DIYAR’S Story

Diyar was born from a shared longing for home.

For Yara Al Adib and Yara Barqawi, years of living away from their roots shaped a familiar experience of diaspora: building a life somewhere new while still searching for places where culture, community and belonging could live alongside personal growth.

Both arrived at Diyar through different paths.

Yara Al Adib’s work has moved between somatics, conscious movement, systemic work and community building. From creating From Syria With Love to years of working with individuals and groups, her work has continually explored the relationship between the body, our stories, our roots and the systems we belong to.

Yara Barqawi brings more than a decade of devotion to yoga, meditation and movement, with much of her work centred around women — creating spaces for them to reconnect with themselves, their bodies and one another.

When their paths met in Dubai, so did a shared question: what if there were a place where all of these worlds could meet?

Not only a studio. Not only a wellbeing space. But a home where movement, creativity, culture and community could exist together — and where different practitioners, generations and ways of being could meet under one roof.

That is why they created Diyar – ديار, meaning homes.

A place to move and rest. To learn and create. To gather around music, food and conversation. To explore different practices, meet new people and reconnect with parts of ourselves that everyday life can sometimes leave behind.

At the heart of Diyar is a simple belief: wellbeing is not only individual. It is shaped through our bodies, our relationships, our cultures and the communities we are part of.

Diyar is still becoming — shaped by every practitioner, collaborator, neighbour and person who walks through its doors.

A place to return to yourself, to others, and perhaps, in some way, to home.