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Megan McManus Wellness, 7718 104 Street, Edmonton, AB (2025)

02/02/2025

Something I often find I gravitate towards is understanding duality, especially in my body.

When I first started my journey in yoga & teaching, nothing made more sense in my body as Anusara & the ‘Alignment Flow’ class I would religiously attend. I loved being guided through postures that systematically made sense in anatomical way.
My body celebrates this - I can teach this.
This is the masculine energy that I resonate with.

Then I started my mentorship work with Christine Price. The way she weaves body poetry & symbolism into yogic movement felt like my body coming into understanding what the feminine flow is.

Throughout my years following YTT I have started to explore more somatic movement & practices, & found that they expanded my yoga practice & built on this masculine/feminine energetic knowledge of movement.

I really feel passionately about teaching in a way that helps others feel these subtle energies in each posture. Cueing alignment & modifications that make sense to your unique body in a structural way, & also listening to the intuitive guidance of your body to move in non-linear, somatically expressive ways.

To understand the subtle energies within each posture. The masculine energy of contraction, creating stability, fire & heat, with the feminine energy of expansion, beyond your physical borders, softening & connecting with universal energy around you.

Learning how to hold both of these energies together in practice.

This is what I will share throughout this 3-week series.
What I have been passed down by my teachers, blended with my own lived body experience & intelligence.

Over the 3 weeks we will learn:

•the feminine & masculine (yin & yang) principles of a yoga practice
•the movement of energy & how to feel it in our bodies
•balancing static & dynamic movements & contraction/expansion
•breathwork & how to use it to guide us into our bodies & movements
•posture alignment, variations, modifications & prop use

This is for everyone; new to yoga, deep in your practice, curious & explorative body movers.
It’s for all.

March 8th/15th/22nd
1-2:30
Held at
Register through link in my bio, or message me with questions
🌞🌚

01/23/2025

this week.. has been a motherf**kingweek.

chatting with a dear friend this morning, and mentioning how drastic I’ve felt the pendulum swinging these few days.

soulful connection.. resurfacing deep grief..

feeling abundance, support through liberated living.. the claws of “the system” squeezing me in place..

trust in fluidity of life.. feminine rage and feelings of injustice..

I sat in stillness the other day and screamed in my head “f**king show me… show me.
what am I not seeing?
what am I missing here?
what is my lesson?”

and in the silence was..

what if there is no lesson?

if there’s nothing to attach this to, no meaning in why theses events are happening right now, do you still trust that you are taken care of?
that you are supported?

maybe you aren’t supposed to know the “why”.

without knowing everything, do you still believe?

sometimes it is just a broken down car.

that’s it.

no other meaning.

not a punishment.

not a sign.

the ‘lesson’ being, do you still believe you are held in the Divine when we can’t mind map this to some greater purpose.

can you let go of trying to understand every event, and trust that life sometimes is just the experience of life.

can you allow yourself to be fully present in the moment of joy, when it immediately follows rage.. or are you stuck in the rage because you are trying to understand why it happened in the first place?

can you let emotion live and breathe and have validity, without anchoring yourself to the narrative because you need to understand its’ purpose?

truly feeling into the words,
“it all exists at once.”

📸 from the archives from my radiant sister

01/20/2025

it’s all coming in now

how I want to breathe life into the story

into our story

how I want to remember you

and it means I have to keep the wound open

to walk back in and sit in the space carved out by our making over the years

but I want to remember

I want to relive it, all of it

if it means I get to relive you

in a way that pays tribute to the love that will exist in eternity

across the veil

beyond these bodies

beyond the tortured mess we made of it here

in a way that is honest to my soul and yours

to every real, raw and true feeling that comes with finding your ‘across lifetimes’ lover again

only to learn you will not live this lifetime together

it’s all coming in now

your words

weaving with mine

to bring to life a story

that only we will ever understand

12/17/2024

‘Tis the season.

Feeling my instinctual hibernation pulling at me, and readiness to call all parts of me into my deeper dream scapes and inner worlds.

Leaning into a new relationship with the dark season, and love for these quiet months of retreat that I can’t get to soon enough.

