WE’RE HIBERNATING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Big thank you to all the cosy clubber’s who supported this community for our 2nd year! See you in 2025.

Rest • Mindfulness • Community Care • Tea

Hello future Q’nC clubber! Welcome to our monthly LGBTQIA+ gathering where we come together to do very little. The Q’nC Club is an opportunity to slow down, to explore quiet restful practices such as restorative yoga, meditation, journalling and cosy hobbies such as origami. It is a space for us to come together as a community and to take deep nourishing rest. Each meet up will include a guided rest practice, space to either reflect or connect with the group and always a fresh pot of tea. If you have ever struggled to prioritise rest or just in need of calming yet supportive space filled with a diverse bunch of like-minded locals - then join our club!

We look forward to slowly building a cosy community with you.

  • By participating in this and future meet ups, we are inviting you to help form and uphold a set of community agreements. These help us establish what every person in the group needs in order to be present and to ensure open, active, inclusive, and respectful dialogue and participation. These agreements may evolve and change overtime depending on individual and/or collective needs.

    Currently established agreements:
    • Bring the presence that you can; showing up is enough.

    • Listen with curiosity; internally and externally.

    • Value one another’s experiences.

    • No one knows everything; together we know a lot.

    • Welcome new ideas; from others and yourself.

    Plus a few agreements inspired by the work of Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Tristan Katz to consider:

    • Speak your truth; ground in your own experience with I statements.

    • Ask questions in the language you have.

    • Ask for what you need, offer what you can.

    • Take the wisdom out of the room but leave the names out.

    • Take space, make space.

    • Accept and embrace non-closure.

    • Brave space not safe space.

    • When harm happens, we will respond with care when we can. There are different ways to respond.

  • Our community has offered, shared and practiced many different restful and quiet practices since the start of the Q‘nC. Here’s a little recap of what we explored in so far:

    2023
    January - Restorative Yoga led by Sy

    February - Metta Meditation & Group Tarot led by Sy and Samantha

    March - An evening of Self-Care & Qi Gong Led by Mihal

    April - An Evening of Mediumship led by Rob

    May - Awareness of Breath & Pranayama led by Sy

    June - Restorative Yoga: Permission to Rest led by Sy

    July - Moxa Experience led by Lisa

    August - Mindful Flow led by Fiona

    September - Sensory Meditation + Journalling in Nature led by Sy

    October - Explore Flowers led by Toyin

    November - EFT led by Katy

    December: An Evening of Mediumship with Rob

    2024
    January - Queer ’n Cosy Turns 1! Restorative yoga, Journalling & Celebrating with Flowers led by Syanne, Teegs & Toyin

    February - Origami with Mills & Group Tarot with Samantha

    March - “Practicing the Pause” & Guided Tea Meditation led by Sy

    April - “Let us rest alongside nature together” led by Naomi.

    May - "Zine-making as a practice of rest"led by Vi.

    June - Yoga Nidra led by Shenai

    July - "Let’s Play” led by Ashley

    August - Doodling with Sy

    September - Mindfulness with Simon

    October - Spooky Autumn Origami with Mills

    November - “A Little Lie Down”Restorative Yoga led by Sy

    December - Festive Field Trip to The Common Press