Dear Dancers of Light, I hope this finds each of you doing well in whichever season it is in your heart. Maybe you’re feeling like hibernating and contracting like winter in the morning and warm and expressive like the summer in the evening. Maybe filled with enthusiasm and the sparkle of possibility like spring when [...]
Know the places that recharge your spirit. Know the people who inspire your life. Know the movements that refuel your soul. If I asked you the three places in the world where you feel the most like you- would you know what they are? The places where you feel deeply grounded? The places where you [...]
Happy New Year Darling Dancers! A quick note to wish you a magical New Year. May the blessings that you put into the world boomerang back to you a million fold. Here’s also an invitation to join me in my New Year’s ritual this year. I sat down and wrote my top 11 gratitudes for [...]
My holiday gift to myself this year is a one way ticket to paradise. I’m talking about paradise literally AND figuratively. Literally, I bought a one-way ticket to Hawaii. Starting January 2nd, I am leading the New Year’s Qoya Kauai Retreat. After that, I’m still open to the universe/spirit/god/goddess/my intuition to guide me. Figuratively, I [...]
I am a free woman, unbound and limitless in my capacity to revel in and receive pleasure. So are you. This is 3 of 3 in a series of blog posts that focuses on the essence of each of the core expressions of Qoya: wise, wild and free. Hands down, one of the most powerful ways a [...]
I had just moved to New York when I got a phone call from my mom that my Grandma was in the hospital and not doing well. I asked to speak with the nurse who said, “Even if you leave on the next plane, I don’t think you’ll make it.” Two hours later I was [...]
Today, March 5th, is my mother’s birthday. (Happy Birthday Mom!) When thinking of what to gift her on this day, I started to reflect on what she has gifted me. As I look back on my childhood, two things stand out. The first is the millions of times she said to me, “You can do [...]
One of my last nights in Costa Rica I was lying in bed distraught, despondent and, in a way, delusional. I was beyond upset. There was no logical reason for me to be under the covers at 7:30pm (while in a warm beautiful tropical country in December while my contemporaries were snowed in during a [...]
Don’t let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall. -Lyrics from Bermuda Highway by My Morning Jacket It’s that time of year again. The time to reflect on the year past and set intentions for the year to come. In addition to Christmas, some of you may have [...]
In the spirit of the holiday season, let’s get it on. Get it on? As in sex, sensual pleasure, orgasms? Sure, why not? True or false: Sex is one of the most ecstatic physical, mental, emotional, spiritual experiences you can have. True- especially when you know yourself well enough to be able to ask for [...]
a: Quechan word for Queen, a female manifestation of higher consciousness
b: the art of reveling in one’s femininity through movement;
c: rediscovering the woman that is wise, wild and free
