ESpace Takes Its Wellness Ecosystem to the South
From Pilates and recovery to spin, barre, and community, ESpace Wellness Club’s BF Homes opening reflects a growing shift toward wellness spaces designed around the rhythms of everyday life.
Words Randolf Maala-Resueño
Photos courtesy of ESpace Wellness
September 28, 2026
Wellness used to be scheduled around life. Increasingly, it is becoming part of the architecture of life itself.
And that idea sits at the epicenter of ESpace, a homegrown wellness brand that began, rather unassumingly, inside the Fairview home of entrepreneurs Mico Vallejo and Euriz Bagtas-Vallejo during the pandemic.
What started with a few pieces of Pilates and physiotherapy equipment gradually became something larger: a vision for spaces where movement, recovery, and community coexist.
Now, ESpace is bringing that vision to BF Homes, Parañaque.
The newly opened ESpace Wellness Club occupies two floors dedicated to Pilates, yoga, barre, spin, and recovery. It’s not the typical treatment of discipline as an isolated experience–the club positions them as parts of a larger wellness ecosystem, one that acknowledges how contemporary approaches to the body have expanded beyond the conventional gym.
For Bagtas-Vallejo, a licensed physical therapist, this philosophy begins with prevention.
“I’ve always believed that taking care of your body shouldn’t only happen when something is already wrong,” she says. “Movement, recovery, and prevention can be part of everyday life.”
This art of wellness is made tangible through the club’s recovery amenities, including a cold plunge and sauna. Here, exertion and restoration become two sides of the same ritual, intersecting as one part of a broader cycle of moving, recovering, and returning.
Wellness, but closer to home
The BF Homes location also speaks to a distinctly metropolitan question: how do we make wellness fit into the geography of everyday life?
For ESpace, the answer is proximity. Bringing its ecosystem to the Metropolitan South means offering residents a space where different forms of movement and recovery can be accessed without turning wellness into another commute.
“We wanted to bring ESpace to the South because we saw an opportunity to make the kind of wellness experience we’ve built over the years more accessible to people in this community,” Bagtas-Vallejo says.
The distinction is subtle but important. ESpace is not simply opening another fitness studio. It is building a place around the habits that happen before, during, and after a workout.
From movement to community
In its idea of building a place around the habits, ESpace opened its 11th branch, ESpace Wellness Hub, on September 26 in Pasay City.
The larger space will carry the brand’s familiar mix of Pilates, yoga, barre, spin, and recovery while introducing another ingredient: an in-house café. The addition turns the post-workout moment into part of the experience itself, giving members somewhere to pause, drink, and linger.
It is a small architectural shift with a larger implication: wellness happens to the body inside a studio while also cherishing social spaces we create around it.
For the Vallejos, that evolution remains connected to the idea that began in their Fairview home.
“We started with what we had at home and simply kept building from there,” Vallejo says. “The equipment came little by little, and eventually the idea became much bigger than what we initially imagined.”
From a handful of machines to 11 Metro Manila branches, ESpace’s growth is ultimately a story about scale. But more importantly, it is about how an intimate, pandemic-era passion project became a physical expression of a changing relationship with wellness.
Modern wellness spaces have now evolved to be somewhere to move, recover, gather. Yet perhaps most importantly, it makes taking care of yourself feel like an ordinary part of being alive.
Join the fit-and-fab club with ESpace Wellness Hub and book your sessions here. Explore other ESpace offerings and branches here.
