KatoQoya

10/31/2025

Join us for a simple yet just the right amount of challenging yoga practice with pranayama breathwork followed by a somatic Qoya Inspired Movement session to awaken your lifeforce energy.

Saturday, November 1
9:00 am-11:30 am
Hope Interfaith Center
114 Pohl Road, Mankato

Cost: Love Donations accepted!

https://www.katoqoya.com/in-person-qoya-classes

Yoga with us for a simple yet just-the-right-amount-of-challenging yoga practice, blending mindful movement with pranayama breathwork to center and energize.

We’re thrilled to welcome a special guest—my dear friend and experienced yoga teacher visiting from Brazil—who will be joining us for this session and sharing her vibrant energy and unique perspective.

Following the yoga practice, we’ll transition into a somatic Qoya Inspired Movement experience designed to awaken your lifeforce energy and reconnect you with your body’s innate wisdom. It’s a beautiful opportunity to move, breathe, and be in community.

Love donations accepted!

Vanessa

10/29/2025

Blessings + Yoga on Saturday

Dear KatoQoya Community, I love the tradition of saying grace. Whether said before meals at a table, over a fire, with forks, chopsticks or bare hands, humans of all times and places have felt the need to say thanks for what they are about to eat. We didn't consistently say grace at my house growing...

10/18/2025

Yoga with us for a simple yet just-the-right-amount-of-challenging yoga practice, blending mindful movement with pranayama breathwork to center and energize.

We’re thrilled to welcome a special guest—my dear friend and experienced yoga teacher visiting from Brazil—who will be joining us for this session and sharing her vibrant energy and unique perspective.

Following the yoga practice, we’ll transition into a somatic Qoya Inspired Movement experience designed to awaken your lifeforce energy and reconnect you with your body’s innate wisdom. It’s a beautiful opportunity to move, breathe, and be in community.

Love donations accepted!

Vanessa

09/24/2025

In-Person Class...

08/24/2025

Online Qoya Wednesday @ 5:30

Dear Ones, As I did my nature walk yesterday, I made offerings along the way of old dead flowers. I sprinkled them while I made a wishes. I love this practice of making nature offerings because when I do, I feel more connected to nature and in turn, to the nature of being with my body in the present...

08/24/2025

Join us ONLINE this Wednesday, 8/27 from 5:30-6:30 pm for online Qoya Inspired Movement!

Dance online in your own home or wherever your wifi connection takes you! Take breaks for tea, dance on your couch, wear something wild and expressive or turn your video off and explore on your own in your unique way. Sometimes if we compare Qoya in person to Qoya online, we can really miss the community connection in person, the altar in the center of the room and the sound of the other footsteps dancing around us.

However, if we compare Qoya online to no Qoya at all, well, then it is a miracle in its own way, a steady invitation to come back and notice how you feel and receive encouragement to feel the physical sensation of truth in your body one class, one song and one moment at a time.

One of the tenets in Qoya is there is no way to do it wrong and the way you know you're doing it right is that it feels right to you. It's said that external validation is best when it affirms something that is already internally held. Qoya is a school of internal validation where you practice what....

08/15/2025

Join me this fall at the Hope Interfaith Center for a three-class series (come to just one or all three!) starting on Thursday, September 25 from 7:00-8:00 pm with the class theme: Wise.

On Thursday, October 23 from 7:00-8:00 pm, we will dance with the theme: Wild, and on November 20 with the theme: Free. In these hour-long movement classes, we will explore each theme and how it feels when we connect with these elements in our own body and come back to ourselves through movement. There is absolutely no way you can do it wrong, and the way you know you’re doing it right is that it feels right or true to you.

Qoya Inspired Movement is an invitation to explore bringing awareness in and through the body through guided movement. This simple and nervous system nourishing embodiment practice weaves together different movements to welcome all aspects of ourselves, bringing mind, body, heart and soul into awareness. Qoya classes are a place to strengthen our inherent resilience, rest in our essence and remember we are wise, wild and free.

All are welcome and invited to join just one, two or all three classes at the Hope Interfaith Center at 114 Pohl Road in Mankato, MN.

Bring water to drink and an open heart!

Movement Circle Series
Theme: Wise, Wild & Free
Hope Interfaith Center
114 Pohl Road, Mankato

Thursday, September 25
Thursday, October 23
Thursday, November 20
7:00-8:00 pm

Suggested Donation to the HIC: $20

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