Sarah Jane Shangraw is a Boston-based mindfulness educator, Insight Yoga teacher, and end-of-life doula who encourages presence, peace, and purpose among individuals and communities. A student of the buddhadharma, she feels passionate about using practice as support for meeting life's ongoing changes and transitions, including those related to relationships, career change, loss, and end of life.
Academic studies in religion and communications--and intensive Trainings & Certifications in Buddhist, yogic, and psychological traditions--have encouraged Sarah Jane to see human beings as full of potential. She earned a rare endorsement to teach Insight Yoga from its founder, Sarah Powers, and is now immersed in a 2-year teacher training with psychologists and Buddhist teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She continues studying trauma and systemic racism, learning how to address them both internally and externally, and in an ongoing way.
Sarah Jane works to uncover her own unconscious bias in an effort to avoid causing harm and keep her teaching respectful and responsive. In addition to her classes, courses, and coaching, she teaches corporate workers through the wellness tech company Studio BE, and incarcerated women as part of Prison Yoga Project.
Prior to the pandemic, Sarah Jane taught in the Massachusetts state prison for women, including a leadership training to support the women's agency on their path of transformation. During the pandemic, these women and their community are in serious danger. Already dealing with chronic stress and the effects of living in a prison that has been proven toxic and dangerous to their health, the women must be released. Please join Sarah Jane in supporting organizations working on decarceration right now, including the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and in the Boston area, Families for Justice as Healing.
Academic studies in religion and communications--and intensive Trainings & Certifications in Buddhist, yogic, and psychological traditions--have encouraged Sarah Jane to see human beings as full of potential. She earned a rare endorsement to teach Insight Yoga from its founder, Sarah Powers, and is now immersed in a 2-year teacher training with psychologists and Buddhist teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She continues studying trauma and systemic racism, learning how to address them both internally and externally, and in an ongoing way.
Sarah Jane works to uncover her own unconscious bias in an effort to avoid causing harm and keep her teaching respectful and responsive. In addition to her classes, courses, and coaching, she teaches corporate workers through the wellness tech company Studio BE, and incarcerated women as part of Prison Yoga Project.
Prior to the pandemic, Sarah Jane taught in the Massachusetts state prison for women, including a leadership training to support the women's agency on their path of transformation. During the pandemic, these women and their community are in serious danger. Already dealing with chronic stress and the effects of living in a prison that has been proven toxic and dangerous to their health, the women must be released. Please join Sarah Jane in supporting organizations working on decarceration right now, including the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and in the Boston area, Families for Justice as Healing.
“Sarah Jane encourages exploration through breath, relaxing tension, listening.”
– Jean from Brookline
“Sarah Jane taught me to listen and gave me a deep sense of confidence.”
– Razan from New York
"With Sarah Jane I felt safety, ease, and security."
– Lea from Boston
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