Explore Movement Sessions
Saturday 24th October 5-6pm (+ recording)
Yoga Nidra is an ancient yogic tradition of stillness and rest that invites us to journey in the space between awake and asleep.
Allow yourself the time and space to be warm, comfortable and still as we move our awareness through the body to our surroundings and towards the liminal space of pure potential that is with us all.
Yoga nidra is restorative, sacred and deeply nourishing. To practice you will need a place where you can lie, sit or stand comfortably for 60 minutes. Avoid lighting candles or incense, instead bring blankets, cushions and as many layers of softness that you can tolerate.
If you can’t join us live, don’t worry - you can join us in your own time as you will receive a recording.
Yoga Nidra with Sonja
What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is a practice of non-doing, an invitation to move into liminal rest where we can awaken to our deepest truth and inner wisdom. It is not a yoga practice that involves movement - instead, we lie or sit comfortably with blankets and cushions and eyes closed (if we wish) and in our physical stillness we embark on an imaginal journey towards inner spaciousness and something profoundly nourishing and restful. It is a practice to cherish, a portal into the space in-between, where we access all that is in a way that is timeless and limitless.
As we rest, we awaken.
What will you need?
To practice Yoga Nidra you need to be in a quiet space where you can lie safely and undisturbed with plenty of warmth and comfort. No candles, hot drinks or incense lit - just you and your cocoon of comfort.
I'll be with you through a zoom link and you are invited to mute and turn your camera off - total privacy. You can turn your computer screen away, all you need is my voice.
Full Moon Yoga Nidra Series
Saturday 26th September 5-6pm (+ recording)
Yoga Nidra is an ancient yogic tradition of stillness and rest that invites us to journey in the space between awake and asleep.
Allow yourself the time and space to be warm, comfortable and still as we move our awareness through the body to our surroundings and towards the liminal space of pure potential that is with us all.
Yoga nidra is restorative, sacred and deeply nourishing. To practice you will need a place where you can lie, sit or stand comfortably for 60 minutes. Avoid lighting candles or incense, instead bring blankets, cushions and as many layers of softness that you can tolerate.
If you can’t join us live, don’t worry - you can join us in your own time as you will receive a recording.
Saturday 24th October 5-6pm (+ recording)
Yoga Nidra is an ancient yogic tradition of stillness and rest that invites us to journey in the space between awake and asleep.
Allow yourself the time and space to be warm, comfortable and still as we move our awareness through the body to our surroundings and towards the liminal space of pure potential that is with us all.
Yoga nidra is restorative, sacred and deeply nourishing. To practice you will need a place where you can lie, sit or stand comfortably for 60 minutes. Avoid lighting candles or incense, instead bring blankets, cushions and as many layers of softness that you can tolerate.
If you can’t join us live, don’t worry - you can join us in your own time as you will receive a recording.
Saturday 21st November 5-6pm (+ recording)
Yoga Nidra is an ancient yogic tradition of stillness and rest that invites us to journey in the space between awake and asleep.
Allow yourself the time and space to be warm, comfortable and still as we move our awareness through the body to our surroundings and towards the liminal space of pure potential that is with us all.
Yoga nidra is restorative, sacred and deeply nourishing. To practice you will need a place where you can lie, sit or stand comfortably for 60 minutes. Avoid lighting candles or incense, instead bring blankets, cushions and as many layers of softness that you can tolerate.
If you can’t join us live, don’t worry - you can join us in your own time as you will receive a recording.
Qoya Inspired Movement with Sonja
Qoya Inspired Movement is an embodiment practice that weaves together thirteen different pillars 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.
In these times of accelerated transformation and change, each of us is being asked to find the ways that we can best meet this moment. In Qoya, we explore healing and nourishing ourselves in community so that we can bring our embodied selves to our daily lives in service to the expression of our most honest, authentic self.
Qoya Gatherings 2027
Spring Equinox Mini Session, Sunday 21st March / 3-4.30pm / Studland, Dorset
Welcome to this beautiful Qoya taster day - a way of dipping your toe in the waters of Qoya Inspired Movement that feels do-able. Join Sonja in Studland Village Hall for 90 minutes of Qoya as the seasons continue to turn and we welcome the light as it starts to return after the depths of Winter.
Our session
3.30pm — arrivals
3pm — Qoya Inspired Movement
4.30pm — departures
Our Location
Studland Village Hall is a cherished simple community space that allows us access to the most extraordinary land. Positioned at the eastern edge of the Jurassic Coast, a stretch of Dorset shoreline so ancient and so remarkable that UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site, placing it alongside the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.
Beneath our feet as we dance, 185 million years of Earth’s history hold us - Studland is extraordinary.
You can arrive by ferry from Poole, you can cycle, there is a bus or you can make it a road trip - Studland is an adventure, a day out, a stepping away from the everyday to do something special.
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Questions?
I would love to hear from you. Email sonja@sonjalockyer.comand I’ll be happy to share more details.
Summer Solstice Retreat Day, Sunday 20th June / 10.30am-4pm / Studland, Dorset
Welcome to this beautiful Autumn Equinox Retreat Day — a very special offering that invites you to receive the holding of Mother Nature, the embodied feminine practices of reflection, movement and deep rest, and the collective nourishment of shared female experience.
