What Qoya can do for you

​So you've found out about Qoya but you're still a little unsure about what it is and how it can help you. I thought I would share with you how it helped me and how I have seen it help other women who are coming to my classes.
 
Before I go on, I'd like to let you in on a little secret. You are a divine being that is perfect as you are right now. EXACTLY as you are right now. There is no thing you must achieve or goal you must reach to become perfect. You are worthy. You are incredible. And you are deserving of love - especially your own love. You should be loving yourself sick! Look at you!! You are a miracle of life.
 
As human beings, we spend all our waking moments thinking. Our brains are working 24/7 (thank goodness or we'd all die in our sleep) but sometimes the thoughts we have can be negative and downright nasty. The idea of embodiment practices such as Qoya, is to redirect the mind's thought processes to feeling into our bodies. During a class, I invite you to feel into your body with questions like:

• How can you make this movement feel even better?
• What does it feel like to follow your heart?
• What does the hand that you shook feel like compared to the other hand that stayed still?
• What does it feel like when you are connected to your inner power? And where in your body do you feel it?

 
This process of concentrating on what particular emotions feel like in your body can be very enlightening. To notice what an emotion feels like and then using it as a dance partner, without thinking or choreographing, just moving the way your body wants to move with that feeling. Dancing with themes like "Wild", "Free", "Love Yourself", "Power Within" and "Shine Your Light" enable you to explore and notice things you may never have noticed about yourself before. You may have a realisation or an epiphany. That's when the magic happens.
 
For me, Qoya has helped me to realise and feel my own power and strength. That I am so much stronger than I have ever given myself credit for and I can do so much more than I ever thought I could. That the world is my oyster. That life is too short to worry about the size of my belly and that if I want to do something, I can and I should do it.
 
I don't think I would have ever worn a bikini if not for Qoya. I certainly never had any desire to open my own business - actually just the idea filled me with dread. I've stopped standing in my own way. Now if I see an opportunity, I will give it a go. Let them say no to me, rather than me being too scared to try and saying no to myself. I've pushed my edges in ways I never imagined and met some incredible women along the way. Women who have shown me that we are not in competition with each other. That another woman's success is to be celebrated as it raises us all higher.
 
I've seen Qoya work its magic for the women who are coming to my classes. It's helped them heal after heartbreak, shift the way they think about their body, empowered them to take a stand when they were being treated poorly. It's reminded them of the joy of moving their bodies for fun rather than the "no pain no gain" mentality of the gym. That dance doesn't need to be set steps or kept only for the nightclub floor. That the idea of "there's no way to do it wrong" in Qoya helped them to ditch perfectionist ideals in their everyday life. Unless its brain surgery, of course!
 
Qoya is a dance class like no other, and the benefits are more than you can ever imagine. I urge you to take advantage of your first free class and see if Qoya is for you.