Sophia Efthimou

Sophia is a musician, singer, composer, arranger, teacher, vocal coach, choir leader and beautiful human. Her work is all about supporting people to find an authentic and embodied relationship with their voice - to experience the truth of ourselves as resonant beings within a vibrational world, supporting a deep remembering, and ancient sense of belonging.Over the last 17 years, she has founded 4 community choirs, facilitated workshops at festivals, weddings, funerals and corporate events across the UK, Europe and the US, led singing holidays in Turkey and Italy, and created 'Embodied Song Retreats'. At these trainings, she shares her wealth of experience, inspiring others to develop their ability to hold space for harmony singing.She runs the Hackney Harmony Choir in London and Zu Choir in Lewes, along with her wildly popular online choir sessions. She organises and teaches Song Leader trainings in Wales and France and will be hosting sound and embodied movement retreats in the UK and Switzerland this year.Sophia will be holding space for us each evening at Sweat and Serenity, taking us on a musical journey of participative voice, performance, song and harmony throughout the retreat. What a fantastic addition to our team!Sophia says, 'We are sound makers. We are vibration. We are resonant beings. When we sound, every cell vibrates, when we sing, every cell is singing. Through our voice we meet the world, through our song our soul meets life, singing together our hearts meet each other. I have complete faith in the human potential for healing and empowerment through connection to the earth, our own hearts and each other. My prayer is that we all rediscover and reclaim our innate nature as a sound beings and music makers.'