What is Lore?
Dear Soul on the Other Side of the Screen,
Thank you for being here. I am always humbled by the heart-centered presence of each person that is drawn to our gatherings. As I write this, I’m going to slow down, put one hand on my heart and take a slow, deep breath to honor all the life that is happening inside each of us and all around us. Would you like to join me and do the same?
This. This is what LORE is. It is taking that moment to get connected and doing practices in community to stay connected. Connected to your essence, nature, spirit, each other, life.
Photographed by Inna Schnayder
I invite you to join me and our community of guest teachers to tune into the healing power of the present moment through movement, conversation, nature connection and ritual.
We invite you to come as you are and leave as more of who you are. Give and receive community support to practice the tools and perspective to nourish you when you feel a stressed body, overwhelmed mind or anxious heart. There’s also space to celebrate your yes to life and honor the authentic gratitude you feel. Everything in this container is offered to support you in harvesting and integrating the embodied wisdom you carry from your lived experiences. Each moment is precious. And each offering will be an intentional opportunity for you to remember and honor that, like nature, we are also wise, wild and free.
After five successful sessions of LORE, I realized the profound gift of being connected to community regularly is something I would love to nourish for an entire year. We've organized this session of LORE where you can sign up for the whole year, one month at a time or even drop in for a class. For anyone who feels a resonance with Qoya Inspired Movement and LORE, I invite you to know there is a place where you can come each day and reconnect to living a Lifestyle of Reverence Everyday.
The year-long theme is called Nourishing Structures. So many of us are living in that place of no longer and not yet, feeling the need to let go of past structures and systems, feeling the call of something new and needing to navigate the liminal in-between. There is great healing power in these embodiment practices to strengthen our fortitude, awaken our spirits and meet the moments we are living.
Nourish your body through Qoya Inspired Movement sessions.
Deepen your personal relationship with nature by making Earth offerings.
Drop in for various pop-up community-led sessions like coworking, conversations, journaling with the moon and other things members are inspired to share.
Collaborate on social good projects to continue exploring how to be positive forces of change in these transformational times.
And more!
Together, we gather to honor our individual human experiences, seeing ourselves as whole and holy on our journey. We heal our hearts by being together in community.
I’d be deeply honored to dance together and see what emerges for you when you dance your relationship with creating Nourishing Structures in your own life and in the world we share.
With an open heart,
Rochelle
LORE
(DEFINITION):
A body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.
Similar words: mythology, legends, stories, traditions, culture, and wisdom
Gather together in community to immerse yourself in the practices that resonate with your center. Nourish your body with movement, your soul with ritual, your heart with connection and your spirit with vision. Commit to the continuation of LORE.
Come as you are.
FOLLOW YOUR NEXT INHALE INTO
THE WISDOM OF YOUR VERY OWN BODY.
PAUSE IN SENSATION.
REST IN AWARENESS.
EXHALE WITHOUT FORCE.
TRUST THELore YOU ARE LIVING.
We are living in mythological times, activating and requiring our inner strength, courage and our latent power to become consciously embodied. Many of us feel the need to reimagine a world rooted in right relationship. Let's gather in this inquiry and explore what emerges in our togetherness.
BECOME A MEMBER
LORE is an invitation to live a lifestyle of reverence everyday through movement, ritual, nature offerings, meditation, community building and social good. The program takes on different themes and offers you an opportunity to join live or visit recordings. Notice how it feels when you make time to root yourself in reverence. A little movement can go a long time. Come see if it's true for you.
LORE | Monthly
88$Every monthMonthly Membership- Qoya Inspired Movement Sessions
- Access to LORE Library
- Live Online Zoom Sessions
- Zoom Sessions with Guest Teachers
- Inspiring Content Delivered Weekly
- Meditations & Worksheets
LORE | Yearly
888$Every yearSave $168- Qoya Inspired Movement Sessions
- Access to LORE Library
- Live Online Zoom Sessions
- Zoom Sessions with Guest Teachers
- Inspiring Content Delivered Weekly
- Meditations & Worksheets
if you feel called to this work and financial support is needed, please reach out to us here.
