About Sará King
Dr. Sará King is a passionate advocate for yoga and mindfulness as healing practices for youth and marginalized communities. She wears many hats as a mother, yogi, meditation teacher, political scientist, and an educator who works with anthropologists and neuroscientists to explore the transformative relationship between story-telling, embodiment and cultural identity.
Her dissertation was the first at UCLA to examine a yoga and mindfulness meditation intervention from a social justice-based point of view. This book of research critically examined the counter-narratives of urban youth of color as they explored the use of yoga, meditation and pranayama through a school-based intervention in ways that impacted their relationships, emotional resilience, and well-being.
She most recently completed a year long teacher training in the Insight Buddhist tradition through Spirit Rock in Marin, CA and continues to developed mindfulness-based curricula grounded in neuroscience and art therapy research for elementary schools, university classrooms, and organizations when she isn't spending time frolicking at the beach with her family.
