After years of practicing as a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, teaching yoga, and studying to become a homeopath, Sarah shifted her focus to the Somatic Trauma Healing Field. In 2006, she completed her Registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Training with Cherionna Menzam-Sills PhD. In this training, she first witnessed the movement of Continuum through Cherionna’s body, and within a week, she moved to Los Angeles to meet and study alongside Emilie Conrad for the last 10 years of her life. While studying with Emilie as well as Susan Harper of Continuum Montage, Sarah went on to complete her Pre and Perinatal Attachment Training with Myrna Martin MN, RCC in 2009. In 2010 at the Hollywood birth center, she assisted a home birth midwife, while holding the Castellino pre and perinatal principles to support each newborn and family in receiving birth with secure early bonding and attachment. Alongside her immersion in the Pre and Perinatal Field, her commitment to Continuum grew evermore, and while in a dive with Emilie, she birthed the vision for Somatic Sanctuary on the famous blue carpet at the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica in 2010. In 2011, while together in the Sea of Galilee during an Israel Depths Retreat, Emilie felt Sarah was ready to “Enter the Sea” and authorized her to teach Continuum Movement – her life forever touched by the Grace and Medicine of her primary teacher. She founded Somatic Sanctuary in 2014, the same year of Emilie’s transition, and felt Her Ancestral Wings with her throughout this birth. For 7 years, Somatic Sanctuary was a home for Continuum Movement Classes, Somatic Experiencing, and Pre and Perinatal Womb Surrounds and Sessions.
From 2013 to 2020, Sarah worked closely with Pre and Perinatal Somatic Pioneer Dr Ray Castellino (1944-2020), assisting and hosting him in his Process Workshops, Womb Surrounds, and trainings. Through these years, she became a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and from 2017 to 2018, Sarah completed the Body into Being training with John (1949-2019) and Anna Chitty BCST. Her commitment to trauma resolution and spirituality led her back to Israel a number of times to deepen her connection and training with Thomas Hübl PhD for his work in healing collective trauma. In 2017, she completed the training for Holistic Pelvic Care™ with Tami Lynn Kent MSPT and assisted her in following trainings. Sarah’s passion for supporting birth along with her Biodynamic Cranial Holding Field and awareness of the Pre and Perinatal Principles have her hold deep and compassionate space for women for their whole journey from preconception to pelvic and womb integration after birth.
Sarah continues to support Tara Blasco PhD, by assisting the Beba Clinic in Ojai, while completing the Castellino Family Practitioner Training with her and Mary Jackson RN, LM, RCST.
Over 25 years, Sarah has had the Sacred Privilege of studying with many masters within the Somatic and Spiritual Fields. In the Sphere of Practitioners who have been primary to shaping and touching her Soul are Emilie Conrad (1934-2014), Ray Castellino DC, BCPP, RPE, RCST (1944-2020), Jasmuheen, Judyth Weaver PhD, Susan Harper, Myrna Martin MN, RCC, RCST, Cherionna Menzam-Sills PhD, RCST, Thomas Hübl PhD, Mary Jackson RN, LM, RCST, Tara Blasco PhD, RCST, Linda Tucker, Anna RPP, RPE, BCST, SEP and John Chitty BCST, ABD, RPP (1949-2019), Peter Levine PhD, Ian McNaughtan PhD, Steve Howskinson, Reggie Ray PhD, Anaiya Sophia, Tami Lynn Kent MSPT, Christine Caldwell PhD, Susan Aposhyn MA, LPC, Cass Phelps, Robert Masters PhD, Doris Maranda MA, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Harriet Goslins.
Sarah’s commitment to her Spirituality is of the Highest Priority in her life. She has traveled to Sacred Sites, taught Continuum Movement and led Pre and Perinatal Womb Surrounds throughout Canada, the US, New Zealand, the Andes of Peru, Chile, Japan, Egypt, Italy and France. Her Spiritual Practice has brought her to the Himalayan ranges in Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, and Ladakh, to Darjeeling, Dharamsala,Tiruvannamalai, and Rishikesh, India, to Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Israel, and to Koyasan and Kyoto, Japan. As an Ambassador of Peace, Sarah has spent over 100 days and nights in the past 15 years in total darkness living from Prana (without physical food) in Sacred Silence with her Spiritual Soul Mother Jasmuheen.
Sarah’s vision of Somatic Sanctuary has expanded from Ojai to the Hawaiian Islands, where she has devoted time and energy in cultivating Sacred Land to support the Birthing of Humanity at this time. Somatic Trauma Resolution Healing Sessions, Land Ceremony, Permaculture Practices, Pre and Perinatal Womb Surround Process Workshops and Continuum Movement classes and Depths Retreats are offered on these lands with herself and the Sphere of Practitioners she holds dear.
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