Join Sonja in Studland Village Hall for a day of nature meditation and Qoya, a deeply restorative yoga nidra, cacoa from Common Roots, delicious food from Wylde Green Kitchen, and a closing sauna and sea swim at Knoll Beach.
The Day
10.30am — Opening circle and shared introductions
11.00am — Meditative nature immersion: an opportunity to wander outside in silence, collect offerings for our altar, or simply rest quietly in our space
11.30–1.00pm — Qoya Inspired Movement
1–2pm — Yoga Nidra Rest
2pm — Lunch & sharing
3.00–4.00pm — Sauna at Knoll Beach
Our Container
Our circle will hold a maximum of ten women. The day is carefully curated to move us through a journey from connection to nature, to body, and to the liminal field - a journey of depth and truth. In sharing delicious food together and dancing between the heat of the sauna and the cold of the ocean, we remember to lighten up and not take it all too seriously. Somewhere here, between the depth and the lightness, we remember ourselves.
If you feel called to stay quiet and solitary, there is space for that. If you feel called to chat and meet others, there is space for that too. There is no expectation of you other than to arrive as yourself, in whatever form that takes on this special, gentle and nourishing day.
Qoya Retreat Day Team
Sonja is a depth practitioner of Core Process Psychotherapy with a private practice in Poole and has been sharing Qoya since 2016.
Gilly is a vegan chef with over 20 years of experience as a holistic retreat chef, she pours so much love into her food that all who eat it radiate joy and vitality.
We live in Poole, Dorset and share the love of authentic spaces for women to gather and come into honest, safe relationship.
Our Location
Studland Village Hall is a cherished simple community space that allows us access to the most extraordinary land. Positioned at the eastern edge of the Jurassic Coast, a stretch of Dorset shoreline so ancient and so remarkable that UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site. Beneath our feet as we dance, 185 million years of Earth’s history hold us - Studland is extraordinary.
As we sit in the sauna and run into the sea, we are side by side with Old Harry Rocks , three great chalk stacks rising from the ocean — silent, enduring, indifferent to time. To stand here is to remember how brief and how precious a single human life is.
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Questions?
I would love to hear from you. Email sonja@sonjalockyer.comand I’ll be happy to share more details.
Autumn Equinox Retreat Day, Sunday 19th September / 10.30am-4pm / Studland, Dorset
Welcome to this beautiful Autumn Equinox Retreat Day — a very special offering that invites you to receive the holding of Mother Nature, the embodied feminine practices of reflection, movement and deep rest, and the collective nourishment of shared female experience.
Join Sonja in Studland Village Hall for a day of nature meditation and Qoya, a deeply restorative yoga nidra, cacoa from Common Roots, delicious food from Wylde Green Kitchen, and a closing sauna and sea swim at Knoll Beach.
The Day
10.30am — Opening circle and shared introductions
11.00am — Meditative nature immersion: an opportunity to wander outside in silence, collect offerings for our altar, or simply rest quietly in our space
11.30–1.00pm — Qoya Inspired Movement
1–2pm — Yoga Nidra Rest
2pm — Lunch & sharing
3.00–4.00pm — Sauna at Knoll Beach
Our Container
Our circle will hold a maximum of ten women. The day is carefully curated to move us through a journey from connection to nature, to body, and to the liminal field - a journey of depth and truth. In sharing delicious food together and dancing between the heat of the sauna and the cold of the ocean, we remember to lighten up and not take it all too seriously. Somewhere here, between the depth and the lightness, we remember ourselves.
If you feel called to stay quiet and solitary, there is space for that. If you feel called to chat and meet others, there is space for that too. There is no expectation of you other than to arrive as yourself, in whatever form that takes on this special, gentle and nourishing day.
Qoya Retreat Day Team
Sonja is a depth practitioner of Core Process Psychotherapy with a private practice in Poole and has been sharing Qoya since 2016.
Gilly is a vegan chef with over 20 years of experience as a holistic retreat chef, she pours so much love into her food that all who eat it radiate joy and vitality.
We live in Poole, Dorset and share the love of authentic spaces for women to gather and come into honest, safe relationship.
Our Location
Studland Village Hall is a cherished simple community space that allows us access to the most extraordinary land. Positioned at the eastern edge of the Jurassic Coast, a stretch of Dorset shoreline so ancient and so remarkable that UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site. Beneath our feet as we dance, 185 million years of Earth’s history hold us - Studland is extraordinary.
As we sit in the sauna and run into the sea, we are side by side with Old Harry Rocks , three great chalk stacks rising from the ocean — silent, enduring, indifferent to time. To stand here is to remember how brief and how precious a single human life is.
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Questions?
I would love to hear from you. Email sonja@sonjalockyer.comand I’ll be happy to share more details.
Yoga Nidra with Sonja
Yoga Nidra is an ancient yogic practice that cultivates our connection to liminal space - the place in-between asleep and awake where all potential is available.
The practice looks a lot like sleeping - lying down or sitting comfortably, with plenty of blankets, cushions and cosiness, you are invited to relax. And here in the relaxation, your awareness is guided gently around your body and beyond.
By coming into stillness and rest we can step out of the vibration of doing and remember a way of being that is deeply nourish.