Sarah B. Yoga

Founded by Sarah Baumert, BODY MATTER offers Yoga, Feldenkrais Method group classes, private lessons, and retreats. We welcome all, beginners to advanced.
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Sarah's yoga classes are a blend of flowing yoga asanas, or poses, informed by precise attention to alignment, and supported by the calm wakefulness of Buddhist meditation practices. Sarah also teaches the Feldenkrais method. The Feldenkrais Method is a gentle movement practice that expands the brain's awareness of the body by exploring various movement patterns. Thus, allowing for more freedom and flexibility in both the mind and body. Sarah offers private lessons, small group (semi-private) lessons, group classes, corporate classes, retreats, restorative classes, and yoga for injuries. She also offers a unique service of yoga podcasts, audio classes that can be tailored to your needs for you to do in the comfort of your own home. She is a 200 hour certified vinyasa yoga teacher from Om Yoga in NYC and has her 500 hour certification from Barbara Benagh. Further, she has done trainings in yin yoga, power yoga, Embodyoga, as well as other body-mind practices. She is a certified Awareness Through Movement Feldenkrais practitioner, and has also studied the Skinner Release Technique, and Body-Mind Centering. As a yoga teacher, she draws from years of experience working in-depth with the body and works to facilitate whole body alignment in her students, both physically and energetically. She specializes in vinyasa yoga, a breath-inspired practice that focuses on flowing in and out of poses with ease. Her passion for yoga stems from a deep understanding and love of movement, meditation, dance, and the precise alignment of the body. From an early age, her training as a dancer introduced her to the mind-body connection and the power that comes with this awareness. She has experience working with bodies suffering from chronic pain, injury, illness and other forms of disease. With hands on adjustments, she delivers clear results and a greater sense of ease and body awareness in her students. Sarah has over 15 years of experience teaching in hospitals, wellness centers, universities, yoga studios, gyms, and corporate offices. Her goal in teaching is to bring increased body awareness into each one of her students, helping them to find more fluidity and ease in their everyday movements. Sarah earned a BFA from the University of Minnesota’s dance department, has a minor in kinesiology, and has 15 years of experience working in the field of holistic nutrition.

08/20/2024

Coming to Your Senses
An 8 week Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
September 15th - November 13th, 2024
16 classes in total - 8 unique lessons
Wednesdays @ 6:30pm & Sundays @ 4pm
Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom
*All lessons are recorded. Registering for the series gives you access to the recorded lessons indefinitely.
* No class 10/6, 10/9

Have you ever thought about how you learned to hear sound? Have you ever wondered how you learned to see color and depth with your eyes? Did you know that your tongue can support the mobility and coordination of your spine?

These are the fascinating connections we will be exploring together in the next 8 week Feldenkrais series.

Learn more in the link in bio!

05/05/2023

Our feet are like ears to the ground. If we listen to the soles of each foot as we move, we may sense a path to balance. We can check if the pressure is distributed evenly or not, and whether our feet are responsive to our movements. This series will start by activating the arches of the feet so our weight can fall evenly onto the 3 arches of each foot. Experience the flexibility & vitality that creates receptive feet needed to move with ease and confidence.

Step Into Ease begins this week!   Remember, each lesson is taught twice. Once on Wednesdays and once again on Sundays. Join us Sunday the 14th for free to test out the material. All you need to do is head to the link in the bio and register there.   We hope to see you there! 

04/03/2023

There is still time to sign up for The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais! Come blossom together with community!

The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
April 3rd - June 12th�Mondays 6pm - 7:15pm CST�Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom

Check it out here! https://body-matter.heymarvelous.com/product/59142/about

03/31/2023

Monday Nights are Back!

The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
April 3rd - June 12th
�Mondays 6pm - 7:15pm CST
�Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom

This will be a time to create space and feel what it is like living in this body.
When we have the courage to release places that feel physically stuck, mentally tight, or emotionally restricted, we can uncover a new internal landscape of this body we are living in. In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. We will explore ways to move in harmony with our unique needs and how we feel each day, to encourage the body to soften and connect with the feelings of space and freedom.

Scholarships are available for this series. Please contact Sarah directly at sarah@body-matter.com for scholarship inquires.

03/17/2023

Alleviating shoulder and the neck tension that originates from a forwardness of one’s head, and lack of upright posture, is one of the most requested topics I get from students. It’s a difficulty that none of us are immune to. If you are interested in this work, join the Posture Matters series which can always be done as a self-paced course.

Check out the podcast here: https://www.body-matter.com/podcast/2023/3/15/episode-95-posture-as-a-dynamic-system-a-feldenkrais-approach-to-posture

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03/03/2023

I will be offering a free Informational Talk and Q + A about Posture Matters right before the first lesson in the series. Come to hear more about the concept of posture from the Feldenkrais lens and ask any questions about this series!

If you register and join for this talk, you will also receive the link to attend class for free directly following the talk. This is a great opportunity to try the material out and get a taste for this course!

02/24/2023

One of the best ways to learn about an upcoming series is from the people who have tried it already.

Students are experiencing less pain, more space, and deeper care for their own body and mind. ��You can receive these impacts as well by signing up for Posture Matters, an 8 week Feldenkrais Series beginning on March 1st.

Register here: https://body-matter.heymarvelous.com/buy/product/57496

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02/10/2023

Save the Date for New Feldenkrais Series - Posture Matters
8 Lesson Series Beginning on March 1st
Wednesdays @ 6:30pm CST & Sundays @ 4pm CST
Available to take via livestream on zoom or using the self-paced recordings

Everyone’s posture, or how they “use” themselves, isn’t always optimal. With the help of the Feldenkrais method, your postural habits can improve to make everyday movements more enjoyable and easy. Your posture, or, how you navigate being upright with gravity, profoundly affects not only your physical comfort, but your overall health and emotions too.

