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Sofia Diaz
Sofia is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years.
Sofia is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years.
She has founded a school of hatha yoga and sacred movement arts in Boulder Colorado, housed as "Prasad", a yoga studio. She holds a bachelor's degree in dance from Mills College in Oakland, California and a master's degree in religious studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lectures on the embodiment principles of religious culture based in the examination of sacred movement; she has taught as a guest lecturer at many universities as well as developed coursework designed to take into account somatic understanding in the academic setting. She has most recently taught in the Department of Somatic Psychology at Naropa University and the University of Colorado in Boulder while developing a program of hatha yoga and sacred dance as intersubjectively transmitted arts. She has been written on yoga and sacred movement for both academic and popular journals, and travels frequently teaching women's yoga and "spiritualized body" intensives throughout the United States, Australia, Europe and India.
