A flow journal is a place to record the progress in ones flow practice. As a measure of what one has experienced through time, practitioners can take notes, ponder questions, consider ideas, record breakthroughs, and collect a history of their experience.

The Temple of Poi recommends students use a flow journal for a variety of reasons. First, the journal provides a historic record of our experience, allowing us to measure our progress through time by comparing where we currently are to where we have been. Second, as we learn more, we have more to forget. A flow journal affords us a place to look things up so we can go back and study what we did a week, a month, a year or even a decade ago. Third, when students attend classes, the concepts aren't always understood fully in the moment. A journal allows students the opportunity to take notes which they can then go back to later to deepen their understanding of the material.

Because journals allow practitioners a way of recording knowledge that may be beyond their skill in the moment but appropriate in a few weeks, their education becomes more expansive. Rather than just learning a move, the material expands to include exercises, drills and practices that help teach similar moves so students learn far more from one class than what they are able to remember, understand or perform in the moment.