.

Some examples of challenges I faced along my journey, I was involved in numerous car accidents and 3 of them
were nearly fatal. I lost my mother 20 years ago in a tragic fire, but since she lost her mind when I was 7, I always felt like God was my father & mother earth was my mother. I was also connected to other mothers over the years so I learned the love of a mother from many different perspectives.

I was hacked numerous times and had stalkers and people steal from me and all of the crazy stuff that comes with being a popular online creator.

My most recent challenge has been healing from the birth of my baby. I have a new found respect for all moms now after I have experienced how hard it is when I got 4 finger wide diastasis recti, which has been my hardest healing but has taught me a lot about slow and steady wins the race, dedication & reclaiming my strength. So the challenges all have helped me grow in all the best ways.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Flow State Institute & Bright Future Foundation?
Flow State Institute is one of the top yoga & bio hacking wellness schools in the world.

We offer online yoga teacher trainings and other courses in : theflowstate.app.

We have trained over 1000 teachers world wide and after covid we were working with the Purple Heart Foundation and the Dept of Defense to train military spouses with our programs to help bring healing and wellness to the military families and veterans.

Learn more, sign up for our programs and / or get involved at : flowstate.yoga

Our other impact work is via Bright Future Foundation and our Children are the Future initiative dedicated to helping children in schools in America. With our partners including SKY Schools, Choose Love Movement & Kids Yoga Adventure, we are already in 10,000 schools and aiming to impact children and families in all 120,000 schools in usa.

You can learn more, donate, sign up and / or get involved at childfuture.org

Help us raise funds for our programs by finding some unique gifts in our online shop offering special deals and gift boxes with our organic natural wellness products at: brightfuture.org

So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
For our non profit initiatives, children are the future is openly accepting contributions and enrollment for our online courses at childfuture.org and offering special tuition pricing which is 100% tax deductible at childfuture.org

The flow state institute is accepting applications for our online 200/300/500 hour yoga alliance accredited online yoga teacher trainings certification. Learn more and apply today at flowstate.yoga
(mention this article to get 10% off your tuition.

Contact Info:

• Website: brightfuture.org and flowstate.yoga
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/dashama
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/dashama
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/dashama
• Twitter: https://x.com/dashama
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/dashama
• Other: https://dashama.com