Sarah Richelle Starnes began practicing Hatha Yoga when she was 12, and has been teaching yoga since 1999. She is a Certified Anusara Yoga® Teacher. Sarah has been leading Hatha Yoga Teacher Trainings in Illinois since 2004. Her deep, passionate connection to Anusara yoga drives her to diligently study and train with her teacher, John Friend and other amazing teachers multiple times a year. Sarah is also a certified Reiki Adept Master Teacher and Nomena Healer through the Mystical Sciences Institute in Evanston, IL. She has taught yoga in the city and suburbs of Chicago, as well as in Kauai, Indonesia and Italy. Sarah's teaching explores the energetic subtleties of a yoga practice, interwoven with optimal, anatomical alignment principles. The celebratory nature of her teaching style reflects her love for the practice and helps her students learn how to find the courage within to be themselves, while expanding their hearts to reveal the divine joy that is their deepest nature. Sarah brings a fun, blissful and compassionate energy to her classes, providing a safe, and empowering environment for students of all ages and levels of experience. She has extensive experience teaching pre/postnatal yoga, and has worked with many children and adults with special needs.  Sarah’s passions include Anusara yoga, essential oils, kirtan mantra and music, partner/acro yoga, Thai massage and other bodywork, tap dancing, hiking with her Love Frankie and their chihuahuas in the woody bush, rock climbing, horseback riding, writing songs and poetry, painting and exploring anything new to create, or learn and grow from.

Attend Sarah’s yoga classes at:

Elmhurst Yoga Shala
506 Spring Road
Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-993-YOGA
www.elmhurstyogashala.com

FIXE Self Center
18 West First St.
Hinsdale, Illinois 60521
630-734-FIXE
www.fixeselfcenter.com

Lifetime Fitness
900 E Higgins Rd
Schaumburg, IL  60173
847-517-7171
www.lifetimefitness.com
 

Avani Yoga Studio
1501 Busch Parkway
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
(847) 419-7105
www.avaniyoga.com