MIND

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Sara graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland with a major in psychology, earned an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and spent nearly a decade as a senior change management consultant before beginning her entrepreneurial ventures. She has extensive professional global experience including working in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia.

As a change management consultant, Sara helped Fortune 500 companies navigate through large-scale changes. During that time, she has worked with organizations in the pharmaceutical, health care, financial services, manufacturing and consulting industries. She has supported large-scale change initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructurings and re-designs, business process redesigns, and HR strategy development, program design and implementation. She implemented complex change management and communications initiatives and facilitated leadership and executive teams to implement change in organizations.

Sara has also provided one-on-one strategic advice and trainings for executives, team leaders and individual clients on topics such as cultural awareness, sensitivity and diversity. She also helped leaders role model desired behavioral changes to affect change in employees. Sara has been an avid supporter of diversity and minority issues from the beginning, serving in Women's Shelters, as well as on the Board of the Black MBA Student Association and Students for Responsible Business.

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BODY

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Sara is considered an expert in personal safety, risk reduction and self defense. She has more than 30 years of athletic experience, including being a competitive athlete and a Division I Team Captain and Starter for the University of Maryland’s field hockey team.

She has completed self defense programs such as IMPACT and RAD (Rape Aggression Defense). She is a Brown Belt in Krav Maga as well as a nationally certified Expert-II level Krav Maga instructor, certified by both, Krav Maga Worldwide and the Krav Maga Alliance.

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Sara is also a Fit-to-Fight Coach as well as a From-The-Ground-Up Coach certified by the Fit-To-Fight Republic, and she is certified in handgun personal protection tactics. Sara is also an expert in advanced self defense techniques, including defenses against guns, knives, sticks, and other weapons. She has taught Krav Maga to students from beginner to advanced levels for several years.

In 2011, Sara founded, opened and led a self defense and healing center in the heart of Washington DC with the intention to heal, transform and empower lives (view the web archive). Her center combined energy medicine and shamanic healing practices with self defense training.

Sara pioneered an integrated approach to self defense called Luminous Warrior. This approach was unique at the time in that it addressed the entire continuum of self defense, from awareness, to avoidance, to self defense and self care. Her programs and curricula integrated practical tools for trauma-free training as well as self healing without lessening the intensity of the training. These tools helped increase the mental, emotional and physical resilience and stamina of the students and instructors she served.

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MIND-BODY / PSYCHO-SOMA

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Sara’s experience in trauma healing and crisis management is multi-faceted. She has been working with therapists, counselors, healers and caretakers in trauma centers and nonprofit organizations since 2005. She offers deep healing, transformation, and true self empowerment to men and women survivors, as well as their families, all over the world.

Sara has worked as a California-State certified rape crisis counselor in the Bay Area, the first rape crisis center founded in the United States. She advocated for and supported survivors directly as part of the Sexual Assault Response Team, on hotlines and in counselling sessions, as well as by supporting survivors in court and during hospital visits post attack. She also provided survivor support and advocacy by coordinating with (and providing training and educating for) Special Victims Units of the police, healthcare personnel in hospitals, as well as the local community in general.

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A few years later, Sara focused on bringing trauma healing to the warrior and veteran communities in the DC area. She conducted nearly 900 Moments Of Mindful Gratitude for the post-9/11 fallen service members. She was subsequently named Honor Guardian for Arlington Cemetery by the Mindful Memorial Foundation for her work to support Gold Star Families and their fallen service members.

Between 2012 and 2016 Sara served as a Senior Trainer for Personal Safety and Emotional Self Care for Global Journalist Security (GJS). During her time with GJS Sara helped activists, journalists, human rights defenders, aid workers, and numerous individuals from NGOs prepare for their travel to hostile environments. She also helped them heal any potential trauma they may have experienced after returning from such deployments.

In 2016, Sara took a few trips to Germany where she began to offer hands-on-healing to refugees and taught compassion fatigue prevention skills to caregivers at refugee centers.

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SPIRIT / ENERGY

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Sara spent nearly six years studying energy medicine. She earned a certification as Master Practitioner in Energy Medicine and Luminous Healing through the Four Winds Society, one of the leading training institutions for Energy Medicine in the world. Her advanced training included Shamanic Healing and Energy Medicine techniques such as Advanced Soul Retrieval, Advanced Destiny Retrieval, and Advanced Shamanic Tracking techniques. She worked intensely for several years as a Shamanic Healer and Transformation Coach and offered workshops, retreats, mentoring and coaching services founded in the Shamanic traditions of the South Americas.

Sara also completed private brainwave development training with Anna Wise, author of the book, Awakening The Mind. The purpose of the training was to ensure that Sara's shamanic journeying and meditation techniques are measurably and consistently producing specific changes in brainwave activity, thereby accessing the parts of the brain that are appropriate for the healing at hand.

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Sara also completed the Level I and Level II training of the Healing Touch Association. She is trained to work with therapeutic-grade essential oils, butterfly and mushroom essences, and crystals. She continuously trains in advanced healing modalities. In 2020, Sara received initiations into deeper workings with animal spirits, the Wisdom Teachings of the Essenes, as well as the Angelic and Archangelic realms.

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