Foundation

SARA Foundation Netherlands (Stichting SARA Nederland) was founded in 2007 by Josette van Leeuwen. She is a Hatha yoga instructor, a mindfulness trainer, stress counselor and cancer survivor. She owns a yoga practice in Amsterdam:

”Yoga has been my emotional and spiritual guide and companion for at least 25 years now. After I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, yoga and meditation techniques became invaluable coping tools. Over time I adjusted my regular yoga program to the needs of cancer patients and cancer survivors and called it ‘Healing yoga’. This program evolved into the H-Yoga program I teach today.

It gives me such  pleasure and satisfaction to share my knowledge and experience with fellow cancer sufferers and colleagues. It has become my mission to encourage yoga during and after cancer (treatments).”

Why call the foundation SARA?

The word ‘SARA’ derives from the Sanskrit language. ‘SARA’ means universal, essence, true substance, connecting everything and everyone, body and mind.