Sofia Gayle has over 30 years of experience in the healing arts. 1000 hrs. of training in yoga, 5 years with a guru from India and is in alignment with Irish Celtic teachings as a Bean Feaca, pronounced (Ban Faca)  which means wisdom teacher. This past year, her mother's lineage from County Cork called Sofia to Ireland after her mothers' death in Canada on Easter Sunday 2024. It was a pilgrimage of love and reclamation of connection and soul where her arrival on Samhain, otherwise known as Halloween, on the eve of October 31st, 2024, introduced her to the Cailleach (The old woman) in the land along the Beara peninsula. As the Cailleachs' head in West Cork and in County Meath her throne initiated her into an alliance with wisdom teachings , her journey is far from over as Canada and the land of her birth hold Indigenous wisdom all over Turtle island that connects'  to her Fathers' lineage. Sofia travelled with her Mothers ring to Ireland, to bury it in the land for her mother who never had an opportunity to get there.

it is buried by sacred wells by a statue of Mother Mary whom her mother had great devotion.

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What is Sofia Solutions- Sofia is wisdom and solutions is an answer.

Sofia solutions teaches from a perspective of decolonized thought and practice.

What is the Solution-  The solute is trust.

The biggest obstacle to healing is trust .

Sofia - Sacred and the secret ,(Annam Cara ) is Irish for "Soul friend " What are the ingredients of a soul friend - Caritas love  ,Being human and transparent,

Trust takes time?

Trust offers results.- What are the results that you want to see on your healing path. 

Solvent-"The solvent is usually more in amount than the solute." -science article.

Something that is amplified ,(certainly is louder ) becomes more of a focal point than other sounds that surround us. What we fixate on holds us in an absolute state of suffering. When we can break its gaze; just like a dog staring at you, we break its gaze so it does not attack.This really is how it is when we are breaking uncomfortable and sometimes long held patterns in our life.It is really an act of will that becomes the solvent to our situation.It is not minimizing your suffering or making light of a situation it is utilizing other practices to become louder ,to be more in its effect than the problem. This is what starts to happen as we move forward in our lives, we create a determination ,but very often we are determined at a cost if we align with the problem rather than the solution ,instead of the solvent that will overpower it we compound the problem.

The friction that is created with presenting an alternative to a problem bears in mind that both energies ; the problem and the solution can feel equally amplified.Our minds think the problem is much larger than the answer.It is in our determination that makes the difference.

 

Tools

The rattle or the drum in effect drown out the problem, it creates a clearing of stagnant energy and it offers an altered state of being to build your strength in order to change an outcome or stop a habit that won't let go of us ,its as if it has a life of its own. And in a shamanic sense it does.

It lives.

And as all life fights for itself, it does not want to die.Whether positive or negative ,"killing" the dream becomes making a longing or a goal "real" from fantasy to reality it produces happiness or a high to what we think we want, to discard it for the next thing that we think will make us happy. Negative habits  that we "kill" served a longing in us, has produced suffering and holds us in an addictive state "A dry drunk" for instance, still has the wounding of someone who still drinks even If they have stopped. This momentary sensation also gives relief but not a long lasting answer.

Tools of clarity ,vision, giving ,receiving ,natural and supernatural experiences in our journeys offer what is true in our heart and soul.

We find our will and our determination  give way to become natural and effortless.

Our own soul speaks louder than our wounding ,it is powerful and honest ,humbling and a relief to know that this experience of " who we always were," has always been there. "Solvent" more prominent than the solute in its application, the solution becomes clear.A souls answer - a Soul -lution.

 

Solutions, Solvent ,Solved.

Love,

Sofia Gayle

Solved- "That will do pig ,that'll do" - The movie Babe.

In the movie Babe ,the farmer utters these last words to his pig who shows the community how intelligent he really is. There is a sense of completion that ends the movie and finds a resolution that becomes a situation that is solved by a confident display of mind, heart ,and body.

What else is there?

