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WELCOME
I’m Sara.
This is a space for practice, reflection, and devotion.
A place to explore yoga, strength training, meditation, mantra, and the teachings that continue to shape my life.
If you’re new here, the simplest summary of my work is this:
Care for the body. Steady the mind. Open the heart.
Remember who you are.
Use your strength to serve.
That is the essence of what I teach and, more importantly, what I am trying to live.
MY VIEW OF LIFE
I believe we are all souls having a human experience.
We arrive in this world in what I affectionately call a “meat suit”—a body that allows us to move through life and experience it through our senses.
As I understand it, each of us is an expression of the Divine.
Like a single sunbeam from the sun.
Or one tiny mirror reflecting the light of an infinitely vast mirror ball.
Call it God, Shiva, consciousness, love, or simply life itself.
The names matter less than the felt sense that beneath our apparent differences, we are not separate.
But in order to fully participate in this human experience, we forget.
We forget what we are.
We forget that we belong to one another.
The yogic tradition calls this forgetting avidyā—mistaking ourselves for something smaller than we truly are.
And from that misunderstanding comes suffering.
We feel isolated.
We become fearful.
We search outside ourselves for comfort and meaning.
We numb ourselves with distraction.
And yet the very life we are living can become the path back home.
WHY THE BODY MATTERS
The body is not who we are.
But it is the vehicle through which we experience this life.
When the body is exhausted, inflamed, weak, or neglected, everything feels harder.
When we care for the body—through movement, nourishment, rest, and breath—we create more capacity.
More energy.
More resilience.
More presence.
For many people, caring for the body becomes the doorway to something deeper.
A yoga class may begin as stretching.
Strength training may begin as a desire to feel fitter.
Meditation may begin as a search for peace.
But over time these practices can become ways of remembering.
Ways of coming home to ourselves.
WHY PRACTICE MATTERS
Yoga, strength training, meditation, mantra, study, and service are not separate pursuits.
They are all forms of practice.
Ways of training our attention.
Ways of cultivating steadiness.
Ways of opening the heart.
Ways of remembering that life is not happening to us, but through us.
I don’t claim to have everything figured out.
I’m simply a fellow traveller—sharing what I’ve learned from years working as a nurse,
spending time in conflict zones, navigating grief, building and closing a yoga studio, training my body, and deepening my spiritual practice.
This site is where I share what continues to help me.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE
Practice
Yoga, movement, and meditation to help you feel more at home in your body.
Strength
Thoughtful strength training to build resilience, confidence, and capability.
Devotion
Mantra, chanting, and reflections from the bhakti tradition.
Reflections
Personal writings on practice, pilgrimage, grief, and life on the path.
MY HOPE
My hope is that something here helps you:
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care for your body,
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steady your mind,
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open your heart,
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and reconnect with what truly matters.
And perhaps, in time, to remember who you are.
Because when we begin to see that we are not separate, service becomes the natural response.
Helping another is, in some sense, helping ourselves.
So be strong.
Be kind.
And remember who you are.
राम राम 🙏
Sara
