Sabine came to San Francisco from Germany in the early 1980s to study with Anna Halprin and at the San Francisco Dancers’ workshop. A friend introduced her to Iyengar Yoga shortly after her arrival. Having been plagued for much of her life with tremendous stiffness in her spine and structural imbalances due to a shorter leg, she recognized at once, that Iyengar Yoga would give her the means to improve her condition.
After graduating from the comprehensive two-year Advanced Study Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in SF, she became certified by the National Iyengar Yoga Association in 1995. Since 1991 she has made yearly pilgrimages to Pune, India to study with BKS Iyengar and his daughter Geetaji Iyengar, whom she considers her primary teacher. For the last few years during her stays in Pune, she has furthered her studies in Ayurveda and has assisted in the medical classes offered at the Iyengar Yoga Institute for people suffering from a wide range of complaints and diseases; she graduated from the California College of Ayurveda in 2003. Sabine is co-founder of the Namaste Yoga Studio, one of San Francisco's first yoga studios, which flourished from 1993-2002.
Sabine with BKS Iyengar
Sabine is deeply committed to both teaching and practicing yoga, because she has observed the profound transformation that yoga has brought to her own life and body, as well as her students. Sabine is known for her highly personalized style of yoga instruction, assisting each and every one of her students on their individual yoga journey. Her highly developed ability to see and adjust students in their asana practice is also derived from her 20 year practice as a therapeutic bodyworker. In addition, her strong sense of humor and her light heartedness mixed with her sometimes very funny use of the English language make her classes a lot of fun as well as therapeutic.