SARASVATI HEWITT, she/her

Sarasvati began dancing at the age of 3 and played all types of sports growing up. At the age of 16, she took Vocational Medical Science and begin studying college level anatomy and physiology. She took her first yoga class at age 19 and studied with Ki McGraw and Bob Smith at the Hatha Yoga Center in Seattle Washington.

After having 2 children and co-owning a busy Portland studio, her stress drew her toward neurobiology. She studied Interpersonal Neurobiology at Portland State University and also studied the neuroscience of yoga and trauma at Kripalu with Harvard Psychologist, Dr. Jim Hopper. Sarasvati has been teaching yoga for 17 years and specializes in Yin Yoga and the neurobiology of sleep. She helps people with anxiety, depression, PTSD, insomnia, eating disorder recovery, Trauma, addiction and more.