Sonia Ratto
MA, MBA, RYT
I am a registered yoga educator, somatic movement facilitator, and expressive arts performer with over 20 years of experience.
I specialize in working with adults navigating emotional healing, recovery from illness or injury, and periods of transition. My work supports those experiencing stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, grief, hormonal shifts, insomnia, a sense of disconnection from themselves, a lack of direction.
Through intimate group settings and one-on-one sessions, I offer a highly personalized approach that integrates yoga, somatic awareness, expressive arts, and connection to nature. My work invites students to move beyond performance and into deep listening—where the body becomes a pathway for regulation, insight, transformation, and creative expression.
I have been teaching since 2011, guiding classes, workshops, trainings and retreats internationally, including in Paris (France), in the United States (Denver, Sedona, Tucson), and Mexico. I am honored to be listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America for my professional accomplishments.
My work is rooted in a simple yet powerful intention: to offer practices and maps that can help you reconnect with your body, navigate life with greater resilience, and access your own capacity to heal, evolve. and create.
I don’t teach crowded, fast-paced classes where you disappear in the room. I work exclusively with individuals and intimate groups, ensuring you are deeply seen, safely guided, and supported with absolute care.
My work exists at the intersection of yoga therapeutics, somatic awareness, expressive arts, and connection to the desert environment. It is a deliberate process of listening, releasing, and reorganizing—physically, emotionally, and mentally.
I view the body not merely as a physical form, but as the primary pathway to clarity, emotional integration, and profound self-inquiry. Ocotillo Moon is the micro studio I created to share these practices—a little and humble desert sanctuary for healing, embodiment, and creative expression.
Certifications & Credentials
Registered Yoga Teacher since 2015.
Extensive yoga studies since 2009 in Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga. Master and root teachers: Danny Paradise, Annie Carpenter, Cat de Rham, Biff Mithoeffer.
Conscious movement and somatic practitioner since 2015. Master and root teachers: Visuddha de Los Santos, Vincent Martínez-Grieco.
Extensive shamanic studies and visions quests since 2012 with Clay Lomakayu (The Medicine of One) and Renna Shesso (Sandra Ingerman lineage).
Voice Dialog Training (level 1) with Tamar Stone.
Life/Art process® - 3 years professional training - Tamalpa Institute, California - in progress
Listed in the Marquee Who's Who in America.
Master in Business and Administration.
Master in Public Law.
Bachelor of Art in Political Science.
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