Sandi Higgins

Yoga Teacher & Storyteller

Sandi Higgins is an international Ashtanga yoga teacher and multilingual storyteller who blends her love of yoga and her love of the creative arts. Born in the Northeast USA and trained in South India, with a background in European theater and film, she brings a vibrant East–West balance to her classes, workshops, and retreats. Sandi invites her students to transform their lives through the power of yoga and story.

Join Sandi for private classes, workshops and yoga retreats, readings from her poetry book, embodied writing circles, and for filmmaking.

My Journey In Brief

like a River

I grew up between two households, two classes, two versions of the American dream.

My mom and dad divorced when I was a toddler and my single mother raised me with hard work and frugality in a suburban middle-class home on her own. Meanwhile, my father and stepmother would take me and my siblings on weekends to their lavish city, country, and beach houses, and on vacations around the world, in relative luxury and the glamour of celebrity.

Moving between these realms taught me to become a chameleon in different surroundings, a listener, a translator, a dancer between worlds. That early choreography between contrasting realities became a lifelong journey, a dance I’m still learning to honor.

The Call of Story

From high school through university, I was drawn to the performing arts, especially writing, theater, and filmmaking. I chased light, sound, and story across languages and cultures. I studied Film and French at NYU TISCH School of the Arts and made my way from the USA to Europe. I worked on organic farms in the North and South of France. In Paris, I published my first poetry book and interned at an international co-production office that was producing indie films with American icon Oliver Stone. Then I resumed studies in Italy, trained in Commedia dell’Arte, and eventually came back to NY where I finished my university degree, performed in experimental theater, and worked with Hollywood legend Sydney Pollack on his last blockbuster feature film, The Interpreter.

Amidst the thrill of creative work, my life unravelled.

The Pause and the Pulse

Trauma pressed a total pause on my performative ambitions. The camera stopped rolling. My pen went quiet. I lost my creative voice; not all at once, but gradually, the way the sun sets before night fall. My twenties and thirties became a quiet revolution. I grappled with post-traumatic stress, toxic relationships, grief and loss.

In the dark, I found the real blessings of yoga. I discovered its mind-body alchemy. Yoga was not a quick fix but a daily tunneling through turmoil. Mysore Ashtanga, Buddhist Meditation, Kirtan, Aquatics, Dance, these holistic practices revealed to me that there is light at the end of the tunnel and all along the way. I became a yoga teacher. I reconnected with my creativity; not all at once, but gradually, the way the sun rises at dawn.

Yoga didn’t give me my old self back. It helped me let go of what wasn’t mine, like a snake shedding skin. I learned to sit with silence. To sit in the dark and the light. To befriend this body-mind-spirit.

I found a deeper listening and a steadier pulse.

Current Rhythm

Today, my work is weaving wisdom and compassion together with creative voice and vision. I teach Mysore Ashtanga Yoga, Aquatics, and Meditation. I write poetry, play in improv, and make movies. I host gatherings, tend gardens, and guide others across healing thresholds.

Between India and the USA, I live in the confluence of cultural dialogues from urban, coastal, and rural living. I honor tradition and innovation, solitude and community, in devotion to truth, beauty, and becoming/being whole.

In a world bent on commodifying culture, fracturing the climate, and keeping us disconnected from the rhythms of Nature and community, I believe our sacred task is this: to connect deeply with the Earth and each other, express creatively, and let the wild intelligence of the outdoors breathe through us in all her languages, colors, rhythms, and forms.

Every offering I share is an invitation to listen inwardly, find your truth, trust your heart, and come home to the story that only you can tell.