Bea Gomez - Dey

Fast forward to May 🌾
Collaboration is key in making yoga available and accessible for more communities.

Today hit different.🌺

40+ Cabalens from Kapampangan Yogis came together to practice 108 Salutations - i had the honor to assist, adjust and teach. To again be able to physically be with a community is in many ways enriching as it is humbling.

Thank you, Oro Yoga Wellness The Yoga Playroom Dina Frias Zulueta Movement Space and the entire community for welcoming me with so much trust and generosity.

Looking forward to more collaboration and community practices with you 🙏🇵🇭

HIITYoga is hitting Pampanga 💫💦💫

The yoga studio always feels like home 🏕

Ive spent more than 10years of my life practicing and teaching in yoga studios - i practically grew up here. I lived many new beginnings and ends, Ive been broken and rebuilt - with many yoga studios as my witnesses.🌈

This 2024, I am welcomed in my hometown by the Kapampangan yoga community with much love and respect - one of the many surprises of coming back to my roots.

Thank you Oro Yoga Wellness The Yoga Playroom for my first studio classes of 2024. See you soon, The Movement Space and Village Yoga 🫶

Over the past 3years, perspective and teaching on hands on adjustments have changed. With great consideration for informed consent, trauma and injury - we've gone from high-contact and skin to skin, to minimal or no touch assists.

Personally, I love giving and receiving manual (high-touch) assists. These make me feel loved and seen during class. As a teacher, I used to "man handle" my students into their binds, squish them with the weight of my body in forward folds.

It comes with a big caveat: as a teacher, it is incumbent upon us to know anatomy and kinetics (not just shapes and asana prescriptions).

Secondly, we come into assists with an intention to lead the student into their own exploration of the practice - NOT pushing them, NOT forcing the shape, NOT to insist on our own way to get into the pose, NOT to assume we know our students bodies' limits more than they do.

Lastly, put every touch in the context of our own humble service (rather than proud "guru" complex ie I know better, let me show you) and compassion (rather than high-powered productivity ie "achieve" this pose to progress in your practice.

What're your thoughts on manual assists and adjustments?

The yoga studio always feels like home 🙏
There's always a magical feeling being a witness to my students' yoga journey - the wonder in their eyes, the discovery in their bodies, the brightness of their energy. Being able to guide you through the holistic process of yoga is not only a heavy responsibility, but also a true honor. 🙏

Teaching around Pampanga this month:
Mondays, 6pm The Yoga Playroom Angeles City
Thursday, 8.30am Oro Yoga Wellness

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Learning is a lifelong process for all yoga teachers. 🪷
Thanks to our partners at Oro Yoga Wellness , a face to face continuing education program is now open! ✨️

Join me this March in Mabalacat, Pampanga - its a very smooth 1.5hr drive away from Manila and the studio is very close to the toll exit. 🙏

Register via Oro Yoga Wellness or send me a DM here.

How do we learn to teach with credibility, integrity and confidence. ✨️
If you're looking to accelerate your development as a Yoga teacher - this continuing education program is built around listening to your own voice, supporting your goals and building an ecosystem around you. 🪷

Let's hop on a quick chat or call to get to know each other more 📲

Everybody has a Day 1. 🪷
This was mine as a Yoga teacher - taken a few days before we officially graduated from our RYT200 I Go Beyond Yoga with our teacher-trainers, Anna Carbonnel and Clayton Horton. We were all on a yoga-high, and were so lucky to have had a circle of mentors, friends and a studio to support our teaching dreams.

I couldn't have imagined that over a decade later, I wouldve co-facilitated the studios several Teacher trainings for BeyondYoga with my own teacher Anna. I continue to be inspired by my batchmates as they shine and trailblaze in their own paths.

What'a your Day 1 like?

Why is this Mentoring program unique? 🌺
The question is: is it meant for you? 🙏

Which one is Yoga? 🧐

Louder for the yogis at the back 💫

Yogis in the Philippines, especially teachers like myself, can make ourselves heard MORE - so that more people can know, understand and practice Yoga. Here's what I mean:

Yoga is such a "hype" nowadays because the circumstances of the past 3years have proven both its accessibility and effectivity.

Covid has taught us how important overall health is, especially our respiratory health and we learned the value of our breath. Lockdowns have proven that movement contributes to the sustainability of our healthy lifestyle and that yoga can be helpful in maintaining that. Isolation and social distancing has given us an appreciation of silence, solitude and internalization - including meditation and mindfulness.
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Yes, advocate for the mobility and flexibility related to the asana practice of Yoga.
Yes, advocate for the relaxation and ultimately, peace, that comes as a result of meditation and mindfulness.
Yes, advocate for the kindness and empathy that is inevitable in the practice of the values of ahimsa and brahmacharya.
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Here's where I think we, as advocates get it wrong: WE STOP THERE. We become so attached and invested in the "good", the "love and light", and the "positive" of Yoga - all of which are true, but are also PRODUCTS OF A PRACTICE. We, as advocates and especially teachers, can be "on a high" because our confidence is boosted by positive reinforcement. Maybe also because its only these positive end goals that bring the students and the opportunities in.

