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@shivarea108

Shiva Rea was the founder and catalyst of the Global Mala Project. Searching to understand the origins of her name—given by her surfer and artist father—Shiva began exploring yoga at 14 years old.

Shiva Rea learned Krishnamacharya lineage, tantra, ayurveda, bhakti, kalaripayattu, world dance, yoga art, and somatic movement to help her gain a better understanding of her consciousness. Her studies in these fields have aided her approach in living yoga and fully embodying the flow in her lifestyle. She is now the leading teacher of Prana Vinyasa Flow Yoga and Yoga Trance Dance worldwide.

@joyoga7

Best life advocate Zimbabwean-born Joyce mahlatini teaches yoga and dance to both adults and children.

Afro Yoga is an open level flow class moving to music from African artists.

@mindbodydona

Dona’s purpose is simple: to live and love fully, fiercely, unapologetically. She inspires people to awaken through their bodies, helps them fall in love with themselves again, and guides people in conceiving and giving birth to an expanded version of themselves filled with spice, depth, and juiciness. She does these through Embodiment practices, Energy Management, and advocating an approach to Women’s Wellbeing that honors the feminine energy cycle which she shares extensively in both live and online platforms across Asia Pacific and Europe.

@seethelight.bethelight

Sara Black is a long time Wellness advocate that believes in Mindful Living and Sustainability. She is also a mother and an entrepreneur, creative force, visual artist, and commercial photographer. Sara is creating balance and harmony out of a quintessential modern multi-faceted lifestyle, taking spiritual wisdom and infusing it into everyday living, making it accessible to all.

Her areas of expertise are Meditation & Mindfulness, Yoga, Integrating Body-Mind-Spirit facets of Wellness, Workshops, Retreats, and Training Programs.

@pyewackit

Pye Trinidad has been teaching yoga since 2005.  She has been fortunate to have been given the opportunity to share this amazing practice in Manila, Victoria BC, Shanghai and Hong Kong to a diverse group of students from all around the world.  It is her hope that her students experience yoga’s profound transformative effects so that they may enrich their own lives and the lives of those around them.  Currently, she is currently working on completing her Yoga Therapy training while taking care of her two zany boys.

@littleyoginisurfs

Aisa is a mother, yoga teacher trainer, Functional Anatomy teacher, surfer, diver and jiujiteira, based in Manila. Having shared the practice for a decade and change, she aims to inspire her students, not only to move mindfully, with purpose and intention, but also to allow for Asana to be a tool for healing, recovery and longevity. When she isn't traveling around South East Asia to teach, she spends her time in the city, sharing yoga therapeutically to athletes and the elderly, specifically to those experiencing joint dysfunction and pain.

Aisa believes that movement is medicine, that her son and puppies are her life, and that you are, indeed, what you eat.

@willyogasurf

Will remains true to the traditional practice of yoga – bringing harmony to the body and mind through the breath. As a lifetime student, he believes that while physical practice is important, we shouldn’t let the asana, or poses, distract us from finding peace and acceptance within. He believes that yoga is a lifetime journey that goes beyond the physical body and into the realm of the honest self. With Will's light-heartedness and genuine love for sharing from his experience, he hopes to help people connect their physical practice to a genuine understanding of themselves and the world around them, bringing balance and peace into their everyday lives.

@mywellnessph

Christina is a deeply passionate Health & Wellness Coach, Yoga Teacher, and well-being advocate. Looking at health in a holistic way, Christina incorporates aspects from a variety of different modalities: functional movement yoga, mindfulness, myofascial release and Integrative Nutrition in a customized way to help mentor her clients to achieve a healthier lifestyle. Her goal is to help guide and support the development of and progress towards the overall personal wellness goals of her clients.

@assyriansage

Troy is a writer with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Creative Director and co-founder of Kurrent Multimedia Productions, and an RYT 500 member of Yoga Alliance, having studied under Sarah Bell and Joan Hyman through Urban Ashram Yoga, School of Yoga, where he is also a teacher. Always on a journey inward, he uses his classes, lectures and workshops to empower, evolve, heal and uplift.

@gelie.delapena

Gelie is the founder and head teacher of Pranalaya Yoga & Wellness in Baguio City. Growing up with a love for mindful movement, she has been sharing the gift of yoga and meditation to her local community in Baguio since 2015. She is also the lead trainor of Pranalaya Yoga's 200-hour Teacher Training.

