A Chapel That Became a Place of Practice
Inner Flow Yoga began not with a business plan but with a building — and the feeling that something quiet and important had been waiting inside its walls for a very long time.
How a Derelict Chapel Became Ghent's Most Beloved Yoga Studio
In 2019, founder Lien Vanden Broeck — a Ghent-born yoga teacher who had spent seven years practising and training in Mysore, Bali, and London — returned home and found Kapelstraat 15 standing empty, its stained-glass windows cracked and its oak floorboards buried under years of dust. She saw immediately what it could become. Two years of careful restoration later, Inner Flow Yoga opened its doors with a single evening yin class and seventeen students sitting in a circle on borrowed blankets. The chapel's nave now holds forty practitioners at capacity. The circle, in spirit, remains the same size.
Practice Rooted in Lineage, Open to Everyone
Inner Flow draws from classical Hatha and Ashtanga lineages while remaining thoroughly contemporary in its approach to accessibility, trauma-awareness, and community. We teach yoga as a complete practice — not just a physical one — without being precious or preachy about it. Our instructors hold certifications from Yoga Alliance, the British Wheel of Yoga, and the Minded Institute, and every one of them has a practice that predates their teaching career by years.
The Space Itself Is Part of the Practice
The chapel was built in 1887 and the restoration deliberately preserved its sacred geometry — the proportions of the nave, the height of the vaulted ceiling, the rhythm of the arched windows. These architectural qualities do something to the body and the breath that no purpose-built studio can replicate. Natural light moves through the space from east to west over the course of a day. In winter, the room is warm with candlelight. In summer, the stone walls hold the cool. Students often describe their first visit as feeling like coming home to somewhere they've never been.
What Our Community Says
“I've practised in studios across Europe and what Lien has created at Inner Flow is genuinely rare — it has the calibre of a London or Amsterdam studio with the warmth of a neighbourhood community centre. The Sunday donation sessions are proof that their values are real, not just marketing.”
“As someone who trained under Lien for the 200hr program, I can say the depth of her knowledge and the care she puts into her teachers is extraordinary. She doesn't just produce yoga instructors — she produces thoughtful, grounded human beings who happen to teach yoga.”
“The breathwork session I attended during a particularly dark January genuinely shifted something for me. The setting inside that old chapel — the height of the ceiling, the silence — made the experience feel archetypal somehow. I still think about it months later.”
Come and Feel It for Yourself
Words only go so far. The chapel, the practice, and the community are all waiting — and Sunday's donation session requires nothing from you except showing up.