ABOUT MAIA WELLNESS

WE STARTED WITH A SIMPLE BELIEF:

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The tools that change people's lives should be available during the hours they spend most of their time.

MAIA WELLNESS WAS BUILT TO MAKE THAT POSSIBLE

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Most wellness practices exist outside of work. You find them on weekends, in studios, in apps you open when you remember to.

We wanted to change that. Not by simplifying the work, but by bringing it into the environment where people need it most.

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←LEAH

Certified Mindful Art and Meditation Teacher

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT)

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MADI →

Certified MBG Health and Wellness Coach

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT)

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Meet the founders of Maia Wellness, Leah and Madi. Leah was born and raised in Ireland but now resides in Pittsburgh, where Madi is native. They met at a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and connected over their ambition of introducing wellness into everyone’s lives.

Behavior Change Psychology

Trauma-Sensitive Neuroscience

Mindfulness & Meditation

Yoga Philosophy

Mind-body Rools & Habit Formation

Teaching Methodology

Anatomy & Physiology

Personal & Professional Developement

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WHAT WE BELIEVE:

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Work is a significant part of a human life. Not just in hours, but in weight. What people experience at work shapes how they feel, how they think, and who they are by the time they get home. That is not a small thing.

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And it means organizations carry more influence over human wellbeing than most of them realize. We believe that influence should be used deliberately.

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Burnout is not inevitable. Disengagement is not a personality flaw. Chronic stress is not the price of ambition. These are conditions. And conditions can be changed when organizations make the decision to change them.

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THE CASE FOR THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

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Everything we do at Maia Wellness works through one mechanism: nervous system regulation.

When a person is chronically stressed, their biology is working against them ↘

They are reactive instead of responsive.

They cannot access their creativity, their patience, or their best thinking.

They make decisions from a place of overwhelm.

Their body is in sustained activation, prioritizing survival over performance.

Regulation changes that.

Not through willpower or positive thinking, but through the body itself. Specific breathing techniques shift the physiological state in minutes. Intentional movement releases the tension that accumulates across a workday. Meditation builds the capacity to observe pressure rather than be consumed by it.

These are not abstract ideas. They are documented, repeatable biological shifts. And when they happen consistently, they stop being something you do in a session and start being how you move through the world.

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WHY CONSISTENCY IS EVERYTHING

Most wellness programs fail not because the content is wrong but because they are not built to last.

A workshop is forgotten by Friday.
An app collects dust.
A quarterly seminar creates a brief moment of intention that dissolves the moment the next crisis arrives.

We built Maia Wellness around a different model. Sessions on the calendar, every week, at a time the team can count on.

Not an event, a practice.

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A single session can change an afternoon.

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A consistent practice changes a person.

The kind of practice that compounds quietly over time until the team that showed up three months ago is noticeably different from the one showing up today.

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THE RIPPLE EFFECT

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WE HAVE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS

When one person in a team learns to regulate under pressure. They respond instead of react. They bring steadiness into difficult conversations. They recover faster from setbacks. They make better decisions and then go home and sleep better.

Now put that person next to eleven others who have the same tools.

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Builds a kind of cohesion that cannot be manufactured through a retreat agenda or a culture initiative. It develops through shared experience, repeated over time, until the practice becomes part of who they are as a group.

A TEAM THAT PRACTICES TOGETHER

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The team becomes more:

RESILIENT

CREATIVE

CAPABLE

And that is what the organization above them becomes too.

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THIS IS THE RIPPLE EFFECT WE ARE BUILDING WITH EVERY SESSION WE FACILITATE.

WHAT WE ARE NOT

A gym membership your employees will stop using in February.

An app that sits unopened on a phone.

A one-day workshop that generates goodwill and no lasting change.

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WHAT WE ARE:

CONSISTENT

So it becomes a practice.

EXPERT-LED

So it actually works.

PRACTICAL

So anyone can do it.

RIGOROUS