Sariah Sizemore

Powerful and surprisingly effective healing awaits in a breath-​work session with Sariah. I felt incredibly alive and connected after our session and truly delighted by the experience.

Sariah is a gifted healer. I met her first in her role as a kundalini yoga instructor and was drawn in for more! She is also a shamanic practitioner offering healing breath work, a form of holotropic breath work. This healing experience worked very quickly for me and has continued to «hold» in the way that very few forms of healing I have experienced can. I experienced what felt like a clearing and a release on a few levels in just two sessions, and am looking forward to more work with her. In my work as a psychotherapist I find that somatic bodywork helps people move through trauma and stuck places quickly, and I feel the same for what Sariah is offering with breath work. It moves what needs to be moved and allows the spirit and mind to form new ways of relating that allow for more freedom, creativity, and lightness. I highly recommend Sariah to anyone looking for a big dose of healing energy.

I went seeking a holotropic breathwork practicioner at the recommendation of my massage therapist. He said that while I was doing great work using touch to heal some trauma in my body, that I would really benefit from adding breathwork to my healing process. I found Sariah, and our session was amazing. I’ve never been in a trance before, all through breathing! Sariah took me on a step by step healing journey in her office. We are able to access emotions in me that I had never been able to reach before. She was confident and compassionate, and really skilled. Since our session I’ve been centered and the tough emotions don’t seem so scary anymore. She is the perfect blend of shaman and practical magic.

Its hard to put into words just what a potent effect Sariah’s work is having on my life right now. She utilizes a unique approach that blends counseling with integrative breathwork (also known as holotropic breathwork–
). Rather than just talking about the issues I’m dealing with, her work helps me to connect the current issues I’m facing with the old injuries from my past that I am still holding onto. The breathwork, which is somewhat shamanic in nature, helps us to identify where these injuries are held in my body and also clear them from my system. I don’t know how this actually works, but from my experience, it feels like healing at a very deep cellular level. I work as a Somatic Psychotherapist and have been around the block with many different methods of healing. Even though Sariah and I are working on some things that I have already engaged with different healers at other times in my life, her work now is addressing these issues at a whole other level in myself that I haven’t yet touched.
I’ve been working with her for the past few months and I can already feel a dramatic shift taking place within me. For years, I’ve had the feeling of holding myself back from standing in my full power even though I’ve had a clear vision of what I need to do in the world. With Sariah’s loving compassionate support, I am finally learning how to get out of my own way and make the positive changes in my life I know I’m called to do. So far I can see the effect of our work together take form in my relationship with my partner, my career, and even my family.
If you’re looking for healing and transformation at a profoundly deep level of your being with someone who knows how to provide the kind and loving, care needed to help you make the shifts in your life you feel called to do, Sariah is the one.

As a recent transplant to the Bay Area from NYC, I’ll admit I was somewhat skeptical of «healing breath work», had no idea what «holotropic breath work» was, and a little apprehensive of Kundalini. This was all due to my ignorance of the transformative power of using the healing breath to journey, clear past trauma and blocks and heal.
I’ve worked with traditional psychotherapists on and off for over 15 years, and Sariah’s process had the healing effect of three months of talk therapy in just one session. Also, as someone who works in the tech industry but vehemently rejects the «heartless, apathetic, greedy techie» archetype, it is profoundly meaningful to work with a healer who can blend technical, design-​centric logic with intuition and embodiment practices. If you’re looking for someone to compassionately challenge you, and be your ally on a path towards a more empowered, effective life, book a session with Sariah today. You’ll be grateful you did!

I’ve met with Sariah for two sessions now, and both sessions blessed my life immensely. Sessions with Sariah are intimate, safe, sensitive and magical. She provides a healing space for the transformative work of clearing old energy blocks and negative patterns. Holotropic breathwork is a powerful technique, and it takes a competent individual to support someone through that experience. Sariah does an incredible job — I can’t recommend her enough!

While it has only been recently that I have embarked on this healing journey with Sariah Sizemore leading the way, I have already reaped some palpable benefits from the undertaking.
Sariah’s strong presence, confidence in her art, and wonderfully melodious voice have all combined to effectively initiate a much needed healing process for myself.
I have complete confidence in Sariah’s ability to share her natural gift of healing/​shamanic breath work in such a manner as to produce life-​changing transformations for anybody who is desiring a healthier mind/​body/​spirit.
Jeff Micka

I knew from the very first session that Sariah was someone special! She has amazing talents and a number of amazing tools to help on your healing and transformative journey. For me particularly the healing breath work, a form of holotropic breath work was so powerful and unique. She has been asking just the right questions and giving great homework that is really gotten me to evaluate things in my life in a wat to create real and positive change.

