Sarah Jefferis

Sarah is an RYT200 (200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher) and has graduated from the Mighty Yoga Vinyasa Flow training and completed 50 hours of continuing education in advanced professional development in Yin Yoga with Jenni Sol Yoga in Ithaca, NY.

Sarah believes the mat is a place to honor the creative being within, and that when we can practice peace on the mat, we can intentionally create peace in the world. Her gentle teaching style incorporates poetry, silence, anatomy, meditations, and neuroscience, along with bird sounds or ocean waves. In other words, she follows the words from Rumi, who said: “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

Moreover, yoga is for her, “an ongoing participatory experiment in which the world and every part of our life becomes our laboratory,” (Adele, Deborah). Sarah loves the idea of life on the mat as a laboratory to explore possibilities, a place of play where one can return to the body with compassion. Adele continues, “Yoga is a technology for removing the illusionary veil that stands between us and the animating force of life.” The force of life, or source as one might call it- name it whatever you please—is what she reaches for/longs for in meditation and in her slow flow Vinyasa and Yin practice. Her classes are informed by the yes, and mantra of improv, the ethics of The Yamas and Niyamas, as well as the Koshas, and how these five bodies of consciousness influence breath. Sarah wants to encourage people to offer loving-kindness to their own skin and bones. Yoga has also helped her find harmony between her creative work as a writer, owning her own editing business called Write.Now. and solo motherhood. Off the mat, you can find her writing poems, dancing, on the stage at improv, practicing Reiki, or catching flights to the ocean, where she feels most at home.