When so many of us are undermined ,treated with dismissive gestures ,or doubt the existence of soul.Pain puts us into a loop of repetition that is almost like a trap.

The divine blueprint ,once activated gives us a sense that we have always been loved ,we move with confidence to rise up and meet our challenges ,there is a sense of completion here in meeting something full on.

On the spiritual path the fight with the mind or the heart that we think is normal ,gives the body a physical pain that we carry for what seems like an eternity. The story of souls going into the underworld or hell for three days to then ascend into heaven reminds me of this process .

We rise ,we rise and ,we rise!

 

We rise finally to see patterns!

 We see the illusion so clearly ,because suddenly in freedom we observe and see ,this is the fabric that we weave for better or ill.

In shamanic practice we transcend the idea of better or worse ,suddenly we have depth ,sometimes seen as evil ,which its not ; This is where the pain is and by its roots ,we unearth truth.It is not to say that there is no evil ,or malevolence but an amplification of energies both good and ill that have forgotten the soul, and ascending into heaven or heaven itself as a preferred path, we discover the path of heart.

Soul towards depth and height become love, expansion outward and inward permeates everything. The depths become wisdom ,an ocean deep ,the core of the earth, something that holds you not in suffering but in soul.

 

A landscape of our "field" that creates our very reality. We are everything, all the time.Alchemised, whole ,resolved in our soul, not in good or evil ,in pain or in pleasure, But a recognition of the soul that offers something so much better.

A puzzle ,a Rubik's cube ,an equation unanswered ,a search of lifetimes ,a so called problem that is solved with soul. We recognize who we are .

Now we have a level playing field of who we are ,we can rest in our heart ,the answer to offer it without the fear of it being broken or stolen.

At this level of soul ,we build a divine structure that holds where the illusion collapses.It is the trick of the mind or of malevolence that tricks you into believing lies.

This is where Shamanic study and lineage healing becomes helpful.You have come out of the 8 of repetition or pattern  to engage in a 9 of completion. 

Engaging in something that will hold.

Love,

Sofia Gayle

Solutions ,solvent, solved.

Sofia Solutions-"I did it my way"-Frank Sinatra

 

There are stages to healing that create solutions. We see, feel or think there might be a problem and so there is. We want a solution, and we want it fast, a solution right now, and sometimes depending on the circumstance, the urgency is met with an emergency. ( Emerge) come out to immediate oxygen or a blood transfusion.

The first step is in our baby years, needs being met when they present themselves. Hunger is met with food at a particular time, eye gazing and love nourishes us. These are all internal cues that we have in our immediate surroundings.They are very basic but crucial to our lives. In connection we get it done "our way", out of a connection of needs met, if it's not given but imposed, forced, or neglected, we become suspended in a timing that is "off"

We act from what we know, what we see, and how we interact in the world determines our ability to be healed or walking injured. Once urgent care is given. We return to a more natural giving and receiving. If we don't move our stages of maturation in our healing, we etch the first stage of emergency. 

Usually, our biological clock or a burst of hormones and physical growth ( emerges ) to take us to other stages of our development. But what do we do if there are gaps and places that do not have the next steps there for us? If we are surrounded by our peers, we see the variations of parenting and sibling interaction. We sometimes search there to have needs met. These soulful relationships transcend the biological in that moment providing an energy from community that we need to learn, to heal, to grow...up.

Sometimes....down, these interactions happen and instead of maturation, we are etched in a place of being "stuck", we can still work the edge to say "no" I am doing it my way. It's this stage of the two-year-old who doesn't really know what they are saying 'no" to, it can be everything and nothing. Our edge is a spiritual place of the warrior that makes a stance of power against the energies that keep us from seeing we are the ones with power and are in power.

 

From me to we.

It is the teen years where the internal fire of the solar plexus and sexual power comes in to say, "I'm doing it my way", These moments of understanding our power have us mature into adulthood. The energy of the solar plexus moves up and into the higher heart, as we grow up. If it moves down into the sexual second chakra, we move into addiction territory, which etches the quality of our wounds as a life lived from there.

