Banahaw Circle Nature Retreat
At the foot of Mt. Banahaw, the Philippines' sacred mountain. DOT Mabuhay accredited. Traditional hilot healing, slow food, sacred pilgrimages, retreats held in reverence for the living Earth. Banahaw Circle is a bed and breakfast retreat in the Holy Trinity Compound, Barangay Santa Lucia, Dolores, Quezon. Guests sleep in the Nature Villa or the Art House, in rustic rooms from singles to dorms. Up to 80 percent of the food is farmed in the rainforest by local partners. Hilot massage comes through The Hilot Hub, accredited as a hilot healing and training centre. Guests can walk the Banahaw pamumuesto, the pilgrim's route to the mountain's sacred sites. The calendar runs yoga and astrology circles, a sacred sound and ceremony retreat, family and dog companion retreats, student packages and corporate workshops. Co-founder Jeannie Javelosa teaches astrology and the Enneagram.
Maia Earth Village
A conscious intentional village on Palawan, home to the innerdance energy school and a global family of facilitators. Life here is the inner process made daily and communal.
Bahay Kalipay
The house of happiness in the Palawan interior. Raw food, breathwork, and innerdance woven into a healing retreat that returns you to what was never sick in the first place. Daniw Arrazola and Pi Villaraza, the founder of innerdance, opened Bahay Kalipay in 2007 in Barangay Santa Monica, Puerto Princesa, among forest and a clear river. Pi's involvement ended in 2019. It calls itself the oldest raw food detox, innerdance and yoga retreat in Asia. The Deep Nature Cleanse runs 5, 7 or 21 days: three raw meals a day, gentle colon cleansing, daily yoga, breathwork and meditation, massage, a forest trek to the river, and one day a week of coconut fasting in complete silence. There is also a yoga programme and a three day raw food chef course. It suits people carrying burnout or a depleted body. No fitness or experience needed.
LJ Navera
LJ Navera is a Filipino master craftsman, sound alchemist and artist in Lipa City, Batangas.[1] He can play more than a hundred instruments and made most of them himself: didgeridoos, handpans, Native American flutes, African djembes and shamanic drums.[1] In 2023 he built the first handpan made in the Philippines.[2] He was never trained in music. Everything he composes and everything he plays is intuitive.[1] He is also a recognised painter and sculptor, a professional tattoo artist and an art therapy facilitator.[4] He combines them when he works with others. He was a pioneer resident sound healer and art therapy facilitator at The Farm at San Benito.[1] He has been in recovery from depression for more than twenty-five years and works as an addiction professional and a life coach,[4] and he was the resident sound healer at the 2022 National Mental Health Summit, run by Mind You with the Philippine Department of Health.[4]
Adam Klecheski
Adam Klecheski is a movement coach certified by Functional Patterns, the biomechanics-based training system, as a Human Biomechanics Specialist Level 2. He completed the course in Las Vegas in August 2025, and the certification runs to August 2027.[1] It is an advanced tier, above the Human Foundations course that first qualifies a graduate to train others.[5] He came to the work through his own body. Chronic pain in his lower back, shoulders, wrists and knee ended his basketball, and in 2018, in the Philippines, he set about rehabilitating himself.[2] That led him through yoga, Animal Flow, Ido Portal's movement practice and general mobility training to Functional Patterns in 2022.[2] He coaches through BodyFlow, with private monthly coaching and single online sessions built around posture screening, video feedback and gait retraining.[2] He is also a trainer at Project Function's facility in Santa Monica, California.[4]
Arturo Rocha
Jungian practitioner and coach, working with shadow and with the parts of a person that run the show from underneath. He is associated with the Carl Jung Circle Center in the Philippines, the association working to carry Carl Jung's depth psychology into Filipino life, and the Center's own website carried his photograph among its people. Sources disagree about the office he held there and Henosis has not been able to settle it, so no title is claimed on this page.
Dr Renan Acosta
Allan Renan L. Acosta is a Filipino neurosurgeon and the Chief Medical Officer of Home Healthlink Innovations, a home health care company in the Philippines that he co-founded.[1] He carries the post-nominals FPCS and FAFN, Fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons.[1] He founded the company with his wife, Dr Sheila Acosta, after training with a home health care agency in the United States and watching patients recover faster there under home care practices he had not seen applied at home.[2] He brought the clinical experience, she brought the business model.[2] In the Philippines the family does the work of recovery, so the home care team's job includes training the patient's caregiver to the point where the team can withdraw.[2] He works, in the Henosis context, on neuroplasticity, habit formation and how lasting change actually happens in a brain.