@groove.and.flow

David is a Level 2 Certified Animal Flow Instructor, and Yoga Teacher. He has participated in yoga and movement festivals and conferences around Asia, performing as a musician and learning to practice a range of movement and meditation modalities. Animal Flow allows David to share a fun exploration of elements of developmental movement, calisthenics, and mobility.

@riannayoga

Rianna Gatus has been teaching yoga for more than ten years. She teaches intuitive yoga classes that provide philosophy through physicality in order to create an experience that brings people back to themselves. Her vision is a world with more yoga because everybody deserves it.

@francescaregala

Francesca is a Wellness Advocate and Yoga Teacher with over 20+ years of experience and has been teaching yoga as an integrative path through breath, movement, yoga philosophy, and meditation for the past 16 years.

As the Co-Founder of Roots of Wisdom, she is inspired to create platforms, host events, facilitate workshops, wellness retreats and journeys to sacred sites that will help support women connect with the inherent intuition and wisdom they hold within.

@leegrane_official

Lee Grane is an Artist, Singer-Songwriter, Conscious Music Creator, Nad Yoga Practitioner and an advocate for Women's Empowerment, whose love for music sparked the curiosity to learn its healing essence and share it with others. She creates Conscious Music and is advocating for a movement that uses the Power of Music as A Tool For Peace & Change.

@movementinplay

Tech team and tort mom

Bianca Bagos

@bagosii

Bianca is a dreamer, movement enthusiast, and a yoga teacher for kids and adults. She fell in love with the practice the moment she took her first class sometime in 2012. Since then, she’s able to navigate through life’s highs and lows, with great help from lessons learned on the mat. Her ultimate goal is to be able to share with her students how the practice of yoga can be confronting, challenging, but at the same time, be an accessible avenue for comfort and healing.

monina sanchez

@moninamoves

Monina is a yoga practitioner, a yoga teacher, and a constant knowledge seeker. She believes in making yoga an accessible, sustainable, and exploratory practice for everyone, and approaches her classes by weaving yoga philosophy and modern movement practices to adjust to the needs of her students. Her practice and teaching consist of fast, slow, and still practices: explorative flows, restorative practices, pranayama, and meditation. 

Monina aspires to be a scholar of yoga and an Accessible Yoga teacher, someday!

pamae pineda

@pamaepineda

Pamae is a certified yoga teacher and has been teaching Ashtanga yoga for a year now. A movement enthusiast who always craves for new ways to move. Off the mat, Pamae is a Certified Public Accountant and loves spending time doing macrame projects.

pia puno

@createflowph

Pia is a certified yoga teacher with over 500 hours of certification and continued education. She has been teaching for 4 years, and is currently guiding online public classes for teaching collectives Movement in Play and Align and Refine Yoga, as well as private sessions for her personal brand, Create Flow.

@eatorrado

With grounding and generous energy, and tenderness to match her power, Ea Torrado is an energy healer who guides people into accessing their inner truth, and a higher, more conscious version of themselves through her sessions. She delivers a wide range of integrative healing modalities, including reiki, tarot and oracle card readings, mindfulness meditation and somatic-based movement.

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Mini Gavino is a senior facilitator-artist-educator of GINHAWA, Inc. whose thrust is integrating creativity, spirituality and well-being.

GINHAWA, over the last 20 years has conducted programs for wellbeing, growth and integration that are spiritually inclusive and culturally affirming for individual and institutions, including private companies, government agencies, schools, NGO’s, faith-based groups, LGU’s.

As a program associate of GINHAWA, Inc. for over a decade, Mini has developed and continues to co-develop sessions and programs on sound-movement and healing, expressive arts and self-care, creativity and culture, sacred spaces, eco-spirituality & rituals, and other eco-sensitive team processes to various groups.

@ljnavera

LJ Navera is the Resident Sound Healer of The Farm at San Benito,  a multi-platform artist, craftsman, multi-instrumentalist, mental health awareness advocate, substance abuse awareness advocate, a professional tattoo artist, and was once a facilitator at Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center. He had been in recovery with depression for twenty five years. 

LJ believes that we are to cope, survive, and evolve and be in service to others. He has been sharing his modalities which include sound and art.

