With 77 locations across the Philippines, SM Home is kicking off its new Masterclass series with Best Sleep 101. The goal? Helping Filipinos transform their bedrooms into functional spaces for restorative sleep and better living.
Anchored by SM Home's brand promise — For All Things Home — this first Masterclass event brings together four exceptional voices across interior design, sleep medicine, home organization, and hospitality to explore one of the most underestimated pillars of Filipino wellness: rest.
Best Sleep 101 is part of SM Home's broader commitment to making expert home knowledge accessible, practical, and deeply personal.
The Philippines Has a Sleep Problem. SM Home Is Helping Solve It.
The Philippines consistently ranks among the most sleep-deprived nations in the world — a reality rooted not just in habits, but in homes that haven't been set up for rest. The typical Filipino bedroom is often a multi-purpose space: a workstation, a family room, a sanctuary all in one. Yet the environment of sleep — its design, its comfort essentials, its sensory conditions — rarely gets the deliberate attention it deserves.
Best Sleep 101 addresses this gap head-on. By pairing sleep science with practical design and lifestyle guidance — and grounding it all in products available at SM Home — the series translates expert knowledge into everyday action for Filipino families in varying living situations.
Meet the Masters
SM Home assembled four resource persons whose expertise, collectively, covers every dimension of the sleep experience.
Christine Dychiao | KonMari-Certified Organizing Consultant
Christine Dychiao is one of the Philippines' most respected organizing experts and a certified practitioner of the KonMari method. Her inclusion in Best Sleep 101 speaks to a truth that sleep scientists have long confirmed: a cluttered bedroom is a restless bedroom. Christine enlivens the series by exploring the relationship between mindfulness, tidying, and sleep —demonstrating how a thoughtfully organized space becomes the first and most powerful sleep intervention available to any household.
IDr Raiza Poquiz | Interior Designer
As a practicing interior designer with an eye for liveable, personality-driven spaces, IDr Raiza Poquiz brings the design perspective to sleep — arguing that a truly restful bedroom is not merely functional, but personal. Join Raiza as she examines the art of the sleepscape: how texture, proportion, color, and the deliberate curation of softlines (pillows, throws, linens) shape a space that invites you to slow down and rest. Her framework is both aspirational and accessible — a bedroom should suit the life you are living now while supporting the version of yourself you are growing into. Raiza also addresses pillow selection through a designer's lens, noting that varied pillow heights and textures serve both comfort and visual calm.
Sanj Valenton-Licaros | Certified Butler & Hospitality Expert
Few people understand the engineering of comfort as deeply as a certified butler. Sanj Valenton-Licaros brings a unique professional perspective to sleep: the art of anticipating the needs of others, refined through a career spent creating restorative sleep experiences for demanding clients in high-calibre hospitality settings.
Sanj addresses both mattress curation and pillow selection — sharing how luxury hotels approach sleep as a curated experience and how Filipino families can adapt the same principles for their own homes. Sanj reminds us that Your Bedroom Can Be Like a 5-Star Hotel, and that restful sleep is not a luxury — it is an investment that every family can make, one intentional product choice at a time.
Dr. Agnes Remulla | Sleep Medicine | ENT
The clinical anchor of Best Sleep 101, Dr. Agnes Remulla is a renowned sleep specialist whose expertise lends medical credibility. Dr. Remulla addresses sleep hygiene as a national public health issue — noting that the Philippines is a chronically sleep-deprived country — and translates clinical knowledge into actionable guidance.
She covers the relationship between sleep and overall wellness, the science behind mattress selection for different sleep positions, and the role of pillow loft and fill in spinal alignment. Importantly, she demonstrates that sleep improvement is not abstract: it begins, concretely,with what you place on your bed and how you prepare your bedroom for rest.
SM Home: For All Things Sleep
Every recommendation made in Best Sleep 101 connects to a curated selection available at SM Home's Bed & Bath zone — the brand's dedicated bedroom and sleep category housing mattresses, pillows, bed linens, storage solutions, and bedroom essentials across a range of styles and price points. With 77 branches nationwide, SM Home ensures that the guidance offered by its expert lineup is not knowledge to be filed away, but practical guidance that Filipinos can act on, in-store, any day.
Best Sleep 101 also shows how SM Home is a destination that goes beyond products to serve as a genuine partner in how Filipinos build, live in,and grow through their homes. This marks the beginning of a broader Masterclass series that will expand across home categories throughout 2026. Welcome Home.
Watch the Best Sleep 101 content series on SM Home’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
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