Wishing everyone deep peace and nourishment over the Winter Solstice, days of Yule, and into the winter still ahead.

Blessed dreaming.
✨

10/30/2024

Shape shifting..
Shedding snake skin..
Death/Rebirthing..
Trying on and expressing every changing season of you..
Any name about renewal that feels true to you..
Pt. 1

Two years ago I thought I was the most me I’ve ever been.
Truth. I was in that moment.

I felt an expression of me, or how I’m viewing it, an archetype, moving through me asking to be embodied. I welcomed her in. Deep exhales of relief that I’ve finally discovered myself and the elusive mystery of “who am I?”
I believed she would unpack her bags and stay with me for this lifetime. I felt comfortable with her, safe and understood with her arrival at this point in my life.

Then a reminder that the only thing constant is change.

That archetypes do not unpack and move in. The ‘home’ of an archetype is in the fluidity of boundless movement and shapeshifting. They are to be embodied without containment, allowing their essence to reflect and express through you.
I was reminded of this last winter as I was pulled into cold depths of the deepest pool of unfamiliar water – yet I know now it was not as deep as I still will have to go.

I was completely resistant. There was nothing recognizable to me, most notably myself. The safety and comfortability of my previous self was gone. Who I was in company with was both someone I’ve tried to escape from, and someone I have never met.
I had moments of believing my choice was to stay there, with familiar and unfamiliar; recklessness and anger.

But there was someone sitting by the edge, of the surface of the pool – waiting. She wouldn’t let me stay down there any longer than what was needed to befriend my dark water companions.

I feel her as another archetype, another layer of self, ready to be reflected and expressed..
📸 the artwork of the creatrix .mae.photography at
🎵 the artist & album that held me through the darker waters, that came out exactly one year ago

10/01/2024

In the past I have struggled with how to describe my style of treatment, usually resorting to something like “I treat your nervous system” or “I am not a ‘no-pain, no-gain’ kind of practitioner”.

Today I was able to be fully in that practice when a dear friend I do trades with needed to receive. As I was treating her and in dialogue with her body and nervous system, I’m thinking to myself how much I wish words could come from my hands to articulate the experience they are having with my friend, to try and better explain this kind of treatment. This is me trying to relay the experience, and just my love and appreciation for the human body.

Her sympathetic nervous system was very stimulated from being in a prolonged space of over-extending herself; someone who is also in the work of giving, and in general a nurturing, energetic mother to all those around her.
She is already in a beautiful, ever developing and deepening relationship with her physical, energetic and somatic bodies. Her nervous system is regulated, and she knows that the new “kink” in her neck is her body communicating that she has let her boundaries soften and has given too much of herself.

When you already have this type of relationship with your body, all I’m doing when my hands are on you is helping you ground back into the physical body that is asking you to slow down, follow your breath, bring the conversation out of your head and into your body.
The higher your sympathetic response, the slower my hands move.

I could feel where the “knot” or energetic/emotional resistance was in her body, behind her neck, making itself known and vocalizing to be paid attention to.
The last thing her nervous system needs right now is for me to start rubbing at this point in her body like I’m trying to remove a mark with a worn out eraser. Her body is doing everything it can to protect her from the threat her nervous system has picked up on; the stress, the anxiety, the exhaustion.

Nothing about what I am doing is changing the physical composition of her muscles – she will not leave here without that taut, guitar string feeling in her muscle. But I can help guide her deeper into her parasympathetic response so that her body, her breath, her regulation can start to heal itself, and through that send signals of safety to her muscles. But it’s not from the external – it comes from her creating her own safe space in her body so her the muscles can soften and release their grip.

As the treatment goes on I can feel the protective barrier start to come down, as her tissues become more receptive and receiving of touch. The change is like going from the resistance of a trampoline to stepping barefoot on the soft, sponginess of Earth that is healthy and hydrated and nourished.

