Sarah B. Yoga + Feldenkrais

Sarah Baumert

Sarah has been creating podcast classes since 2007. Listen to free yoga and Feldenkrais® classes to support your home practice. Each podcast is an originally crafted class taught by Sarah Baumert. Episodes range in length, level and style. Sarah's teaching is alignment based, unhurried, and rich with somatic inquiries. Her cueing is effective, easy to follow, and uses visualizations of postures to allow for unexpected growth and depth. You will find live unplugged versions of her classes, as well as classes that are specifically produced for the podcast medium. Find more of Sarah's teaching including live online classes and self-paced courses at https://www.body-matter.com

  1. 12/15/2025

    Attention to the Middle: The Golden Ball Lesson

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 110: Today we take a Feldenkrais approach to directing our attention. This episode is the intro lesson to the new series The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais where we will directly use subtle movements to strengthen our capacity for sustained concentration.  You will learn to deliberately shift your focus from narrow sensory detail to wide spatial awareness. By using your body as a reliable anchor, you will cultivate the quieter attention that empowers you to choose intention over impulse in daily life.  So in today’s episode, you will first hear a short introduction about how to approach working with your attention, and after that will be a 60 minute Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson.  If you resonate with TODAY’s approach, you may be interested in the Feldenkrais course The Focused Body.  Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais® practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    1h 4m
  2. 09/20/2024

    Relaxed Eyes with Rolling Hands - Feldenkrais (Re-release)

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 109: This is a re-release of one of my most popular classes. I originally taught this lesson as a part of the Soften the System Feldenkrais® Course.  Today we take another Feldenkrais® approach to practicing the ability to settle the body. This class again utilizes the powerful effect that calming the hands can have on our whole system, including our eyes.  If you resonate with TODAY’s approach, you may be interested in these self-paced Feldenkrais courses: Coming to Your Senses Feldenkrais® Series Soften the System Feldenkrais® Series Sensing Subtlety and Satisfaction Feldenkrais® Series Unraveling Body Anxiety Feldenkrais® Series Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais® practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    1h 9m
  3. 08/23/2024

    Freeing Your Neck From Behind- Feldenkrais

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 108: Today’s class is a short Feldenkrais lesson that will be done lying on the back. This simple, but effective lesson, creates a sense of wholeness and connection from your feet to your head.  This lesson is from the Feldenkrais Mini Lessons course that can be purchased. This self paced course has 16 mini lessons ranging from 15- 30 minutes. The lessons in this course are there for you when you need a shift or interruption of your current state, but don’t have an hour to spare. I like to think of them as more than a 5 minute movement snack, but also not the whole buffet. Just the right nourishment.  Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.  Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    31 min
  4. 05/31/2024

    Walking Around Your Center Line - Feldenkrais

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 107: Today I am going to share a lesson that introduces us to how the hip and shoulder joints relate to our spine, and how they coordinate for walking.  This is an intro class for the Feldenkrais Walking Series: Walking From Your Spine.  The context for this series is to learn about how our limbs and our spine move in relation to each other. In today’s podcast you will first hear me introduce the class and how we will approach the subject of walking from a Feldenkrais perspective in this course.  Next will be the 60 minute Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson.  Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.  Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    1h 12m
  5. 11/24/2023

    Getting to Know Your Spine

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 105: In this 35 minute practice we will be utilizing a thin blanket roll to wake up spinal flexion, extension and rotation all along the spine.  This is a warm up that I have been teaching variations of in many of my yoga classes lately. I hope you learn something about your spine! You can also find Level 1 and 2 yoga classes that start with this practice in the Body Matter Library. Just search for "Getting to Know Your Spine". Or access a full course that uses these concepts in A Tactile Spine - The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.  Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    42 min
  6. 11/17/2023

    Weighted Breathing

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 104: Today’s class is a short breath awareness meditation done in savasana with a weight placed on the belly. You will need something heavy that you can place on your abdomen. If you have a yoga sandbag, this works great. Most people don’t have that, so I suggest finding one or two very thick books. A thick textbook could work well. If you are using a book, then you will also want to have a blanket or a towel that you can place underneath the book, so that the weight is not hard or pressing into any part of you in an uncomfortable way. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.  Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    18 min
  7. 11/10/2023

    Covering the Eyes - Feldenkrais

    Send me a text! What did you think of class? Episode 103: Today’s class is focused on calming the eyes. This class is similar to Episode 56, but I wanted to re record and re-teach the class, as it has been a popular episode and I wanted to get a higher quality audio version of it for you. In this short Feldenkrais lesson, the eyes, their state of calm, and the quality of our dark vision becomes a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. When one’s visual stimulation calms down, it can have a relaxing effect on the neck, jaw, breathing, face and more. And as a result, your whole self will settle down, get quiet and the sharpness of your vision can increase. So, let's see how we can organize our vision to make the orientation clear and smooth, so that the muscle tone in the whole body can become organized and engaged to do a function well. If you enjoy this lesson, you may consider joining the Feldenkrais Series: Being Good to Yourself: Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, & Breath In 8 lessons we explore how important the eyes are for organizing the rest of the body. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.  Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime: The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through Feldenkrais Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter Series Body Matter Library Membership Support the show Find more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter. Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my Newsletter Please leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube. Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone! Online Self Paced Course Shop

    37 min
4.8
out of 5
103 Ratings

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Sarah has been creating podcast classes since 2007. Listen to free yoga and Feldenkrais® classes to support your home practice. Each podcast is an originally crafted class taught by Sarah Baumert. Episodes range in length, level and style. Sarah's teaching is alignment based, unhurried, and rich with somatic inquiries. Her cueing is effective, easy to follow, and uses visualizations of postures to allow for unexpected growth and depth. You will find live unplugged versions of her classes, as well as classes that are specifically produced for the podcast medium. Find more of Sarah's teaching including live online classes and self-paced courses at https://www.body-matter.com

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