Meet Sarah, the founder and teacher of Satoyama Yoga

Sarah started her Yoga practice about 12 years ago during her university studies of Buddhism and Comparative Religion in Amsterdam. She needed a physical practice to complement her meditation practice at the time. She found yoga and has practiced ever since.

Sarah is originally from Germany but ever since she can remember she had a longing of being somewhere else than where she grew up.

Sarah has always had an adventurous and deeply reflective nature. She deeply cares about the people in her life and the well-being of the world in the greater realm.

At the age of 12 she first encountered Buddhism in school and this changed her life. She started exploring Eastern wisdom and has since admired ancient Chinese culture, wisdom and medicine.

At the age of 15 a Japanese girl came to her school with whom she quickly developed a strong friendship and then visited her in Japan for several weeks. For the first time in her life, Sarah felt as if she has arrived home. It is still something she has difficulties to explain, that feeling of deep connection to Japanese culture and its people.
She then did a whole year in Japan at the age of sixteen and up to this day nourishes the relationships she has with the friends and family there.

It was a natural development to pursue Buddhist studies at university.