Meet Your Guides.
We are committed to helping you.
Like any good guide, we will teach you technique, build your knowledge, challenge and encourage you. We will point out the beautiful, the awe inspiring, and the path towards your goal.
We will give you a hand over troubled waters and celebrate your success.
Founder, Director and Lead Teacher.
Sara Szeglowski
MA, MATC, RYT500, Registered Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, Certified Yoga4Cancer Teacher, 3000+ hours teaching experience.
Sara has been a teacher of some sort her entire life. She began her career teaching writing and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, University of Oklahoma, and Texas Tech University, and teaching theatre classes at Buffalo’s Theatre of Youth. She then moved on to work as a professional writer, developing multimillion dollar innovative programs for Rhode Island’s largest Community Behavioral Health Center for over ten years.
She believes that the key to being a good teacher (and writer and program developer) is to be a constant learner.
While she became a Registered Yoga Teacher through Kripalu’s prestigious program in 2010, she continued to work her full time job in behavioral health. It wasn’t until she was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer at 38 and went through an entire year of treatment that she started using yoga to shape her life.
Shine was born!
Throwback to our start in 2015.
Q & A with Sara
What are you learning now?
I’m fascinated by end range strength. I’ m taking a second 500hour program with Jason Crandall and have been learning a great deal about how to increase strength and flexibility by contracting muscles while stretching them.
I’m also taking a course to become an Ayurvedic Counsellor with Yoga International and an American Herbalist Guild training with Brittany Wood Nickerson.
What do you believe about yoga?
I believe it will change your life if you stick with it. I believe that it makes all the choices in life easier. I believe in the end it all boils down to two things: 1. Paying attention and 2. When we are our best, we reflect that best on other people and they shine it back on us and then onto everyone else they meet. In yoga philosophy, it’s an idea called Indira’s Net.
Who has influenced you?
I studied with Tiffany Cruickshank and Yoga Medicine for six years and am still an active part of her program and community. I’ve learned an astounding amount from her about how the body works during yoga and how to help people with injuries. What I love about her trainings is that they are unapologetically intense. She teaches full on anatomy, and you are expected to be focused and catch up. She’s raised the bar for yoga teachers. Similarly, I’ve taken lots of trainings with the orthopedic surgeon, Iyengar Yoga teacher and author of the Yoga Mat Companion Series, Ray Long. His approach was like nothing I had ever seen or learned before. I felt every small detail he taught and could do postures I had never been capable of because of the small adjustments he made. I wanted to give that empowerment, curiosity and knowledge to my students. There are many other teachers I have learned a tremendous amount from, but teaching thousands of classes and students over the years has had the biggest influence on me. It helped me fine-tune my approach and understand what students needed and what I was good at giving them.
Sample Some of Sara’s Classes
Resilience — Flow to Rest —Yin & MFR —The Details
THERAPY, PSYCHIATRY, COACHING
Larissa O’Connor, MD
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PSYCHIATRY
, COACHING
Emmett Marsh, PHD
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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