What I mean is:
Also, be loud enough to be heard when advocating for the struggle and discipline of daily practice and lifestyle changes.
Also, be clear enough to be understood when teaching about asana that is difficult but not painful.
Also, be humble enough to admit you are not always a teacher. Rather always, a student.

Enhance your teaching practice for the new year ahead ✨️
Message me for further details or email [email protected]

This Mentorship Program is curated for Yoga teachers with less than 5yrs of experience who have a commitment to:

📿Deepen your understanding of Yoga Philosophy and how it applies to practical life.

📑Expand your teaching vocabulary and refine your scripts.

🌈Build creativity and efficiency in your Vinyasa asana sequences.

🤝Confidently give hands-on assists during face to face classes.

🩺 Learn the science behind Yoga for Holistic health and wellness.

📸Redefine your personal brand as a Yoga teacher.

The September run of YogaFarm at was a preparation for the new season - a season of harvest after a long planting and nurturing season. 🌾🌾🌾

YogaFarm's program for Mental Wellness offers a spectrum of opportunities for unpacking trauma, deloading stress and nurturing healing.

Our monthly program features
Nature sensing and Earthing
Yoga Asana (including Vinyasa, Hatha and Yin)
Guided Meditation
Practical Mindfulness and Self-awareness activities
Yoga Nidra
Food as fuel and medicine

Book your slots for OCTOBER 21 - 22 via Estancia Primavera with the month's program features the theme:
NATURE AS A TOOL FOR SELF-ACTUALIZATION ✨️🏕✨️

Are you a Yoga teacher who has something important to share about life through Yoga? 🙋‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋
Are you a Yoga student with a lot of questions about your Yoga practice? 🙋🙋🏽‍♀️🙋‍♂️

Do you want to be part of insightful, mindful and respectful conversations about Yoga? 🙋‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋

Message us [email protected] .yogapilipinas

There's always an AHA MOMENT with Victor Chng 💫

Listening and learning from Victor as my YinYoga teacher then, and now working with him as he introduces Integrative Lifeforce Movement - always sparks several "aha!" moments for my yoga practice.

Integrative Lifeforce Movement is a comprehensive discipline that brings together Yoga, QiGong and Taiji with the intension of renergizing, revitalizing and restoring the body's vitality through meditative movement.

For more info and registration details
Bit.ly/ILMBali

What role does food play in my mindfulness practice? 🦚

You're probably eating or drinking 2-5x a day. That means: you have 2-5 opportunities per day to pause, breathe, focus on your senses, listen to your body and be mindful of your thoughts and emotions. 🙏

Take a 4-8 breaths before digging in. 💨
Look and describe your food.🤤
Smell your coffee/tea.👃🏽
Notice the sensations in your mouth, tongue and teeth when you take that first bite.🤤
Hold on to your tummy in the middle of your meal to get an extra feel of how hungry or full you are.🤰🫃
Observe the change in the way you breathe while eating.😌
After the meal, express a note of gratitude for the nourishment you have received.🙏

How many times have you gobbled up your food and have had your water, coffee or tea in a rush? ☕️🍵

Join me at YogaFarm at August 19 - 20 as we focus on conscious consumption as a form of mindfulness and meditation.

Let's talk about meditation and stillness in our urban jungle. 🏢🏦🏫

Are we capable of taking restful, focused and mindful moments even amongst the busy-ness of the city noise and productivity pressures ? 🤔🤔🤔

I went off grid for a week, and I feel so lost in myself.

I feel every hole and void that needs to be filled.
I feel every wound, scab and callus in my heart.

And this is why mindfulness, yoga, meditation and healing is not always light, love and peace of mind. Those are byproducts of a deeper, longer journey. And most times, that journey involves difficult terrain and a cycle of dark tunnels.

But there is blue skies and calm waters at the end of the journey. And "the moment" we need to focus on and work on is right now - not the "later" or "yesterday".

For many of us, late nights and early mornings are the only timeslots we have to take care of ourselves - I'd like to be there for you.

Vinyasa classes during "odd hours" - message me at 09164552888 or here via IG or FB to book your slot.

There' actually quite a lot to learn when we are physically silent - our ears slowly shift attention to the chirping birds and buzzing insects, our feet draws its focus to the moist grass and soil beneath us, and our mind creates a void that can be filled with light reflection.

Join us every month at YogaFarm at Estancia Primavera and give yourself that time and space to rewire your brain, heart and soul.

Message me at 09164554888 for more info.