Past Events

Gabor Maté and Maitreyi – The Yoga of Re-Parenting Self

This International Day of Yoga, join Dr. Gabor Maté and Yogacharini Maitreyi for The Yoga of Re-Parenting Self, a free online webinar presented by Banyen Books and Arkaya Foundation as part of the Decolonizing Dialogues series.

Taking place on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Pacific Time), this inspiring event explores the connection between modern trauma research and ancient yogic wisdom. Through dialogue and experiential practice, participants will discover pathways toward healing through embodied awareness, nervous system regulation, self-inquiry, and conscious re-parenting.

Free Online Webinar
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Format: Webinar / Online Event
Registration: Free – Register online to attend.

THE WISDOM OF HEALING PLANTS

Explore the deep relationship between people, plants, and the Earth with LoriAnn Bird and Yogacharini Maitreyi. Learn how traditional cultures have worked with healing plants to support wellbeing, community, and harmony with nature.

What You'll Experience:
• Ancestral plant teachings
• Healing traditions from diverse cultures
• Seasonal and Earth-based wisdom
• Practical insights for everyday life

📅 June 18, 2026
🕖 7:00–8:00 PM PT
💻 Free Webinar

International Day of Yoga 2026 – Yoga for Healthy Ageing

Join the Consulate General of India, Vancouver, for a special celebration of the International Day of Yoga at David Lam Park, Vancouver. This free community event will bring people together to experience the benefits of yoga, wellbeing, and healthy ageing in a welcoming outdoor setting. Arkaya Foundation is proud to be participating in this inspiring gathering, supporting health, connection, and the timeless wisdom of yoga.

Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: David Lam Park, Vancouver
Free Event – Open to All 🌿🙏

Mindful Movement, Mantra & Meditation: A Healing Journey

With Yogacharini Maitreyi 

Sunday May 24, 2026

Time: 2:00 to 5:00 PM

Location: One Yoga Vancouver

Heal through the nuances of conscious movement, breath & energy practices, cathartic sound, correct pronunciation and toning of mantra, and other tools from the traditions of South India. Learn to prepare the body and mind for meditation rather than forcing or suffering silence and stillness. 

This exploration of mindful movement (physical and pranic), mantra and meditation will open and heal all the prana naadis (energy flows). It will also release trauma stored in the body.

Benefits

• Find safety in your body

• Move from suffering to savouring your life

• Regulate your nervous system and emotions

• An increased sense of calm and peace of mind

• Mental clarity

• Greater self-awareness of your physical, mental, emotional, and energetic patterns

• Experience a more grounded, balanced love within

What to expect

• A gentle, mindful Arkaya Tantra Yoga session on the mat to savour the senses 

• Explanations and experience of what a decolonized, full-spectrum yoga and tantra practice looks like

• Healing all chakras using your own voice through correct breathing and intonation

• Specific focus on the heart chakra and solar plexus to release power struggles, betrayals, competitiveness or the claustrophobia of anyone being controlling or jealous of you 

• Understanding the mechanics of breathing and the energetics of breathing for resilience

• Experience the seamless blending of yogic tools that can be used to align you with your highest

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: A 6-Week Online Course
with Prof. Balaganapathi & Yogacharini Maitreyi

DATES: Sundays from September 7 to October 12, 2025

TIME: 9:00 - 11:00 AM PST / 9:30 - 11:30 PM IST

LOCATION: Online via Zoom ~ The Livestream link will be sent to your e-mail upon registration

COST: By donation - Suggested donation: $108

Learn more & Register By-Donation

This 6-week online series explores how Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras provide practical guidance for navigating daily life with balance, clarity, and resilience. We’ll uncover simple, cross-cultural practices to cultivate inner peace amid life’s complexities.

We will have a beautiful synergy of prof. Balaganapathi sharing the intellectual philosophy & Sanskrit pronunciation while Yogacharini Maitreyi provides the embodied practices for deeper integration and insight.

Wisdom of the Past, Healing of the Future
with Chief Reuben George & Yogacharini Maitreyi

Date: Thursday June 12, 2025

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Location: Free Online Event ~ The Livestream link will be sent to your e-mail upon registration

This presentation is part of the 4th annual Decolonizing Dialogues: Celebrating Indigenous & Yogic Cultures

Presented by the Arkaya Foundation in collaboration with Banyen Books & Sound.

June 12 & 15, 2025

Join Chief Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Yogacharini Maitreyi for a powerful conversation bridging Indigenous and yogic traditions. Together, they explore how ancestral wisdom can guide us through today’s challenges—illuminating pathways of healing, cultural resilience, and respectful collaboration. This cross-cultural dialogue invites us to remember that the roots of true well-being are woven through history, land, and spirit.

Speakers:

Chief Reuben George is an environmental and spiritual leader, Sundance Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and internationally recognized for his advocacy to protect Indigenous lands and waters.

Yogacharini Maitreyi is the founder of Arkaya Foundation and a master teacher of India’s indigenous yoga and healing sciences, with over 25 years of teaching experience worldwide. Learn more about her, Arkaya Foundation, and the Arkaya 50-hour teacher training at www.arkaya.net

Hosted by Ross McKeachie, host of Branches of Wisdom (Banyen Books Podcast series) and Arkaya Foundation Community Director and Assistant Teacher Trainer.

