SARAH RASBY

Global Family Health, Well-being & Caregiving Scholar

Yoga, Mindfulness & Meditation Practitioner

Family Caregiving Consultant & Disability Rights Advocate

Welcome! My name is Sarah Rasby and I am a PhD Scholar in the field of Family Science focusing on the Global Family Health, Well-being and Caregiving. I am also a Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation practitioner. My work is to help people- mostly family caregivers- to explore their life experiences through action-based research and supportive practices. I rely on my extensive experience as a graduate scholar and wellbeing practitioner to shift the patterns of stress & trauma-based experiences for family caregivers and community members in general. Additionally, I teach bodywork in the form of yoga that directly impacts wellbeing, presence and vitality. I look forward to working with you.

My Path.

YOGA

My former training comes from 20 years of practicing yoga and mindfulness and my professional background in family science & sociology. I completed my masters degree in Sociology in 2013, and will be graduating with PhD in Global Family Health & Wellbeing in 2025 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In 2010, I completed my 200-hr yoga teacher training and began teaching regular vinyasa, restorative and yin classes for 14 years. After having two children and losing my immediate family members to death and illness, my body and soul needed a dramatic shift. I started moving away from the modern yoga industry and more into the spaces of trauma-recovery and body awareness. I now implement what I have learned from yoga over the years and continue to deepen my knowledge and practice as it is ever-evolving.

FAMILY CAREGIVING

In 2018 my twin sister, Erin Lewis, endured a medical emergency from sudden cardiac arrest. She survived but was left to live with a severe anoxic brain injury. This experience was traumatic, devastating and incomprehensible. I remember thinking at the moment after I was told Erin’s my a nurse heart had stopped and she was barely alive after being revived that this was the type of experience that I would never recover from; this was the major turning point where life would never again be the same or joyful. For the 3.5 years that Erin was alive after that, living with a severe disability, I did everything in my physical, emotional and spiritual power to ensure her care needs were met. It was a tumultuous experience, but one that was full of unconditional love, hard lessons, hope, and surrender. I am a forever caregiver at heart and have found one of my purposes in this life is to advocate for quality care for everyone.

I believe that when we allow our experiences to transform into wisdom, beautiful things can happen in life. We are de-conditioned to believe that our scars and traumas are something to be fixed, repressed, and/or hidden due to social stigmatism and perfection culture. But when we find environments that nuture the wisdom of our scars and traumas, we are able to shift into a transformative state of body and mind. We ALL have this ability when we wake up to our personal truths, unbound by limitation and social conditioning, and to find ourselves thriving in our humanness.

More EQUALITY. More HOPE. More HUMANITY.

More PRIDE.

More ACCEPTANCE. More LOVE.