About the author
About Sandra Sammartino
A leading Yoga teacher and a recognized blogger, innovator, seminar leader, Yoga consultant and educator Sandra Sammartino has been teaching Yoga for over four decades.
At 72 years young, Sandra teaches Yoga through the media and in workshops and retreats around the country. She has trained hundreds of Yoga teachers, co-founded Unity in Yoga, which morphed into Yoga Alliance of America and founded Yoga Outreach.
A living example of the benefits of Yoga, Sandra brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Yoga. She explains and EXPERIENTIALLY applies the PRINCIPLES of Yoga—operative in ALL Yoga systems—to fuse the physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological aspects of ones being.
Sandra teaches and points out the PRINCIPLES in all aspects of Yoga, including the Yoga Sutras, Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Toning and Shabda Brahma Mantra Yoga (chanting of the chakras.)
A pioneer at transposing the PRINCIPLES of Yoga from Patanjali and India for modern day students, Sandra, herself is a continual student, weaving together her knowledge and wisdom from Yoga.
In an ongoing adventure of self-discovery Sandra uses all of the limbs of Yoga, including Conscious Breathing, Asana, Pranayama and Meditation to explore and release emotional blockages and to awaken Prana and Kundalini to nurture the chakras and still the habitual mind.
By explaining and providing the EXPERIENCE of what Yoga is really all about and why— the POWER OF YOGA rests in the hands of the students. They adjust their practice for their unique, changing needs.
Informative and experiential, Sandra reveals a spiritual reality GROUNDED in everyday life.
An Adviser to both Yoga Teachers and Yoga organizations, Sandra provides not only personal mentoring but an understanding of the PRINCIPLES and Practices of Yoga as outlined in her book Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth.
Active on Website, Facebook and Twitter to help Yoga students and organizations better understand and implement Yoga PRINCIPLES and Practices, Sandra also actively teaches, writes Blog articles and books, makes videos and is planning on-line classes on all aspects of Yoga.
Sandra’s passion is to serve others by sharing everything she has learned about Yoga and believes Yoga contributes to the healing of the planet by the raising of peoples’ consciousness.
Sandra began her work life as an elementary school teacher. Trained in Yoga on the west coast and in India by Yoga Masters from all of the major Yoga traditions, Sandra’s main teachers were Rama Jyoti Vernon (Yoga), Eleanor Leatham (Toning) and Dr. David Teplitz (Sanskrit and Yoga Sutras.) Sandra is certified at the highest levels with Yoga Alliance and YogaBC.
Sandra lives in White Rock BC with her husband, Bob Berger, and is the loving mother of three, stepmother of 2 and grandmother of 5 beautiful children.