Sariah is a magnificent change worker. We transitioned through many different challenges including discipline, motivation, and relationships. Our time together helped propel me to becoming the best version of myself — feeling more motivated and energized than I ever had been before.
Unlike other change worker, she has so many different traditions to draw from — yoga, coaching, counseling, and more. I loved the way that she used body to treat mind and vice/​versa. Her body exercises were incredibly helpful for getting me out of my head and onto a healthier path.
She showed up for me consistently when I needed her, and walked me through some incredibly tough decisions in my life. I recommend her to wholeheartedly.

There are two things that I don’t take lightly, my healing and writing reviews. I know there is much power to our words and if we choose to express them we can spark any number of reactions from the world, so I aim to be cautious. I aim to speak my truth and and share what i believe could be helpful for our greater good (the good of us as a species and a connected planet).
So I don’t speak it lightly when I say that my gratitude toward Sariah is immeasurable. I am a normally a healthy young woman, very active and constantly on the go. A few months ago I was in an accident that halted my momentum and though I was luckily not dead, I did have to dramatically alter my life. Physical pain and emotional pain of this forced change was and continues to be a challenge to wade through. I went out in search of any and every healing professional I could afford to spend time with, but it was with Sariah that I made the commitment to 6 straight sessions so we could dive deeply into the healing waters. In this time I have learned a wide array of healing tools that have changed the coarse of my healing and helped equip me for the new life I am building today.
In our sessions I not only received a person who could listen/​respond with a therapeutic quality, but a person who could bridge the gap between that clinical therapeutic vibe and compassionate human relationship. I appreciate that though she is in a healing position, there is also equality and bonding. Though we have not lived the same life, I feel touched that I was drawn to her and immediately felt warmth and understanding. I continue to be grateful for our time together in the past and our work in the future.

I’ve seen Sariah for life coaching for quite a while now and she is totally awesome. I think that the term life coach can often be a misnomer, as often life coaches are associated with getting you to kick ass and power your way to your goals. As one of the other reviewers stated, Sariah is so much more dynamic than that. She is a therapist, life coach, yogi guru, and so much more all rolled into one. She always encourages you and helps you to become your best self on the inside; present, aware, compassionate with yourself and others, motivated, rational, connected. This translates to good results on the outside. Basically, she is the TRUE definition of a life coach. She makes you better at life.

I have been working with Sariah for more than 8 years and I cannot recommend her services highly enough. I have taken probably over 30+ classes and workshops led by Sariah and she is one of my favorite teachers and healers in the Bay Area.
As a Kundalini teacher, she is joyous, powerful, highly intuitive, hilarious and vigorous. You will get a great workout while working through intentions and energy blocks and often get a good laugh as well just when you need it. You will move, laugh, cry, dance, sweat and thank yourself to have made it to yoga once again.
As a healer, I experienced my first chakra opening years back with Sariah and was beyond amazed on the energy we moved and the tensions, experiences and deeply buried memories that may come up. You don’t have to understand it logically– yet (if new to body work), but you will know that it is real and that there is lots to be discovered and moved.
I have just recently finished 6 weeks working with Sariah mainly focusing on Holotropic Breath work, which is taking breath and body work to the absolute next level. We do a mix of counseling in the beginning to set the stage for the breath work.
«Holotropic Breathwork is a psychospiritual experiential method developed by Stan and Christina Grof. It uses a combination of breathing, evocative music and focused bodywork to explore realms of the psyche ordinarily hidden to awareness. Holotropic sessions mediate access to emotionally relevant childhood memories and other biographical issues, sequences of psychological death and rebirth, and a broad spectrum of transpersonal experiences.»
It is hard to describe what happens in these sessions, so I will leave it to saying you will cut through your own bullshit in ways that talk therapy or other healing modalities simply cannot. Sariah is patient, loving, kind, relentless at times with your highest good in mind and will take you to the edges that we often dance around because they are not comfortable. She will lead you to hold your health and mental and emotional well being as your ultimate goal and lend softness and comfort when the task seems overwhelming. Working with her is really, really fun and incredibly rewarding.

I hired Sariah as a business coach. She is an excellent business coach and SO MUCH MORE. I feel safe coming to her with any issue that is going on in my life. She is amazing at helping me stay grounded and positive. I feel so good about myself every time I come out of her office. She is the perfect intersection of deep spirituality, and absolute pragmatism. I feel quite cared for by her, and it helps to have an ally as I forge ahead with a new business. I feel like whatever I walk into the office with, she has been totally equipped to approach it, from both practical and emotional angles. Working with Sariah is definitely money well spent! Also, I recommend getting a package if you can. Knowing that I have 12 sessions total, really makes me feel like we have time to work on all of the road blocks, so that I will be able to focus on the logistics of the business.