A warriors journey however can walk an edge of wounded territory by calling on "the medicine." This is like a challenge, a dual with an energy that rules you, an opponent that limits our natural inclination towards the sun, the rain, the earth and the ethers which is sometimes referred to as the spirit.

There are ebbs and flows to this journey and there are leaps and bounds, flight, falls, stops and starts and a smooth or bumpy ride. It takes many forms and because you are unique in your journey, what I offer is a true seeing of your power and a power union where I can support you to "do it your way."  The agreement is in relationship to life, to yourself and to others, so you can say "I did it my way"- The first step to Sofia Solutions.

 

Once we have the first step, or several first steps to create a healthy pattern we take the second step or stage to "We did it our way."

Solutions, Solvent, Solved. 

Love,

Sofia Gayle

Small talk leads to to big talk.

The weather ,your paint project ,new shoes. A random interaction.These are the building blocks to trust .Sometimes we can't deal with the deep stuff ,the bigger things that ,lets be honest ,scare us.

The deep can mean drowning.

The intense can mean ,losing our cool.

I 've thought a lot about this lately.Leading with curiosity gives one a pathway to other spaces in one self and if we can't relate to the everyday then really what's the point of going into the deep end?

The brain wants safety and with all the "fear porn" out there ,we become caged in our own world of being unable to talk or relate to anyone at all.In my younger years ,I would have a hard time with small talk. But it is in the details that we begin to see how we can really love each other, to then provide the depth required for our health ,and anchor into ourselves as individuated souls who seek to be relevant in a society that constantly changes the rules.

Taking a deep dive is exciting for some and scary for others.

And sometimes just plain foolish.

Keeping this in mind ,feel into what works for you.Despite my ability to go deep into the work ,I am someone who does not jump into the deep end ,I  put my toes ,then my foot ,to then move my legs into the waters.I get to know first my surroundings ,I sit at the back table in the restaurant so my back is not facing the door or other people.I am cautious and sometimes careless.Caring less has provided some boundary setting in my life as judgment is constant.Culture can dictate for better and worse how everything has a better or worse ,it is your choice to embody that choice for the better, because it effects how we see the collective mind in society.The better and the worse is there as a cautionary tale ,that "yes"caring is good until it becomes control or insincere and holds other intentions entirely.

Caring less does not mean that you are not a caring person.Sometimes its because we want to get it right or we actually care too much and feel swallowed by the collective suffering of humanity.Whether joy or tears we are not really in touch with the amount of tears, rage ,or joy that we are allowed to feel. Dysregulation of our nervous systems keep us in a locked state of any of our emotions. We need to emote, but we don't need to etch and repeat the circumstances that loop.

Go gently ,and care less, take a step back ,really look and see the speed ,temperature ,the ingredients to how we make anything real ,a meal, a relationship ,a decision, a story. A blank slate  can confuse as we are seeing our freedom as a prison ,when in fact being accountable is exciting and needed in our maturation.In our judgment we fall in discernment we fly.

Sofia Solutions.

Solutions.Solvent ,Solved.

Love ,

Sofia Gayle 

My three months in Ireland was pushing my edge but finding synchronicity everywhere.The intention was to travel to Paris as so many cues and clues came as a direction from people and places, and an aura that urged me to show up in Paris.By the time however that I arrived in Dublin from Cork ,I felt travel weary ,My ceremony with Gerry was intense ,and I needed a few days to integrate my journey with mushrooms from Irish sacred sites.My three months was coming up and I really wanted to go to Paris ,but at the same time I felt weary and was not really feeling any guidance.Until....

 

We went to a sacred site called Loughcrew,and paid a visit to the Calliach and her throne, I had already been to the head of the Calliach in the southwest and now I was at her seat, where she sat in soverighty. There was a cross etched in the rock ,The Catholics had used it as an alter for Mass.

