The journey to Flow and Throw

A woman working on a pottery wheel in a ceramics studio, shaping a clay piece with her hands.

Mercedes Jaskolka is a ceramic artist and yoga instructor who has experienced, first-hand, the healing power of movement and creativity.

After a childhood marked by trauma, she spent years searching for peace through traditional therapies. It was through embodied practices - clay in her hands and the ancient wisdom of yoga - that she found true transformation. Like clay reshaped on the wheel, she discovered that the mind-body can be softened, reformed, and given a new story.

Flow and Throw® is the weaving together of these practices. In each workshop, we begin with yin yoga to ground the body, calm the nervous system, and release tension. From this place of stillness, we move to the potter’s wheel and connect with the earth through clay. The hands carry memory and emotion, yes, but they can also rewrite our stories. As we work with clay, we see how our inner state shapes our touch, and how our touch shapes what is created.

This is more than a pottery and yoga workshop; it’s a ceremonial journey inward. The process becomes a meditation, an opportunity to let go, to get messy, to feel joy, and to reconnect to the self. Each workshop is both playful and profound; a space where creativity becomes healing, and where participants awaken to their own magic.

Mercedes’ journey informs every session she teaches. Her own hands healed her trauma: pottery gave form to her emotions, while yoga mudras activated healing in her body. She now shares this transformative practice with others, guiding workshops that invite the mind, body, and spirit to reconnect. Through Flow and Throw®, participants explore how softness, presence, and intention transform both art and self, leaving each session restored, inspired, and creatively alive.

Qualifications & Experience

  • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training - Vinyasa – MoreYoga, London, 2025

  • 100hr Yoga Teacher Training - Yin, Nidra, Somatics, Nervous System Regulation - Radical Darshan – Mallorca/London, 2025

  • Assistant on yoga retreat with Amandine Babin - Morocco 2025

  • Currently teaching pottery taster sessions and courses at Ceramics Classes London.

  • Teaching yoga at Lost in Yoga, Oru Space and MoreYoga studios, London.

We’re here to do good

“If it made sense to me, and changed my life, why can’t I share this with others?”

Flow and Throw® is a community interest company, meaning that we engage with charities and community organisations to deliver social impact initiatives.

Every booking made circles back to providing healing for communities in need.

“It didn't feel like we were just moving from pose to pose, it felt like an inner journey. In short, it felt more ceremonial, rather than just another 'class' or exercise. It was the perfect surrender and reset.”

— Testimonial from a participant of a yin yoga class led by Mercedes, 2025