Review Update:
Sariah is STILL amazing! Consistently insightful with the perfect combination of firmness and gentleness to keep me on point. Her fluid style which combines yoga, life coaching, and breath work sessions continue to provide me with the guidance I need to deal with my anxiety and work /​personal life situations. I can’t recommend her highly enough, and I sing my praises of her to anyone that will listen.
Sariah recently started coaching a friend of mine as well who is dealing with some serious trauma, and I would like to share the text that she sent me just a few minutes ago, as I think it sums up my thoughts on Sariah better than anything I can put into words on my own:
«Sariah helped me kick some metaphysical ass today!»
Thank you Sariah!!!

Sariah is the bomb!
She is a powerful, alive, awake coach, healer, and female leader.
I have grown greatly from her presence, listening, and the energy she unleashed in my body through her Kundalini Yoga sessions with me. I highly reccommend working with her. She demands integrity, and will help you get rapid, transformative results in your life.

A session with Sariah is not therapy.
It is not counseling.
Or life coaching, or a yoga class, or guided meditation, or a workout.
What she offers fits in none of these boxes, yet she is expertly trained across all these disciplines. Sariah draws on her depth of knowledge and experience to create a customized program for each client, meeting you where you are. I’ve been working with her in various capacities since 2013, and her insights, observations, and suggestions have been instrumental in helping me live a healthier and more enjoyable life.
What will you get out of your sessions with Sariah? Like most things, it really depends on what you put into it. But if you are committed to transforming your life for the better — whatever that means to you — Sariah can help you get there in ways you might never have expected.
I recommend Sariah wholeheartedly to anyone who wants to make positive changes in life.

I started life coaching sessions with Sariah a few months ago and I have to say she has really broadened my awareness and helped me to create some real change in my life. Sariah has provided me with realistic and downright energizing tools for my growth as a professional and as a person … and she does it in a language that you will understand, no matter your philosophy, religion or life experience. Her breadth of knowledge in Kundalini yoga, meditation, fitness and coaching and her sense of humor about life make her sessions something that I look forward to each time. Every session provides for an «AH HA!» moment. Sariah will empower you to take action in your life. You will radiate light and vibrate happiness. I don’t know what I would do without her. She’s an asset to my team now.
Sariah will take the time to understand you and what you want from her sessions. She’s kind, compassionate, funny and humble. Sariah is the real deal and I am just so happy that I made this connection.

I’ve been doing life coaching sessions with Sariah for the past few months, and I have to say that the experience of working with her has promoted radical positive changes in my life, so much so that I wanted to share my experience and encourage others to work with her as well!
Working with Sariah has helped me make HUGE gains in my overall life satisfaction, career, finances, and marriage. When we first started, I was a freelance designer struggling to find the balance between work, life and money, wanting to feel both creatively fulfilled and financially free, but feeling mostly stressed and unsatisified. Through working with her, I was able to become really clear about my true needs, and position myself for a career change. Now, in my new job, I feel set up financially and challenged in new and exciting ways. For the first time in my life, I’m actually excited about my job and the life it’s helping me create.
Working with Sariah has also helped me become closer with my husband and find harmony, balance and emotional fulfillment in our relationship. We’ve been able to release negative patterns that were causing emotional strain and threatening our relationship, and in many ways, it feels like we’ve inherited a whole new relationship. I feel so much more at peace, and am enjoying a marriage that is far more loving, supportive, healthy and happy.
I believe that no matter what you’d like to change about your life, working with Sariah in the healthy, positive environment she provides, you’ll be empowered to make real and lasting changes to your life, even ones you never thought were possible. If you’re serious about living the life you want, you should definitely give it a go! I think you’ll be amazed!

Sariah has been my yoga teacher since 2005 and my life coach for 3 months. I have grown personally and professionally through the dynamic coaching sessions with her. Counseling and traditional therapy has not resonated with me in the past. Although I have met with a few counselors, I always felt a disconnect from them and the service and would discontinue my care after a few visits. Sariah is different because she embodies healing energy and takes a different approach from other coaches/​counselors. She is present, positive and asks great questions to help me find the answers that I am looking for.
Sariah has an incredible ability to connect and hold a healing space for people. I have grown in her yoga classes and it has helped me become a more aware individual. I am blown away by her ability to tap into group consciousness and share meaningful and powerful reflections. Sariah is an authentic healer. When I leave her class, I observe a heightened awareness and clarity. I love that she finds every opportunity to stay light and to laugh, which is so important for the healing of the individual. She is an Oakland «Gem»!

I have been working with Sariah for several years now. Initially she worked with me as a personal yoga instructor, a practice with opened me up to understanding and caring for my body in a way I hadn’t done before. Without the personal one-​on-​one attention and warm support I would not have been able to do that. More recently, I have also worked with her has a life coach and fitness advisor, as we continue with the yoga practice. Here again, her personal touch has helped me to start on an ambitious fitness program that I am excited about. All of the different aspects of our work have been interwoven together into a whole, with the yoga (and a focus on breath) as the overarching framework. I strongly recommend working with her whether your goals are health, fitness, or general wellbeing, especially if like me you do best in a one-​on-​one setting!
Oh, and I did I mention she loves cats :)