In search for the good life, I can’t help but stress out the importance of eating right and exercise.  Finding the right diet and the right exercise for you is important.  As for me, dancing is my way of keeping fit.

Let me introduce another way to keep a fit body with a healthy drink and this new awesome kick-ass exercise called Plana Forma!  I’ve heard my friends raving about this and I have yet to try it soon!

Real Leaf Green Tea celebrated with Plana Forma last July 18 – 23 for their “Thanks Giving” week full of activities.

Real Leaf is brewed from 100% whole green tea leaves, naturally packed with Theanine and with added natural honey, it brings green tea drinks to another level.

Theanine is an amino acid which is naturally present in tea plants that stimulates alpha brain wave activity, helping the mind be more focused and alert.  As far as I know, we need a healthy brain activity not only when we’re thinking or working those numbers out, but it also helps our whole physique – it helps me when I dance too.  When my brain seems to be sleeping, I can’t get to focus on my dance moves right.

Real Leaf is available in delicious Honey Apple, Honey Lemon and Honey Lychee flavours.  And Honey Lychee is my favorite! 😛

Piolo Pascual and KC Conception Celebrating with Real Leaf Green Tea and Plana Forma

Plana Forma incorporates techniques from Physique 57 with isometrics, yoga, pilates and dance.  Classes are custom-tailored for busy city living: Introductory classes for curious first-timers, Open sessions for ongoing enthusiasts, and Advanced workouts for veteran students looking for a serious challenge.

Ah yes… Fun, fluid and fast-paced, Plana Forma is a revolutionary new workout program that adapts the core values of three fitness traditions – Dance Pilates and yoga – into a single effective and exhilirating regimen.

Some of the key benefits of the Plana Forma workout include:

• increased lung capacity
• long, lean and sexy muscles
• strong, toned and flexible body
• improved body awareness
• strong back and improved posture
• increased bone density
• firmer seat

In just an exhilarating 55 minutes, you can count on relieving your stress and still getting an intense muscle workout.

It’s best if you try it out for yourself 🙂 I might visit them soon to try this out 😀

Plana FORMAâ„¢ contact information:

6th floor Jecoprime Building 20th Drive

Mc Kinley Business Park Fort Bonifacio Taguig

www.forma-asia.com                                                          info@forma-asia.com

Cell Phone Number: 0917 809 4392                          Land line: 5530870

Facebook: PlanaFORMA                                               Twitter: PlanaFORMA

I am not really a diver (claustrophobic and ear problems), but I love being in the ocean.  I guess you can say free diving would be more of my thing.  Best thing about the ocean is – it’s free!  It’s just there, waiting to be enjoyed by everyone 🙂

And in the Philippines, we are quite lucky to have some of the world’s best diving spots and surf spots!  I envy some of my diver friends and how they can see the beautiful bed of corals underneath our seas.  I can only enjoy exploring shallow reefs when I snorkel, but I haven’t seen much of the world down there and I believe it’s beautiful <3

South Sea Pearl

Yes guys, we have a national gem – as declared by Pres. Fidel Ramos on Oct. 25, 1996.  It is a beautiful product of our seas – the South Sea Pearl <3

Ah… beautiful isn’t it?  there are different kinds of South Sea Pearls, different colors, shapes and characteristics but one of the rare ones are the Golden South Sea Pearls…

and yes, they come out of the Oyster in lustrous golden color – no coloring whatsoever.

You know what, after our Palawan trip… I feel like a pearl expert now… Everytime I see pearls I look at the luster, the size, the shape and I feel the texture.  I identify if it’s South Sea pearl or just fresh water pearls…

Diamonds are girl’s best friend they say, but honey, once I introduce you to Golden Pearl baby, you will fall in love <3

Unlike diamonds that are formed naturally in a harsh environment (at high pressure and high temperature), pearls are actually an indicator of our Ocean’s health!  Sadly, the world is changing and unfortunate damages in the environment like pollution, garbage and global calamities can affect the quality of the pearls.

It is really pretty <3 I fell in love with these golden pearls knowing they had to go through 323 steps to produce and 5 years in the making at least.  Apart from that, only 10% of the oysters would result in a natural golden pearl.

WOW!

So you can just imagine how valuable they are and how important it is for us to protect our seas that in turn gives us these gifts 🙂

More than what you see…

I know that the Golden Pearl you see is pretty, but what’s more beautiful is the story behind it all.

It’s the story of the people who initiated a movement to protect especially Palawan seas.

We visited an island in Taytay Palawan they call “Baras.”

This is a community of people who are slowly changing their lifestyles into a greener approach.  If before people are so into dynamite and cyanide fishing, kaingin (burning of trees resulting to bald islands) and harmful practices to the environment, volunteers and some staff from the pearl farm reach out to these communities and educate them on the consequences of their actions.

And now, they teach them to make their own natural fertilizers, cultivate their own lands to produce root crops, vegetables and many more.  They are also into fashion!  The picture above is of the locals making necklaces and other decorative items 🙂

Beautiful flowers 🙂

They even have a bee farm to help polenate the plants <3

At the end of our trip… I felt good about the beautiful things that I have seen and I got more inspired to take part in saving it.

I care for the world I live in and I love capturing it in photos, I love walking on it, enjoying it and sharing this wonderful world with the people I love <3

and with that, I am honored to be one of Jewelmer’s Pearl ambassadors along with top online personalities like Vince Golangco of Wheninmanila.com, Noemi Dado of AboutMyRecovery.com, Estan of EstanCabigas.com, Anna Oposa of AnnaOposa.ph, Jayvee Fernandez of ABuggedLife.com,  Kankan Ramos of Yehey.com and myself 🙂

now joining Piolo Pascual as Pearl Ambassador!

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There are things that you can do to save our seas :)  I will share with you how you can do this soon!

Not all superheros you read in comic books have super powers like superman.  We have Batman, Green Archer and many others.  We Filipinos are also proud to have Anna Oposa who is included in Yahoo!’s seven inspiring Filipinos – modern day heros!  She may not have gills like Aquaman, but she has the passion to protect our Philippine seas 🙂

Know more about the Golden pearls here.