A small aromatherapy and mindfulness practice in Bacolod. Made by hand, taught with care, and built around the belief that calm is a skill worth learning and clarity is within reach.

Tawhay is the Hiligaynon word for serenity. It’s a word that doesn’t quite translate into English, because the calm it points to isn’t just an absence of stress. It’s a calm you can settle into, the kind that lets you think clearly and breathe a little deeper.

The practice was founded in Bacolod City and grew out of years of personal work with scent, mindfulness, and the slow business of caring for a nervous system that’s been running too hot for too long. What started as private practice became certifications, then teaching, then a studio with regular hours and a shelf of small-batch blends.

Today, Tawhay works across five areas: small-batch aromatherapy products, custom blends made to order, recorded courses for self-paced learning, one-on-one coaching, and live workshops for individuals, small groups, and companies. The medium changes. The intention behind it doesn’t.

Everything sold here is made or designed by people who use it in their own homes. The blends are hand-mixed in our studio above Ritwal Cafe at La Salle Avenue. The courses come from material taught in person for years. The workshops happen in real time, either in Bacolod, on Zoom, or wherever a company asks us to come.

We work mindfully because intention is part of the practice. We work small because care doesn’t scale the way other things do.