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Ongoing Courses
200H Treehouse Yoga Teacher Training
January 17 to April 12, 2026 (Weekends Only)
Chantal Umali, Rachel Bonifacio, Kim Espiritu,
Ria Tirazona, Jinky Ureta
The Treehouse Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training is a soulful, community-rooted journey into the heart of yoga. Approved by Yoga Alliance under the Elevated Standards, this program blends classical philosophy with modern embodiment practices to support personal transformation and prepare you to teach with depth, confidence, and authenticity.
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Our training goes beyond just postures. We explore yoga as a way of life—anchored in meditation, ethics, functional anatomy, and self-inquiry. Through a modular weekend format, trainees will learn how to sequence meaningful classes, cue with clarity, and hold space for healing and growth. We honor the roots of yoga while creating space for each trainee’s voice to emerge.
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What makes this training truly Treehouse is our focus on real connection. This program is designed for those who want to grow not only as teachers, but as humans in service to something greater. We believe yoga teachers are community builders, ripple-makers, and space holders—and we are here to nurture that path.
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Whether your goal is to teach or to deepen your personal practice, this training offers a grounded, heart-centered foundation in a supportive, non-performative environment where you can truly belong.
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Our 200H YTT Faculty credentials:
Upcoming Workshops
Holy Week Special: Mindfulness and Insight in Watercolor
Inspired by the teachings of the Zen Tradition
April 3, 2026, 9:30AM to 12:00PM, Curious Coffee
Rachel Bonifacio
All levels welcome, no meditation or art experience required
Join us for a half-day mindfulness retreat during Holy Week—a time traditionally marked by pause, reflection, and quiet return.
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Mindfulness and Insight in Watercolor is a 2.5-hour community practice where we explore watercolor painting as a form of meditation, awareness, and gentle inquiry.
Inspired by the teachings of Zen and Engaged Buddhism, this session invites us to slow down, observe deeply, and allow creativity to arise from presence rather than performance.
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In Zen practice, insight does not come from forcing the mind to understand, but from learning to see clearly. When we paint with mindfulness, each brushstroke becomes an opportunity to notice impermanence, soften expectations, and meet the present moment as it is. Water, pigment, and paper respond in ways we cannot fully control — and this becomes the practice itself.
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Engaged Buddhism reminds us that mindfulness is not separate from daily life. It can be found in simple actions: holding a cup, breathing in a busy café, listening to the sounds around us, or watching color spread across wet paper. In this session, we bring awareness to the body, the breath, and the act of creating, allowing the process to be more important than the result.
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This is not a technical painting workshop, and no art experience is required.
The intention is to cultivate presence, patience, and insight through quiet, shared practice in community.
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Session and Art Materials: Php 500
Session Only (Bring Your Own Watercolor and Paper): Php 200
+ A required cafe order of a minimum of Php 250
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T. Rachel Bonifacio is the founder of Treehouse Yoga and a mindfulness and meditation teacher. Her teaching and personal practice are inspired by the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and the everyday practices of Zen Buddhism, emphasizing embodied awareness, deep listening, and community engagement.​
Past Courses
Join us for two (2) Saturdays this October for an asana workshop that explores our bodies in preparation for flight!
This workshop aims to take a different approach to learning about arm balances and inversions. Instead of working on just the general instructions and how-to’s of arm balances and inversions that all focus on the core, we are invited to bring our attention and awareness to the other parts of our unique bodies whose subtle nuances also greatly affect our balance. Noticing our predispositions, natural tendencies, and habits in movement and stillness, and focusing on the little details of our work may give us the information we need to adapt the execution of the postures specific to ourselves.
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Agenda:
Day 1, Oct 5, 10am to 12pm: Firm Foundations and Practice, Arm Balances part 1
Day 2, Oct 12, 10am to 12pm: Firm Foundations and Practice, Inversions and Arm Balances part 2
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Both workshop days will be facilitated by our very own T. Chantal Umali, one of the pioneer yoga teachers in the Philippines.
4 contact hours
Embodying Balance
October 5 and 12, 2024 (2 days)
Chantal Umali
Program Rating: 5.0
Join us for five (5) Saturdays for a transformative course that aims to introduce to you various meditation techniques, encourage community sharing and discussion, and promote the development of a regular meditation practice.
We will guide you through different meditation styles and approaches, while also learning about their effects on our physical body, our spiritual well-being, and our psychological and emotional states.
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Agenda:
Day 1, Aug 3: Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation with T. Rachel Bonifacio
Day 2, Aug 10: Guided Visualization with T. Rachel Bonifacio
Day 3, Aug 17: Loving-Kindness Meditation with T. Markee Lansang
Day 4, Aug 24: Mantra and Japa Mala Meditation with T. Jinky Ureta
Day 5, Sept 7: Integrative Meditation Practices with T. Rachel Bonifacio
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These different meditation techniques are a great way to discover your own preferences toward the practice. This program will be led by experienced teachers with varying backgrounds in meditation.
10 contact hours
Exploring Meditation
August 3 to September 7, 2024 (5 days)
Program Rating: 4.9
Rachel Bonifacio, Jinky Ureta, Mark Lansang