Topic: non-traditional exercise

If you like your exercise served with a heaping dose of New Agey-ness, Qoya may be just the thing for you. From the slogan—Qoya is Wild, Wise and Free—to the name itself (“Qoya is a Quechan word for Queen, a female manifestation of higher consciousness,” says the program’s website…what’s Quehcan? Oh, just an indigenous language used by shamans in the Andean region of South America), almost everything about this exercise program, developed by dancer and yogi Rochelle Schieck, makes me want to laugh it off (or fear I’d be handed a hand-mirror upon entering a class). And yet…I’m also a little intrigued. More »