Natasha Sagalovsky RYT-500
Natasha has been a teacher, mentor and yoga trainer for over 12 years. She's received training in yoga and a variety of movement and meditative modalities including Hatha, Anusara, Meridian Yoga Therapy, 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 and other movement and breath-centered modalities the whole person is honored and served. Her depth of study, experience, and intense personal journey allows 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 work with those who are recovering from injury, chronic pain, anxiety, aging-related aches and pains, depression and trauma; as well as those who wish to integrate somatic, embodiment and breath-centered pathways into their recovery.
Natasha currently serves as Patient Care Coordinator at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, CA - a Bay Area holistic psychedelic clinic.
Natasha grew up in Venezuela and speaks English and Spanish fluently.
Yoga
Anusara Yoga is my primary foundation, although by now my teaching style is deeply personal, intuitive, and developed from over a decade and a half of practice, study, and teaching. Other schools that influence my teaching style include Yin, Restorative, The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind, and some aspects of the Ashtanga-Vinyasa practice.
Meditation
Grounded in honoring the Self, my meditation practice is based on Simplicity, Quietude, Intention, Self-Compassion, and Breath. I lived 6 years in an ashram as part of the core staff, and am influenced by the lineages of Kashmir Shaivism. I’m also a baby beginner in Qigong.
Authentic Relating (AR)
Authentic Relating is a practice rooted in play and supported by clear boundaries, devoted to creating meaningful, embodied, and enjoyable connections for self and other. By learning AR skills, one learns to drop conditioned relational habits in order to relate with oneself and others from a deeper more authentic expression of one’s truth. This allows us to be more human with one another in ways that often fall by the wayside in today's social norms. The result is increased access to more fulfilling and meaningful relationships.
Somatic Experiencing®
I’m a first-year student of SE’s 3-year certification program. Somatic Experiencing is a naturalistic approach to the resolution of post-traumatic stress reactions. Somatic Experiencing normalizes the symptoms of trauma, which bind this arousal, and offers the steps needed to resolve activation and heal.
Herbalism & Earth-Based Spirituality
Inevitably, treading the path of practice, mysticism, distress, and devotion, one arrives at the feet of Mother Gaia and her ancient world of herbal medicine making, flower essences, 5-element alchemy, and so forth. I’ve received formal and informal training in these areas, as well as more subtle transmissions (a natural process for anyone who chooses to be receptive).
Art, Beauty, Culture, Life.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela to parents who deeply valued all forms of expressive and creative arts; I grew up participating in various dance schools and theater groups, and spent many weekends bewildered by the halls of local and foreign museums. Poetry, literature, mysticism, and the ancient cities, places, and sacred sites of the world are a deep source of connection and inspiration for me.