MEET SARA
Welcome. I'm so glad you're here.
I am a yoga therapist and a new explorer on the ancient paths of the Christian faith practices.
I create spaces to notice + nurture, heal + strengthen, and companion you on your path of becoming. This space was created as a gentle invitation to slow down, listen more deeply and be encouraged and inspired for a heart, body and life that is full + free grounded in God's love for you.
Rooted in my faith in Jesus, I guide others in embodied practices + creating healthy habits to help move through life with peace, presence, and purpose.
My approach is holistic, simplistic and forgiving. This work is not a performance. It's a practice.
I want to help you arrange your practice and your life around God who knows you best.
Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT | E-RYT 500 | YACEP
iRest® Level 1 Teacher
My Favorite Borrowed Prayer
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
-Thomas Merton
Why I Do This Work
I've known stress and nervous system dysregulation. Disconnection. A mind I wanted to escape. For years, I lived in a way that wasn't sustainable. I pushed my body past its limits, striving for impossible standards, and ignoring symptoms of anxiety and strain. Eventually, my presence became very anxious, my body injured, and my energy completely depleted. In the mix of it all, an aging body I know longer understood and I felt completely out of control and broken.
What followed was a slow, sacred return. Through rhythms of silence, rest, breath, somatic movement, meditation, journaling, prayer + scripture I made my way back--to my body, to God and to a balanced life. I began to feel whole again. No longer scattered, and fully gathered.
I needed to unlearn old erosive patterns and learn new healing habits. I had to STOP seeing myself as a project that needed fixed. Once I let go of having an agenda, and accepted who I actually am right now, the real healing began.
This holistic path of practice and habits has changed me, is still changing me, and will continue to change me.
Now, I offer what I've received--presence and practices to help usher you back home to your body and to that place of wholeness deep within.
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