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Join MĀ Wellness and Yoga for world class yoga classes, teacher trainings, retreats, sound healing.

10/30/2026

The Art of Healing: Meet our Practitioners!

Meet Richard, a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) at MĀ Wellness & Yoga, now welcoming new clients in person and virtually Fridays 8am-2pm.

Richard believes meaningful change begins with undoing aloneness and creating connection. His approach is warm, thoughtful and collaborative. He offers a space to explore life’s challenges with curiosity and compassion, and a little humour along the way.

He draws on attachment-based, relational psychotherapy to help clients understand how past experiences, relationships, and emotions shape how they move through the world today. His work also supports clients in exploring and healing relational trauma through experiential work, developing greater self-awareness and psychological flexibility, and helping clients approach their emotions, thoughts, and parts of themselves in new ways.

His areas of focus include:

• Healing relational and childhood trauma
• Supporting autistic and highly sensitive individuals
• Recovery from childhood bullying and its lasting effects
• Life transitions, including newcomers to Canada
• Navigating relationship changes
• Exploring identity and meaning
• Cultivating emotional awareness and self-understanding

Richard holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and has trained in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). He also draws upon Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in his practice.

Direct billing is available for eligible extended health plans. Book online through Jane App here: https://mayoga.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/75 or contact our front desk to learn more.

Beautiful photo C/O Little Red Wolf Photography

10/29/2026

Grief is not something we simply “get over.” 🤍

Grief is a natural response to love and loss. It can touch every part of us—our hearts, bodies, relationships, and sense of self.

Join us at MĀ for a Four-Week Grief Series, a compassionate, supportive space to explore grief, connection, and healing.

Through guided reflection, trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness, sound healing, and gentle discussion, we’ll create space to honour your experience while discovering supportive practices for navigating loss.

Four-Week Grief Series
🌿 November 24, December 1, 8 & 15
🌿 Tuesdays | 5:30–7:00 PM
🌿 MĀ Sky Studio
🌿 Investment: $150

Facilitated by Laurel MacKay, CCC, Clinical Counsellor, yoga teacher, and sound healing practitioner.

Each week offers opportunities to reflect, move, rest, connect, and develop practical tools to support your grieving process.

No yoga experience is necessary. There is no right way to grieve, and no expectation to share more than feels comfortable.

Come as you are. All of you is welcome. 🤍

Register through the link in our bio. Laurel MacKay

10/29/2026

Water Season: Finding Balance in the Fire Horse Year

With Charles De Goede Herlaar

In the Lunar Solar Calendar, November and December mark the Water Element Season—a time to turn inward, replenish our reserves, and reconnect with the quieter, more restorative qualities of Yin.

This Water Season holds particular significance during the Yang Fire Horse year, as Water represents the polar opposite energy of Fire. The meeting of these opposing elements can create both tension and opportunity.

Join Carley for an afternoon of exploration into the Water Element and the energetic landscape of the Fire Horse year.

Carley will introduce the Bazi Chart, a Chinese astrological map, and explore the elemental Qi present in the year of the Fire Horse. By understanding the qualities and patterns of this Qi, we can become more conscious of how we work with it—learning to navigate its intensity and direct it in ways that better support our lives.

In the Chinese Zodiac, the Fire Horse represents the peak of Yang, while the Water Rat represents the peak of Yin. The Horse and Rat are traditionally understood to create a clash, bringing themes of polarity, tension, and transformation. Together, we will explore how to reframe clashing Qi—not as something to resist, but as an opportunity to find greater balance, awareness, and ease.

This workshop offers a chance to pause and check in with how your year of the Fire Horse is unfolding, while learning how to realign with the seasonal and cosmic Qi to better support your highest self.

Carley will also share stories and teachings about the Pig and Rat, the Water Element animals, and their relationship with the Fire Horse.

You will leave with practical Feng Shui, meditation, and movement practices to incorporate into your home and daily life throughout the Water Element Season.

The afternoon will conclude with a guided meditation and gentle sound bath, offering space to integrate, settle, and reconnect with the quieter wisdom of Water.

November 14 | 1:30–3:30 PM
Investment: $75 + tax

10/25/2026

Today is Śarad Pūrṇimā, one of the most auspicious full moons in the Hindu calendar, celebrating abundance, divine love, and spiritual awakening.

Śarad means autumn, and Pūrṇimā means full moon — symbolizing fullness, clarity, and grace.

Honouring Goddess Lakṣmī, Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Chandra Dev, this sacred night invites us to pause and reconnect.

