About Sarah Helt
Sarah E Helt is an intuitive multi-hyphenate mindful movement instructor and artist. A purveyor of awe in the world, Sarah uses the philosophy of Yoga as a template for how to live a fulfilling, creative, and deeply interconnected life.
My Story
“I fell in love teaching people how they work. I fell in love with the noises of discovery and understanding that would emerge in class. I fell in love with the way folks changed in their hearts when they became more in tune with their bodies. Then I combined my love of study and travel with the art of teaching yoga. Now every single day is a delight of connection, exploration and mindful movement.”
Sarah has enthusiastically investigated the human body as an instrument since she was a kid. As singer, a dancer, and an academic Sarah discovered Yoga as a daily ritual while in a BFA Acting program on Long Island, New York. She integrated a consistent yoga practice with actors' physical training methods to develop a unique voice and physicality as a performer. Encouraged by her advanced movement studies professor of clowning to teach yoga as a career endeavor Sarah sought out formative teachers in power vinyasa, restorative/therapeutics, yin, and pre/post natal directly after college. And hasn’t stopped since.
“It became clear to me very early that the practice had to be augmented for the individual. That we are all temporarily able-bodied, and even if you’re lucky enough to have that - it fades.
At this point, I feel like I have almost seen it all, I have worked with folks who are blind, wheelchair users, people who crave yoga as a sport who want the room hotter than hot, frozen shoulder, Olympic level-triathletes with below the knee amputations that never let anything slow them down, injured military veterans, seniors, new moms and their babies.
The consistent thing is that the temple [your body] travels with you, through all of life’s seasons. Real yoga changes with you; all yoga is meant to be accessible.”
The first years of Sarah’s career she balanced her popularity as a playful, athletic, hot power vinyasa teacher with grounding yin-restorative trainings for endurance athletes. Sarah’s command of anatomy lead her to adoption by the Chicago disabled athletics community. She started to focus her private teaching on folks who had experienced an injury to the brain or spine, chronic pain, and neurological conditions and has taught yin-therapeutics for nonprofit and for profit disability organizations like Backbones Online, Dare2Tri, Triumph Foundation, the Braille Institute, and the Sempre Fi Fund.
In 2015 Sarah moved to Los Angeles, discovered the Accessible Yoga Organization (now the Accessible Yoga Training School) and currently mentors new teachers through portions of the online training. For four years, as lead teacher at Hot 8 Yoga Pasadena she co-facilitated 200 hour and Yin teacher trainings. Sarah continues to create teacher training programs embedded with trauma-informed principles, extensive prop-work and alignment-focused cueing catered to the student. Most recently with One Life Yoga Pasadena (2024). She is now a full-time part of the teaching staff at One Down Dog.
“We are all artists waiting to give ourselves permission to create. ”
Sarah’s offerings are based in the cycles of nature. Intuitive, classical, creative Yoga classes infused with elemental theory based in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her training programs and retreats are a penetrating mix of yogic philosophy, community driven environmental and humanitarian activism, creative process unlocking, with a splash of joy. Sarah founded the WOW Yoga Collective in 2025 based on her passion for art, travel, and connecting students all over the world through yoga.
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
- Rumi