My Soul's Purpose is Helping You Harness Yours
As you move through life, your body is always trying to tell you something. At SoulFly Therapy, Sarah Bustamante believes that when you learn to listen to your body’s wisdom, what once felt like symptoms — anxiety, tension, stress, or disconnection — can become the doorway to deep transformation and meaningful life change.
Sarah supports individuals navigating trauma, reproductive transitions like infertility or pregnancy, chronic health challenges, and even the experience of dying. Her work invites clients to move beyond thinking and into whole‑body knowing — shifting from “What’s wrong?” to “What is my body trying to tell me?”
Degrees and Certifications
Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Practitioner
650-hrs
2014
Program consisting of 650 hours of Assisted Asana Technique, Therapeutic Dialog, Body/Mind Integrative Techniques, Applied Anatomy, Ethics, Establishing Practitioner-Client Relationship, Literature Review and Reports, Yoga Therapy Related Medical Research Review, Self, Peer, and Supervisor Assessments, and 48-Session Supervised Practicum
Phoenix Rising
Therapeutic Yoga Teacher
500-hrs
2015
Program includes: The Power of Embodied Awareness and Presence; Integrating the Phoenix Rising Process into Daily Life Application through Yoga Experiences,; Crafting Classes Workshops and Experiences from Intention, Embodied Presence, and Thematic Language; Assessing the Subtle Body's Innate Wisdom with Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation and How to Guide a Theme ased yYoga Class for a Specific Population
Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Group Facilitator
370-hrs
2016
Program includes: Graduate Training in Teaching and Group Facilitation Skills, Leading Yoga and Meditation Experiences for Groups with Specific and Non-Specific Stress-Related Disorders, Corporate Stress Reduction Programs, Educational Programs, Anatomy, Philosophy, Ethics and Lifestyle, Group Integration Processes, Program Directing and Planning, Program Marketing, and Program Delivery
Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Practitioner for Couples
2017
Online Live Webinar Series with Mentored Practicum. 5 webinars over 3 months. Webinar courses conducted in real time with live faculty-student interaction with the objective of facilitating people in committed relationships to experience deeper connection, greater awareness and understanding, more intimacy and meaningful communication using partner yoga and two way embodied dialogue as well as to develop a repertoire of partner yoga experiences to lead.
Stillbirthday
Birth and Bereavement Doula
2018
Eight modules held on a private student database, 8 comprehensive study modules with corresponding exams, 2 book reviews and a Community Project on supporting birth in any trimester, and in any outcome, unconventional loss, which may include adoption or surrogacy, NICU care, "Rainbow" subsequent live birth with no connection in any way to bereavement, newborn nutrition and lactation, and more.
Bachelor of Arts
in Psychology
2009
124 Credit Hours to understand and apply current psychological terminology and reference related studies, understanding the role of the individual in society and the effects of social interactions on individual behavior, compute descriptive, inferential, parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques for psychological research and demonstrate results with effective writing and communication skills, understand the social, emotional, physical and cognitive aspects of human development throughout the lifespan, understanding how sensation, perception and action influence relationship to the world, utilize advanced statistical packages for social sciences to analyze experimental effects, understanding the brain-behavior relationship, understanding motivation and emotion processes and their application to daily life and research, understanding modern methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of major neuroses and psychoses, understanding major principles of learning and their applicability to major areas of psychology, and understanding the historical framework of systems of psychology by demonstrating effective research and written language skills.
Note: The yoga therapy components of Sarah's practice are based on her Certification by PRYT and IAYT and not derived from her status as an RYT® with Yoga Alliance Registry.