Flow Yoga Davao

Hi everyone!
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I can barely believe we are already on the third week of January 2022. While I did not mean to go on a social media break, I did take a study break last December. Our family also traveled for the first time in two years to visit our loved ones in Manila and Cebu, and we just arrived back last week. It feels like I am just slowly waking up to the new year. But happy new year nonetheless, dear readers! 🥂
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Today is also the first full moon of the calendar year. A time of completion, of closures and endings but also the peak of clarity, the fullness of illumination. I would like to take this time to extend gratitude to all my students who have welcomed me on their screens, their hearts, and their transformational journeys this past year. Thank you! 💖
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It is also a wonderful time to celebrate growth. I first encountered yoga back in 2003 and started teaching in 2015. Although my teaching path has changed significantly in recent years, becoming a childbirth educator as well as a prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher. One thing remains constant. Teaching has always been and will always be a process of self-discovery for me.
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I took a Birth Story Listening/Birth Story Medicine course in December, originally planning to proceed with it slowly and only taking part 1. But the impact (on my own experience) so profound and the work so important that I decided to take part 2 immediately. And as I dive deep into another training path this year, I am excited to share it with you.
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There is growth in the slow moments🤎

Flow Yoga Studio’s Prenatal Yoga Series resumes on September 6, Monday.
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I am looking forward to start practicing with our mamas-to-be again. Modern women have much more choice regarding when, or if, they want to conceive children. Still, conception remains to be a mysterious and unpredictable time that has much to do and significant effect on our personal well-being and mental outlook.
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Allow us to guide you through all these changes with a strong and graceful body, a happy heart, and a clear mind.
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Mondays 8:30pm Mindfulness Meditation
Saturdays 9:00am Prenatal Yoga Movement Class
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Php 2,500 (50 US$) for the whole month, which includes access to the class recordings.

Reposting from .t Thank you beautiful mama for sharing your journey with us 💖
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In between migraines & nausea. Trying to catch up with missed @ prenatal yoga sessions. This series is a reminder of how the body benefits from movement & how the mind benefits from stillness.
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Pregnancy is a wonderful time to connect with your body, mind and spirit. Join us for our Prenatal Yoga Series this coming September.

My peace resides within me, I bring it along wherever I go.

Sometimes all we can do during the day is a short, simple stretch on our kitchen counter or by our bedside. Or relaxation means a few deep breaths after a long day in front of our laptops or phones. Every movement counts. Every moment counts ✨ even just a few minutes everyday helps than none at all.

Pregnancy is one of the most profound experiences in a woman’s life. In this one-of-a-kind Prenatal Yoga Series, we want to invite pregnant mothers to make body-, mind-, and soul-care integral parts of their motherhood journey.

Prenatal Yoga Series Weekly Inclusions:
▫ 1 60-minute prenatal yoga class for the BODY
▫ 1 20-minute breath work & relaxation class
▫ Weekly birth affirmations for the MIND
▫ Weekly positive habits for the HEART
▫ 1 20-minute meditation class for the SPIRIT
▫ CONNECTION with other mothers

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During this time of pandemic, we recognize that pregnant mamas may be undergoing additional stress from movement restrictions, ever-changing protocols around birth preparations, and limited face-to-face interactions. We want to hold this safe space, a mother’s circle, for our mothers-to-be to connect and celebrate every moment of motherhood.
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PHP 500 per week (minimum of 4 weeks)
Fee includes access to live classes via zoom and class recordings for a week.

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This series is facilitated by Jeannie Young. Jeannie is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and has studied directly with the founders of Mindful Birth Australia. She is also a certified hatha and vinyasa yoga teacher, including prenatal and postnatal yoga. She brings together her knowledge on childbirth education, movement and somatics, yoga, women’s wellness and mindfulness into her classes. With a strong belief that birth preparation is a holistic journey/process.

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To sign up, please send a direct message to .

If you are completely new to yoga, pregnancy is a wonderful time to experience the benefits of a yoga practice. Embracing openness in the body, deepening the breath and quieting the mind are some of the benefits from a yoga practice. And you just might be surprised, when it becomes a lifelong and constant practice. ✨ photo by

If you’ve been practicing yoga for a while, you might know that it can be helpful in navigating the joys and challenges associated with pregnancy. Pregnancy is a good time to experience the benefits of yoga. Our prenatal yoga series blends yoga postures, relaxation techniques and meditation. ✨ Artwork by

Yoga is an ancient system that can help bring health and a feeling of lightness into every level of your being — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Approaching the birth of a baby is a wonderful time to start. 💗

When we take time to be with ourselves, meet ourselves where we are, and nurture ourselves, we allow ourselves to BLOOM!
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Thank you to the beautiful mamas-to-be 🤰🏻 who joined me this morning in breath work & meditation, for allowing me to hold this safe and healing space. For sharing your pregnancy journey with me. 💖
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Yoga Foundation Series with Jeannie Young, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 7:30 am // Learn how to move lightly, safely, and sustainably in our Yoga Foundations classes. We build on skills and awareness so that we may practice and flow with ease and grace.

You are beautiful. You are worthy. You are enough. 🤍

Healing is not a linear process. The path to wellness is different for everybody — but we believe that everyone can heal! Photo from:

Pregnancy is one of the most profound experiences in a woman’s life. In this one-of-a-kind Prenatal Yoga Series, we want to invite pregnant mothers to make body-, mind-, and soul-care integral parts of their motherhood journey.

