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. Thirteen years. Thirty retreats. Five countries. The work has always been the same.
Dr. Sanaa Jaman
She didn't start this work because she had the answers. She started it because she needed them.
Dr. Sanaa Jaman is a shadow worker, retreat leader, writer, and yoga teacher whose work sits at the intersection of self-knowledge, embodied practice, and what it actually takes to change. Not the Instagram version of change — the kind that happens slowly, in the unglamorous in-between, when someone finally stops running from the thing they've been carrying.
For over thirteen years, she has created spaces where people can do that work. Not as a performance of healing. As the real thing.
Retreats, containers, writing, programs — all of it built around one question: what becomes possible when you finally stop avoiding yourself?
Her Path
Sanaa was born and raised in Kuwait, where she spent her first seventeen years before moving to the United States. Math was her first language — the one thing that felt certain when everything else didn't. She used it to survive, to prove herself, to stay ahead of feelings she didn't yet have words for.
She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, then a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida, then an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. On paper, she had everything together.
Underneath it, she was carrying things she hadn't looked at.
Her yoga practice began in 2013 — not as fitness, but as the first place she found it possible to slow down. To stay. To notice what was happening inside her body when she stopped moving long enough to feel it. Over time, yoga became the framework through which she learned to integrate what she had survived and eventually, the foundation of the work she offers now.
How She Works
Sanaa's approach 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've 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.