COMMUNITY PRACTICES
QOYA INSPIRED MOVEMENT, RITUAL, NATURE & COMMUNITY
OUR SCHEDULE
Explore our offerings as an invitation to come to as many sessions as you are inspired and able. Qoya Inspired Movement class recordings will be available within 24 hours for those who are unable to attend live. No recordings will be shared of our conversation gatherings or of people's personal sharing.
Inspired Movement
Qoya Inspired Movement is a movement practice based on the idea that through movement, we remember. We remember that our essence is inherently wise, wild and free. Wise, wild and free draw reference to the movement forms we practice in a Qoya class and Inspired Movement Sessions.
Wise, calls on the wisdom traditions of yoga, meditation and contemplation practices that bring us into the physical sensation of truth in our bodies.
Once we feel resonance with our inherent wisdom, we invoke our innate Wildness with dance. Not performance dance, more like when you are folding laundry and a song comes on that you love and as the music moves you, you dance how you feel. In this context, wild asks what is your authentic expression beyond inhibition and conditioning.
Free, asks us to expand our capacity for joy through pleasure based movement. Of course, we all go through healing journeys in our body and still we hold space for the exploration, "is there anything I can do (or not do) that makes it feels more nourishing to be moving by body right now."
All sessions will honor the Wise, Wild and Free essence in each of us and for this iteration of LORE there will be an exploration of embodied integration on each of them.
Qoya Inspired Movement invites you to get connected and stay connected as you live a Lifestyle of Reverence Everyday.
Ritual
In each of us there is a space that only love fills. Ritual activates our attunement to our personal and collective cycles by coming into right relationship. We honor the pain of the past by harvesting its lessons and composting its remnants. We savor the gifts of the present with gratitude and celebration. We vision the future with a prayer for what truly nourishes us and is in service to the highest good of All.
Community
This is a place to befriend one another. LORE is a community where instead of being anonymous and passively receiving information, you are invited to connect and strengthen the foundation of friendships through sharing in classes in breakout rooms and the larger group.
Please note that alongside opportunities to share in Qoya classes, there is always space for you to take care of yourself on days and moments where you prefer to journal, rest and keep to yourself during the sharing prompts in class.
To deepen into community, come join us for:
QOYA COWORKING SESSIONS: We will pull a card, set an intention for our time together, partner share for accountability, have a dance break to celebrate half way through and opportunities for Q&A to gather the wisdom of the circle.
QOYA CONVERSATIONS: Explore pop-up conversations to the theme of the month. This is a casual time to be together and follow the flow of conversation.
SOCIAL JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS: Commit to the path of healing for our world guided by trained facilitators merging the worlds of trauma healing and social justice during our pop-up sessions.
NATURE OFFERINGS: Gather together to be in the practice of deepening one's personal relationship with nature though making nature offerings.
QOYA REFLECTION JOURNALING WITH THE MOON: Make time to look up at the sky and then look within your heart to notice and express what emerged for you this week. Integrate your experiences by writing them down.
Lore: Nourishing Structures
The first iteration of LORE was a 3 month offering specifically designed to nourish the Qoya community through the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere in 2020. We gathered to prioritize physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health in the midst of a global pandemic. We also supported one another feeling the acceleration of change around us and committed to dismantling systemic injustice inside ourselves and our communities, paving pathways for more equality in our lifetimes.
After five iterations of LORE, this is an invitation to keep LORE going on a consistent basis acknowledging that how we live our daily lives makes up how we live our lives. For those who feel the call to stay connected to community, deeply listen to the wisdom of their body, make offerings from their heart to nature, this is a place to gather.
The theme for 2024 is Nourishing Structures. As so many old ways of being dissolve and decompose, may we hospice and heal, tending our grief and simultaneously listen for the needs of the seeds readying to rise up.
Some of the themes we will be exploring in 2024 with the theme of Nourishing Structures are: