Join us

What is QOYA?

QOYA INSPIRED MOVEMENT is based on the idea that through movement, we remember. We remember, as women, we are like nature— wise, wild, and free.

WISE ~ Calls on the wisdom traditions and practices of yoga, meditation, stillness, rest, and contemplative practices that all guide us into our inner knowing.

WILD ~ Invokes the intuitive, creative, authentic expression of dance to move how we feel, not based on what it looks like, but instead reflects the honesty in how we feel at any moment.

FREE ~ The choice of freedom: to feel pleasure in our bodies, to find the places that feel good to move, nourishing our ability to to follow and trust those places. Offering our body the option to move intuitively, sensually, and slowly.

These ancient essences lead us to feel a connection, a homecoming with the sacred pulse of life within us always. When we can connect to this pulse, we honor it and express it with greater clarity + joy; we find and feel our center, our true north. QOYA is designed to help us feel how the body and our movements are portals to remembering that guide us from going through the motions to savoring life as sacred.

There is NO WAY to do QOYA “wrong,” you know you are doing it “right” if your movement feels honest and you stay connected to yourself through the process. In QOYA we often say that it is not about how it looks and it is ALL ABOUT HOW IT FEELS. We trust the feelings and sensations in our bodies as we use them to guide our dance and our life. Feeling can be scary and hard to do— especially if we have a pattern to numb, dissociate, dissociate, or there is stuck energy, or trauma in our bodies. In Qoya, we offer a trauma-informed space to move slowly and sustainably so that our nervous system can integrate and titrate the experiences and sensations so that we can unlearn conditioning and express from the depth of the body.

Qoya has been a lifeline this last decade of my life. I have come to see, feel, and know that this practice is reliably healing and helpful in navigating life challenges. I look forward to sharing how movement can be medicine for you!

Come trust your body as a pathway!

Sincerely,
Tawny

Through movement we remember

Qoya Related Blogs