These lessons will focus on freeing your neck so that the head floats upward, and your spine goes along for the ride.

Head here for more information: https://www.body-matter.com/posture-matters

08/02/2022

“Life is not a stable process. Our ability to recover is our greatest quality.”

This upcoming Tuesday, we will gather to spend time exploring and working on just that. The human brain’s primary job is to feel support from the ground below and organize the body to be upright in gravity. It’s something you may not consciously think about too much, until you lose your balance!

With a variety of playful approaches we will check in with our body and brain's effort in balancing and learn to find stability, ease, and breath all the while.

This workshop is open to all levels! Register here: https://body-matter.heymarvelous.com/product/50656/about

07/05/2022

This week, Body Matter is offering an In-Person Workshop for the first time in over two years.

Much has changed in our world, in ourselves, and in our bodies. Re-Orienting Ourselves is an opportunity to play to learn and be in a room together so we can share in creating new patterns and habits.

Beginners or those completely new to Feldenkrais are welcome!

Re-Orienting Ourselves
Friday July 8th from 10:00am-12:30
at Threads Dance Space
$50/Sliding Scale
If cost is a barrier, please reach out to Sarah directly.

Find additional details here: https://body-matter.heymarvelous.com/event/details/548197

06/26/2022

FREE INTRO CLASS TODAY
Softening the System
4pm CST
Registration details in bio

Within the larger systems of the universe, the earth, the country, your neighborhood.. Is YOUR bodily system, your nervous system, musculo-skeletal system, digestive system, and respiratory breathing system.

After the last few years, does your body have a recurrent or pervasive sense that danger is just around the corner, or that something terrible is about to happen? Or maybe it feels like every week or two there is an overwhelming sense of collective anxiety in response to a current event. What many people feel is the body trying to protect itself from a repeated experience of trauma or stress. The upcoming Body Matter Feldenkrais series will be focusing on Softening the System. Softening our own bodily systems, one by one, and in community.

We're not going to focus on fixing something, but rather we're going to play and expand our capacity for ease, for pleasure and curiosity and we will do that through an explorative process … through curiosity.

I will be referencing Resmaa Menakem quite a lot during this series - author of My Grandmother’s Hands, which is a beautiful book that introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond the racial divide that is amongst us. In his book, he offers somatic healing methods as well as current research in neuroscience to help entangle this mess we have all found ourselves in, a way to mend our bodies. In this series, we will explore Feldenkrais principles that are similar and/or identical to the methods that Resmaa Menakem offers in his book such as:

* Understanding how breathing can be a change agent for the central nervous system
* Relaxing the hands to support a relaxation in the whole system
* Humming
* Relaxing the Eyes
* Rocking the Body

We all have an individual system, but we are really all quite connected. Learn tools to find ease in your own system, which will impart support change in larger systems.

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+16123270411

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http://www.body-matter.com/

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As a teacher, Sarah draws from years of experience working in-depth with the body and works to facilitate whole body alignment in her students, both physically and energetically. She specializes in alignment based yoga and the Feldenkrais method. Sarah's yoga classes are a blend of flowing yoga asanas, or poses, informed by precise attention to alignment, and supported by the calm wakefulness of Buddhist meditation practices.

Sarah’s goal is to awaken sensation in people, contributing to humanities deeper embodiment. She loves helping people relearn basic movements and feel new sensations. Breaking down old movement habits allows for so much potential in the body! Sarah offers private lessons, small group (semi-private) lessons, group classes, corporate classes, retreats, restorative classes, and yoga for injuries. She also offers a unique service of yoga podcasts, audio classes that can be tailored to your needs for you to do in the comfort of your own home. Sarah also teaches the Feldenkrais method. The Feldenkrais Method is a gentle movement practice that expands the brain's awareness of the body by exploring various movement patterns. Thus, allowing for more freedom and flexibility in both the mind and body. By combining gentle movement with directed attention, you can enhance the function and motion throughout the body, increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement. The Feldenkrais® Method is established from principles of physics, biomechanics, and an empirical understanding of learning and human development. By expanding your self-awareness through movement sequences, this method enables you to include untapped muscle groups into your daily movements. Become more aware of your habitual neuromuscular patterns, and progress into new forms of movement. She is a 200 hour certified vinyasa yoga teacher from Om Yoga in NYC and has her 500 hour certification from Barbara Benagh. Further, she has done trainings in yin yoga, power yoga, Embodyoga, as well as other body-mind practices. She is a certified Awareness Through Movement Feldenkrais practitioner, and has also studied the Skinner Release Technique, and Body-Mind Centering. Her passion for yoga and Feldenkrais stems from a deep understanding and love of movement, meditation, dance, and the precise alignment of the body. From an early age, her training as a dancer introduced her to the mind-body connection and the power that comes with this awareness. Sarah has experience working with bodies suffering from chronic pain, injury, illness and other forms of disease. With hands on adjustments, she delivers clear results and a greater sense of ease and body awareness in her students. She has over 15 years of experience teaching in hospitals, wellness centers, universities, yoga studios, gyms, and corporate offices. Her goal in teaching is to bring increased body awareness into each one of her students, helping them to find more fluidity and ease in their everyday movements. Sarah earned a BFA from the University of Minnesota’s dance department, has a minor in kinesiology, and has 15 years of experience working in the field of holistic nutrition.