Sara Levine Yoga

This is a much overdue review. I had been attending Sara’s classes every week for 2 years at Yoga Mayu in SF and only stopped because I moved out of the Bay Area. My husband and I still talk about how much we miss Sara’s teaching style. She encourages you to have fun doing yoga and not to take everything too seriously.
I have been practicing yoga on and off for over 10 years now and Sara has been one of my favorite teachers on my journey. While she has the chops for more advanced students, I think she’s a great fit for people new to yoga too.

Sara is a wonderful, caring yoga instructor who really gets to know her students. All her students get help during class either by adjustments or hinted reminders. After class, she is always willing to talk more.
Her yoga classes are very approachable. They have a great flow to match the temperament of those in class. Depending on the type of class, one can expect to leave class super relaxed or energized and ready for the day. The more I learned about yoga, the more appreciation I had for Sara’s teaching skill.
I’ve always enjoyed Sara’s classes. Her sense of humor always helped me from getting too serious in class. During the two years that I practiced with Sara, I learned so much about yoga. The process that began with me noticing the affect that classes had on my disposition, led me to continue my practice off the mat. She’ll be missed in SF.

I’ve been taking Sara’s classes at Yogamayu for 2 or 3 years now. Aside from Sara’s other wonderful traits — warmth, enthusiasm, humor, dedication — I particularly relish the creativity she brings to her teaching. Every class brings a new pose, a new vinyasa, a new adjustment, or a new nugget of wisdom. I don’t know where she gets them all from! But she’s helped me keep my sense of wonder and discovery about yoga after 7 years of active practice.

Sara Levine’s Sunday afternoon restorative class at Bernal Yoga has been a touchstone for my week and a major transformational experience in my life. I’ve deepened into presence, felt nurtured, stretched in all the right places and enjoyed a great connection with Sara and my classmates. I don’t know how I’ll do on Sundays without her now that she is moving. :(But I imagine I will find the wisdom and care she shared with us living inside me going forward! I wish her all good things in her new home in Asheville, North Carolina. You yogini’s in Asheville are in for a wonderful treat! Bless you, Sara!

I’m new to yoga and have really enjoyed Sara’s classes. She has a really warm personality that shines through during her class, just enough guidance and centering talk and just enough quiet. People often think of restorative as organized naptime, and there’s some truth to that, but Sara is the hardest working restorative teacher I’ve had. Her adjustments are fantastic and she moves around the studio to check on her students… again not always the case in restorative.
I haven’t had experience with her vinyasa-​type classes, but I’m sure she’s great. She filled in for another teacher in a hatha class I was lucky enough to already be enrolled in, and she was just as effective and shiny as in the restorative classes.

I’ve been training with Sara now for about 3 months and she’s been great! I added yoga to my workout routine to help me de-​stress and increase my flexibility. I had lost a lot of flexibility due to weight-​lifting over the years, and had pretty much ruined my posture. I’m pretty amazed at how much each has improved over the past few months. It’s definitely helped me become more «balanced».
I prefer working with her 1-​on-​1 as she’s able to correct my form throughout the session and push me a little bit harder than a class setting would. I’ve also done a few restorative sessions, and those are great if you just need to relax.
Sara is professional and very accommodating to people of all shapes and sizes. I’m definitely not your typical yoga student as I’m a little on the stalky side.
I definitely plan to continue my training with her!

Sara is an amazing yoga teacher. I took one of her Vinyasa Flow classes and she did a great job at building heat and flexibility as we practiced. She has a soothing voice and a positive spirit. The class I took gravitated towards a balancing, restorative, flow class and it was just blissful. LOVE her!

I did a one-​on-​one restorative yoga session with Sara and it was amazing. I felt totally comfortable with her and she had me instantly relaxed with her approach. I left the session feeling calm but alert and totally blissed out!
I think she teaches all over the city and I’m going to try and figure out her schedule so I can take some of her other classes. She has the most calming presence to her practice!