Latest Features

What is Nia dance?

Jun 27, 2025

Find out more about this dance-based practice to help you move and heal and find joy!

Yoga for you - our yoga pass explained

Jun 25, 2025

Flexible passes & a summer offer - perfect for your summer yoga schedule! Discover yoga for all at Maitri Studio.

Belonging - the gift of community

Jun 13, 2025

Thank you to our supporters who donated to the Maitri Studio marathon team relay!

Yoga with a stick! Chair practice ideas.

Jun 05, 2025

Some poses enjoyed by chair yoga students when we use a broomstick!

Five yoga poses for runners

Mar 03, 2025

We're entering a team into the Belfast City marathon relay so we thought we'd share these poses for fellow runners out there!

Easy like Sunday morning

Feb 27, 2025

Sunday morning yoga at a quiet time for you to practice and start your day well.

Open practice yoga sessions

Feb 07, 2025

Join a group practice session - Tuesdays 8-9.30am or Thursdays 7.30-9am

Yoga equipment for sale (Dec2024 update)

Dec 11, 2024

Yoga equipment for sale at Maitri Studio.

National Iyengar Yoga Day - what it is all about?

Nov 28, 2024

Find out more about National Iyengar Yoga Day - and then join a free class!

Mysore practice comes to Maitri Studio

Aug 27, 2024

Gabriella from The Yoga Tree brings Mysore Yoga to Maitri Studio

Cake recipes!

Feb 26, 2024

Our cakes were devoured enthusiastically at the open day and many of you asked for recipes, so here they are!

Maitri's 10th anniversary open day fundraiser

Jan 17, 2024

Can you believe we're 10 years old?! We're celebrating with some maitri (loving kindness, friendship) and an open day with charity fundraiser.

Why try Iyengar yoga?

Apr 25, 2023

Find out how you might benefit from starting Iyengar yoga as a beginner, or in addition to your existing practice.

Developing a personal practice

Jan 23, 2023

Do you practice regularly? Would you like to? What stops you? Maybe these ideas will help.

Maitri Studio on social media

Aug 31, 2022

Help us use social media well to keep you informed and spread the word about beautiful offerings at Maitri Studio!

An Introduction to Kirtan and its Benefits

Aug 25, 2022

KIRTAN – the art of chanting mantras to music, is from the Bhakti path of yoga - a means to reconnecting with your truest essential nature that the ancient yogis say is one of peace, love, joy, steadiness and bliss.

Our macramé commission

May 03, 2022

Many of you have noticed and complimented us on the new wall hanging outside Maple & Lily rooms upstairs, so we thought we’d tell you more

Mindfulness for those affected by a cancer diagnosis

Apr 08, 2022

Learn about a mindfulness approach to working with a cancer diagnosis

Updated covid precautions

Sept 29, 2021

Maitri Studio as coronavirus restrictions are relaxed

Which class for me?

Aug 24, 2021

How do I choose which class will work for me? Here are some ideas to help!

Mindfulness based stress reduction with Fiona

Aug 06, 2021

What is mindfulness-based stress reduction and why I trained to teach it...

Summer @ Maitri Studio

Jul 09, 2021

What's on in July & August

Online classes for lockdown#3

Feb 18, 2021

Find out what online classes are available with the freelance teachers who would normally be at Maitri Studio.

Asd Stretching With Young Child May 2017

Special Yoga @ Maitri Studio

Aug 06, 2020

Special yoga for people with a variety of additional needs including autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, Down’s Syndrome, learning disability/ difficulties and other challenges.

Maitri Studio online offerings

Mar 30, 2020

Some Maitri Studio teachers are offering online practice and content for you

Iyengar yoga home practice

Mar 30, 2020

We offer some ideas for home practice for our Iyengar yoga and other students at Maitri Studio

The Maitri Collective - a space for freelance teachers

Jan 29, 2020

Find out about how we work at Maitri, providing space for freelance teachers, and how best to get in touch

Seniors (60+) give yoga inspiration at Maitri!

Nov 08, 2019

Long time teacher Susan and her students, many of whom are senior citizens, extol the benefits of a yoga practice

Training opportunities for yoga teachers at Maitri Studio

Oct 13, 2019

There are several opportunities to develop your practice and teaching with us at Maitri Studio

East Belfast Yoga Festival 2019!

Aug 25, 2019

Join us for our second East Belfast's first yoga festival, which we're organising with Yoga Quarter and East Belfast Community Development Agency

Maitri musings: Isvara pranidhana (merging into love)

Apr 26, 2019

Relax and release into the infinite present

Maitri musings: svadhyaya (self study)

Apr 11, 2019

Know thyself - understand your tendencies so you can progress in your practice

Maitri musings: tapas (sustained practice)

Apr 01, 2019

Keeping the inner fires burning, the discipline of tapas in practice

Inspired by a poem

Feb 27, 2019

When we are still, the answers appear, and we can avoid stepping in the holes!

Maitri musings: santosha (contentment)

Feb 18, 2019

Finding inner satisfaction, content with who we are and what we have.

Local artwork cards for sale (Feb 2019)

Feb 14, 2019

Support local mental health charity with these beautiful cards for your friends

Maitri musings: saucha (purity)

Feb 11, 2019

Finding purity lets joyful awareness and peace arise naturally.

Maitri musings: aparigraha (non-grasping)

Feb 04, 2019

Practice without expectation of reward is liberating!

Maitri musings: brahmacharya (right use of energy)

Jan 28, 2019

How do we consider wise use of energy in our lives and practice?

Maitri musings: asteya (non-stealing)

Jan 21, 2019

Claire considers how we might approach generosity in practice

Maitri musings: find your truth

Jan 14, 2019

Satya: learning to be honest with ourselves

Maitri musings: ahimsa (non-violence)

Jan 07, 2019

Thoughts on bringing non-violence into your practice

Maitri musings: the yamas and niyamas

Jan 01, 2019

For me, the yamas and niyamas, the first two limbs of Patanjali’s eightfold yoga path, provide structure and perspective

Compassion through the darkness to light

Dec 04, 2018

Read Patricia's top tips to get your energy flowing, boost your immune system and find a sense of connectedness this winter. Regain your child-like wonder to be moved by the magic of sparkly lights and crystal snowflakes - no matter how dark and grey the world may seem!

Practice makes perfect

Aug 20, 2018

Updated: open yoga practice sessions!

The mighty Maitri - finding your calm space starting a business

Jul 12, 2018

Claire and Geoff share their refreshingly honest experience of setting up a new business.

What to look for from your yoga teacher?

Jan 13, 2018

How do you decide which teacher to go to?

My yoga nature

Feb 21, 2017

Why I feel that practising tree pose is contributing to global, not just personal, sanity and health

Neil Porteous on attaining perfection in the garden

Feb 22, 2016

An article by Neil Porteous, who shares a gardener's natural optimism about how plants should behave in a new garden design

Resolving to practice

Dec 31, 2015

Already getting nervous about sticking to New Year's resolutions? I am...

Behind our logo

Dec 30, 2015

Find out what our logo signifies for us

What's in a name?

Dec 26, 2015

We're often asked about the word maitri: how to pronounce it and what it means

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Maitri Studio Limited
4 The Mount, Belfast, BT5 4NA

Tel: +44 (0)28 9099 2428
Email: [email protected]

Company number: NI635546