Hello! I’m Sophie Lizeray, the Unicorn Witch! I am a Shamanic Energy Therapist, Yoga, Laughter Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Reiki Master, and Community Herbalist. Welcome!
Who is the Unicorn Witch?
Unicorn Witch – I am! Because life is more fun and meaningful with rainbows, magic and friends! I love to spread the sparkle by helping you re-connect deeply to yourself and cultivating the inner garden of your soul – in your very own unique way.
I am a yogini, dancer, author-illustrator, landscape architect, Reiki Master / Teacher and Shamanic practitioner, community herbalist, woman and mother. I guide clients and students in groups and privates, and lead corporate well-being events in person and online.
With over 25 years of practice and 15+ of teaching, I am deeply committed to meeting YOU -student or client- exactly where you are -whether you seek to release tension, find community, or take the next step in your practice. I create a space where empowerment begins on the mat and flourishes in life.
What’s stirring in the Unicorn Witch’s cauldron?
A bunch of healing modalities! Yoga, meditation, somatic movement, shamanic divination, power recovery, energy cleansing, spell untangling, Reiki, tarot, herbalism… Stirring up light!
My approach is rooted in offering choices and options, allowing each individual to discover their own rhythm and strength. It is my great joy to witness students blossom, carrying the confidence and clarity they cultivate in practice into their everyday lives.
My path as an energy therapist and holistic wellness specialist
On my path, I have met many sparkly nuggets. I was initiated in Meditation at age 8, then met Martial Arts (I am a Taekwondo Black Belt), Dance (contemporary, contact-improv, flamenco and heels), Yoga, Reiki, Shamanism, Herbalism, and all the wonderful friends and beings that come with them.
For many years, I dedicated my life to tending gardens, green spaces and historic heritage as a landscape architect. Now, I help people cultivate the inner garden of their souls and plant seeds of growth for them to live their best version of their life.
As a student forever, I continue to train with teachers and masters in Asia, Europe and California. I also learn constantly from my students and clients who remind me every day of the beauty and transformative power of yoga, shamanism and healing energy work.
I also formulate healing, uplifting and dreamy herbal teas at Luna’s Teas. and write and illustrate books at Fisso’s World.
I donate part of my profits to local and international charities that support women (teenage pregnancy and incarcerated women), animal well-being, heritage conservation and plant diversity.
More about me in the press and world-wide web
With Klervi Yoga : interview on Reiki and Shamanism (in French)
With The Banana Split Project : interview on multiculturality and l’identity (in French)
In Biba Magazine Mars 2018 (in French)
In the Phnom Penh Post: about my debut book, Wandering Angkor
My formal certifications
For yoga, I am trained at the 500H level and am a Continued Education Provider (Yoga Alliance E-500RYT and YACEP), in Pre and Postnatal Yoga (with Mama Tree San Francisco) and am a longtime yoga student in a variety of styles (Iyengar, Sivananda and Vinyasa).
I am also a certified Reiki Master – Teacher (with Vibrant Reiki San Francisco), Taekwondo Black Belt (with the Singapore Federation of Taekwondo) and continue to pursue dance training as an adult after dancing for amateur companies and festivals in Europe.
In shamanism, I have been blessed with receiving teachings in Core Shamanism, ancestral practices, compassionate depossession, curse unraveling, helping souls cross over (psychopomp), nordic shamanism, medicine from the Andes, mediumship, soul retrieval and other techniques.
I trained in herbalism with Rosemary Gladstar’s course The Art and Science of Herbalism, earning the certification of Community Herbalist.
I also hold certificates and Continued Education training in:
- Somatic Yoga
- Transcendental Meditation,
- Laughter Yoga,
- Yoga and Chinese Traditional Medicine,
- Yoga for Scoliosis,
- Chanting and Mantras,
- Yin Yoga,
- Restorative Yoga,
- Trauma-informed Yoga,
- Adaptive Yoga (with a special interest in neurodivergent children and teens)
- I also teach kids and teenagers yoga, breathwork and meditation.
