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Full-Spectrum, Decolonized Yoga & Tantra. Online & In-Person Programs with Yogacharini Maitreyi. www.arkaya.net

08/07/2026

Arkaya Foundation in association with Kirtan Haven presents…

Kriya and Kirtan with Yogacharini Maitreyi & Priyesh Dhoolab

Join us for an evening of returning back to wholeness through transformational practices on the mat & devotional singing!

Yogacharini Maitreyi will lead the first segment on kriya. Through mindful movement coordinated with breath, you will realign your physical, emotional, mental and cosmic bodies. You will learn kriya that will be a transmission of the wisdom of the masters who have walked this earth to harmonize the human condition.

Through the practice of kriya, we purify ourselves of old physical, lifestyle, emotional, energetic and mental habits that do not serve our highest. Kriya can be physical, mental, energetic, sound based, multisensory or a combination.

The second segment will be led by Priyesh Dhoolab & Friends. Presented by Kirtan Haven, Priyesh Dhoolab & Friends is a live devotional music collective led by Internationally recognised devotional artist and kirtan leader, Priyesh Dhoolab. Our gatherings are an invitation into the transformative and sacred practice of Bhakti through mantra, meditation and live devotional music. More than a concert, each experience encourages wholehearted participation, creating a welcoming space where people of all backgrounds can sing together, quiet the mind and reconnect with the heart through the timeless tradition of kirtan.

No previous experience is needed.
Everyone is welcome, whether you wish to sing, dance, meditate or simply sit and receive the experience.

🗓 Date: Saturday, August 15
📍Casa Copal Yoga & Wellness Vancouver
⏰4:00 - 6:00pm

Register at kriyaandkirtan.eventbrite.com or visit the link in our bio!

07/29/2026

Guru Purnima blessings from Yogacharini Maitreyi 🙏 🌕

07/09/2026

Arkaya Foundation in association with Adler Breathwork and Somatic Student Association presents...
Join us this Wednesday, July 15 for the second of 2 90-min online workshops with Yogacharini Maitreyi called “Chaos to Clarity”

In this workshop, be prepared to explore:
✨ Why some people are drawn to chaos or unconsciously recreate it
✨ How enmeshment forms and leads us to take on others’ emotions
✨ How to stop carrying another’s unresolved emotions — or making someone else carry yours
✨ Yogic perspectives on releasing misalignments, dysregulation, and chaos
✨ Simple, powerful 3–5 minute tools to teach clients, friends, or yourself, nervous‑system regulation
✨ Energy boundaries and their importance
✨ Energy‑protective practices to prevent depletion and unhealthy merging with others.

Tools from this workshop can be shared with:
✨ clients
✨ friends (alongside referring them to a professional)
✨ practiced personally
✨ together as a family

✨ Plus, participants will receive free access to 2 community classes that happen live online on Saturdays

🗓 Date: Wednesday, July 15
⏰ 7:00–8:30pm PDT

Register at arkayachaostoclarity.eventbrite.com or visit the link in our bio!

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07/07/2026

Arkaya Foundation in association with Adler Breathwork and Somatic Student Association presents...
Join us this Wednesday, July 8 for the first of 2 90-min online workshops with Yogacharini Maitreyi called “Re-Parent Yourself”

In this workshop, be prepared to explore:
✨ new ways to nurture your inner child & how to grow into the best version of you
✨ yogic understanding of trauma, misalignment, and fragmentation
✨ how trauma is stored in the body and how to recognize its signatures
✨ holistic integration of body, emotions, energy, mind, and higher self
✨ compassionate witnessing to soften multilayered stress
✨ how to welcome, embrace and reintegrate all parts of yourself

Plus, participants will also receive:
✨ Arkaya’s multipronged approach to nervous‑system regulation
✨ A guided plan to rebuild healthy lifestyle and relationship pathways, beginning with self‑trust and inner safety - including a simple drink recipe to build ojas or vitality that heals trauma, a simple herbal mix to reset the gut to build serotonin and dopamine for appetite and mood balance
✨ free access to 2 community classes that happen live online on Saturdays

🗓 Date: Wednesday, July 8
⏰ 7:00–8:30pm PDT

Register at reparentyourself.eventbrite.com or visit the link in our bio!

