We are BRIAN & DAVE

Brian S. Encarnacion

Author • Content Creator • Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer • Movement & Nervous-System Regulation Practitioner • Family Caregiver • Co-Founder of BRAVE

Brian's work brings together movement, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, storytelling, and his lived experience as a long-term family caregiver. As a content creator, he uses digital media to open conversations around caregiving, grief, relationships, personal well-being, and the realities of caring for others.

Alongside John Dave Dadivas, Brian is the co-creator of Brave Conversations with Brian & Dave, where they share their experiences and advocate for a more sustainable approach to caregiving—one that recognizes that caregivers need care too.

Through BRAVE, Brian also teaches practices designed to help people develop greater body awareness, physical capacity, self-regulation, and resilience for everyday life.

John Dave Dadivas

Author • Registered Nurse • Content Creator • Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer • Movement & Nervous-System Regulation Practitioner • Family Caregiver • Co-Founder of BRAVE

His work brings together healthcare, yoga, functional movement, breathwork, mindfulness, personal development, and nervous-system regulation to help people develop practices that support the demands of real life.

Together, Brian S. Encarnacion and John Dave Dadivas—known online as Brian & Dave—are the founders and creators behind BRAVE Yoga, BRAVE Movement PH, and Brave Conversations with Brian & Dave.

We Build BRAVE From The Life We Actually Lived

BRAVE didn’t begin as a business idea. It grew from years of caring for family, navigating responsibility and stress, and learning how easy it is to keep showing up for everyone else while slowly losing connection with yourself.

Through yoga, movement, breathwork, and nervous-system regulation, we discovered practices that helped us come back to our bodies, build resilience, and create more capacity for the lives we were actually living.

That experience became the foundation of BRAVE.

Today, our work is about helping others build stronger bodies, calmer nervous systems, and sustainable practices that support them—not just on the mat, but in everyday life.

Because taking care of your life should include taking care of yourself.

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