Qoya
Qoya classes are based on the idea that through movement we remember.
We remember our essence is wise, wild and free.
Wise
Calling on the wisdom of yoga.
Wild
The creative expression in dance.
Free
Expanding our capacity to enjoy being in our bodies through feminine movement.
Qoya is designed to feel how the body and movement are a portal to remembering, to feel our perspective shifts from going through the motions to savoring life as sacred.
Qoya does this through classes, workshops, rituals, retreats/pilgrimages, teacher trainings, offering free videos online, and a blog in hopes that all that feel the call to remember can be supported on their journey.
Qoya invites new ways of being to be expressed as a woman in her life.
- Ways we can build our strength: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.
- Ways we can be flexible: not only in our hamstrings, but in the flow of our day.
- Ways we can be agile: like a child who falls down and gets right back up.
- Ways we can savor: an exhale that takes us into a hip circle of remembering the gift of being a woman.
- Ways we can love and honor: what is — as it is — and still dare to dream bigger dreams.
Ways we can say yes!
We dance with purpose and abandon.
We dance like our ancestors around a fire.
We dance with joy and enthusiasm
We dance without reservation.
We dance because we can no longer not dance.
We dance to amazing music from around the world, knowing what Nietzsche says, “music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.”
We reach out to our community, empower ourselves physically, clarify our intentions, and dance with our desires. In doing so, we activate a movement of women who connect with their essence as wise, wild, and free.
We stand for the embodiment and feeling of more feminine ways of being that include but are not limited to deep transcendent love, intuition, transparency, self-expression, and radiance.
We encourage one another to shine confidently as a woman who knows she is wise, wild and free.
“My first experience with Qoya was at a retreat in Costa Rica. It was during a difficult time in my life. I had that ache for something more than what society had told me would make me happy.
I remember meeting the other women at the retreat. I had that feeling that I found my people, finally. We spoke the same language, I was seen and heard. It was amazing. But the biggest thing Qoya did for me was reconnect me with myself, my authentic, truest self, and I loved her. I didn’t want to lose that and I really wanted other women to feel their own beautiful truth. Make a life with our authenticity as our compass, our guide. It’s one of those things that is hard to put into words, but when you know, you know.”