SOPHIA GEGNER Founder, Freedom Spaces. Creator, The Return.

A master’s degree in interpreting and translation. Eleven years teaching and facilitating across three languages. My own yoga studio. Two years designing intimate community gatherings and an incredible ability to make people feel safe, welcome, and open.

Everything I have built has pointed to one question: what does it actually take for people to stop performing and show up real?

The Return is my answer.

I built this because it is what I want to experience myself.

I love dancing. I love singing. For years I did neither — because I was afraid of what people would think. I designed Freedom Spaces to dissolve exactly that fear. Not just for the people in the room. For me too.

I show up to every gathering as host and as participant. That is the only way I know how to do this.