Because she already has a deep relationship and dialogue with her body, she also opened up to the emotional release that was asking to be experienced. To be able to witness someone in such dialogue and relation with their body, witness this journey they take themselves on and come back from is the absolute magic of these human houses we’ve been given. To see someone connect their spirit with the physical and allllll of the human emotions, feelings, and sensations that come with this body – this is why I have chosen to work in this way. It’s not about changing the shape or composition of your muscles, it’s about guiding you into a safe container to have a conversation with your body about what it is trying to communicate with you.

I want to share that I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to give or receive a massage. But this is the way that makes sense in my body; as a practitioner, as a receiver, as a friend or partner learning to co-regulate without co-dependence, and as a human trying to strengthen the divine union relationship with her somatic and spirit bodies.

09/10/2024

I have been bursting to share this information, waiting till I returned from my little trip to the coast to tie things up there, and collect the rest of myself to bring her back home ✨

Next week I start at offering massage therapy & energy work.

This space feels like home.

Like everything I’ve been looking for in Edmonton woven into one beautiful community garden - the gratitude moving through my body that I get to plant seeds here is pouring over and I am so ready to share that through sacred touch again.

I will be there Monday, Thursday and Friday afternoons/evenings. The link for booking appointments is up in my bio.

Looking forward to making new connections, seeing familiar faces and weaving myself into this community that my soul has been vibrating towards since I’ve landed back here 🌱

09/03/2024

This week I’m venturing back to Vancouver to close the chapter on my life there.
I’d been holding onto some items from my clinic space that I was resistant to let go of, keeping my things there in hopes that I would make my way back, even though I know in my bones my time on the west coast has come to and end for now.. holding onto this version of my life.

The more I held on, the more I was comparing my life now to what was, and not allowing myself to be open to different possibilities (and there have been so many!)

It took time to arrive at the place of acceptance, to release everything there. Sell all of my belongings, except for a few boxes of memorables that will fit in my tiny car - and maybe that giant birds of paradise I love so much 🌿

It’s a beautiful full circle coming to completion.. when I was 21 I made the decision to leave everything in Edmonton in very short notice, sell my car and my best friend drove me out to Victoria with whatever of my belongings would fit in her car, and dropped me off at a house with 5 other roommates.
I remember her saying to me, when we went up to my tiny office style room “we can take you right back if you want Megan, you don’t have to stay here.”

I ended up living in Victoria for over 7 years; started to discover who I was when I was removed from my comfort, made new kinds of connections, I started to build a relationship with myself and spirituality, dove into yoga and reiki, took my yoga teacher training, started running, went to Massage Therapy school, and later moved to Vancouver and started my business. The business that led me back to empowering myself, back to my connection with my body, cycle, intuition and becoming more rooted in who I am.. that guided me to find my community - which has reaches all over, not just the west coast.

Over a decade later, I’m coming back, with whatever of my belongings will fit in my car, with another soul sister beside me in this transition. Back to my birth place, which in this death/rebirth cycle I’ve been processing makes complete sense. To come back home, to be reborn again and begin another cycle.

I don’t know where it’s going to take me - but one of my mentors used to ask me “when have you done something like this before, and list all the ways it has worked out for you.”

Remember all of the ways you have listened to intuition, and how it has shown you that you will always be guided home - whatever form home takes ✨

08/23/2024

hello! ✨

This past year has been full; of deep lows, change, coming back home (literally and spiritually) surrendering to things out of my control, and accountability and ownership for my choices.

My choice to leave the west coast and come back home; to step away from my work and business for the time being and to return to hospitality; to move back in with my parents and allow myself to be supported by people who love me.
Surrendering to waves of depression, to rage, anger, bitterness and isolation. Understanding that they are a part of my process, but not getting stuck in these emotions. Allowing them space to enter, move through, and leave the body.

It’s been almost a year since I left the west coast to head off on my planned trip (or escape) to Ireland, and instead ended up landing back home in Alberta. It took me almost a year to see the bigger picture, why Ireland actually came to me. It is still a part of the plan in the future, but it was not meant to happen now. However, I don’t think I ever would have left the west coast if I didn’t have another mystical place tempting me to leave, and I definitely would not have left willingly to come back home to Edmonton, which is where I actually needed to be during this process I’ve been moving through.

