Sarah Dittmore

I grew up in a secular family and it wasn’t until leaving my hometown that I found my way to spirituality. It started with yoga and Ayurvedic medicine. Between high school and college I went to Kerala India to apprentice with a local Ayurvedic practitioner. My homestay father in Kerala was a yogi in the local community and through the two of them, a new door was opened. I returned to the United States and began a create-your-own major program at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study where I used the relative freedom to study what I wished to deepen my study into the history of yoga, body healing, and various movement modalities. In 2014, I completed my 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Garden SF. From there, I went on to teach yoga in the East Bay, NYC, and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2019 I began my 300-Hour Teacher Training with Will Duprey of HathaVidya Yoga. It was during this time that I grew aware of a lack in my spirituality: authentic alignment with my ancestral lineage. Through 2020-2022, I dealt with the effects of long Covid and a heart condition caused by the virus. I spent this time diving deep into my study of witchcraft, folk magic, and my own ancestral traditions. While I had dabbled in divination and witchcraft since 2016, it was during this time that I sought to decolonize my spirituality and move beyond the New Age concepts I’d flittered between, sinking instead into the wisdom of my ancestors and the traditions of my own lineage. While my magical workings are deeply intuitive and self-taught, my work with incredible folk magicians like Liz Migliorelli and Kaitlyn Graña has helped me expand my knowledge and strengthen these intuitive talents. Today, the work I offer is rooted in the folk tradtions of my Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, and Nordic ancestors and informed by the incredible teachers I’ve had the honor to learn from for over a decade. This includes: Kaitlyn Graña, Mother of Mystics: Espiritismo, Tarot & Mediumship Study, 2021-2024 Liz, Sister Spinster: European Folk Magic Study, 2023-2024 Will Duprey, Hathavidya Yoga: RYT-500 Training, 2019-2020 Lisa Benner, Elder Sisters Apothecary: Mantra Study, 2019 Julie Pate, YogaKids: Children’s Yoga Teacher Traning, 2018 Patrick Beach, Tribe Yoga, Edinburgh: Adjustments as Yoga Instructors, 2017 Robin Powell: Reiki Level 1 Training, 2015 Patton Burchett, NYU: The History of Yoga and Tantra, 2014 Robin Powell, NYU: Integrating Mind and Body, 2014 Judy Weaver, Sonic Yoga: Yoga for Veterans, 2014 Reba Gray, Folk Yoga School (formerly Yoga Garden SF): RYT-200 Training, 2014 Jon Isaacs, Folk Yoga School (formerly Yoga Garden SF): RYT-200 Training, 2014 Laurie Sleep , Folk Yoga School (formerly Yoga Garden SF): RYT-200 Training, 2014 Jean Mazzei, Folk Yoga School (formerly Yoga Garden SF): RYT-200 Training, 2014 Sree Kumar: Live-In Yoga Study, Kerala, India, 2012 Ranjit Gabriel: Ayurvedic Apprenticeship, Kerala, India, 2012