Rise & Shine Mvmt

10/04/2024

☀️Come for morning yoga and stay for the market! 🌺

🤝🏽 In collaboration with the Holoholo Market, you are invited to a Gentle Yoga Flow on Sunday, 4/14 from 10-11am. This flow was designed with the beginner in-mind. It is also family-friendly. Each child must be accompanied by a participating adult.

😎 Bring your own mat and any yoga props you may like. We’ll be outdoors so dress and hydrate accordingly.

💚 $10 payable by cash, Venmo , or Zelle (info to be provided at event).

🌺 Any questions or to RSVP, DM .mvmt or email riseandshine.mvmt@gmail.com 💌

✨Looking forward to flowing with you!

10/11/2022

Recently at a wedding, our tablemates asked how Scorpios are since their young daughter is one. The table said they’re passionate, loyal, vindictive—the typical answers when it comes to Scorpio shoptalk. ♏️
The aspect of being a Scorpio that I find the most powerful yet rarely talked about is the ability to be reborn, regenerate, and transform. And all these traits can only happen after experiencing an ending—a death, even, in some way.
I celebrated my birthday recently and I’m left feeling so grateful and excited for a new year around the sun. My heart is full from all the love, care, and thought friends and family near and far generously gave.
I am also feeling more acceptance for my past and appreciation of the different textures and chapters of life. You can’t have the sweet without the bitter. You can’t have the light without the dark. Maybe this year is my year of regeneration—of laying down the burdens and pains of the past to make space for the new.
Or, how about I let it be this year. 🔥
These shots may feel moody and brooding but on my day, I felt levity and light—and still do. I take horoscope talk with a grain of salt but I will say it is very Scorpio of me to seek the dark just to find the beauty in and because of it.
Thankful for this new year, old friends, the ever-constant love of family, and the ever-growing love of self. 🔥❤️🙏🏽

11/05/2022

Fresh air and fresh-faced. 🥰
In this stage of life, I’m really just happy going on walks and riding bikes around town. I can only have 2 drinks max (and that’s pushing it) before I feel yucky and a good day to me is one in which I am hydrated, well-rested and fruit and veggie-filled.
I don’t know what’s going on in the cosmos lately but I’ve been feeling more in-tune with what I really want and why I do the things I do. It’s a good feeling to have more clarity and direction after a long time of feeling fuzzy. Entertained and/or distracted, sure, but fuzzy, nonetheless.
Here’s to all of our journeys and being more honest with ourselves. 🙌🏾

10/05/2022

🌟Post-yoga class high is especially sweeter after literally starting the day with angry tears for the Philippines. 🇵🇭
Wore pink for and subbed for this evening. It’s been a while since teaching yoga virtually but we all got through it. 😅 J/K—I could feel the training come out in me and class was smooth like butter with a ton of chaturangas.
Felt happy vibes through the screen. Feeling thankful! 💕💕💕

05/05/2022

Life update: Went to Vegas for Beaster weekend (Easter + BTS concert 💜) then went to LA for les in-laws 40th Anniversary celebration and came back to SF with Covid.
Also, holding strong with the same 3 photo poses on rotation and still giddy over winning off the penny slots at New York, New York on a “this random peaches penny slot machine is calling to me so I’m gonna bet the max”. That inkling covered and my lunch so that’s that. 🎰
Now that my strength is back and I’m testing negative, I’m subbing a few classes for this coming week—both virtual and in-person—and jumping in on some Saturday classes at Come join for some low-key, high-chill yoga flows!

28/03/2022

Friday to Sunday. Feels like 2 different worlds but I’m still the same ole G. 🎶
It was a replenishing weekend with the c/o (thank you!!), teaching yoga at and gallivanting around Daly City, taking in fresh air at and getting a bomb $20 haircut from a Tita-esque salon. (This truly brings me so much joy, you just don’t know.)
Other weekend highlights include a rousing and simultaneously soul-crushing game of Monopoly with my former nanny charges and reading Trick Mirror. I pretty much want to copy and paste the entire first essay into this caption while erasing all vestiges of social media from my life. Everyone read this so we can chikka-chikka ‘bout it, ‘bout it and support Pinay writers.

08/03/2022

Cheers to us this 🥂
The beauty of being a woman is we can be whoever we want. Not always easy but wow, do we have opportunities past generations only dreamed of. 🙌🏾
To my sisters, I hope you know deep down that your worth is not tied to what you do but moreso to who you are. With or without your career, accomplishments, status, wealth, etc., I salute you for being just as much of a woman as anyone else. Honor who you are in this moment, knowing whoever you are, you are enough. ❤️
Now, to tear down the patriarchy around us and within!⚡️

04/03/2022

I’m just a girl trynna take advantage of some good-ass (good ass…🤔🍑😑) lighting without the office across the way see me trynna take advantage of some good-ass lighting.
Joking aside, feeling somewhat human again after a week and some change of being sick. I put on make-up AND jeans today so it’s a celebration, beaches! 🥳

24/02/2022

It’s Thursday but I’m on weekend vibes already. 🎠

I recently started a role as an Educational Consultant for (amazing organization—thank you for thinking of me!). This role and my work with kids has me constantly revisiting my time as a traditional Kindergarten teacher and the psyche of a 5/6 year-olds.

It’s a fun space to be in, frankly. Remembering the sensitivities, needs, and possibilities of this age feels so expansive. Not to mention all the play 🙌🏾 All that leaves me to think, if it ain’t fun in some way, is it even worth doing? How are you inviting play into your day?

(Edit) It feels inherently wrong and tone-deaf to talk about fun with what’s going on in Ukraine. What about those children? I read the news this morning with sadness, anger, and a profound sense of loss and mourning. I don’t have more to say and maybe focusing on levity and light is me shielding myself from feeling the full depth of sadness I feel for Ukraine and uncertainty about the world as we know it.

While we all are in collective shock and outrage, I do know to always look for the helpers. My first friend of life kid brother (who I accidentally hit with a bat during a childhood game of baseball) has a fundraising campaign for Ukrainian orphans who lost their parents in the war. Support here: saintjavelin.com

24/02/2022

Nature! 🍃 (Long, purging sigh with a mix of jazz hands 👋🏽)
Went for a casual stroll around this 🇺🇸 There’s so much to explore in this park (let alone this city). Today was the first time in forever that and I saw a squirrel. 🐿 (It’s the little things, really.)
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Thinking/dreaming of hosting a monthly or seasonal outdoor yoga flow at Golden Gate Park. I want to teach yoga again but on a flexible schedule so here’s to making that happen! ✨Wanna join? ☺️

23/02/2022

2/22/22 ⚡️
Yeah yeah—this date is special for manifestation, yada yada. Trust—I feel that and do feel today has some extra special cosmic energy in it (I mean .bighitofficial just announced their Vegas concert dates!!!) but really, every day is a day to shed, grow, and breathe in the ever-evolving wonder that is you. The real you.
Happy shedding, fam 🔥 And in case you needed a sign, may this be it: You’re allowed to say no so that it clears up space for the all the yes that is worth your energy.

19/06/2021

Check out the latest Art Inspired Yoga with the Barry Art Museum! 30-minute beginner-friendly yoga class highlighting a work of art. This class features Richard Marquis’ Razzle Dazzle.

Access the entire collection of Art Inspired Yoga classes on the BAM’s YouTube channel! ☺️

Art Inspired Yoga: Released every other week on Wednesdays In this 30 min yoga class you will be led through a series of poses, inspired by the art in the Ba...