Natasha Sagalovsky RYT-500

Natasha has been a teacher, mentor and yoga trainer for over 15 years. She's received training in yoga and a variety of movement and meditative modalities including Anusara, Restorative Yoga, and The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind. She lived 6 years in an ashram as part of the core staff; and is dedicated to making movement and breathwork accessible and therapeutic to everyone she works with.

Natasha’s dedication to holistic therapeutic movement and its intersection with the latest research in the fields of trauma-informed recovery provide a caring and informed framework for practice. By combining the technical, therapeutic, holistic, and mystical aspects of yoga the whole person is honored and served. Her depth of study, experience, and intense personal journey allow her to relate to and hone in on the subtleties, layers, and refinements of the physical and energetic aspects of healing in ways that are insightful, forward-thinking, and kind.

I specialize in helping people from all ages and walks of life reconnect to their body, breath, and innermost Self. I have extensive experience working with folks recovering from injury, living with chronic illness, aging-related aches and pains, depression, anxiety, and trauma; as well as those who wish to integrate somatic, embodiment, and breath-centered pathways into their recovery.

Natasha is a first-year Somatic Experiencing® student, and is the Program Manager at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, CA - a holistic clinic specializing in an integrative approach to treating treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, cPTSD, and anxiety, through psychotherapy, psychiatry, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, psychedelic integration, and ketamine-assisted therapy.

Natasha grew up in Venezuela and speaks English and Spanish fluently.

EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Training & Education:

  • Meridian Yoga Therapy Level 1, Science of Self Yoga School (2020)

  • The Thinking Body - The Feeling Mind, Dr. Linda Lack (2016 & 2017).

  • Six-year student residency, Ashram, OR (2012-2017),
    Sri Vidya, Siddha yoga, Kundalini Meditation.

  • Group Facilitation Skills, Community At Work, San Francisco CA (2012)

  • Advanced Teaching Intensives, Anusara Yoga, John Friend (2008-2011)

  • 200-hr Anusara Teacher Training led by Darren Rhodes & Christina Sell, Yoga Oasis, Tucson AZ, (2010).

  • Yoga Therapeutics Advanced Anusara Intensive, Sianna Sherman, San Francisco CA (2009).

  • Anusara Yoga 100-hour Training with Sianna Sherman, Yoga Kula, San Francisco CA (2009).

  • Apprenticeship with Maral Hadidi, San Diego CA (2008-2009).

  • 200-hour Deep Yoga Teacher Training with Laura Plumb and Bhava Ram, Ginseng Yoga, San Diego CA (2008).

  • 100-hour Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training, University of California, San Diego CA (2007)

Herbalism, Holistic Healing Modalities & Feminine Wisdom:

  • Embodied Feminine Leadership & Recovery, Shakti Rising, 2018-2019.

  • The Art and Science of Herbalism, 2017 - 2018.

  • Bach Flower Practitioner Training, 2018

  • Intuitive Plant Medicine, One Willow Apothecary, Spring 2018.

  • Aroma Acupoint Therapy, YoSan School of Chinese Medicine, Santa Monica CA 2017.

Education:

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2007.

Past teaching & faculty positions include:

Sacramento: Ritual Sacramento, California Family Fitness, Asha Yoga.
Berkeley: Yoga Kula
Los Angeles: Mission Street Yoga, Yoga at the Raven Spa, Art Center College of Design, Yoga Rays.
San Diego: Four Seasons Yoga, Shakti Rising.
Portland: The Movement Center.