Joshua Webb
Joshua David Webb is a Filipino yoga teacher and breathing coach, and a former professional basketball player.[1][2] He was born on 14 November 1989 and played as a guard at 188cm.[2] Joshua came up through De La Salle Zobel and joined the De La Salle University Green Archers in 2008, and in 2013 he was the first Green Archer taken in the PBA draft.[3][4] The professional career that followed was brief. He then came to yoga, mindfulness and breathwork, and it redirected his life.[1] He trained as a yoga teacher in Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas, and holds two breathing certifications: the Oxygen Advantage, taken under Peter Lakatos, and Dana Santa's Breathe Better programme, built on Postural Restoration Institute principles.[1] He teaches a hybrid of Vinyasa, Yin and breathing protocols, for stress regulation and for performance.[1]
Andi Faisal Tabusalla
Andi Faisal Tabusalla, known as Fai, is a Filipino movement coach and the Animal Flow regional leader for the Philippines.[1][2] He is also Managing Partner at Longevity Labs, a biohacking and contrast therapy club in Bonifacio Global City, Manila.[3] Animal Flow is ground-based, quadrupedal movement. Rope flow is a rhythmic swinging practice done with a heavy rope. He teaches the two together, training joint strength and mobility through pattern and rhythm.[1][2] In August 2024 Patina Maldives took him on as an expert in residence for a month, running Animal Flow and rope flow alongside mobility, strength and kettlebell work, running mechanics, functional breathing and guided cold immersion.[1][2] He also drums and performs as a DJ under the name FaiZy.[4]
Mae "Au Mayari" Seracarpio
Mae Seracarpio, otherwise known as Au Mayari, is a Filipina healer, ceremonialist, intuitive reader and coach in Manila.[1][3] She holds cacao ceremonies across Asia and internationally, working with ceremonial cacao that is imbued with Icaros, plant medicine songs.[2] Au reads intuitively and has trained to access the Akashic records. She also uses tarot, practises Pranic Healing and Access Bars, and coaches one to one.[1][3] She has been a Trainer and Speaker Manager at the Philippine Academy of Intuitives for at least nine years.[4][5]
Frannie Daez
Frannie Daez is a Filipina author and educator based in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila.[5] She wrote Keep It Together, a home management manual published in 2006, and has led the Catholic Homeschool Association of the Philippines as its president.[1][2] Keep It Together covers the planning, organising, delegating, sustaining and improving of the goals of a home. It carries worked sample pages for menu planning, grocery lists, chore rosters, a skills checklist for household helpers, an interview guide for hiring them, and packing lists for the beach, the mountains, foreign trips, business travel and a family member's stay in hospital.[1] She has homeschooled her own six children and gives workshops for adults and for children.[1][2] In September 2019 she appeared with her husband David and their son Yuan in the plenary of the Philippine Homeschool Convention in Taguig City.[3][4]
Sacred Mountain Immersion
Five days of hilot healing, sacred pilgrimage, ceremony, and slow food at the foot of the Philippines' holy mountain.
Jeannie Javelosa
Jeannie E. Javelosa is a Filipina astrologer and yoga teacher. She has given soul destiny readings for 38 years, teaches astrology through the Banahaw Astrology Circle, and is certified in Ashtanga Vinyasa and Pranayama.[8][10] She is also a social entrepreneur, artist and writer. She co-founded the communications firm EON in 1998, the sustainable retailer ECHOstore in 2008 and the GREAT Women brand for women micro-entrepreneurs, and she is director of the Yuchengco Museum.[1][2][3][4] The GREAT Women brand began as a Philippine government programme and grew into an ASEAN initiative with Canadian funding.[3][5] Before any of the businesses she worked as a visual artist and art writer, and she has run the museum for twenty years.[6][7] She also runs Banahaw Circle Nature Retreat on Mount Banahaw in Dolores, Quezon, set up around 2020.[9] She writes a column for the Daily Tribune under the name Bridging Worlds.[11]
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