Prenatal Yoga Series Weekly Inclusions:
▫ 1 60-minute prenatal yoga class for the BODY
▫ 1 20-minute breath work & relaxation class
▫ Weekly birth affirmations for the MIND
▫ Weekly positive habits for the HEART
▫ 1 20-minute meditation class for the SPIRIT
▫ CONNECTION with other mothers

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During this time of pandemic, we recognize that pregnant mamas may be undergoing additional stress from movement restrictions, ever-changing protocols around birth preparations, and limited face-to-face interactions.

PHP 500 per week (minimum of 4 weeks)
Fee includes access to live classes via zoom and class recordings for a week.

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This series is facilitated by Jeannie Young. Jeannie is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and has studied directly with the founders of Mindful Birth Australia. She is also a certified hatha and vinyasa yoga teacher, including prenatal and postnatal yoga. She brings together her knowledge on childbirth education, movement and somatics, yoga, women’s wellness and mindfulness into her classes. With a strong belief that birth preparation is a holistic journey/process.

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To sign up, please send a direct message to .

The essence of yoga is about relationship, and nowhere is this more true than during pregnancy, when your life is in every sense joined to your baby’s.
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Bloom: Prenatal Yoga Series🤰🏻
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Designed with purpose to introduce accessible methods to holistically prepare for pregnancy and birth. We hope to inspire pregnant mamas to make SELF-CARE, BODY CARE, MIND CARE and SOUL CARE integral parts of their motherhood journey. This is not your ordinary prenatal yoga package. 💗

Breath techniques, nervous system regulation, relaxation tools, movement and stillness. 💗 These are all ways we can step consciously into our motherhood journey.
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Connect to your body, your baby, as well as ease discomforts and reduce stress levels in Flow Yoga’s Prenatal Yoga Series.

Hey mamas-to-be,
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We are excited to announce our prenatal yoga series is back. 🤰🏻
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This class is designed to support you as you go through the changes that come with pregnancy. Connect with your baby, your body, and your breath in this online series with certified prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Jeannie Young.

Move lightly. Challenge yourself to move lightly 🤍 regardless if it’s a power yoga class or a gentle flow. In every moment, in every posture and every in-between pose, whether it’s a standing pose, seated pose or even an inversion. Meet every breath and moment on your mat (and in life really) with equanimity.

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CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT
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Dynamic Flow, a powerful vinyasa class amplifying our connection to the breath. Move with us!
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14 January 2021
Thursday
5 to 6 PM (GMT+8)
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Php 100 energy exchange. Please send us a message for the zoom link.
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Happy new year! For some of us the new year is a time of fresh starts, while for some of us, it is like any other day. As we enter the first work week of 2021, I would like to offer a short weekend workshop/practice that hopefully meets you where you are.
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Everything that we do can be a ritual, or sacred, or special — depending on what we endow it with. This Saturday, January 9, I invite you to ✨PRACTICE RADIANCE ✨ at 9:00 am Philippine time (GMT +8).
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Using yoga asana (postures), simple breath work, meditation and journalling/contemplation to explore and EMBODY RADIANCE. Send me a message to sign up.
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Hello 2021 ✨

Day 2 of Holiday Companion Retreat with was all about exploring Reciprocity. Perhaps one of the reasons I gravitate towards this particular style of yoga and also mindfulness meditation (there are many different styles of movement and meditation! It’s nice to try and see which style suits you), is that I really resonate with being given a space that supports my own awareness. To receive what IS and not what could be, or should be.
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In these classes, it is very rare for the teacher to say “you are now relaxed” as opposed to an exploration or witnessing of how you are really feeling in your own body, in your own breath. It seems simple or may sound like it’s just a matter of languaging, but to me it’s such a huge difference to have agency over your own body, mind, breath. The teacher acting only as a guide, a facilitator and the student a co-equal facilitator/explorer.
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So that we get to have a direct conversation with this instrument, this body we live in. Tuning in, listening. It’s not someone telling you what to do or what to feel.
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How amazing it is to use your own awareness to show yourself your own strength (and weaknesses/shadows) and meet them with equanimity. So that you meet yourSelf in wholeness. 🤍

Yesterday in the welcome circle of the 5-day retreat I am doing with my teacher Tara Judelle, we shared our intentions for joining. I’ve never been one to write down new year’s resolutions or mark significant dates to begin something new. (I do not even remember when I started practicing yoga, but I can vividly remember how it felt after that first class). This year has felt to me like going with the flow yet often times being swept away in the flow. I wholeheartedly accept the invitation to use the next few days as a touchstone to relearn this body-mind connection, ! Not to let these seemingly ordinary days (do you also sometimes feel this way about these days between christmas and new year?) slip by without intention, ritual, and gratitude. As always, I come to these collective spaces/gatherings with my own intentions, but come away with so much more. Here’s to embodying joy, clarity, freedom and creativity 🤍

Endless possibilities await ✨

Shapes and patterns of nature ~ the spiral of this shell ~ beautiful, complex, organic all at the same time.
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And just like nature, our body is a beautiful and intelligent vessel. How are you honoring this magnificent vessel today?
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