Daily Inspiration: Meet Sophie Sky

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Sophie Sky.

Thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was about eleven years old, a shy, skinny girl in my first year of secondary school, which was an all-girls Catholic school, and I had just started to develop pre-teen spots (we’re talking just a few, not severe acne). Nonetheless, this made me feel more self-conscious and introverted.

My father suggested we do a ritual for the spots. He instructed me to count how many spots I had and then collect that number of pebbles from our garden, one to symbolize each spot. Then, we tied the pebbles in an old rag and secured it with garden twine.

We lived in the countryside of England at the time, where there were many public footpaths with ponds between the fields. We walked to a secluded pond. He told me to throw the pouch of stones over my left shoulder, with my eyes closed, and as the stones sink, to visualize them becoming buried in the mud at the bottom of the pond, symbolizing my spots disappearing.

Well, I’m a lousy shot, but by my third attempt, I heard a splash as the pouch hit the water and sank, and I visualized the rag dissolving and the pebbles becoming buried in the pond’s silt. Despite my giggles at my first attempts—making Dad frustrated, darting into the brambles to fish out the pouch—I thought this was a cool ritual for him! The kooky ritual was also out of character for the usually stern, ridged man, bound by his Catholicism.

But then Catholics secretly like rituals and symbolism, don’t they? Even if they borrowed most of it from the Old Religion (Paganism). My eleven-year-old self, who was fascinated by witchcraft and magic, loved my Dad’s kooky spell!

But how kooky are spells really when you think about them? Symbolic rituals involving manifestation and mind-body integration, i.e., using the power of the mind to assist in the healing of the body? Needless to say, my spots cleared up about a week after the ritual.

Even from childhood, I have been interested in holistic healing. I used to spend all my pocket money on herbs, keep a little herb garden, and make potions. Later in my twenties, after giving up my formal education and shedding my parent’s dreams for me, I reawakened my original calling to Holistic Healing.

From 2004 to 2006, I studied for a diploma in Hypnotherapy and Holistic Healing, encompassing Counseling, Hands, and Guided Meditation at the Holistic Healing College in London, England.

In 2010, I studied a year-long program in Neo Tantric massage with John Hawken, formerly the SkyDancing Institute UK, and the Love & Ecstasy Cycle 3 training with the SkyDancing Institute USA, in North California. Since then, I have delved into and become certified in many other bodywork modalities, including Lomi Lomi, Swedish, Ayurvedic, Reflexology, and Myofascial Release. I have been offering my bespoke bodywork sessions internationally for 17 years.

At present, I am in the liminal phase, fine-tuning my unique synergy of hypnotherapy and Tantric massage. Hypnotherapy helps clients to drop into deep relaxation and mindful sensory expansion. Then I bring in light and conscious touch, and from this place of openness and surrender, they can have a deep experiential journey.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story. Has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what challenges have you had to overcome?
The main challenge is attracting the right type of clients—genuine seekers. Enquirers should ask themselves, am I looking for adult entertainment or a holistic, sensuous wellness experience for self-nourishment or self-transformation? (Because I’m only interested in offering the latter).

Unfortunately, there are many self-proclaimed “sex coaches” popping up in SoCal with no credentials in coaching, bodywork, or Tantra who have tainted the field. Anyhow, my advice to potential clients is to read the provider’s websites carefully and ask about their credentials and experience. If their ad is just a pretty picture with a Gmail, use your common sense and don’t expect much.

Thanks. What else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
In honor of my training with the SkyDancing Institute, I call my massage work SkyDance massage and my bespoke blend of bodywork and hypnotherapy Sky Trance.

A new client recently exclaimed after a session, “That was definitely a journey! What language were you speaking in? And what were you saying?”

“Er… English, with a British accent,” I replied with a smile. For he had dropped so deeply into the bodywork that he was convinced I was speaking in tongues. And although we both got a chuckle out of this at the time, he may have actually accessed some subliminal messages from his subconscious. After all, I’m only there to provide the nurturing space for potential healing and transformation.

Another client said he saw “two kind grandmothers over my shoulder,” which he perceived as my Spirit guides. For many, a session is simply a sublime, blissful, and relaxing experience. But for others, there is an “Ah-ha moment” when they first feel energy in their body or tap into a deeper part of the Self.

Sky Trance is especially good for clients with performance anxiety, psychological-based PE, and ED. Or simply those who have a highly active mind and say they can’t switch it off. Furthermore, some men get caught in thought loops about their sexual performance. They come from a world of targets, deadlines, and efficiency and try to fit that framework into intimacy with a feminine-essence woman!

To create deep intimacy with a woman, you have to first become grounded and connected with your own body sensations, breath, and arousal rate before you can truly meet and feel her. Frankly, otherwise, you’re just in a groping chaos.

Sky Trance can help you stay grounded and open-hearted, drop deep into body relaxation, and then expand your somatic awareness. Being touched with presence, very lightly, from this place of surrender and openness can help to re-wire your nervous system to become more sensitive to sensual touch. Hopefully, you can learn by receiving what feels good.

Some clients say, “Oh, I’m too skeptical [or cynical] for hypnotherapy…”

However, the concept of using the mind’s attention to develop your body awareness is actually very natural when you come from a holistic mindset. Unfortunately, though, traditional Western medicine is based on reductionist methodology, where they focus on fragment parts in microscopic detail and do not consider the integral whole being. And this scientific viewpoint clouds most people’s consciousness.

I’ve read that, in the 17th century, scientists such as Newton and Descartes made a deal with the powerful religious authorities of the time to stick to studying the physical while the rest of the human experience, which could be called Spirit or Life Force energy, was to be the domain of the priests. Hypnotherapy, which was formerly studied much later in the 19th century, is perhaps where science meets magic.

With this current focus on Sky Trance, I will be re-branding and launching new hypnotherapy audios soon! In one guided visualization, I actually use the imagery of my Dad’s ritual but for releasing sexual issues instead of spots. Giggles! Plus, I’m excited to be working in partnership with a talented meditation-genre musician who is creating dreamy soundscapes to accompany my voice.

To find out more, check out my Patreon vlog: SkyDanceCam https://www.patreon.com/SkyDanceCam!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.patreon.com/SkyDanceCam
• Email: [email protected]

Image Credits
Roger Robles rogerrobles.wixsite.com