I was very emotional and the land was so potent and powerful ,I offered my rose quartz

 

Delusions and illusions seem to come at us when we are close to change and we backslide, it is in these moments that some compassion towards ourselves is needed.And determination to see it through to the other side ,a resolution, a resolve to meet someone there.My birthing experience with my sons felt like this,John Dido Lori, a Zen Monk said something like ..Im paraphrasing here,GIVE equal attention to the outcome as you do in beginning something ,that way you can reach the other side.My first born was  a C section and my second born was a vaginal birth. Completely different experiences ,we are continuously experiencing life from a different lens and outcome.I suppose its why I feel maturation is a process that allows a unique story where we are however greeting these experiences with love ,kindness,willingness,comitment to the path we actively walk.Whether a journey in our mind and spirt or body or all three we we take with us ways to move through what is in front of us. OUR nervous system is connected to our illusions or delusions ,we are with in reaction or stress ,or we learn how to take this wiring and get online with a guidance that is sourced and active in the  frequency of divine power.In buddhism Mara is a demon who does not want you to leave a suffering world or a sensorial one where we are still dealing with delusions of grandeur, failure or ,success Moments before enlightenment Mara came full force to Buddha just before his complete awakening as did Jesus in the garden was hounded by demons.What I find helpful is these practices to reach another shore where these energies don't bother to try and seek out its spiritual food by feeding off our light.There are many ways of renewal in the natural world and in the god worlds.There is no lack, ever.That is a delusion that we believe very strongly on this earth ,so as our light seems to be consumed ,the truth is it is eternal ,and when we begin to experience this ,it changes our view completely.Be open to change ,ask questions ,try ,try and try again...or as Yoda said there is no try only do.practice however can build into a beautiful resolve.Expect these fears and doubts to come at you, and then to wisely know they hold nothing over you when you see through them.Sofia solutions, Solutions ,Solvent Solved.

Dr.Sandeep is a doctor who kills his patient  on purpose or accident>weight on the fallibility of the human being, where most people equate a doctor as God ,hence why so many doctors are known to have a God complex. We are taught to trust without question ,and sometimes we don't trust even if it is ok to trust ,we risk everything if we trust someone.This I believe comes from backwards thinking about love and trust.
How to trust 
Where do we begin? We begin at the beginning with original blessing, instead of original sin,In a word we are 'Love"
I was speaking to a young man who was struggling in a relationship having issues with trust ,it had been an issue that I had grappled with. "Is love and trust the same thing , are they even related?" he asked.Instead of having a dialogue in my own mind ,I responded.-"Love is to offer to others ,because we are love ,there is no lack.Trust is a personal thing ,we need to trust ourselves.Trust that we are love ,and in trust and faith we can move our lives forward" I don't know if I believed self love needed to be a focus because I believed that was always present.But because we believe its not true we don't trust truth.Keep love for others not yourself because what it does is send an ego kick your way if we don't ,navel gazing ,we believe a lie that we are not enough, we are not love itself, but trust is only for you, not anyone else in your life because we interact with others and the world who maintain the lie. When that muscle is as strong as love itself, you will begin to trust others, who are trustworthy  and love those that are not because it is in love that they may be able to believe it themselves.
When we walk our edge of change  or learn something new ,there is the unknown ,but as I have offered we go into the unknown with some help.
That is the shamanic path.
"Mistakes ,Ive made a few"- I did it my way Frank Sinatra.
I trusted someone that I loved who was not capable of trusting herself  and not loving others but using them for her advantage.I was the little girl who waited ,and waited ,and waited for love.The real love ,not the mistrust /betrayal love that I continued to accept as real.This is where my journeying and my gifts came in handy to stop a pattern of meanness or injustice.The illusions are still powerful in their hold and chaos and confusion become weapons of the unloved.Energy draining, confidence shattering we endure the lie ,until we see the truth in our healing journey. We are love. We can trust ourselves and in that I continued to choose to be in the relationship ,and then eventually out of it because you outgrow and want something real.
Its surprising when you find out its always been you. 
Don't trust others ,Trust yourself.
Don't love yourself, Love others.
So here the solutions are a mathematical order of sequence.
Solutions ,Solvent Solved.
Love,Sofia Gayle

 

My story of healing and trust .

