About Sunny
Sunny Smyth
Sunny is the most senior teacher in the tradition of Post Daoist philosophy and Mythosomatic Movement created by Zhenevere Sophia Dao. She began her intensive study with Zhenevere in 2011 and has attended, with very few exceptions, every class and intensive that she has taught since that time, holding the unique position of having trained for more hours with the founder than any other student.
She is certified to teach Mythosomatic Qigong, Yoga, Meditation and Post-Daoist philosophy. Within that, she specializes in the thematics of Human Fragility, and Depth Sexuality & the Erotic Basis of Being.
Her background includes 6 years of offering this work full-time at Life Healing Center in Santa Fe, a residential treatment center for behavioral health, trauma, and addiction, and three years at Christus St. Vincent Holistic Health and Wellness Center, specifically working with individuals navigating health challenges.
For the past ten years, Sunny has taught weekly group classes online and in person, mentors students and teachers privately, and offers in-depth trainings on the journey from trauma to sexual vitality, the soul in sexuality, as well as the exquisite beauty of sexuality and aging.
Testimonial from ZHENEVERE SOPHIA DAO, Founder of of Mythosomatics and the philosophies of Post-Daoism and Neo-Romanticism
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"Sunny Smyth has the most complete education of my work of any student I’ve ever had—a career of study spanning over fourteen years and thousands of class hours. She has studied with a keenness of passion and intelligence that has, over time, naturally cohered into a body of knowledge that is staggering to me. Her precision of scholarship is such that I could—and can and do—learn from her that which once I had taught her, but since forgotten, in an endless wheel of the natural inversions of teacher and student.
Sunny feels with her abundant heart and deploys her gifts from every part of her being. I cannot think of any who have crossed my path whose gifts are broader and more evenly distributed than hers. She is ebullient and wise, studious and intuitive, organized and spontaneous, precise and forgiving, spiritual and practical, “sunny” and serious, gracious and exacting.
It is this astonishing width, and the paradoxes that inhere in it, which she holds without pride, with a sense of the plain and the normal, that makes her such a fine teacher. For younger students, she is a senior teacher. For women in the middle of life she is a beacon of hope; a living inspiration, not an icon figure on a pedestal, but a woman that other women can admire, learn from, follow, be near, lean on, need, and love. For colleagues, she is a familiar representation of the unfamiliar. This is perhaps her greatest gift. For she is a living representation of the sublime fierceness of a woman who is determined to grow and change, to develop rather than to lament, to not stagnate, to embrace the difficult and the beautiful, to challenge her body and spirit and to accept her body and spirit in nearly the same breath, and to remain all the while in touch with the deep cord of humility, the openness to self-revelation, which is the only true center of a spiritual life. For above all Sunny’s journey is spiritual, for she moves within spirit and lives in and for beauty. There is no one I would not send to her to study in any of the disciplines of which she is the finest Teacher.”