SOFIA

Sofia Gorder is a movement educator, community builder, and co-founder of Feral State preventative health and movement arts company using body-based practices to help people reconnect, regulate, and reimagine how they live and work together.

With a Master’s in Dance Education and Kinesiology as well as a BFA in Modern Dance, Sofia has spent over three decades at the intersection of performance, education, and public health. She directed a K–12 performing arts program while sustaining a professional career developing original dance works and socially engaged programming through Brolly Arts, using the arts as a vehicle for dialogue around climate, racial, and social justice.

Sofia is known for creating large-scale participatory experiences that invite people out of passive consumption and into collective action. Whether in schools, hospitals, senior centers, corporate environments, or correctional facilities, she designs spaces where individuals can reconnect to their bodies while contributing to something larger than themselves.

Her work is rooted in a multidisciplinary approach, with certifications in yoga, Pilates, breath science, somatic therapy, and movement methodologies. She is also the creator of the STATE Method, a practice designed to modulate the nervous system and facilitate rapid state change.

Through her work with the National Organization for Arts in Health, Sofia contributes to the evolving field of arts-based public health; helping shape curriculum and certification in a rapidly expanding discipline.

At the core of everything she builds is a simple belief: when people are guided back to themselves and given a shared purpose, they generate the kind of momentum that can transform communities.