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Sofia Marchetti

Sound baths and cacao circles. Sintra, and travelling most months.
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Sound therapy practitioner · BAST
Sintra · travels

Come as you are, on the day you're having. You don't need to believe in anything for this to work on your nervous system.

Sound bath

Ninety minutes, lying down

Bowls, gongs, and a lot of silence between. You lie under a blanket and do absolutely nothing. Bring a pillow.

Cacao circle

Three hours, small group

Ceremonial cacao, sound, and an unhurried sharing circle. Twelve people maximum, because more than that and nobody really speaks.

Yin & sound

With a guest teacher

Long held shapes with bowls underneath. I do this with different teachers around Lisbon, and it's my favourite thing to be part of.

I cried for the first twenty minutes and then slept better than I had all year. Highly recommend, apparently.
Ana · Sintra
Thursday · 20:00
Sound bath · Quinta da Lua, Sintra
Every new moon
Cacao circle · Sintra, address on booking

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The sound half of your retreat

Booking 2027

You hold the days, I hold one evening and everybody sleeps properly for the first time all week. This is the thing I'm asked for most and the thing I most enjoy.

Have doneEleven retreats across Portugal, Italy and Morocco
I bringBowls, two gongs, chimes. It fits in a car, not a plane
NeedA room where nobody walks through, and an hour to set up
Invite me to your retreat

Yin and sound, with your class

Always

You teach, I play underneath. It costs you nothing to try, it fills better than either of us manages alone, and we split it evenly. I've done this with six teachers around Lisbon and it has never once not worked.

Works withYin, restorative, slow flow, breathwork
Currently withMaya Rivera · yin, Tomás Ferreira · breathwork
MoneySplit down the middle, no minimum
Let's try one

Travelling to hold a circle

Available

Studios, private houses, weddings occasionally, and once a very strange corporate offsite in the Douro. If you can gather twelve people I can probably get there.

RangeAnywhere in Iberia by car, Europe with notice
Group size8 to 30 for cacao, up to 50 for sound
Ask me to come

A regular weekly slot

Not right now

I travel too much at the moment to commit to the same evening every week. Ask me again in the autumn.

I trained as a classical cellist and spent my twenties being told my playing was technically fine and emotionally absent. That turned out to be true about more than the cello.

Sound found me sideways, through a bowl someone handed me at a festival in Italy. I've been holding circles for eight years now, mostly in Sintra, and increasingly wherever someone invites me to.

Holding circles 8 years
Italian, English, Portuguese
Based in Sintra

Where I trained

Sound therapy practitioner · British Academy of Sound Therapy, 2019
Gong practitioner, level 2 · Peter Hess Institute, 2021
Cacao ceremony facilitation · Guatemala, 2023
BMus, cello · Conservatorio di Milano, 2014
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New moon dates, where I'm travelling to, and the circles that fill before I have a chance to announce them properly.

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