QOYA RETREAT – Costa Rica April 6th – 13th 2013 from jodi jones on Vimeo. If you were to be honest with yourself, what is your heart’s true desire? In that quiet moment when it is just you and you, what is calling? When you make a decision, can you identify if you are making [...]
The journey of a dream. Oooh baby, baby, it’s a wild world. And as Cat Stevens says, “It’s hard to get by just upon a smile.” This Thanksgiving I’m thinking about the journey of a dream. In seed form, a dream begins in the field of pure potentiality. It requires us to release any learned [...]
I just got back from teaching Qoya for the first time in Europe in Norway, Denmark, Greece and Turkey. In addition to the big outer adventure, I also had an interesting inner adventure with a trip down memory lane. Many years ago, I would drool over the possibility to go on one of my yoga teacher’s [...]
The interesting thing about intention is when you realize that what you look for is truly what you see or like the Buddha says, “you are what you think.” While traveling on my pilgrimage to Reclaim the Divine Feminine and meditating on Mother Mary I received a message that said, “When there is a problem [...]
How do I explain what Qoya is? Usually, I pretend it is an exercise class and say, “Qoya is a combination of yoga, dance and sensual movement.” But the truth of Qoya lies deeper in the simple sentence it is based on, “Through movement, we remember.” Not only do we remember our essence as being [...]
Maybe it started with David Bowie. I was 10 years old and my weekend ritual was visiting my local video store to rent the movie Labryinth. I don’t know how many times I did this, but I know it was more that 12 and less than 30. Years later, I find myself fascinated with the [...]
When there’s a sea change, when something in life is about to shift direction, we naturally start to run our pros and cons list, confer with our closest friends and tiptoe our way into “listening to our intuition.” Decisions feel better when they resonate as truth in our body, in our gut, AND makes sense [...]
Overwhelm can come from an abundance of challenges, but also from a plethora of blessings. In both circumstances, the way into the heart of the matter- the map to being in right relationship with what is- is by learning how to say thank you. After the Qoya Costa Rica Retreat April 21-28, 2012, I found [...]
My journey with movement started with a big desire to take dance classes when I was 8 years old. My mom was pretty busy being a single mom and said no. I was determined and found a way. A neighbor took dance classes so I would force her to teach me everything she learned and [...]
I pray a lot. My whole life seems to be a living and breathing prayer. A prayer of gratitude for food before I eat, a prayer of asking for ways to truly and sincerely be of service in this world before I work, a living dancing prayer of joy for the dance of it all [...]
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
