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Qoya Retreat Day for Women - Autumn Equinox - 20th September
Autumn Equinox Retreat Day, Sunday 20th September / 9.30am-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
9.30am — Opening circle and shared introductions
10.00am — Meditative nature immersion: an opportunity to wander outside in silence, collect offerings for our altar, or simply rest quietly in our space
10.30–12.00pm — Qoya Inspired Movement to the theme of Remembering Yourself
12.00pm — ‘The Everyday Is Sacred’ Cacoa Ceremony with Jo & Common Roots
12.30–1.30pm — Yoga Nidra
1.30pm — Lunch & sharing
3.00–4.00pm — Sauna at Knoll Beach
Our Container
Our circle will hold ten women plus Sonja, Jo from Common Root Cacoa and chef Gilly from Wylde Green Kitchen, 13 women in a total — a small, intimate gathering that allows real space for connection.
Our 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.
Jo is a multi-disciplinary being - Fine Artist, Somatic Breath practitioner, co-creator of Common Roots Cacoa and Emergent Brand Strategist with a passionately feminist lens.
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.
All 3 of us 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, placing it alongside the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.
Beneath our feet as we dance, 185 million years of Earth’s history lie exposed — desert, tropical sea, marsh, chalk and clay, each layer a chapter in a story older than we can truly fathom. 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. How much has happened here. How much the land has held. It is this quality — of something vast, patient and unshakeably alive — that makes the Jurassic Coast such a potent place to slow down, to return to yourself, and to remember that no matter what life holds for you right now, you’re ok.
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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 20th September / 9.30am-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
9.30am — Opening circle and shared introductions
10.00am — Meditative nature immersion: an opportunity to wander outside in silence, collect offerings for our altar, or simply rest quietly in our space
10.30–12.00pm — Qoya Inspired Movement to the theme of Remembering Yourself
12.00pm — ‘The Everyday Is Sacred’ Cacoa Ceremony with Jo & Common Roots
12.30–1.30pm — Yoga Nidra
1.30pm — Lunch & sharing
3.00–4.00pm — Sauna at Knoll Beach
Our Container
Our circle will hold ten women plus Sonja, Jo from Common Root Cacoa and chef Gilly from Wylde Green Kitchen, 13 women in a total — a small, intimate gathering that allows real space for connection.
Our 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.
Jo is a multi-disciplinary being - Fine Artist, Somatic Breath practitioner, co-creator of Common Roots Cacoa and Emergent Brand Strategist with a passionately feminist lens.
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.
All 3 of us 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, placing it alongside the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.
Beneath our feet as we dance, 185 million years of Earth’s history lie exposed — desert, tropical sea, marsh, chalk and clay, each layer a chapter in a story older than we can truly fathom. 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. How much has happened here. How much the land has held. It is this quality — of something vast, patient and unshakeably alive — that makes the Jurassic Coast such a potent place to slow down, to return to yourself, and to remember that no matter what life holds for you right now, you’re ok.
.
Questions?
I would love to hear from you. Email sonja@sonjalockyer.comand I’ll be happy to share more details.