About

May Nogoy in collaboration with experienced practicioners offer healing modalities in support of personal well being and deeper relation to others and nature.

Sound is held as a subtle practice. Through vibration and frequency, it supports parasympathetic response, emotional regulation, and mental clarity allowing the system to settle into coherence.

Tea is approached as a disciplined path of service and simplicity, held with respect for living tea as medicine for a meditative mind.

Alongside community offerings include private sessions, retreats, in-residence service, and collaborations integrated with care, discretion, and long-term consideration.

Sessions are held within Pacific Place Apartments in partnership with The Upper House, as well as through off-site retreats and collaborations.

At our core is a simple understanding: when attention is steady, the body settles; when the body settles, clarity returns.

Did we make the right choices?

It’s a question usually asked too late, too quietly, or not at all. And yet it sits at the center of leadership, parenting, wellness, and policy alike. The irony is that we spend years optimizing strategy, while the most consequential decisions are often made in moments of fatigue, love, or fear. Progress, it seems, depends less on certainty and more on the courage to pause and listen.

The Sacred Stream was created as a response to that pause.

After many years working in the worlds of wellness, education, and leadership, I noticed a pattern that transcended culture and profession: people were not lacking intelligence or capability, they were lacking space. Space to hear themselves think. Space to feel without urgency. Space to return to what is essential before moving forward again. Space to remember.

Water teaches us this. At its source, it is still. As a stream, it moves with intelligence, adapting, shaping, nourishing without force. Life does not rush water, and yet everything depends on it.

The Sacred Stream exists to mirror that wisdom. It is not a place to escape life, but a place to meet it with generosity and grace. Through sound, breath, tea, mindful making, and shared presence, the work here invites a recalibration - one that restores the human spirit not through effort, but through attention, and with this comes appreciation.

I believe that when individuals return to their own source, they make better choices for themselves, for others, and for the systems they influence which thus in turn gives back to the source. In this way, personal wellbeing becomes inseparable from collective wellbeing. A regenerative culture begins not with grand declarations, but with subtle, sincere acts of listening.

This is an offering for those who lead, care, create, and carry responsibility - for families, organizations, communities, and futures not yet known. A space to return. A place to pause. A gift of presence, like water, is always available when we allow ourselves to slow down enough to realise, remember, give & receive it.

In service,

May Nogoy

About May:

May is in gratitude for the countless wisdom keepers, masters, and teachers that have supported her in helping shape Hong Kong’s wellness landscape. With over 1000RYT-ERYT, teaching yoga for 25 years since arriving HK 2002 a foundational yoga teacher at PURE. By invitation of the Indian Consulate Gen. annual returning teacher in celebration of International Yoga Day at Asia Society. May served 6yrsYoga Pop for domestic helpers. Co-created The Garden Gathering, a three-day nature-based retreat for women and children - attendees such as Beyonce’s lead guitarist Bibi McGill in attendance alongside Interntional volunteers for peace. She spent ten years guiding teens in yoga, meditation, and tea ceremony at Hong Kong International School as part of the Humanities & SPEX programme. After five cycles curating wellness for the IRIS Festival, helped develop Five Elements Habitat, over the course of 3years - birthing an urban sanctuary with dedicated spaces for sound healing, tea, spa, and plant-based dining. Since 2016, May has been a dedicated tea practitioner in the lineage of Global Tea Hut, deepening her study of Zen, nature, and service. May later served as wellness advisor to NUANU Bali and 8 months former successor at GOOD Yoga where she facilitated community GOOD vibrations sound journeys some saying was the “most profound experiences of their lives” - FORBES. May resided at Middle House in Shanghai as chief ambassador of JOY in a panel discussion, also offering yoga, sound healing, opening and closing ceremony for Upper House Wellness - House of Healing. Her three-year teaware pottery practice has become a grounding contemplative craft and is core founder MUDhouse HK pottery studio. Today, she brings her integrated expertise into The Sacred Stream, wellness residency partner at Upper House a source for practices that restore clarity, presence, and well-being.

A woman practicing yoga or meditation on rocks by a calm river during sunset or sunrise, with lush green trees on the opposite riverbank.

May lives and serves in Hong Kong.

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