Flow Temple
Educational and ecommerce platform combining digital learning, physical products, marketing automation, and AI-assisted learning experiments.
Current Flow Temple platform combining ecommerce, educational content, and ongoing AI-assisted learning experiments.
Overview
Flow Temple serves as both a learning project and a hands-on environment where I can design, build, operate, and continuously refine a real-world platform.
It began as a personal exploration centered around moxibustion and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
What started as a way to organize my own learning gradually evolved into a broader experiment in digital education, ecommerce, content creation, and AI-assisted learning tools.
Today the platform combines educational content, physical products, marketing workflows, and ongoing experiments in AI-assisted learning.
Why I Built It
Over the years I became interested in a range of practices including yoga, meditation, massage, movement, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Rather than keeping these interests scattered across books, courses, and notebooks, I wanted a place to organize what I was learning and experiment with different ways of sharing it.
Flow Temple became that space.
One motivation was the observation that while acupuncture is widely recognized, moxibustion remains relatively unknown despite being part of the same tradition.
Core Question
How can traditional knowledge be shared online without losing the depth, context, and practical experience that make it valuable?
How It Works
Key Components
Educational Content
Creating educational resources around moxibustion, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and related topics.
Ecommerce
Operating a small ecommerce system combining physical products with educational material and digital content.
AI-Assisted Learning
Exploring conversational AI interfaces that help users navigate unfamiliar concepts, points, and treatment approaches.
- Status: In development (Moxa Point Finder).
Platform Operations
Flow Temple is not just content. The project includes:
- Ecommerce operations
- Product fulfillment
- Course delivery
- Newsletter infrastructure
- Marketing automation
- User onboarding
- Analytics and optimization
Current Status
Flow Temple currently operates as a small educational and ecommerce platform focused on moxibustion.
The platform serves as an ongoing environment for experimenting with course delivery, product sales, marketing automation, AI-assisted learning tools, and digital experiences around topics I find interesting.
Future directions may include additional educational content, workshops, AI learning tools, and practice-based experiences.
Lessons Learned
Building a website is relatively easy.
Building trust around unfamiliar topics is much harder.
The technical platform evolved repeatedly over time, but the central challenge remained unchanged: helping people engage with ideas they may never have encountered before.
Flow Temple demonstrated that educational content, physical products, and digital tools can support one another, but only when the underlying knowledge remains useful and credible.
Technology Stack
Core Platform
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- BeTheme
- Elementor
Education
- LearnPress
- LearnPress Addons
Marketing & Retention
- Mailchimp
- Lead Magnets
- Email Sequences
- Newsletter Automation
Infrastructure
- Cloudflare
- LiteSpeed Cache
- Wordfence Security
- Hostinger
SEO & Growth
- Rank Math SEO
- Google Merchant Integration
- Product Feed Management
AI & Automation
- Gemini
- Claude
- GPT Models
- Moxa Point Finder