Your Teachers

Sarah Herrington(OM SCHOOLED FOUNDER)

Sarah Herrington, MFA, ERYT, RCYT, YACEP, is the lead facilitator of OM Schooled and serves as the 95-hour mentor.

Sarah is a leader in youth yoga education, poet and author. Her own personal practice, a combination of Vinyasa yoga, Buddhist meditation, and writing began in her teens.  In 2007, she began teaching 25 classes a week to grades K-5 in inner city settings, going on to develop after-school programs, studio classes, and OM Schooled.

Sarah has over 500 hours of yoga teacher training under her belt with Yoga to the People, Laughing Lotus, Yoga Collective Venice, Karma Kids Yoga, Little Flower Yoga, YogaEd, the Art of Yoga Project, Mini Yogis and coursework and study with Dharma Mittra (and, of course, learning from the kids themselves). She holds MFAs in Creative Writing from New York University where she was a Goldwater Fellow and Lesley University. She holds a BA in English/ Writing from New York University.

Sarah worked to grow the first Master of Arts in Yoga Studies program in North America at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and continues to teach in the university’s Yoga, Mindfulness and Social Change certificate program. She is the author of four books on yoga, and her writing has appeared in the NYTimes, LATimes, Yoga Journal, and other spots. You can view her writing site here.

NYTimes: Child's Pose

NYTimes: Yoga Teachers Need a Code of Ethics

CNN: Is Yoga Too Religious For Schools? (interview)

KQED: #MeToo Unmasks the Open Secret of Sexual Abuse in Yoga (interview)

Florence Cross, RYT (TEEN YOGA TEACHER TRAINER)

Florence Cross, is the U.K.’s youngest yoga teacher

At 18, Flo leads in-person and online yoga classes, workshops and is a guest teacher in teacher trainings (and has been teaching since her early teens). She is a guest teacher in the OM Schooled Teen Yoga Teacher Training and she’s consistently a favorite part of everyone’s training!

From Flo:

As soon as I started practicing yoga, I knew it was something I wanted to share, I needed to share. Yoga has touched and improved every part of my life; it’s helped me develop and strengthen my relationship with my body, it’s given me more confidence and self-belief, it’s helped me to recognise the importance of rest and time alone, it’s given me tools to deal with stress and anxiousness, and it has answered a longing in my heart to connect. I knew I wanted to share yoga very soon after I first fell in love with it, so I trained to be a yoga teacher when I was 15 years old. As a teenager myself,  I am able to use my personal experiences to tailor my teaching to help other young people and am still at school so can sympathise and help with their struggles. I’ve now been teaching for two years and I love it more and more every time I step into the classroom (or onto the screen!).

Amy Osbourne, M.A., RYT (TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TEACHER TRAINER)

is a Yoga/mindfulness educator and an entrepreneur. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University’s Master of Arts in Yoga Studies, she has owned an operated a successful wellness center in SW Florida, developed ongoing programs and taught regular asana and meditation at a women’s county jail in Lynwood, CA, and Venice Family Clinic in Culver City, CA and seved as Program Associate for LMU’s Graduate Yoga Studies and Yoga Therapy programs in Los Angeles. Her thesis on The Science and Practice of Trauma Informed Mindfulness is informed by full time study, trainings and field work in Yoga and applied mindfulness. She leads trauma-informed yoga teacher trainings and is the founder of the In Yoga Collective.

Sarah Henderson, E-RYT (DISABILITIES AND DIFFERENCES YOGA TEACHER TRAINER)

Sarah Henderson serves as co-teacher and lead content creator for the Disabilities and Differences in the Yoga Classroom teacher Training. She began her professional life in disabilities services for kids and families, including Early Intervention programs and by pioneering integrative preschool experiences for kids with and without disabilities In 2010, she made what she thought was a career switch and became a yoga teacher. But soon she found herself in training to become a Kids Yoga teacher, then an adaptive and accessible yoga teacher.