Sarah Lo is a Certified senior Yoga Teacher Trainer E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance USA and UK and Insight Yoga Institute 500hr endorsed teacher. She is a Certified Professional Life Coach (PCC) and member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is a highly respected and sought after yoga teacher in the world with over 30 years of practice and teaching. Several hundred yoga teachers have graduated from her Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training programs. Sarah was the lead Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher Trainer at Triyoga in London, the largest yoga studio in Europe prior to covid.
With further Certifications and Diplomas in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Anatomy, Restorative Yoga, Chinese Medicine and Somatics from Paul Grilley, Donna Farhi, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Judith Hanson Lasater, Bernie Clark, Peter Appel, Jill Miller, Josh Summers, Jo Phee, Gil Hedley. Sarah is also a certified Zumba dance Instructor! In earlier years, Sarah certified with Birthlight in Pregnancy, Post Natal and Baby Yoga; 1:2:1 training with Kate Ellis; Yoga for Addictions with the Minded Institute; Qigong trainings with Mimi Kuo Deemer. Her original RYT-500 hour yoga teacher training in the USA was in Yoga Sutras for Life with Ranjitha Sandeep.
Sarah’s interest in yoga began in the 70s as a child copying poses from her Grandmother’s yoga books. At school her studies and interest were in the sciences and later at University she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Business Studies. As a child she loved ballet and drama as her mother was a Speech and Language Development Pathologist and she studied Speech and Drama till Gold Medal through LAMDA (London School of Music and Dramatic Art).
As a Business graduate, Sarah was at Lloyds of London for 12 years. She was CEO at her firm until she nearly lost her life following a misdiagnosis during pregnancy over 25 years ago. She began to reevaluate her life after that and embarked on a new journey determined to rebuild her health and well being.
Sarah has been teaching for over 30 years in various fields of education which began teaching children while she was a senior at school and later as a CELTA (Cambridge English Language Teacher) and Drama teacher for adults and children.
Sarah leads rigorous and systematic Yoga training courses which are internationally recognised. Her courses with over 220 hours Yin Yoga & Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training are taught live and online over 4 modules. Each module can be studied at varying times over any length of time. She has taught her Yin Yoga courses extensively in the U.K., Europe, USA, Australia and Singapore for almost 20 years and offers an exceptional level of training and support online recognised throughout the world with exemplary testimonials from students past and present.
Sarah offers life coaching and mentoring support to graduate teachers from her trainings encouraging the development of themselves in their professional approach to teaching and to enable women in particular to find the courage to use their ‘authentic voices’ in a more empowering way in their work. She believes that having a coach or mentor is an essential means of support and pivotal for one’s growth and self development, particularly yoga teachers who often find themselves isolated and lacking the confidence to move forward with their work and to share the knowledge they already have.
Sarah continues to inspire students across the globe that it is possible under all circumstances to find their way to lead a more fulfilling life filled with compassion, ease and grace. As the Buddha said, “Knowing the mind, shaping the mind and freeing the mind” is the doorway to awakening to the root of happiness that we long for. Most of us will have experienced enough unhappiness and dissatisfaction with our lives that we look for inspiration to find the inner peace and confidence to allow us to live our lives as who we truly are, to our fullest potential, realising our hopes, dreams and aspirations.
Sarah was instrumental in bringing yoga to the community in Sydney for seniors with major health issues but equally important to her has been introducing yoga to children at a young age, including her own. She introduced yoga as an enrichment program as part of the school curriculum to the local Middle School where she lived in England which made headline news in the local Citizen newspaper and taught ‘tween’ yoga for many years. Sarah is a fitness enthusiast who enjoys running, walking and Paddle Boarding, sometimes with her pup!
