Blending yoga, dance, somatic guidance, and ritual performance Sofiah Thom creates environments for transformation and self-discovery. Integrating presence and expression, Sofiah combines movement and play in a fusion that encourages conscious exploration of the self. Sofiah's mission lies in helping people access their divine beauty, wisdom and power in their bodies. Simply being in her presence one feels her grace, strength and sensuality as she invites you to get out of your head and into your body.

As a daughter of parents who are also healers and teachers, and as an interdisciplinary artist with a B.A. in Dance Therapy and Performing Arts from Naropa University, studies at the Tamalpa Institute in Expressive Healing Arts, and a myriad of trainings in bodywork, Yoga and Dance, Sofiah's deep understanding of the body shines through her work. Her experience and collaboration with certain key mentors laid the groundwork and sparked a deep sense of inspiration. During her studies at Naropa she mentored and studied with Melissa Michaels where she immersed herself in the foundation of the 5Rhythms. Whilst living in L.A. she studied with other great masters such as Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Kenny Graham and Mark Whitwell within the yoga world; Anna Halprin and Vinn Marti in the dance world.  At Naropa, Barbara Dilley, originally a dancer with Merce Cunningham, was one of her most influential teachers through her seamless infusion of Buddhist teachings with dance.

Sofiah's inspiration as a yogi stems from Tantra and Vinyasa Flow and she received her 200 hour Yoga Alliance RYT through the teachings of Anusara. Sofiah created Embody Grace (which includes no predetermined postures, and is instead a guided journey in movement); Danyasa™ Yoga in Motion; and Bamboo Yoga (a fusion of Vinyasa flow focusing on Sofiah's bamboo principles of alignment). When it comes to dance, Sofiah fuses all of her technique background including ballet, modern, African, Indian and Belly Dance into a unique and beautiful performance art, which she calls Temple Fusion, which originates from the recognition of the body as a temple, melding and fusing multiple dance and movement modalities in a sexy, sensual and spiritual dance offering.  She dances the winding path between inner landscape and external environment, always embracing the succulence and sensuality of the goddess archetype.

Today, Sofiah combines dance, yoga, expressive healing arts and ritual into her work and has appeared as a performing artist and workshop facilitator at International events for the past ten years including the Bali Spirit Festival, Bhakti Fest, Earth Dance, and Wanderlust to name a few.  She has been featured in Yogi Times, Conscious Dancer and Elephant Journal. Sofiah lives and works on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where she and her husband opened Bamboo Yoga Play, A Sanctuary for Living Artfully in 2007. In 2011 Sofiah, her husband and a small group of individuals founded Envision, which quickly burgeoned into a world reknown transformational festival offering Music, Art, Education and Sacred Movement in the raw nature of Costa Rica.  Sofiah offers workshops and yoga teacher trainings. and her clients travel from around the world to undergo transformational journeys through her teachings at her retreat center in Costa Rica and abroad.