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MEET THE FOUNDERS
We’re Richa and Saguna — best friends who found that our deepest healing happened not in solitude, but together.
Maya is a practice and a community born from our Thursday hangouts. What started as a simple commitment to meet every week — after reconnecting at a friend’s wedding — slowly became something sacred. We did yoga, breathwork, meditation, journaling, and endless deep reflective conversations. In each other’s company, we discovered that self-love and radical self-acceptance weren’t just ideas — they were what truly carried us through our own healing journeys.
Neither of us had a straight path. But the thing that helped us both, more than anything else, was learning to love ourselves as we were — and to let someone else witness that process without judgment.
Maya is our way of sharing that safe space. The one we found in each other. Because healing doesn’t have to be a lonely path. In fact, some of its most powerful moments happen when we stop walking alone.
RICHA
I trained as an architect, but my path curved into interior and graphic design. My healing journey taught me that the most important space I could ever design was the one inside myself.
Self-love and radical self-acceptance didn't come easily to me. I had to learn them slowly. My ongoing practice is positive self-talk — affirmations that saved me. They still do.
Last year, I started offering healing hangouts to my friends and community — guided meditation, expressive art, breathwork. Just showing up, holding space, and watching what happens when people feel safe enough to be real.
Then, at the beginning of this year, I began slow traveling through South America. I carried those healing hangouts with me — sharing them in hostels, in quiet apartments, under open skies. Wherever I went, I kept creating that same safe container. And everywhere I went, people showed up, opened up, and reminded me why I love doing this.
I'm writing this bio from Colombia, so grateful for how far a little self-love can carry you.
Travel taught me this: you attract the kind of person you are. Country after country, I kept meeting warm, kind souls. Some became lifelong friends. That's not luck. That's proof that when you heal, your people find you.
At Maya, I'll be sharing what actually helped me — guided meditation, expressive art, and breathwork.
SAGUNA
I'm a yoga instructor and flexologist who believes that movement and mindfulness belong together — not as something to perfect, but as something to come home to.
My healing journey started with asana, but over time, it grew to include breathwork, meditation, yoga nidra, and the other beautiful limbs of yoga. What I love most is that yoga meets you exactly where you are. Some days I need the flow of vinyasa. Other days I need the stillness of yin, or the deep release of kundalini kriya. I listen to what my body and heart need — and that's what I offer.
What I primarily teach is vinyasa and gentle yoga, always woven with simple breathing exercises, journaling, and assisted stretching. Not because it's complicated. Because it works. It helps with mobility, relaxation, and that quiet sense of well-being that's hard to find in a busy world.
Yoga has been one of the most powerful tools in my healing journey. And what I've learned is this: when you share it with someone else, it becomes even more powerful.
At Maya, I bring movement that doesn't judge, breath that calms, and a quiet belief that healing happens one small, kind moment at a time.
With lots of Maya (means love in Nepali) — thank you for being here.
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