Flow with QQ

28/12/2025

So deeply grateful! A practice that changed my life now has a bigger purpose. 🤎 See you all again in January!

10/12/2025

Our little studio — a home for our classes and more mindful experiences — is almost ready to open!!! If you’ve been resonating with my posts or are simply curious about what we’re creating, I invite you to follow along and be part of the journey. 🤎

In Ilocano, Namnama means hope. We chose this name because we want everything we do and offer to spark lightness, joy, and a sense of renewal.

As we open our studio — the first expression of what we dream Namnama to become — our wish is that everyone who steps inside leaves feeling a little more open and a little more alive.

If this resonates with you, we invite you to follow along and be part of our journey. 🤎

08/12/2025

celebrating my birthday in a few days and i can't help but get a little sentimental and extra grateful. 🥹

04/12/2025

Reflecting and manifesting. 🧡 (More yapping in the image captions lol)

30/11/2025

I’ll be away next week for an engagement, so this week is a great time to come to class if you’ve been meaning to join. We’ll be working on our yoga foundations to support and strengthen your practice. 🧡 See you!

30/11/2025

Move like the Kween you are. Join us on the mat! 😉

29/11/2025

When I enrolled to be a Mat Pilates instructor, I honestly came into the program thinking it was mostly similar to yoga. I even had the audacity to say this out loud in class — which was met with a blank look from my teacher. 🥲

As we dove into the lessons and explored the repertoire, I understood why she responded that way. The two methods are indeed very different. To be fair, there are overlaps! There were quite a few exercises that felt familiar and “easy” because I had encountered similar poses in yoga.

But I realized that they have different areas of focus. For one, while yoga often asks us to expand, open, and stretch with awareness (which has its own benefits), Pilates highly emphasizes control (fun fact: it was once called Contrology).

An insight that really stuck with me from the program is that big movements (without control) only cause superficial muscles to overcompensate. Sometimes we think we’re doing so much, but we’re not actually benefiting the body the way we think. On the other hand, small, precise, controlled movements “recruit” the deeper muscles — the ones that truly affect how we move day to day, and the ones that support us in the long term when strengthened.

That opened up for me a new way of seeing movement. But rather than taking away from the yogic approach I knew, my new learnings from the Pilates method are an opportunity to enrich my practice and inform the way I design my yoga classes. And vice versa.

Learning and growing the capacity to hold these two practices together has been a wonderful journey so far. Now I don’t only have the knowledge of two distinct paths for mindful movement… I have two methodologies that can inform each other in beneficial ways. Super excited to explore this more. 🥰

P.S. I finished the program about a month ago. Teaching demo classes soon!

26/11/2025

Been a little MIA here, as life’s been wildly lifing. A lot of learning and growth behind the scenes, and I’m just starting to get it all down. So consider this a heads up. Lol. More posts (and musings) coming your way. 👀 Plus a little peek at what we’ve been working on (very soon!). 🧡

23/11/2025

Here’s our class lineup for the week. Come join us on the mat! 🙂‍↕️ We’ll awaken our core in Soft Flow, open up our hearts and explore backbends in Strong Flow, and end the week with a gentle, feminine flow in Yoga for Every Body on Saturday. See you in class! 🧡