Sofia was a ballet dancer for 20 years and, after repetitive injury, became a physiotherapist. Through a MSc in Dance Science (Trinity Laban, 2012) Sofia was inspired to partner science and artistry. She worked clinically and in the studio at Trinity Laban, London Contemporary Dance School, Bucks University, Performers College and Italia Conti as well as privately with company and freelance dancers.

These experiences led to formal teaching, of dancers and dancer teachers alike, in pain free movement and conditioning, to scientific publications and to international presentations at IADMS Seattle 2012 and IADMS Hong Kong 2016.

Through working with others, Sofia was able to return to her own body. She became a comprehensive BASI Pilates instructor with a Dance Specialization (mat and apparatus), trained at the National Centre for Circus Arts (London) and developed a consistent yoga and running practice. These experiences keep informing her work.

In 2019, the lack of comprehensive wellbeing support for dance (and physical arts) was inescapable. This lead Sofia to the role of Clinical director and Lead Physiotherapist with Ballet West Scotland and, later, a analogous role at Arles Youth Ballet Company (2021). This allowed the development and implementation of sensitive and applicable screening protocols (and individual follow-up), of repertoire-specific conditioning, and of seminars for dancers, ballet masters and choreographers exploring individualized exercises and training methodologies.

Currently in the Netherlands, Sofia finished a MSc in High Performance (De Vrije Universiteit, 2022) while teaching body conditioning at the ATD for the Expanded Contemporary Dance department and guest lecturing at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Lisbon University of Human Kinetics. She graduated with research projects at the Dutch National Ballet and Codarts.

In November 2022, Sofia became Head of Health & Performance at the ATD and extended her teaching to the other ATD Dance departments (EDC, NBA, DD and SNDO). Sofia's research interests lie in motor learning and fitness for the performing artist and on the concept of exhaustion, purposeful rest and regeneration as part of education (which she presented on at PAMA London 2024). She is part of the ATD Lectorate, a member of the ECD Critical Somatics research project and one of the authors of the book “Perform Wiser” (2024), a collaboration between the ATD and ArtEZ. She is part of the expert group on Care+Welfare with Dans Veilig and physiotherapist with the Dutch National Ballet.