Hi, I'm Sara Alavi. For 25 years I've guided women to calm their nervous systems and heal what lives beneath the anxiety, overwhelm, and patterns that keep repeating. I work online, so wherever you are, we can begin.
I help women uncover and heal the deeper roots of anxiety, overwhelm, unresolved trauma, and repeating emotional patterns so they experience life in peace.
Are you struggling with anxiety and overwhelm?
Do you keep repeating painful relationship patterns?
Do you feel disconnected from yourself?
Are childhood wounds still affecting your adult life?
Do you understand your patterns but still can't seem to change them?
You don't have to spend the rest of your life repeating the same painful patterns. Healing is possible.
Most of the women who find me have already tried everything. Years of therapy, the books, the trainings, the retreats. They understand their patterns, and they still wake up anxious, still react, still move from one painful relationship to the next. If that is you, you are exactly who I do this work for.
I came to the United States at fourteen. Living between two cultures was heavier than I could carry, and it set off a deep depression. By seventeen I had already begun working on myself in therapy. I have been doing this work, on myself first, ever since.
In 1996 I lost the sight in my left eye to Multiple Sclerosis, with severe anxiety and symptoms of PTSD I did not yet have words for. I did not come to yoga because it sounded lovely. I came because I had run out of other ways to quiet my own body. I turned inward, to yoga and meditation, and within five months my sight returned. I have never been able to explain that in purely clinical terms, and I have never stopped being changed by it.
I became a certified yoga teacher in 2001 and founded Yoga Home of Therapeutics in 2009. For over six years I taught yoga therapy at the Oklahoma City VA Hospital, sitting with veterans carrying things they had never said out loud. Today I work as a Yoga Therapist at Oakwood Springs Behavioral Health Hospital, and I keep my own online studio for the women who find me.
Across twenty-five years I have helped thousands of people move beyond anxiety, trauma, emotional pain and the patterns that keep repeating. I am not a talk therapist, and I do not work with anybody long term. We go to the root, you do the work with me, and then you leave, with a practice that sustains you and an understanding of yourself that nobody can take away.
Trained and certified
Trauma-informed Yoga Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Advanced Yoga Nidra Therapist, Trauma-Informed EFT Practitioner, Reiki Master and QHHT practitioner.
However you arrive is welcome. You can bring all of it, the parts you understand and the parts you do not.
We go at the pace your nervous system can actually take.
What we do together is shaped around you, never a set program. If what we planned is not what your body needs today, we change it in the room.
Not knowing what is happening is a fine place to begin.
You leave with something to practise, and I am still here while you do.
We laugh in these sessions, and the work goes easier for it.
You just have to come as you are. I will meet you there.
You are not broken. You have adapted.
Understand how past experiences continue to shape your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and nervous system, and release the patterns that no longer serve you.
Reduce anxiety, overwhelm, emotional reactivity, and chronic stress while creating lasting inner peace, healthy boundaries, emotional strength, and self-trust.
Rediscover the confident, compassionate, joyful, and resilient person beneath the fear, self-doubt, and emotional pain, so you can create the meaningful life your heart has always longed for.
Inside that work, we heal your inner child, not by talking about her, but by meeting her and feeling the healing happen. We let go of the roles you have played your whole life, so the real you can come forward. You learn to respond to life instead of reacting to it from fight, flight or freeze, to put yourself first and take care of yourself, to release shame and unworthiness, to forgive yourself and others, and to express yourself with confidence.
When you do the healing in you, you do it for your children, your parents and your ancestors too.
I am not a one-method practitioner. I move between these inside a single session, meeting your body and your nervous system with whatever it needs that day.
This is not only studio work. I am a Yoga Therapist at Oakwood Springs Behavioral Health Hospital, I spent over six years with veterans at the Oklahoma City VA, and physicians and therapists refer people to me. None of them tell me which method to use. All of it is bottom-up. We settle the body first and let the mind follow.
If your body needs breath before it can find words, we breathe. If the pattern sits underneath language, we work underneath language. Twenty-five years of training across yoga therapy, hypnotherapy, EFT, Reiki, breathwork and QHHT is what makes that possible. Lasting change does not come from a single method. It comes from being met where you are, and healing at the root.
Food is not separate from this work. What you eat either steadies your nervous system or asks more of it.
None of this is a technique I picked up. The food, the breathing and the movement are the same practice, and it is how I have lived for twenty-five years.
I cook with whole foods that are colorful, alive and fresh. I believe a home-cooked meal carries something a shortcut cannot, because you take in your own care along with the meal.
That is what my cookbook is. Simple recipes and daily rituals, grounding meals, snacks and drinks, and a short note under each one on how it supports calm, energy, digestion or regulation.
Ghormeh Sabzi, Saffron Rice with Butter, Adas Polo, Sara’s Everyday Healing Salad, Home Brewed Tea.
Awareness creates choice. Choice creates freedom.
For twenty-five years I have walked beside women healing from trauma, anxiety, and burnout. These are a few of their stories.
She's very funny, and so human, comfortable to be with, generous and accepting. It all allows you to soften into her work.
After two weeks with Sara I have acquired a positive change in my thought processes, my physical body and my relationships with others. The healing process came through a combination of therapy, which I hate, and yoga which I love. This has allowed my mind to become open to the positive aspects of life. I finally have found a community of caring and genuine individuals. My deepest gratitude to Sara Alavi.
I have never had an experience where so much was revealed so quickly. Through hypnosis, EFT, and relaxing meditation, I found a path forward. The knowledge that I am healing, and have tools to use on the journey, I owe to Sara's process.
I am so thankful to have found Sara during a painful and traumatic period in my life. I went through a loss that would take me a long time to heal from. Sara helped me physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
I began yoga with Sara to improve my flexibility and core strength, and discovered her practice improves so much more. Breathing, staying present, and body awareness have helped me in so many aspects of my life.
There is no wrong door. Every one of these begins the same work: understanding what your body and your nervous system have been carrying, and setting it down.
Practise with me live, three mornings a week, with women walking the same road.
Join the live yoga therapy studioThree to six months, one to one, all the way to the root.
Explore private sessionsBefore any private work, most women start here. One sits on your kitchen counter, one is free, and both open the door to the deeper healing we can do together.
Food is part of this work. Simple recipes and daily rituals, grounding meals, snacks and drinks, with a short note under each one on how it supports calm, energy, digestion or regulation.
Get the cookbookCommit five days to discovering your own nervous system. One short practice arrives each morning: safety through hypnosis, movement and affirmation, releasing what your body has been carrying, deep rest and repair, and on the fifth day, learning to trust yourself again.
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