Sarah Baumert, Certified Yoga & Feldenkrais® Teacher
Sarah Baumert is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais® practitioner based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Sarah’s training as a dancer introduced her to the mind-body connection and the power that comes from a precise awareness of the body. She has a committed passion for helping people move beyond their pain and into a body and a life, that creates joy and pleasure. One of her main goals in teaching these practices is to awaken sensation within people, contributing to a deeper embodiment and sense of connection with oneself and others. She loves helping people relearn basic movements and feel new sensations, helping them to gain the knowledge, skill, and awareness that is necessary to shift from a life of suffering, chronic pain, or dis-ease to one of meaning and joy.
Sarah’s sequences offer the chance to slow down and feel the results of an embodied practice that emphasizes alignment and safety in order to establish a base for a long life of practice. As a yoga teacher, Sarah draws from years of experience, working to facilitate whole body alignment in her students, both physically and energetically. Sarah’s teaching is an awareness inspired practice that works with engaging within the poses to create a balance of both stability and mobility. She is known for breaking down more difficult poses into small attainable bite sizes pieces and creates variations that can work for each individual body. Physically, a class with Sarah extends far beyond yoga poses. Each of Sarah’s yoga sessions are somewhat of an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. She guides students to deepen their own learning process through her imaginative sensory rich movement experiments. Her teaching stems from her own experience and practice of hatha Yoga, modern dance, the Feldenkrais® method, Body Mind Centering, Somatic Experiencing, pain management training, and Buddhist meditation practices.
Sarah has experience with those seeking support for a range of conditions including, chronic fatigue, physical trauma, sports injuries, frozen shoulder, surgery recoveries, concussions, and other forms of chronic pain. She also loves using these methods to optimize performance for athletes, artists, dancers, and musicians. Sarah delivers insightful results and a greater sense of ease and body awareness in her students.
“Because of pain, alignment, and confidence issues, I dropped out of yoga a while back. Not feeling too good about that, I eventually began individual work with the talented and intuitive Sarah Baumert and the Feldenkrais Method. I have a LOT of good things to say about both the method and the teacher. I describe it to others as easy, gentle “start where you are” teachings to build familiarity and possibility with your body. In different ways, I feel a change after every session - without feeling wrecked. So it’s especially good for those of us with pain conditions or other limitations. The lessons are promoting new body awarenesses for me around easeful walking and everyday movement and it has been such a huge learning experience.”
Sarah’s most recent study has been in the Feldenkrais method®. She graduated from the Boston 3 Feldenkrais® training in 2020 under educational director Aliza Stewart. She is an authorized Awareness Through Movement® Teacher certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and currently trains with Jeff Haller and Olena Nitefor. Sarah earned a BFA in dance and kinesiology at the University of Minnesota. Her initial 200 hour yoga certification was done with Om yoga teachers Cyndi Lee, Cristie Clark, Frank Mauro and Joe Miller in 2006. The most current influence in her yoga teaching is from master teacher Barbara Benagh with whom she studied with for six years and during her 500 hour training. She also studied yoga therapeutics under Tias Little, Patty Townsend, Bo Forbes, and Karin Stephen and is certified as a Yoga Therapist by IAYT.
Her experience includes teaching at the Lemuel Shattock Hospital in Boston, Harvard Center for Wellness, MIT, the University of Minnesota, as well as yoga studios, gyms, and as a part of wellness programs for corporations. She was a researcher for Tufts University and the Boston Education Development Foundation to help start the Susan E. Tift Yoga in the schools program that now serves the Boston public schools. Her simple podcasts have earned worldwide attention for their honest, straightforward, and imaginative approach.
Listen to Episode 100 of the Sarah B Yoga + Feldenkrais® podcast where she discusses her background, how she came to teach both yoga and Feldenkrais, and how learning to move efficiently can enhance the quality of our life.
I hope that you enjoy everything offered here! I look forward to supporting you in growing your somatic insights and being a part of your process of finding yourself in motion.
“Sarah’s classes have been a stabilizing force in my life. I look forward to them every week. -Rosie
Sarah is an epic poet of movement. She has both a deep understanding of the body and how it works, and also a strong intuitive sense of what any one individual might need at any given time. I was fortunate to attend a three day retreat with her recently and came out of it with a much greater sense of being in both my physical and spiritual body. I also suffer from chronic tinnitus, and during our time together it not only quieted down for short periods, but was generally less troublesome. I would strongly recommend Sarah to anyone who is open to working creatively with every aspect of themselves. - Anne Gergen, Psychotherapist
Hi Sarah, I just wanted to reach out to tell you that your Yoga + Feldenkrais series in two sessions has given me some awareness, language, and reach that I have been craving for literal years. I am so glad to have connected with you and I hope to be able to constantly share this work with more people.- Sauloman, Artist
“The work I’ve done with Sarah is beyond self care, it’s a deep knowing.” — Anne Methany
“As a student of the Feldenkrais method for a little more than a year, Sarah’s ATM class has helped me to deepen my practice with myself. The practice is often hard to put into words, but it is involves cultivating my awareness, questioning my relationship to productivity and ambition, and relearning how to move outside my patterns. Sarah challenges me to notice and not achieve, to rest and not perfect, to be curious instead of judgmental. I leave class feeling somehow more in my body and more of the world.” — Jeffrey Wells, Artist, Teacher, Feldenkrais Method Trainee
“I was fascinated by my session with you. For me it was very much as if the positions and movements were sharpening my brain, making or re-enforcing some “clarity” of neuronal networks. It was like having neurofeedback again, but better — with my whole Central Nervous System involved.” — Mary BB
I have been doing yoga for 20 years and Sarah’s classes are like nothing else. Sarah is an expert in body mechanics and connecting the mind and body. Every instruction is purposeful. Sarah is intuitive, wise and passionate about her profession. She cares about her students. Young or old, stiff or flexible, Sarah is your guide. - David Schmidt”
