Sofia Ferreira (Yonah)
My first degree was in Art History (2000), and I still worked for art galleries before investing all my energy in a research about Mexican Muralism that made me move to that country a year after. Living creatively was something that I always felt like a spiritual need- the maximum expression of the power within us-, but it was exactly during this journey that this internal life was reawakened and I took the conscious decision of having a more active role in the continuous process of creative evolution of human beings like me.
So, in 2002 I decided to abandon what I was doing in Mexico and, after traveling in Central and North America for some more months, I returned to Portugal (2003) and started directing art workshops for children while diving in other transformative learnings.The base of these workshops was Movement and Body Consciousness, something that I had been experiencing for some time with different teachers from all over the world: Butoh (Christine Chu, Ko Morubushi, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie), Contact-improvisation (Howard Sonnenklar, Peter Michael Dietz, Dieter Heitkemp), Indian dance (Geo Legorreta, Tarikavalli), Contemporary Movement (Ludger Lamers, Amélia Bentes), and most of all Yoga (Escuela de La Ferriere del D.F., Atul Mulji), and Tai Chi (Master Chang), besides Performance and other parallel practices.
It was then that I also started collaborating with a circus company as a storyteller, with a Puppeteer Company as movement director and writer and with a Dance Company as a dancer and co-creator, with whom I was creating projects untill 2017.
While in Portugal I certified in Fasciatherapy and Somathology- Danis Bois Method with Danis Bois himself, a French osteopath who understood that there was a movement inside the body that is our force of self-healing.
While creating my own Vibrational Elixirs I also studied plant Alchemy (Spaegyria), with one of the last true alchimists and combined it with my own experience.
Later on (2008), I returned to live in the Mexican Caribbean (Tulum), where I started teaching adults in Mayatulum Center and children from the local indigenous comunities. Also studied at the Holistic Maya Institute “Traditional Medicines” in Playa del Carmen.
Now I'am committed with teaching regular classes of a combination of contemporary dance with energetic practices like Chi Kung, Tai Chi, yoga, martial arts as a complement to individual bodywork through the subtle approach of Fasciatherapy.
A little resume of my present work:
So, in 2002 I decided to abandon what I was doing in Mexico and, after traveling in Central and North America for some more months, I returned to Portugal (2003) and started directing art workshops for children while diving in other transformative learnings.The base of these workshops was Movement and Body Consciousness, something that I had been experiencing for some time with different teachers from all over the world: Butoh (Christine Chu, Ko Morubushi, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie), Contact-improvisation (Howard Sonnenklar, Peter Michael Dietz, Dieter Heitkemp), Indian dance (Geo Legorreta, Tarikavalli), Contemporary Movement (Ludger Lamers, Amélia Bentes), and most of all Yoga (Escuela de La Ferriere del D.F., Atul Mulji), and Tai Chi (Master Chang), besides Performance and other parallel practices.
It was then that I also started collaborating with a circus company as a storyteller, with a Puppeteer Company as movement director and writer and with a Dance Company as a dancer and co-creator, with whom I was creating projects untill 2017.
While in Portugal I certified in Fasciatherapy and Somathology- Danis Bois Method with Danis Bois himself, a French osteopath who understood that there was a movement inside the body that is our force of self-healing.
While creating my own Vibrational Elixirs I also studied plant Alchemy (Spaegyria), with one of the last true alchimists and combined it with my own experience.
Later on (2008), I returned to live in the Mexican Caribbean (Tulum), where I started teaching adults in Mayatulum Center and children from the local indigenous comunities. Also studied at the Holistic Maya Institute “Traditional Medicines” in Playa del Carmen.
Now I'am committed with teaching regular classes of a combination of contemporary dance with energetic practices like Chi Kung, Tai Chi, yoga, martial arts as a complement to individual bodywork through the subtle approach of Fasciatherapy.
A little resume of my present work:
- Fasciatherapy- Danis Bois Method Private Sessions
- Conscious Movement Training- personalized 3 months program
- Dance Facilitator
- Sacral Healing Massage (1st and 2nd chackras)-south american tradition ( " Manteo")
- Quantum Healing Sessions ( at distance)
- Past Life Regressions
- Plant Limpias (mexican & ecuatorian traditions)
- YONAH Vibrational Elixirs Consultations and trainings (in person or at distance) and preparation of stock concentrate bottles for other therapist of all areas
- Workshops & Retreats on all the above subdjects
Teaching at Arrabida 16th Dance Gathering (2021) - Photos by Franca Franchi