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07/02/2026

🎤Guest Speaker Alert! 🎤

Join us for a special Community Satsangh this week with guest speaker Dr. Kathryn Ricketts. Kathryn Ricketts, PhD, is a Full Professor and lead of Dance/Arts Ed in the Education Department at the University of Regina. For the past 40 years, Ricketts has been researching and practicing dance and visual arts performing and teaching throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Canada.

Stories, Memories and Movement is the title of a series of workshops combining personal narratives with kinesthetic expression. Ricketts leads participants through creative movement exercises that are often linked to the calendar and world events. We each tell stories of this time and then they are accompanied with a simple movement in chairs or standing that best represents that story. As we accumulate stories, we also accumulate these simple movements.

These sessions always end with extended dynamic conversations full of laughter and sometimes tears as it activates their creative muscles, imagination and then of course many more important stories always follow!

🗓 Date: Saturday, July 4
🧘‍♂️ Satsangh: 9:00 - 11:00am
🎤 Guest Talk: 10:30 - 11:00am

Visit our link in bio to register for this Saturday's class!

06/12/2026

🎤Live Podcast Alert! 🎤

Join us LIVE as Dr. Gabor Mate and Yogacharini Maitreyi join host Ross McKeachie for The Yoga of Re-Parenting Self - an illuminating dialogue on trauma, healing and embodied awareness as part of Arkaya Foundation’s annual Decolonizing Dialogues series with Banyen Books (Banyen Books & Sound). This conversation looks at how trauma shapes our physical, emotional, mental, and relational wellbeing, and how healing becomes possible through conscious re-parenting and embodied awareness.

In this episode, listeners will be invited into an exploration of healing through:
✨Conscious re-parenting
✨Embodied awareness
✨Somatic practice
✨Nervous system regulation
✨Compassionate self-inquiry

Join us for an inspiring exploration of how ancient wisdom and contemporary science converge to support the healing of the inner child and the restoration of authentic connection.

🗓 Wednesday, June 24, 2026
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Register at banyen.com/events or visit the link in our bio!

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05/31/2026

✨ NEW EPISODE LIVE ✨
Healing the Trauma of Colonization
"The first thing that you see in a colonized people is the erosion of self-worth. And once you remove self-worth from a person or people, then it's easy to manipulate them."
— Yogacharini Maitreyi

Yogacharini Maitreyi, founder of Arkaya Foundation, joins host Ross McKeachie for a candid conversation on how colonization erodes self-worth — and how we begin to heal. Drawing on yogic philosophy, she explores how colonial mindsets have infiltrated modern yoga culture and what it takes to return to its roots. Maitreyi also guides listeners through a live Jyoti Mudra practice and shares tools for transforming grief and anger into positive change. Part of Arkaya's annual Decolonizing Dialogues series with Banyen Books.

Topics covered: colonial trauma, self-worth, yoga appropriation, Sanskrit pronunciation, decolonized practice, emotional healing, and what a truly decolonized yoga culture could look like.

🎧 Streaming now on Spotify & wherever you listen to podcasts

Follow & Subscribe — Link in Bio ✨

05/21/2026

✨Don't miss this Sunday's workshop in Vancouver with Maitreyi Yogacharini
✨www.oneyogavan.com/workshops

05/05/2026

Quote of the day ✨

“The Eternal Embrace.” 🤍

Beyond name, form, identity, and all the roles we carry… there is a space within us that is untouched, still, and whole. A space where love is no longer something we seek or hold onto—but something we become.

This reflection is an invitation to soften into that stillness, to remember who you are beneath all labels, and to rest in the boundless nature of your own being. ✨

Want to learn more? 🌿
Join us every Saturday from 9–11 AM PST for our community satsangh, where we explore our inner world through yoga and ta**ra in a supportive space.

🔗 arkaya.net/communityclass or visit link in bio

05/04/2026

Pose of the day ✨

We invite you to try Sukhasana — the “easy pose” that invites us into something deeper. 🌿

In its simplicity, we find the balance of effort and ease…
a steady body, a calm mind, and a gentle return inward.
It reminds us that yoga isn’t about complexity—
it’s about awareness.

The way we sit, breathe, and hold ourselves shapes how we move through life.

When we soften without collapsing and stay grounded without tension,we begin to cultivate a more centered, peaceful state of being.

Want to learn more? 🌿
Join us every Saturday from 9–11 AM PST for our community satsangh, where we explore our inner world through yoga and ta**ra in a supportive space.
🔗 arkaya.net/communityclass or visit link in bio

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