About Sarah Helt
Sarah E Helt is an a holistic health coach, yoga and functional strength expert.
She helps people recover from burn-out through nervous system regulation and re-connect to the wonder of being alive.
Sarah teaches yoga teachers how to embody their voice and work with anyone.
My Story
“I fell in love teaching people how they work. I fell in love with the noises of discovery and understanding that 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 is an enthusiastic investigator of the human experience. Sarah creates teacher training programs embedded with trauma-informed principles, extensive prop-work and alignment-focused cueing catered to the student.
As a trained actor, dancer and an academic Sarah discovered Yoga as a daily ritual at 18. She sought out formative teachers in steel mace vinyasa, power flow, restorative/therapeutics, yin, functional strength, and qigong.
Her work today integrates actors' physical training methods, adaptive/accessible yoga, and holistic health coaching through her Doctorate of Traditional Chinese Medicine (in training!).
Sarah’s command of anatomy lead her to adoption by the Chicago disabled athletics community and turned her teaching into a holistic approach to any body at any level or ability. Teaching on folks who had experienced an injury to the brain or spine, chronic pain, and neurological conditions inspired her to pursue a Doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
She 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. Sarah continues her adaptive work to this day with the Accessible Yoga Training School and currently mentors new teachers through portions of the online training.
“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.”
Her YTT trainings focus on supportive prop use for aligned strength and integrity, functional movement, and nervous system regulation.
Her small group coaching containers are best for burn-out, injury recovery, and perimenopause/menopause strength. See Somatics and Strength.
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