S8E4 - From Linear Time to Sacred Time with Qoya Founder Rochelle Schieck

School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward

The single biggest hurdle to doing more embodied movement practice, for me personally, is the tight grip of urgency I often feel around time.

Today on the podcast, I’m chatting with Rochelle Schieck, founder of the Qoya movement method. A big part of our conversation is exploring how we unwind the urgency of linear time & use the body as a portal to soul time.

Rochelle & I have very different felt experiences of this shift away from urgent-linear-time into expansive-soul-time. I’m curious if you’ll relate to either or perhaps experience it in another way.

This conversation is part of our Embodied Movement series on Season 8 of the School of Embodied Arts Podcast (you can sign up to the podcast here). To see more from this series click here→

In this episode, we discuss & experience:

• A simple foundation Qoya exercise to bring more aliveness into the body
• What is “Embodied Presence,” and how can we awaken to it?
• The role of the “Sacred Witness” in Qoya
• We speak about the role of cultivating, titration & pendulation between vulnerability & pleasure
• Moving from linear time to sacred time. Rochelle & Jenna share their experiences of what it feels like.
• Rochelle expands on the key principles of Qoya - Wise, Wild & Free. We discuss what this looks like in movement & what qualities it invites us to inhabit through the body

About Rochelle

Rochelle Schieck loves to move - in her body and around the world. In the last 20+ years, she has traveled around the world as a student and teacher leading over 4,000 movement classes, training hundreds of Qoya teachers in 20 different countries, and taking women on over 90 retreats to sacred places in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

• Qoya website - www.qoya.love
• On the socials - @rochelleschieck | @qoya.love
• Book - Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching - an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
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• School of Embodied Arts
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