How I am healing myself through dance

If you don’t already know me, I’m Sophie Bryan, the founder and Chief Sexiness Officer at the Sexy & Soulful Dance School.  I have 2 busy corporate businesses, running a Workplace Culture Consultancy (ordinarilydifferent.co.uk) and an Executive & Life Coaching practice (sophiebryan.co.uk), but as much as this has been my career for over 20 years, I’m ready to break free from the confines of what society expects of me as a woman, mother, human and a sexual being.

Over the past few years, I’ve been exploring my sexual energy, learning and study all about sex and sexuality. So now in addition to my other businesses, I’m now a Sex/ Life Coach here at Sex & Soul – to which this dance school is part of.

In 2022 I was diagnosed with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). Whilst undergoing therapy, I sought a shift in my attitude about my body and appearance in dance and Yoga. I wrote about this experience in the book I published in 2023 – you can find it here. Dance and Yoga has exponentially helped me, and with all my experience and knowledge of sexuality, BDD and dance, it only felt right to share my gifts with the world.

I have extensive experience in dance – having started dancing Latin & Ballroom, and Salsa at the age of 18 (just before “Strictly” was a thing – before it was fashionable!). But nowadays, I dance and perform Burlesque – trained by one of the top teachers and Burlesque dancers in London – Seraphina Hart. I hold bronze, silver and gold medals in adult Ballet, am an ex- Salsa teacher, and have experience in Belly Dance, Pole Dance and Aerial Hoop. I am also a qualified Yoga Teacher, and Nutritional Therapist. So, there’s a hell of a lot I know about the body, how to move it, nourish it, take care of it, and love it!

My story of how I’m healing myself through dance