Alvie McKree
Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
What does it mean for you to teach Qoya?
It means taking the most life-changing spiritual practice I have ever engaged in and sharing it with women that I love. It means opening my heart a little more with every class and being fortunate enough to witness other women open their hearts too. An open-hearted woman is a powerful force for good in the world.
Alison Fortes
Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
What does it mean for you to teach Qoya?
I know that to offer Qoya is an act of service for the divine and the Goddess. I am very grateful to be able to create from the heart, to make sacred spaces for spirit to land, and to share this. I love the sovereignty it offers, the ability to come home and let things fall away through movement, dance, and ritual. Qoya is my favourite creative process - music, sound, breathe, yoga. I feel like I can get out of the way, open to the guidance the pours down, and hold space.
City West
Kaukapakapa, Auckland, Aotearoa
What does it mean for you to teach Qoya?
To be in service to women in my community. To answer my soul's call in offering something meaningful. It feels like such a privilege to come together with a group of women to laugh, cry, dance, and support each other. From that first real life Qoya class, I felt I had come home. I felt I had found what I had been searching for. It is an honour to now teach classes and witness other women having that same homecoming back to themselves.
Heather Hubber
Otatara, Southland, New Zealand
What would you tell someone who is thinking of taking a Qoya class for the first time?
Go for it!!! Nothing to lose and everything to gain.To revel in your divine beauty through movement is empowering.
Jo Blackman
Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
What would you tell someone who is thinking of taking a Qoya class for the first time?
If you’re feeling drawn to Qoya, surrender to your heart’s knowing and let it lead the way... For me, Qoya has been the answer to my prayers, my calling, and a beautiful sisterhood. Through the magic of movement and ceremony, it ignites the deepest joy, a strong sense of wholeness, and the sacredness of life. Qoya brings us back home to the power and rhythm of our own heart and ripples out connecting us to all that is – what could be more magical than that!
Kate Watkinson
Invercargill, Southland
What would you tell someone who is thinking of taking a Qoya class for the first time?
Answer the call of your soul! Listen to the stirrings of your heart! Feel the truth of your womb! Your body is wise and knows what is for your highest good. If you have stirrings to come to Qoya then come! Step into the most divine, empowering, fun, cathartic, delicious practice. Be held in a community of soul sisters. Be authentic and feel safe to express all of you - the light and the shadow. Qoya has answered a longing in my soul - to be wise, wild and free. Give it a try for yourself and see how it resonates. It could be just the medicine you're craving to life an empowered life.
Rochelle Gates
Auckland, New Zealand
What would you tell someone who is thinking of taking a Qoya class for the first time?
I would firstly say come! Really come as you are. There is no way you can do it wrong and the way you no you are doing it right is if it feels good to you (this is a principle of Qoya). Come to dance and connect. I had an ache before Qoya that I didn't completely know how I would meet. Through Qoya, through dancing, through this community, through meeting, loving, and connecting with women, this ache has most definitely been met, seen, acknowledged, and loved up.
Samar Ocean Wolf Ciprian
Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand
What does it mean for you to teach Qoya?
Qoya is a body-centered vision quest inward. It is an opportunity to know yourself in a deeper and unspoken way and for a minute break through the barriers of what form and society have created for us. I love it - and hope you will too!
