She didn't start this work
because she had the answers.
She started because she needed them.
Shadow worker, retreat leader, writer, and yoga teacher. A decade of work. Thirty retreats. The work has always been the same.
What she does
Most people arrive having already done the work, the therapy, the journaling, the self-help books. They understand themselves. They just keep ending up in the same patterns.
Understanding is not the same as integration. Sanaa's work is about the space between the two.
This is not about becoming someone new. It is about finally meeting all of who you already are.
Through retreats, shadow work, somatic practice, and writing, she creates spaces where people can do the slower, more honest work of understanding themselves, their patterns, their defenses, the places where they have been managing instead of feeling.
Where she came from
She was born and raised in Kuwait and moved to the United States at seventeen. Math was her first language — the one thing that felt certain when everything else didn't. Structure was how she survived.
She earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering Sciences, an Executive MBA, and a B.S. in Mathematics. She built a life that looked, from the outside, like someone who had figured it out.
She was managing. She was not yet understanding.
Yoga found her in 2013 and became the first place she could slow down long enough to feel what she had been carrying. That experience, and everything she had to face in it, is what eventually became the retreats, the shadow work, and the writing.
She didn't start this work because she had the answers. She started because she needed them.
How She Works
This is not about big emotional moments or quick breakthroughs. It is about the slower, more honest work of understanding yourself: your patterns, your defenses, the places where you have been managing instead of feeling.
- Understanding the emotional and relational patterns that keep showing up
- Staying present with discomfort instead of moving past it too quickly
- Integrating insight into how you actually live, not just how you think
- Moving at a pace that creates lasting change, not temporary relief
She does not position herself as a healer or a fixer. She creates the conditions for people to find their own clarity.
Her teaching style is steady, relational, and grounded in the belief that the work of knowing yourself is the most important work there is.
Teaching, Training & Community Work
Sanaa completed her first yoga teacher training in 2014. By 2015 she had launched #DorkTour — a nationwide workshop series built on a simple premise: that yoga and emotional awareness should be accessible to people who had never felt seen in traditional wellness spaces.
Over the past decade she has trained teachers, developed curricula, and facilitated learning spaces across the United States and internationally — including Peru, Morocco, Indonesia, South Africa, Costa Rica, Kuwait, and beyond. Thirty retreats. Five countries. Over a thousand people.
She traveled city to city, teaching in gyms, community centers, and living rooms, long before retreat culture became what it is today.
She is the founder of Tru3 Yoga, an educational yoga platform rooted in accessibility, nervous system awareness, and the belief that yoga is not about what your body looks like in a pose, it is about what happens inside you when you practice honestly.
Business & Consulting
In addition to her teaching and retreat work, Sanaa works with founders, educators, and wellness facilitators who are building something meaningful and want to build it in a way that holds.
She knows this not because she read about it but because she lived it.
The problem she sees most often: people with a genuine vision and no clear structure around it. Overextended, undercharging, building offerings that work for a season but can't be sustained. Drawing on her background as a researcher, educator, and six-figure business owner, she works with clients on:
- Program and curriculum design
- Retreat and training structure
- Offer clarity, scope, and sequencing
- Sustainable business and systems thinking
The emphasis is not on scaling quickly. It is on building things that can actually be held over time without burning out the person responsible for delivering them.