The transition back has been resistant, avoidant, humbling and challenged my ability to BE open. I was very much shown where I was stubborn in my ways of thinking, where I am judgemental, of myself and this place that is home, and where I am not actually open to being in flow.
It was and is a really hard mirror to look into.

The last decade I created a new home for myself on the coast, and clung onto what that meant.
And it doesn’t mean anything, except I had habits of looking outside of myself for home.

This last year, as I tried to peel my hands open to surrender, I started to connect with the land that is the truth of what ‘Edmonton’ is, I connected with my community that held me up as I was trying to push everyone away.

This last year, as I tried to peel my hands open to stop clinging for dear life onto something that was clearly telling me the chapter was over, I started to connect with the land that is the truth of what ‘Edmonton’ is, I connected with my community that held me up as I was trying to push everyone away.

It was a deep soul winter, and I needed to step away to fully be in the process I was moving through, without trying to mask it or rush myself through something that will never have a timeline of completion.

And now I’m being called back to start doing my work again, slowly and mindfully, with the feeling of my feet actually on the ground. With the understanding that the things I experienced last winter will come up again, and I will give myself permission to step away to be with myself when it does.

With all of that, I have so much excitement and “yes” moving through my body to share that I will be doing Intuitive Massage at the Meet Your Soul Magic September 13th & 14th at the beautiful Luna Rosa venue.
As well as starting to work out of the most magical fairy garden oasis I could be blessed enough to have found on this journey I’m on.

It took me a while to arrive here, but I am so grateful for the ways I’ve been welcomed back home, and I am so looking forward to being more intentionally rooted in the community here 🤍

01/10/2024

In case you need to hear it..

It is ok if the modern day calendar says it’s almost two weeks into the “new year” and you feel like you are J U S T settling into your deep winter rest…

It is ok if your everyday focus was to get up, and get through the grief, stress, and loneliness that can come for some through the holidays, a time that screams at you to find cheer and joy…

It is ok that you don’t have any idea what your “goals” are for this year, that maybe your main goal is to find joy & bliss in your life again and that it can’t be measured by some green tick mark beside a resolutions list…

It is ok that while the rest of the world is diving into the new year buzz, you are feeling like you can barely get a spark going…

Mother Earth is not in her New Year… she is deep in wintering, settled into her rest, churning & keeping herself warm below the frost & snow.

She is quiet.
Still.
Right in the middle of her darkest months.

There are no signs of emergence, or new birth and growth.

The slightest change we see is the subtle lengthening of light.. a slow stretch, a yawn, blinking an eye open… and then laying back down.

So if you are feeling like you are behind because you don’t have your list written out for 2024, or even know how to process 2023 yet… you are right on time, you are exactly where you are called to be.

You are in flow with the Great Mother and her wintering energy.
We are still in the depths of darkness and the months of stillness.

If you are feeling like it is still a struggle to get through the days, never mind create a list of ambitions for this year and visualize who, what or where you want to be.. I see you.
I am right here with you.

Take your rest.
Allow your energy to sync with that of Mother Earth.

And when the energetic new year creeps up, you’ll feel it deep in your bones.

The stirring and anticipation of rebirth - that it is time to wake up, to climb out of the dark incubator that has held you through your wintering, and into the New Year, new growth and new layer of self that you have been co-creating alongside Mother Earth.

11/28/2023

Next week I start teaching yoga again, at in Leduc ✨

The class I am offering is ‘Embodied Flow’

To be embodied is to feel at home in your body. To be able to listen and feel into all of the sensations, to be present and connected in a safe way to your somatic (physical) body, soul, and spirit.

In this class we slow the flow, to spend more time in postures and ground into our breath & body's experience. We will move through traditional yoga shapes and postures, and nonlinear postures, encouraging you to listen to the ways your body wants to be moved and to express that.

Symbolism, mysticism, or sacred story will always be woven into the class theme in some way.

Friday mornings
9am-10am

Looking forward to immersing into this community 💕

The magical malas & photos from this creative collaboration are from .folk &
Both beautiful Vancouver based souls & creators
✨

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