Sophia has been Watercolor Painting with various art teachers since she was 11 years old. She studied with Sylvia Brofos, Dustin Knight, Sean Beavers, and at the University of New Hampshire, Kent State University, New Hampshire Institute of Art, and Kimball Jenkins. She has had paintings published and exhibited in New Hampshire. She is a member of the Two Villages Art Society in Contoocook, NH.

Watercolor is Sophia’s favorite medium, but she has also explored oils, pencil, and charcoal. She loves capturing the power, light, and beauty of nature whether it is trees, sky, stones, flowers, water, and animals, specializing in equine art.

Sophia Eastley has been Tribal Belly dancing for twenty-four years under the name Sheherazade Bint Allat. As director of the dance troupe, Ladies of the Shifting Sands, and individually she has performed at medieval events, coffee houses, clubs, baby showers, in restaurants, Belly Dance Festivals in Maine, MA, and NH. She brings the joy of the Ancient Goddess “Dance Orientale” to the workshop.

Sophia has trained with Hawaiian Kahuna Hank Wesselman Ph. D. and has studied for six years with Peruvian Shaman Puma Fredy Quispe Singona. She studied the Mayan techniques of meditation, visualization, and spiritual art. She creates crafts, beadwork, shawls, drums, and regularly practices summer solstice ceremonial dances drawing from her Abenaki and Cherokee ancestral lineages. She believes that connecting to Pachamama, Mother Earth, is vital for our balance and wellness as human beings. She has studied yoga and teacher’s training, completed meditation weekend retreats, sacred dance and healing workshop retreats, and workshops at Yoga studios, Earth Days, retreat centers, and more.