About JOYAA

WHO JOYAA IS:

JOYAA is a feminine sanctuary for connection, creativity and belonging, where men and women gather to soften, remember, and flourish.

It is a creative wellbeing platform exploring love, embodiment, and emotional resilience through circles, writing, and shared practice. JOYAA creates accessible spaces, both online and in person, where people can reconnect with themselves and others through embodied movement, reflective writing, and honest human encounter.

JOYAA sits at the intersection of arts, wellbeing, and community practice, responding to a time of increasing disconnection, fragmentation, and polarisation by cultivating presence, emotional literacy, and aliveness

WHO THIS IS FOR:

JOYAA is for those who sense that something quieter, deeper, and more honest is needed.

It is for people who:

  • Long for connection without performance

  • Are drawn to embodiment without dogma

  • Value depth, slowness, and relational care

  • Wish to integrate love, loss, desire, and change into meaning

  • Sense that healing is not about fixing, but about listening

You do not need to be “healed”, spiritual, or articulate. You only need a willingness to arrive as you are.

JOYAA offers both mixed-gender and women-only spaces.

Some gatherings are inclusive and open to people of all genders. Others are intentionally held for women only, recognising the importance of gender-specific spaces for safety, nervous system regulation, and embodied healing.Each offering clearly names its container, boundaries, and participation agreements in advance.

WHAT JOYAA OFFERS:

JOYAA’s work unfolds through several interconnected pathways:

Circles
Facilitated, relational spaces held with care, consent, and nervous system awareness. Some circles are open to all genders; others are intentionally women-only to support depth, safety, and restoration.

Writing & Storytelling
Reflective writing exploring love, heartbreak, intimacy, grief, and emotional resilience — shared publicly as an ongoing body of work.

Embodied Movement & Practice
Movement-based and somatic practices (including Biodanza-inspired work) that support regulation, connection, and embodied presence.

Gatherings & Retreats
Occasional in-person experiences offering immersion, rhythm, and communal reflection.

WHAT GUIDES THIS WORK:

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

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

This work is guided by:

  • Embodied presence rather than performance

  • Slowness over urgency

  • Relational care over hierarchy

  • Consent, safety, and nervous system awareness

  • Trust in lived experience rather than doctrine

JOYAA does not seek to fix or instruct, but to create conditions where wholeness can be remembered and integrated.

LINEAGE & CONTEXT

JoyAA carries the legacy of the school of sopHia. An ancient, feminine intelligence of wisdom, love and embodied knowing.

Sophia is not abstract knowledge, but an intuitive wisdom that always lived in the body. A feeling, a story, a knowing. The feminine way of reclaiming truth through lived experience. For centuries Her voice has been silenced, buried beneath intellect, hierarchy and control.

JOYAA is part of her remembering.

Each circle, each story, each retreat, an act of restoration, bringing back Sophia’s wisdom into the world, through men and women who feel, listen and lead from the heart.

When you enter JOYAA, you step into a lineage, not as a follower, but as a carrier of what was always yours to hold and share.

About THE FOUNDER

“We are all blossoming seeds in the garden of humanity.” - Priya Mahtani

JOYAA is founded and stewarded by Priya Mahtani, a writer, facilitator and embodied movement practitioner-in-training.

Priya’s work is devoted to truth as a living, embodied practice. She metabolises lived experience into meaning, weaving coherence from love, loss, intimacy, and transformation.

Her background includes over three decades of experience in creative education and communications, alongside a long engagement with the healing arts, movement-based practices, reflective writing, and feminine wisdom traditions.

Her approach is relational, trauma-aware, and grounded in lived experience rather than theory. Through writing, ritual, and facilitated spaces, Priya supports others to restore self-trust, honour the intelligence of the body, and return home to themselves.

Coherence is how we survive. Truth is how we love.

A Closing Note:

JOYAA is an ongoing practice —
a place to listen, move,
and stay present with what it means to be human.

It is not here to fix you.
It is here to remind you.

You are wise beyond measure.

You are an essential part of the fabric of creation.
You matter.

Your sensitivity is a gift.
Your body remembers what your mind has forgotten.

You are here to love
and to be loved
in equal measure.

Here, you belong.

a Gentle invitation

JOYAA opens slowly, in seasons.

Some doors are open now.

Others are still being woven.

If you’d like to stay close as the work unfolds, you’re warmly invited to join the Inner Circle.

JOYAA has an inner field - a poetic articulation of the work as it is lived and felt.
For those wishing you enter more deeply, you’re welcome to step inside.

  • Enter the Living Field