When I was first pregnant ,I wanted the grandmother  to be my midwife, in between they switched my midwife  to a young woman. My lack of  trust shut down so badly ,I was 3 weeks late ,I was induced and had a C section.  Laboured for 36 hours. This  resolve or my desire for the midwife who  was the grandmother spoke to me as the old stores of old women who were grandmothers and ones who had wisdom.They were not perfect, but they held an understanding of life that was instinctual and women who understood the psychology of birthing life.As I age ,I find myself becoming closer to being that old woman. And leaning into that experience of listening to old women who were still engaging life and offering their wisdom,I travel on that path continuing wisdom.

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I                                                                                                                                              Who is this for?- Resolve. 

                                                         At Sofia Solutions ,we build  safety, agency,  and lead with curiosity to ask ourselves and others  very important questions.

These services focus on strategies to deal with trauma through holistic practices such as energy healing, shamanic practice, yoga, and programs developed specifically to regain will power and call yourself back home. Sofias' focus has been the military, first responders, and people who deal with high powered, high stress environments like court houses or hospitals. 

 

                                                                          "A story doesn't have to be true to hold power, but the energy around it does" Sofia

 

                                                                                                                      Sofia Solutions. The Medicine. -Why a tree?

The Tree of Life on the home page was chosen as an image to inspire people to know they are not alone. The family tree and many kinds of trees bring resolution when we examine stories of their power.  I use narrative tools for healing where a story is always based on belief. The reality of nature lies a world of energy and mystery. Some of this journey is predictable and some of it is unexpected. It is in the unexpected that we heal in mystery and in the expected that we integrate our energy into every day reality. It is a hidden world where we find a relationship with spirit that feels private to then be seen for who we really are to the outside world.

 

Here you can find a guide, with a solution and a way that is just for you by "working your personal story"and resolving to step into your healing journey.

Beginner sessions.-$108

Beginner sessions-  Journey first with Sofia holding space. A drum and rattle are used to assist in the journey. You will lay down or sit up, eyes closed to focus inward.Its important to have a guide in these journeys as we are building muscle memory ,and need someone to call us back to our every day reality, or encourage us to stay in the journey with our eyes closed and focused on our altered state. There is no force here ,I believe strongly in consent and that you are in charge as I am with you in response.

Sofia is the lighthouse ,an anchor for you to hold onto.

 

                                                                               Sofia Solutions- A Healers' Package.

                                              An upgrade to find what's unfolding in the field of the Healing Arts.

 

AI Yoga - Ascended Intelligence yoga program. A specific program to create energetic stability and courage.-$234 A Shamanic approach to the yogic path. Wisdom teachings that work the medicine wheel of Indigenous teachings.

 

Working your personal story. A specific program that works your lower self-story and your higher self-story.

This is a well known concept in shamanic study ,where we are challenged to move out of suffering -$900

 

Tarot- Three decks are used in a Mandala, Healing your specific story.Watch you tube for an example of how the healing Tarot works.-$108 see contact page for YouTube link.

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Keep in touch 

Touch stone - A 9 minute call with Sofia to follow up either daily or weekly.This helps us to check in and keep on track ,a support for your life. Email or call for more details.

                                                                                                                            How does Sofia Solutions work.

 

 Free Talks( Auditory and Visual) on Sofia -Solutions are given on YouTube -see contact info to find you tube channel.

 Look at contact page for link. These will change every so often ,come here to check any changes.

 

 -Build Trust. Solution 

-Build and practice agency Solvent

_ Lead with curiosity ,ASK important questions. Solved.

 

                                            ( Like to read?) The Wellness Blog also covers Solutions ,Solvent,Solved.

 

 

 An elder who has aged and walked the path of spirit  develops a strong heart. "Coeur"- is heart in French. as we "age" we can choose heart. "Courage" is what gives us heart. It is the alchemy that turns our lives into brilliance. -Sofia Gayle

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