Sandra Boysen Sluberski is an E-RYT-500 through Yoga Alliance, as well as a YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider), teaching at both the Online Yoga School through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center, and through her own business, SBS Yogaworx (www.sbsyogaworx.com). She's certified as a Level 1 Kundalini Instructor through KRI, through study with Yogi Mehtab. Introduced to yoga in 2010, she began daily practice in 2016 and completed her 200- and 300-hour teacher training in 2021 through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center under the guidance of Steph Ball-Mitchell, earning additional certification in Yin, Restorative and Chair Yoga, as well as in Ayurveda studies. She develops themed yoga workshops, with many available online through OYS, and well as over 250 Yoga Mythology 1-hour sessions, all available on the OYS Virtual Studio site (https://courses.onlineyoga.school). She’s also the creator/lead trainer of OYS’s YACEP, Taking Myths to the Mat: Integrating Yoga Mythology into Your Asana Training, released in August 2022. The companion book, with the same name as the course, is available in paperback on Amazon.com, as an eBook on Amazon Kindle, and as an audio book on Audible.com.
She's affiliated with a local yoga collective: YogaLove of Honeoye Falls, NY, where she leads weekly in-person classes in Chair Yoga (incorporating stick yoga), Kundalini yoga and offers a variety of yoga and Ayurvedic workshops.
Sandra is also a Kirtan leader; she studied with Mike Cohen with the Kirtan Leader Institute in Boulder, CO. She records monthly 1-hour Kirtan satsang/sessions, teaching mantras and bhajans (meditative devotional chants), using harmonium, singing bowls, chimes, Native American wooden flute, and both cajon and udu percussion.
She’s also a Brand Ambassador for The Ohm Store (www.theohmstore.co), a fair-trade global supplier of singing bowls. In addition, she's charter faculty for The Ohm Store's Sound School, guiding students through their certification to become Sound Practitioners in leading sound baths, utilizing singing bowls, gongs, chanting and other instruments in order to achieve deeper levels of relaxation and meditation. Contact her for a TOS code to get 10% off of any purchase of a singing bowl you want from them!
She leads live, in-person monthly Kirtan sessions at Mythic Treasures in Henrietta, NY, on the 2nd Friday of each month at 4pm EST, and leads Sound Baths there during the months of July and August.
She also presents Sound Bath experiences for groups and individuals in the upstate NY region, incorporating gong, both metal and quartz crystal singing bowls, tanpura, monochord, ukelele, chimes, Native American wooden flute, cajon/udu percussion, and mantras. These are deeply relaxing and self-healing sessions.
She holds D.M. and M.M. degrees in voice performance from Florida State University’s College of Music, and recently stepped down from 25 years on the voice faculty at The Hochstein School, which honored her with the Faculty Service Award in 2013 and the Faculty Excellence Grant in 2019. She provides voiceover talent for commercial and media venues through SBS Vocalworx (www.sbsvocalworx.com) and West Rush Media LLC (www.davesluberski.com), and is listed for booking on Backstage (https://www.backstage.com/u/sandra-sluberski/). Her audiobook narration is on Audible.com (Taking Myths to the Mat by Sandra Sluberski, and Stories of Food and Life by Mariuccia Milla). She was heard in a 30-second live-action & animation Coca-Cola spot in AMC Theaters throughout the USA and Canada in Fall 2024.
She’s married to Dave Sluberski, professor of audio recording for film/animation/gaming at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Film & Animation/MAGIC Spell Studios, and broadcast audio recording engineer for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. When not on the mat or behind a mic, Sandra enjoys her pet Silkie hens, bringing them to libraries and schools to teach adults and children how chickens can be pets, and she works on cars in the garage with Dave, who enjoys being married to a yogini.