Ormond Resident hopes to make a difference with yoga line


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After celebrating the one year anniversary of her yoga clothing Twin Flame, Brittny Lowe is on fire for her future.

Yoga saved Brittny Lowe’s life.

Growing up with a single mom and dad who was in and out of jail, Lowe was often seeking inner peace. She finally found it at We Are Yoga in Ormond Beach.

“Inside those walls I found myself,” said Lowe, now a certified yoga instructor. “That was when I truly made the decision to follow the journey with yoga.”

Her journey led her to India, a solo trip she took to volunteer at an orphanage for mentally ill children.

“I just wanted to go,” Lowe said. “I wanted to experience where yoga originated. It really humbled me to see that there is so much more out there than what we know.”

After returning from her excursion, Lowe moved to North Carolina where she taught herself how to screen print, and realized she wanted to make shirts. Her brand, Twin Flame, is a spiritual concept of the ultimate love, meaning that there are two halves to a whole that complete each other in every way.

“I want to do something that gives back,” Lowe said. “My ultimate goal is to help others. My idea with this brand is to fund a nonprofit.”

The 26-year-old wants to create a nonprofit organization that helps children of the incarcerated have an outlet so they don’t become victims of their situation. Lowe’s dad is currently serving a life sentence after he got into an accident drunk driving and took the lives of three people.

“My dad is incarcerated and I have two little brothers,” Lowe said. “You hear about it in the news but it does happen to people close to you. This happened when I was 19, but it wasn’t his first time in prison. Growing up, I was just sad, and I wanted to know why my dad couldn’t be normal. I want to be able to give that support, and show kids that you can still be your own person and not let that keep you down.”

Having yoga as her outlet of self-expression and awareness really helped her get through her family’s hard times. She said it’s the reason why she is so attached to the exercise.

“It really helped me to learn to let go,” Lowe said. “I’m trying to live a positive, meaningful life and not give energy to negative things. That’s what I want Twin Flame to be, just the wings over this little baby that I want to create to give back.”

Lowe relies almost completely on herself for her business and she draws all of the designs on her products by hand. And she says that everything she prints, she means.

“When I have a shirt that says ‘free spirit,’ that’s what it means,” Lowe said. “I genuinely mean all the things I print and produce. And it comes from someone that’s been through it. We all have a story. So what I’m trying to create is something that’s going to stick with you and mean something to you.”

Currently, Twin Flame is only available online at her Etsy store Twin Flame Yoga Love or at Platinum Yoga, where Lowe is also a yoga instructor. Lowe is hoping to put together an event with Frame of Mine this December. Visit her site at http://www.twinflameyogalove.com/.

 

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