@soundhealer_yeyette

Yeyette is one of the sound healing pioneers in the Philippines. A sound healer since 2010, she uses her voice to connect with the Divine and send healing. Through her gifts in playing crystal singing bowls and Spirit Singing, she allows the Spirit to bring out a song as she sends healing vibrations. She also has attended the 9-day Healing Sounds Intensive Program of Master Sound Healer Jonathan Goldman in Colorado USA in 2016.

sumukhidevi.com

Sumukhi Kristina Lanuza has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. For the Giobal Mala Project, Manila she is excited to share Sanskrit chants for healing and elevation Her most recent offerings have been YTTs, meditation, mantra and Sanskrit chanting. Her teachers include Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati and Amma Sri Karunamayi. For more information

@premyertamayo

Since 2013, Prem has taught the HIIT Pilates method all over the world, introducing it to Australia, New Zealand and in 2017, the Philippines.

This 45-min full body pilates-based workout is designed to strengthen and sculpt your body as it addresses different aspects of fitness such as strength, cardiovascular endurance, mobility, flexibility and balance. This low impact, high intensity workout is open to all fitness levels. No weights or shoes needed, just a mat, a towel and water.

@kaifarmsph

Karla brings people care and planet care to the heart of their initiatives at Kai Farms. Making life healed, whole and green. Kai Farms manifests an abundance of wellness for all through healing retreats and seminars, permaculture farming, seed saving and sharing, grow your own food workshops, gut health talks, food demos and tastings.

@i_dren_artstrong

Artstrong is an international Reggae artist, performer, musician, producer, deejay and sound engineer

@elleadda

French Filipina multi-disciplined artist, triathlete, producer, and motivational speaker.

Elle produces creative and inspirational content for behavioral health-such as Metro Channel's new show, BORN FOR THIS, where she conducts immersive- transformational workshops set in the natural sceneries of their active-health retreat center in Puerto Galera.

In order to support national impact alongside MIND YOU, Elle created the Fuel to Flourish Organization, a global collective of diverse health practitioners collaborating in order to provide educational awareness, social support, and inspire a culture of communities that take ownership of their lives by taking ownership of their health.

@rocketyogaphilippines

Rocket Yoga PH is the Philippine community of those who practice the Rocket Vinyasa Yoga sequence as taught by its founder, Larry Schultz. Led by teachers Bry Reyes and Shiela Matias, the community has been growing since 2016.

Bry Reyes

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Bry has been practicing since 2013, and teaching since 2015. She loves the Rocket, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Yin. Because of her yoga practice, Bry became more loving towards her body, mind, and spirit. She wants to share joyful experiences in her classes by helping students let go of limiting beliefs about their own capabilities, and find that they too are strong and able to do amazing things.

Shiela Matias

Bry has been practicing since 2013, and teaching since 2015. She loves the Rocket, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Yin. Because of her yoga practice, Bry became more loving towards her body, mind, and spirit. She wants to share joyful experiences in her classes by helping students let go of limiting beliefs about their own capabilities, and find that they too are strong and able to do amazing things.

@agos.soundbath

Citadel Muñoz-Cruz believes that healing starts with the self. She started her healing journey with learning Reiki and became a Level 2 practitioner in 2016 in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, she expanded into Sound healing using Crystal singing bowls and other instruments. She became certified in 2018 in Singapore.

She loves nature and uses photography to capture those precious moments. She is also a Baybayin teacher, she teaches the ancient Filipino writing system to help Filipinos reconnect with our ancestry, as well as to the Spanish to appreciate our ancient culture. She is currently living in Madrid, Spain with her husband and three daughters.

@francis.flaviano

Francois' unique style of teaching combines the tradition and science of classical hatha yoga putting emphasis on proper breathing, intention and devotion. He completed his post graduate degree in yoga science from Kaivalyadhama Yoga Research Institute, India and Raja di Raja Yoga from Ananda Marga Special Academic Institute. Today, he teaches the tradition as handed down to him by his teachers in the purest and undiluted form applicable to the modern man.

@markerbel

Mark Domingo is a yoga teacher teaching private progressive yoga, trained under Yogaworks and Align and Refine Yoga. His background in technology allowed him to pivot early at the start of the pandemic to teach yoga online.

@gingerdiaz

Ginger took her took her first yoga teacher training in Hawaii and became a certified Bikram yoga instructor in 2007. She has then founded Evolve Yoga and Fitness in 2010, and furthered her knowledge in yoga in Hong Kong in 2015.

Seeing the progress she has made in her personal fitness journey, Ginger immersed herself and trained with Inferno Hot Pilates amidst the pandemic last year. Her IHP classes promise a full body workout, and are challenging, dynamic, and most of all, fun! She is a big believer in leading by example, and strives for her students to have an overall sense of wellness, control, and empowerment on, and more importantly - off the the mat.