Sabrina Polignone

Sabrina uses teaching to preach what she practices. Yoga was meant to be a safe form of movement after injuries in college, but showed itself to be a somatic experience whereby years of pent-up emotional holding released in ways never understood or experienced before in a body-oriented way. 

The curiosity grew, as did training and ongoing practice that touched on many modalities - vinyasa, yin, Ashtanga, restorative, Iyengar.. The practice and teaching that is presently closest to her heart resembles the work of Peter Crowley and Barbara Benagh, mentors who taught her to slow down and be with herself in a way that tended to physical and emotional reaction in practice. 

Yoga has now become a reliable source of coping, movement, exploration, and a much needed test of patience - a necessary balance to the mental health counseling she has provided for high-risk youth for the past 10 years. Sabrina is finishing her Masters at Lesley, specializing in Trauma & Holistic studies. In her (loads of) free time she is building a DIY tiny house with her partner (after 6 years of planning!)

Sabrina’s classes are geared towards finding agency through feeling and responding in awareness. For her, teaching continues to be a way to share and encourage the fruits of the labor of practice - what she has found to be her most reliable and sustainable resource.