Meet Sarah Tacy

Your Guide to Nervous System Healing and Embodied Transformation

Sarah Tacy Tangredi is a devoted mother, wife, and friend who brings her evolving wisdom and compassion to all aspects of life.

Professionally, she is an accomplished mind/body trainer of former Olympians, professional athletes, executives, and entrepreneurs.

She has a masterful understanding of the way the body functions, and how its function impacts emotions and quality living.  Through nervous system support, attuned listening, and somatic exploration, her work creates new possibilities for her clients lives, their work, their bodies and beyond.  

Sarah has helped people with debilitating injuries, chronic pain, anxiety, as well as walking people through their own personal dark night of the soul.  She has taught other teachers multidimensional techniques in various local and international yoga teacher trainings since 2010. She has hosted a handful of thought leaders in Maine for Leverage Events, and is now the host of Threshold Moments podcast, a podcast about the journey to truer versions of ourselves, and helpful tools to get us there. 

Sarah is an evolving mother, wife, and friend. She believes that the body is always speaking to us, and if we can create space and support on as many dimensions as possible, repair and transformation will unfold.

my story

From Athlete to Healer

Growing up as an athlete, my body was for performance. Injuries, fatigue and sickness were things that got in the way.

At age 18, injuries that were once an inconvenience became a debilitating crisis when my back pain became so acute it rendered me immobile and threatened everything I identified with.

Finding a way out of pain became a full-time job and my initiation into mind-body healing. It was my first journey into the depths of depression. And I couldn’t help but notice the way pain drains energy, affects emotions, and changes perspective.

My body went from being a performer to my most credible guide with loads of feedback.  A no BS GPS.

I was twenty one the day I attempted to help my father out of excruciating and debilitating back pain.

He had already had his third back surgery, but despite his best efforts, the pain would not go away.

At that time, I had been studying and practicing yoga, so I offered to bring him through some poses. We moved, which was a gift, but his pain remained.

Then, without knowing why, I placed my thumb on his lower back. I felt a sensation shoot up my thumb like an electric shock. When I removed my hand he asked, “What did you just do?”

“Nothing?” I responded. He replied, “My pain is completely gone.”

This marked the beginning of spontaneous healings.

I mostly kept it a secret because I barely believed it myself. I had no idea how to control what was happening, and if I’m being honest, I didn’t want to be “weird.”

So, I whispered to a desperate few, “This may sound strange. I can’t promise anything. Do you want to try this?”

The majority of the time the pain would resolve and full range of motion returned.
On December 28th, 2008, this mysterious version of spontaneous healing stopped.

I was 26.

What I take with me is the knowing that there is an intelligent energy that runs through us, and I try to attune myself to this wisdom whenever I can. 

Intro to Science and Philosophy

During my chronic pain years, I was a psychology major and world religion minor, proposing a method for athletes that wove in western psychology with eastern methodology, to help teens with performance anxiety.

After graduating I earned my 500hr yoga teacher certificate.  Simultaneously I held a role as Director of Research and Development at an athletic performance center, working 80hrs a week and studying the up-regulation of the nervous system patterns and habit formation.

Psychology, anatomy, and physiology all gave me a sense of predictability and normalcy. Science was a language I understood, and people trusted.

From 2008 to 2019 I carried a full roster of private clients — from Olympians and CEOs navigating the financial crash to people who had been told their pain or conditions couldn’t improve. I believed deeply that with science, curiosity, and deep listening, change was possible. And again and again, I witnessed remarkable progress.

During this time, I also taught 100-hour multidimensional, multidisciplinary yoga teacher trainings, therapeutic trainings that honored both science and soul, and built the career of my dreams — helping people in a way that recognized the wholeness of who they are.

And when I finally arrived at exactly where I thought I wanted to be, I realized it was also time to let go, to move forward into what was next.

Motherhood, Relational and Generational Healing

In June 2015, I turned 33. I left New York and settled in Maine. A few weeks after landing in this new place, I had my first daughter.

Motherhood catapulted me into a seismic shift I could never have prepared for.

Intuitively I prioritized community. We held one another through the pain, grief, depletion, reclamation and ultimately the love. I learned that true healing, sustainable healing, happens in the presence of others.

Here, I began to access generations of wisdom and opportunities for repair.

I can do much of this work for myself, but my growing edge is to be accompanied in my healing. I receive somatic nervous system support in order to slow down to a rhythm in which my body and mind can sync up, and wisdom can come through.

Transformation is never rushed, and the unique way my body asks for repair is never shamed.

Tiny steps are taken to move from freeze, to mobility and choice. I gain awareness of resources, seen and unseen, and access to my voice to make vulnerable requests toward my own liberation.

Current Time Integration and Offering

This is the clearest and most aligned I have ever felt in my life. I am deeply excited about my current programs, Opting Out of Urgency and my 12-week course, Resourced.

I’ve come to recognize how my presence itself can create a sense of safety for those I steward. And I’ve seen how safety makes it possible for wisdom to rise, revealing truths that have been waiting to be known. I draw on years of study, along with the flow of intelligent energy, as guideposts to walk with others toward deep and lasting transformation.

For all of this, and for the path that continues to unfold, I am profoundly grateful.