MA Wellness and Yoga

🎓 Student Special is Here! 🍂

Heading back to school? Make this the semester you invest in your wellbeing.

For August only, we’re offering our BIGGEST student discount ever:

✨ 4 Months of Unlimited Yoga for just $399

Whether you’re looking to reduce stress, improve focus, build strength, or simply find a place to breathe, MĀ is here to support you through the school year.

✔️ Unlimited yoga classes
✔️ Welcoming community
✔️ All levels welcome
✔️ Current student ID required

This offer is only available during August, so don’t miss out!

Student Identification is required.

📍 539 Herald Street, Victoria, BC
🌿 MĀ Wellness & Yoga

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🤲 40-Hour Hands-On Assists for Yoga Teachers
With Katyanna Ryan & Sarah Cutfield Sarah Cutfield 🌊

Take your teaching to the next level with this immersive, hands-on training designed for yoga teachers who want to offer safe, confident, and meaningful assists.

Over four full days you’ll explore:
✨ Hands-on assisting techniques for Hatha & Vinyasa
✨ Functional anatomy & alignment
✨ Consent, communication & ethical touch
✨ Verbal cueing & sequencing
✨ Assists using props
✨ Practice teaching with personalized feedback

Whether you’re newly certified or an experienced teacher, you’ll leave with the skills and confidence to create a more supportive, transformative experience for your students.

📅 September 12–13 & September 19–20
🕤 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
💲$700

✔ Counts as 40 hours toward MĀ’s 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training.

Spaces are limited—register early! 🙏

Summer Sunrise Slow Flow & Pranayama: Awakening with Light

With Melissa Freeman

Welcome the day with intention in this nourishing four-part morning series designed to gently awaken the body, calm the mind, and cultivate steady, vibrant energy.

Each session offers a slow, mindful flow that builds warmth, mobility, and strength while honouring the quiet rhythm of the early morning. As the sun rises, you’ll reconnect with yourself through breath, movement, and stillness, leaving each class feeling refreshed, centred, and ready for the day ahead.

This series is suitable for all levels, including beginners. Whether you’re looking to establish a mindful morning routine, deepen your yoga practice, or simply enjoy the peaceful energy of practicing at sunrise, you’ll find a welcoming space to begin your day with clarity and ease.

Come greet the morning with movement, presence, and light

Tuesday and Thursday Mornings

August 4, 6, 11 & 13 | 6:30–8:00 AM

$125

THE OPEN HEARTH
Coming Home to the Heart in the Fullness of Summer ❤️‍🔥

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Saturday, July 25, 2026
5:00–7:30 pm PT
MĀ Yoga Sky Room | Victoria, BC
Investment: $65
✨ Limited to 8 participants.

As Summer reaches its fullness, life often asks us to move outward.

Longer days. More connection. More invitations. More movement. Our calendars fill and our worlds widen.

While many of us know how to expand, fewer of us know how to return.

In Five Element theory, the Fire Element and the Heart system carry the energy of warmth, connection, expression, and joy. Yet healthy Fire is not endless expansion. Like a heartbeat, Fire moves in rhythm.

✨ It opens and returns.
✨ It reaches outward and reconnects inward.

Join us for a 2.5-hour experiential workshop exploring the Fire Element through the lens of Five Element theory and the Tao of Trauma.

Together, we will explore:

🔥 The Heart, Pericardium, and Small Intestine systems
🔥 Somatic practices to explore patterns of connection and return
🔥 Restorative group acupuncture for integration and settling
🔥 Seasonal reflection to carry your discoveries into the remainder of Summer

You may leave with:

❤️ A deeper understanding of what helps you return to yourself amidst the fullness of life
❤️ Greater awareness of the difference between opening and overextending
❤️ A personal intention or orientation to guide you through the remainder of Summer

You do not need to arrive energized, connected, or certain.

Summer can bring joy, abundance, overwhelm, busyness, and tenderness.

This space aims to meet you where you are.

Come gather around the hearth with us.

🌿 Optional: Bring a small item for the Summer Altar—a stone, plant, or something that represents this season for you.

Sip the Season: Ayurvedic Summer Drinks

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Summer is a time of warmth, expansion, and increased Pitta (heat) in the body. What we drink during this season plays a powerful role in maintaining balance, supporting digestion, and keeping the mind calm and clear.

