MA Wellness and Yoga

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!

10/12/2026

If you spend enough time in the wellness industry, you quickly notice that things come in and out of fashion.

Juice everything. Cut the carbs. Eat more fat. Do more cardio. Stop doing cardio. Build lean muscle with yoga. Actually, yoga doesn’t build enough muscle, so save it for your rest days.

The advice changes constantly. What is celebrated one year is dismissed the next.

But yoga was never meant to be another fitness trend. These practices have endured for thousands of years, not because they promise us a particular body, but because they offer us something far more profound.

A way to truly understand ourselves and the world we walk in.To cultivate awareness, discipline, compassion, and the courage to act on what we uncover from a genuine place of purpose.

Yoga is not simply about becoming stronger for our own sake. It asks us what we will do with the strength we cultivate. How we will show up for others. How we will respond to suffering. What responsibility we have to the world around us.

And while yoga Āsana can certainly build physical strength, reducing it to a question of muscle development misses so much of what these practices have to offer.

10/11/2026

10/09/2026

Announcement 📣

We are thrilled to announce the opening of our second location, MĀ Seaside Yoga, coming this winter to Cadboro Bay!

From the beginning, we have felt that MĀ is something greater than a physical space. It is its own living, breathing entity, shaped and sustained by the people who gather within it.

As we move along our individual paths toward greater health and well-being, we believe one of the most important things we can cultivate is community. Our wellness is deeply connected to our relationships, to our sense of belonging, and to the simple experience of being seen and known by others.

Sometimes community is the person whose mat has been beside yours for years. You may hardly know each other, yet there is comfort in their familiar presence. Sometimes it’s the person who embraces you in the lobby when life feels heavy, or someone who sits with you over a cup of tea and reminds you that you are not alone.

These seemingly small moments of connection are anything but small. They are part of what nourishes us, what carries us through difficult seasons, and what makes a space feel like home.

We have always believed that wellness is not something we pursue entirely on our own. We need one another.

As MĀ grows, our greatest hope is not simply to create more space for yoga practice, but to create more opportunities for living it. Connection, belonging, and meaningful relationships can be found within the wake of a daily practice.

We feel incredibly fortunate to be expanding into another beautiful neighbourhood of our city. We look forward to meeting new faces, welcoming new friendships, and perhaps being a little closer to home for some of the familiar faces who have been part of MĀ for years.

To everyone who has practiced with us, shared a conversation, offered a hug, made a friend, or simply brought their presence into our spaces: thank you. You are what makes MĀ what it is.

We are so grateful for the community that has grown around us, and so excited to see how it continues to unfold.

MĀ Seaside is currently under construction and its doors will be open soon!

10/08/2026

In Ayurveda, autumn is associated with Vāta: the qualities of air and space. As the days become cooler and drier, we turn toward warmth, regular rhythms and comforting food.

Enjoy this simple soup recipe from Sarada and check out her upcoming Ayurvedic cooking workshop below 🍂

Sarada’s Fall Lentil & Squash Soup

Ingredients:

• ½ cup red lentils
• 1 cup butternut squash, cubed
• 1 carrot, chopped
• A handful of spinach or kale
• 1 tsp grated ginger
• ½ tsp cumin
• ½ tsp coriander
• ¼ tsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp ghee or olive oil
• 4 cups water or vegetable broth
• Salt to taste

Warm the ghee or oil in a pot and gently sauté the ginger and spices. Add the lentils, squash, carrot and broth, then simmer for 25–30 minutes. Stir in the greens during the last few minutes.

Enjoy it warm, seated, and with a little room to pause.

Come into the kitchen with Sarada

Join Sarada Pranav for Ayurvedic Autumn Kitchen, an afternoon of cooking, learning and sharing a meal together. Explore seasonal ingredients, warming spices and simple Ayurvedic principles you can bring into your own kitchen.

You’ll leave with recipes and a small jar of digestive spice blend to continue the practice at home.

Saturday, October 31
2–4:30 pm | $81

We’d love to share the table with you. Book through the MĀ app or our website https://www.mawellnessandyoga.ca/workshops/

10/07/2026

Free counselling 🤍

Yoghini Kandasamy is offering free counselling sessions as part of her internship at MĀ while completing her Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Her compassionate, person-centred approach offers space to explore grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, substance use, and questions of identity and belonging, at your own pace.

🌿 Contact our front desk to learn more and book a free session with Yoghini!