Meet Marissa
A Practice Built Around You.
Certified Yoga Therapist · Trained in Yoga & Tantric Philosophy
Every Yoga Therapy practice is created around you—your unique physical needs, mental and emotional patterns, nervous system, and the way energy flows through your body.
My work is grounded in thoughtful assessment, deep listening, and an understanding of the science of the nervous system. Together, we create a practice that supports your unique goals, restores balance, and honours where you are in your journey.
Based in Coquitlam and serving the Vancouver Lower Mainland, my practice is fully mobile and adaptive — shaped to meet a range of environments and people. I’m also available to travel internationally for private work and retreats.
— Marissa Rajpaul, Certified Yoga Therapist
Yoga Therapy
The tools of yoga, offered with warmth and care.
Every session begins with listening — to your goals, your body, and what’s asking to be met. From there, we shape a practice that supports healing, restores balance, and reconnects you with your own steadiness.
Therapeutic Movement (Āsana)
Gentle, precisely-guided postures that meet your body where it is — supporting mobility, strength, and pain reduction.
Prāṇāyāma & Breath
Breath practices that regulate Prāṇa — your lifeforce energy — which is essential to balance in body, mind, and health.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Simple, sustainable practices for clarity, emotional regulation, and inner steadiness.
Therapeutic Touch
Gentle, hands-on support to help release tension, soften the nervous system, and encourage the body's natural repair.
Lifestyle Guidance
Individualized suggestions for rhythm, rest, and daily habits that support your natural capacity to heal.
Lifeforce energy isn’t often spoken about — yet without it, we wouldn’t be alive. It can be disrupted by trauma, stress, not enough movement, hindered breathing, or poor sleep. So much of this work is quietly returning that current home.
Group Offerings
Upcoming Yoga Therapy Classes.
Alongside individualized sessions, small themed classes are offered regularly — designed around specific needs and gathered rhythms of practice.
Nervous System Regulation
A steady weekly rhythm of breath, gentle movement, and stillness — designed to help the body return to its natural rest state.
Stability in Body & Practice
For those building a sustainable relationship with their body — grounding, strengthening, and creating quiet confidence in the practice.
Deep Rest & Rejuvenation
For active, busy lives — a longer, softer session focused on restoration, breath, and deep parasympathetic rest.
The Approach
Balance & Wellness
Each of us has the capacity to express our unique qualities in healthy, balanced ways. We also all have patterns that can become imbalanced—often so gradually that we don’t recognize them until they begin affecting our physical health, emotional wellbeing, relationships, or other areas of life.
Many of the qualities that are our greatest strengths can, when pushed to an extreme or left unsupported, become our greatest challenges. Likewise, what initially appears to be a challenge often contains the seed of a profound strength when brought back into balance.
Optional · Astrology
A tool for self-reflection, never for labels or predictions.
Whether we explore these patterns through Yoga Therapy, lifestyle, self-inquiry, or—if it resonates with you—astrology, the intention is never to judge or define you. Rather, it is to cultivate greater awareness of your natural tendencies, helping you recognize where you are already in harmony and where you may benefit from practices that restore greater balance, resilience, and wellbeing.
If astrology resonates with you, Marissa can incorporate your natal chart as one of several optional tools. For example, we might explore your Mars placement — a symbolic lens on drive, motivation, vitality, courage, and how you respond to challenge.
Natural Strengths
Enthusiasm, confidence, initiative, and courage. Acts with natural spark and inspires forward motion.
Potential Challenges
Impatience, impulsivity, or burnout if not balanced with restoration.
We can also look at the house where Mars is placed — a symbolic map of the life areas (relationships, career, family, creativity, spirituality, finances, learning) where this energy naturally seeks expression. These explorations are not used to label, predict, or diagnose you. Rather, they provide a thoughtful framework for self-reflection.