​Last night I ran a free-dance Qoya class as part of my Outrageous Radical Body Acceptance program. As part of the class, we always pick an oracle card (pictured left). 
 
The card said “Just because you FEEL like trash doesn't mean you ARE trash”.
 
What does this mean to you Liz?
 
For me, it's a reminder that our thoughts are not real just because we have them. 
 
A thought is just that, a thought. 
 
An idea. 
 
Something that has popped into your mind. 
 
And it might not actually be founded on any truth at all.
 
This card is a reminder of that. 
 
Because our silly, complicated, supercomputer brains don't always get it right.
 
To be able to remember that when the negative thoughts come in is a valuable tool to help you challenge them and replace them with something more positive.
 
You are not trash.
 
You never have been.
 
You are amazing.
 
You are a true goddess.
 
And you have always been one!
 
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As a special way of bringing the entire world Qoya community together, the founder of Qoya Rochelle Schieck, has created a class with the theme “Embracing Wholeness” that she has shared with us. All this week (1 - 6 October 2024) in my Sunbury and my Zoom classes we will be dancing with this theme - although I will be putting my special Liz twist to it!
 
Qoya is a blend of all the various dance, yoga, meditation, grounding and embodiment techniques Rochelle learnt as she travelled the world.  
 
Intention Setting is a moving meditation and grounding exercise.
 
Circling is a way of bringing gentle flowing feminine movement to your body and to feel into your body while you do it. 
 
The Heart Opening are belly dancing chest moves - side, back, front, other side and then following your heart anywhere she wants to take you around the room. 
 
Hip Opening is helping to connect you with your divine feminine, your sacral chakra. To find ways to move that feels good to you for no other reason than it feels good to you. Moving your hips for yourself not for anyone else.
 
Yoga as Prayer is a dancing, flowing sequence sending our love to the intentions we set at the start of the class. 
 
Facing your heavy emotions in the Shadow Contrast Dance, and instead of pushing those feelings down as we normally do, here we feel them, embrace them and move your body the way she needs to move with them.
 
Shaking, taken from watching nature docos of animals having escaped almost certain death, standing there and literally shaking through each part of your body to release all that came up during the Shadow Contrast Dance. 
 
Simple, fun, Choreographed Dance as a way of bringing the group back together, moving together and laughing. 
 
And finally, the Free Dance, where we face the light and feel those emotions and dance with them as our body needs to move. 
 
Then we Stretch as a reminder to thank our bodies for all they have done for us during the class and up until that point. 
 
We end the class with Savasana, the final relaxation, a way to allow all the learnings of the class to sink in.
 
And all in an hour and a half!!