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’ve been back from Costa Rica for about a week and I am still Feeling Good. Hands down, without comparison, the Qoya Retreat in Costa Rica was one of the best weeks of my life. Qoya is based on the idea that through movement, we remember. We remember, that our essence is Wise, Wild and [...]
A woman stopped me on the street near Union Square in New York City last week offering to save my soul. She wasn’t your ordinary missionary. In addition to bringing Jesus into your heart, she said it is also imperative that you give yourself fully to the Divine Mother. This is new. Being a woman [...]
Our souls are yearning for something that is real. Something that resonates as truth. Something sacred. You know those moments that take you out of the mundane and into the mystical. When you see the green flash during a sunset, experience a mind-blowing orgasm, are transported by an amazing book, savor a delicious bite of [...]
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 [...]
Hello, I love you, won’t you tell me your name? As we’re getting to know one another, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rochelle Schieck. I live in New York. I believe that through movement we remember. We remember that we are inherently wise, wild and free. I encourage women through my Qoya [...]
Yes, it’s true. I’m quoting Earth, Wind and Fire. But, stay with me. I recently heard Barbara Biziou, author of The Joy of Ritual, speak and she said something along the lines of, “Our lives have become a series of run-on sentences where we are so busy, we’re not taking time to stop, to slow [...]
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
