Joyaa

A living sanctuary for love, eros, life, and loss

Circles, writing, and embodied gatherings for those walking the great thresholds of what it means to be human

Connect. Reflect. Move. Gather.

Heart-led circles, embodied writing, and relational encounters

(Quiet invitations, early access, and letters from the sanctuary)

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Why joyaa exists

“When a woman is truly loved, she is blossoming gift to life.”

Priya Mahtani

We are living in a time that is fast-paced, fragmented and overstimulated. Yet beneath the noise a quiet truth is rising:

Women long to reconnect.

With themselves.

With each other.

With the sacred feminine.

JOYAA exists to answer that longing.
Creating spaces where women and men can exhale and finally feel held.

Who Are We?

JOYAA is a feminine sanctuary for connection, creativity, and belonging.

It is a place where women and men gather to soften, remember and flourish.

Through circles, retreats, and storytelling, JOYAA offers gentle, transformative spaces where lived experience can be felt, named and integrated — supporting you to restore self-trust, reclaim coherence, and come home to the wisdom living inside you.

JOYAA is founded and stewarded by Priya Mahtani — a writer and facilitator devoted to truth as a living, embodied practice.

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JOYAA offers heart-centred circles, retreats and storytelling spaces for embodied healing, reflection, and transformation.

About JOYAA

begin your journey:

There are many ways to enter the JOYAA field. You’re invited to begin where you feel most drawn.

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Writing - Reflective writing & storytelling exploring love, loss, intimacy, & becoming

READ THE WRITING
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Circles & Gatherings - Heart centred circles & embodied spaces for connection, healing, & shared hu

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Retreats (Forming) Seasonal retreats offering immersive spaces or rest, embodiment, & reconnection

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what guides this work

JOYAA is rooted in the understanding that truth is not an abstract idea, but a living, embodied process.

When life fractures us, coherence is how we survive — and honesty is how we return to ourselves.

This work is not about fixing what is broken, performing healing, or striving to become someone else.
It is about listening — to the body, to lived experience, and to what is quietly asking for attention.

JOYAA is guided by:

  • Embodied presence rather than performance

  • Slowness over urgency

  • Relational care over hierarchy

  • Consent, safety, and nervous system awareness

  • Trust in the intelligence already living within the body

Everything offered here — writing, circles, and gatherings — is held with this same orientation:
gentle, trauma-aware, and grounded in lived experience rather than doctrine.

This is a space where depth is welcomed,
where nothing needs to be rushed,
and where wholeness is remembered, not imposed.

upcoming CIRCLE

4 March, 2026, 8-10pm (London)

The Four Portals:

Standing at the Threshold

A Free Opening Circle for women (Zoom)

Register Free Here

On Wednesday 4 March, JOYAA opens a live circle marking the threshold of a deeper journey exploring Love, Sex, Birth, and Death as embodied human initiations.

Come as you are.

There is nothing to fix.

Only something to remember

join the INNER CIRCLE

You’ll receive:

  • Quiet invitations to circles & retreats

  • Early access to offerings as they open

  • Letters & reflections from the sanctuary

No noise, no pressure. Just presence.