In honor of International Yoga Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Decolonizing Dialogues series returns for its fourth year—bringing together Indigenous and yogic wisdom keepers for transformative conversations and embodied practices. This unique event explores the shared impacts of colonization, celebrates cultural resilience, and nurtures healing through authentic, respectful dialogue.

Tune in at 7 PM PST on Sunday June 15th as well for the conversation on Healing the Trauma of Colonization with Yogacharini Maitreyi.

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Arkaya Foundation | arkaya.net

Banyen Books & Sound | banyen.com

The wisdom of the past is the healing of the future.

Healing the Trauma of Colonization
with Yogacharini Maitreyi

Date: Sunday June 15, 2025

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Location: Free Online Event ~ The Livestream link will be sent to your e-mail upon registration.

This presentation is part of the 4th annual Decolonizing Dialogues: Celebrating Indigenous & Yogic Cultures

Presented by the Arkaya Foundation in collaboration with Banyen Books & Sound.

June 12 & 15, 2025

In this deep and restorative session, Yogacharini Maitreyi and Ross McKeachie discuss the impact of colonization on India’s indigenous yogic traditions and the broader global context. They will unpack the nuances of yoga, tantra, and the allied life sciences, offering insight into reclaiming and honoring these teachings. The event includes a guided full-spectrum mindfulness practice to support personal and collective healing.

Speaker:

Yogacharini Maitreyi is the founder of Arkaya Foundation and a master teacher of India’s indigenous yoga and healing sciences, with over 25 years of teaching experience worldwide. Learn more about her, Arkaya Foundation, and the Arkaya 50-hour teacher training at www.arkaya.net

Hosted by Ross McKeachie, host of Branches of Wisdom (Banyen Books Podcast series) and Arkaya Foundation Community Director and Assistant Teacher Trainer.

In honor of International Yoga Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Decolonizing Dialogues series returns for its fourth year—bringing together Indigenous and yogic wisdom keepers for transformative conversations and embodied practices. This unique event explores the shared impacts of colonization, celebrates cultural resilience, and nurtures healing through authentic, respectful dialogue.

Tune in at 7 PM PST on Thursday June 12th as well for the conversation on Wisdom of the Past, Healing of the Future with Chief Reuben George and Yogacharini Maitreyi.

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Arkaya Foundation | arkaya.net

Banyen Books & Sound | banyen.com

The wisdom of the past is the healing of the future.

Emotional Resilience for the New Year:

Wed. January 15th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Emotions are E-nergy in motion. Learn to direct and harness their energy. Give yourself a booster dose of e- vitamins for stamina and healing.  Become and stay vital and energized to savour and digest 2025. Learn to identify and heal schisms in your emotions and psyche to prevent relationship breakdowns. 

Contents
- Identify your triggers and trauma through awareness practices
- Minimize physical, emotional and mental toxins that add to the emotional overload
- Learn how to self regulate and co regulate with loved ones
- A four step program to transform unresolved emotions and use their energy wisely

Methodology
- Awareness practices to identify somatic pain and holding patterns
- Yogic practices on chairs for realignment
- Tools to soothe and recalibrate the nervous system and vagus nerve.
- Breath and cathartic practices to release suppressed or leaking emotions

In collaboration with Unity of Vancouver.

Join a community of mature, heart-centred and supportive practitioners who are also learning and growing under the guidance of these teachers.

This is a rare opportunity to be in the company of two women who are lineage holders and elder teachers with many years of practice and insight to share.

NOTE: This annual retreat takes place from June 14 - 19, 2024. Visit the Upcoming Events Page for more info!

TANTRA AND THE ENERGETICS OF INTIMACY: A Traditional Immersion with Yogacharini Maitreyi

JUNE 16 - 21, 2023
HOLLYHOCK, CORTES ISLAND, BC

During this week long retreat, you will learn Tantric practices and tools for your daily life that create deeper self connection, self awareness, healing and resilience.

Create sathvic (uplifting) relationships. Rise above rajasic (drama filled) states and thamasic (dark, stagnant, abusive) situations. Move from loneliness and disconnection in this modern world to feeling grateful for the life you have been given, imbibing the true essence of Tantra.

EMOTIONAL RESILIENCY TRAINING 

March 16 - APRIL 20, 2023
Online through Lucy St John Yoga
Thursday evenings, 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

This training will help you master the art of relationship with yourself and others through emotional intelligence and regulation. You will learn to let energy run through your body and to allow yourself to fully experience your core emotions, without avoidance or resistance as you move towards an openhearted state of calm and connection. Through this practice, you will deepen your relationship to self, others, and the divine.

NOTE: This online training is available as a self-paced course on Arkaya’s online school via the Teachable platform. Check the Programs page for more info!

NOTE: This online training will be made available as a
self-paced course on Arkaya’s online school via the Teachable platform. Check back soon for more info!

KARMA, DHARMA, SWADHARMA, & SANATHANA DHARMA: Finding Harmony in Relationship to Self, Others and the Cosmos 

SUNDAY APRIL 16, 2023
CASA COPAL YOGA, VANCOUVER BC
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

This workshop offers a 60 minute talk and Q&A where you will learn about the different kinds of Karma, how they impact you and how to shift them for the better.

During the practice portion of the workshop, you will learn kriya and other tools in the yogic repertoire to realign with harmony. You will also learn many practices from traditional Tantra (pronounced thunthra) to clear blocked energy and heal the system.