In Ayurveda, hydration isn’t just about drinking more fluids—it’s about choosing the right kinds of drinks that cool, nourish, and support digestion without weakening the body’s natural fire (Agni).

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to prepare simple, refreshing Ayurvedic drinks that hydrate deeply while supporting your digestive fire.

In this workshop, we’ll explore:
• How hydration affects digestion, energy, and mood
• How to stay cool without creating sluggishness
• Understanding summer balance through an Ayurvedic lens
• Simple, practical ways to bring these rituals into daily life

You’ll learn and taste seasonal summer creations:
• Rose Coconut Cooler for deep nourishment
• Berry Rose Cooler (with a local Canadian twist)
• Spiced Buttermilk (Takra) for digestion
• Cucumber Mint or Aloe Cooler

All recipes are simple, practical, and easy to recreate at home.

We’ll begin with a short, accessible teaching, followed by guided preparation, tasting, and community sharing.

Come sip, learn, and experience hydration as a form of medicine.

Date: Saturday July 11, 2027
Time: 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Investment: $75

✨ 75-Hour Yoga Internship ✨

📅 September 11 – December 13, 2026
💰 Investment: $1,750

Ready to bridge the gap between graduating your 200-hour training and truly stepping into the seat of the teacher?

The 75-Hour Yoga Internship at MĀ Wellness & Yoga is an immersive mentorship experience designed for yoga teachers who want to deepen their skills, refine their voice, and gain real-world teaching confidence.

Work closely with experienced faculty including Sarada Jagannath, Katyanna Ryan, and Carley de Goede while shadowing our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, receiving one-on-one mentorship, developing hands-on assisting skills, and exploring the deeper teachings of yoga.

✨ Includes:
• 40-Hour Hands-On Assist Training
• Pradīpikā Pathways: Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā Book Club
• 1:1 mentorship
• Teaching & shadowing opportunities
• Class theming & workshop development
• Ayurveda, mantra & pranayama
• Design and deliver your own 2-hour workshop

This internship is for teachers who are ready to move beyond certification and into confident, embodied leadership.

📚 Prerequisite:
200-Hour Yoga Alliance Certification + teaching experience

🎓 Certification:
Counts as 75 hours toward MĀ’s 300-Hour Advanced Certification

🌿 Space is limited.

Apply online:
www.mawellnessandyoga.ca/75-hour-internship

Questions?
📧 [email protected]

Solstice Water Ceremony with

As the sun reaches its fullest expression, we gather to honour the convergence of the Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga through sacred ritual, mantra, and prayer. ☀️💧

Join us for an evening devoted to Goddess Gāyatrī—the radiant power behind the sun, revered in the Vedic tradition as a source of wisdom, protection, and inner illumination.

Together, we will chant the Gāyatrī Mantra 108 times, one of the most ancient and beloved mantras of the yogic tradition.

“We meditate on that wondrous spirit of the Divine Solar Light which shines in every dimension of life. May that Light inspire and guide our inner vision.”

Gathering with water—the element of flow, cleansing, and integration—we will energize the water through mantra and make offerings to the Goddess, creating space for blessing, healing, and remembrance. Through ritual, the water becomes a living vessel for prayer and intention.

Bring your sankalpa (heartfelt intention) and offer it into this stream of wisdom. Through mantra, breathwork, mudrā, reflection, and sacred water ceremony, we cultivate clarity, restoration, and deeper trust in our inner guidance.

✨ This ceremony supports:
• Clarity and discernment
• Emotional and energetic cleansing
• Nervous system restoration
• Deeper trust in intuition
• Alignment with truth in daily life
• Intention setting for the season ahead

🌿 What you’ll experience:
• Gāyatrī Mantra chanting x108
• Sacred water ritual for intention, prayer, and blessing
• Storytelling and teachings on Goddess Gāyatrī
• Traditional yogic practices including mantra, breathwork, and mudrā
• Ritual with our charged water and sweet offering (prasad)

📍 MĀ Yoga & Wellness, Victoria, BC
🗓 Saturday, June 20, 2026
⏰ 7:00–9:30 PM

All are welcome.

This offering is rooted in the Vedic/Yogic lineage and Bhakti Yoga and honours Satya’s ancestral relationship to these sacred traditions.

Investment: $45

Reserve your space through the link in our bio. ✨