✨ A Little Yoga Sādhana for today

✨Stillness: Sit beneath the moonlight. Breathe, soften, and simply be.

✨Bhakti: Light a diya, offer gratitude, and chant Om Śrīṃ Mahālakṣmyai Namaḥ.

✨Svādhyāya: Reflect on the abundance already present in your life.

✨Sevā: Share a simple act of kindness or generosity.

✨Tradition: Offer rice kheer (rice pudding) or milk beneath the moonlight briefly, then enjoy it as prasādam.

✨ May this full moon remind us that true abundance begins with recognizing the fullness within.

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ

10/24/2026

Join us in celebrating the light, beauty, and abundance of Goddess Lakṣmī. 🙏
Early bird registration ends today!
ŚRĪ — A Diwali Retreat with Goddess Lakṣmī
November 7–8 | The Reverie, Lantzville

10/22/2026

Water Season: Finding Balance in the Fire Horse Year

As we move into Water Season, we’re invited to slow down, turn inward, and reconnect with the restorative qualities of Yin.

In the intensity of the Fire Horse year, Water offers a beautiful counterbalance. An opportunity to find stillness, clarity, and ease amidst change.

Join Carley de Goede for an afternoon exploring the wisdom of the Water Element, Chinese astrology, and the energetic patterns of the Fire Horse year.

Through an introduction to the BaZi Chart and the relationship between Water and Fire, we’ll explore how opposing energies can become opportunities for greater balance, awareness, and transformation.

Saturday, November 14 | 1:30–3:30 PM
Earth Studio | 539 Herald St.
Investment: $75 + tax

A chance to pause, reflect, and realign with the season 🤍

Reserve your space through the link in our bio.

10/19/2026

The Art of Healing: Meet Our Practitioners

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Melody Walford, Doctor of Chinese Medicine and Registered Acupuncturist, back to the MĀ Clinic this Saturday, October 24!

Rooted in the belief that the body holds an innate wisdom and capacity to heal, Melody offers an integrative approach combining acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, craniosacral therapy, massage, and yoga therapy.

Her practice focuses on women’s health, hormonal balance, digestion, emotional well-being, pain relief, and trauma recovery, welcoming people of all ages, including children and infants.

We’re so happy to have Melody back in the MĀ community!

Appointments available starting October 24. Book through Jane App 👇️

https://mayoga.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/81

10/18/2026

Ancestors Tea Ceremony

With SJ ☽

Nov 1 6-8PM
Investment $40
Cha Dao - the Way of Tea, is a practice of presence and connection. Seated in circle, we share in the silence and beauty of tea prepared with intention, allowing the ceremony to settle the mind into the heart, and open us to what is here.

On this night when the veil is thin, we dedicate the practice to honouring those who came before us. Through the quiet ritual of tea, we create space to remember, to grieve, to give thanks — to feel the presence of our ancestors and beloved passed, connected through our hearts.

You are warmly invited to bring photos of your loved ones who have passed, and to make offerings at our community altar. No experience with tea ceremony is needed.

10/17/2026

📣UPDATE SOLD OUT Thank you loves 🙏

MĀ Seaside | Founders Year Pass

As we prepare to open the doors to MĀ Seaside Yoga in Cadboro Bay this winter, we are inviting our community to be part of this new chapter from the very beginning.

To celebrate, we are offering just 15 Founders Year Passes, an opportunity to become part of MĀ Seaside as we begin to grow our roots in this beautiful neighbourhood.

Founders Year | $1,099 + tax

Your pass includes 12 months of unlimited yoga beginning when MĀ Seaside opens, with access to both our Seaside and downtown studios. And while our new space is taking shape, you're welcome to begin your practice with us right away. All Founders Year Pass holders will receive complimentary access to our downtown studios until Seaside opens its doors.

We have always believed that MĀ is more than a place to practice yoga. It is a community shaped by the people who gather, practice, and grow together. As we expand into Cadboro Bay, we look forward to welcoming new faces, deepening familiar connections, and creating another space to call home.

Only 15 Founders Year Passes are available

Learn more and become a founding member at maseasideyoga.ca

10/14/2026

An invitation to pause, soften, and settle into sound.

Join OcianSound for an evening of crystal lyre, singing bowls, steel drum, and song, creating space for rest and reflection.

Sunday, October 25 | 7:30–8:30 pm
MĀ SKY Studio | $33

Bring your blankets and cushions, get comfortable, and let yourself be held by sound.

Reserve your space through the MĀ app!

Address

539 Herald Street
Victoria, BC
V8W1S5

Telephone

+12508800553

Website

https://mawellnessandyoga.ca/

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