Sandra is a Registered Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider (E-RYT 200, RYT500, YACEP) through Yoga Alliance, teaching at both the Online Yoga School through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center, and at The Hochstein School in Rochester, NY, in addition to her own business at SBS Yogaworx (www.sbsyogaworx.com). Introduced to yoga in 2010, she began daily practice in 2016 and completed teacher training in 2021 through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center under the guidance of Steph Bal-Mitchell, earning additional certification in Yin, Restorative and Chair Yoga, as well as in Ayurveda studies. She develops themed yoga workshops, with currently over a dozen available, as well as over 60 Yoga Mythology 1-hour sessions, all available on the OYS Virtual Studio site (https://courses.onlineyoga.school). She’s also the creator and lead trainer of OYS’s newest YACEP, Taking Myths to the Mat: Integrating Yoga Mythology into Your Asana Training, a 25-hour continuing education program released in August 2022, and is preparing a companion book, to be released on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing.
Sandra is a Kirtan leader, trained by Mike Cohen through the Kirtan Leadership Institute in Boulder, CO, and records monthly 1-hour Kirtan satsang/sessions, teaching mantras and bhajans (meditative devotional chants), using harmonium, singing bowls and cajon percussion. She’s also a Brand Ambassador for The Ohm Store (www.theohmstore.co), a fair-trade global supplier of singing bowls.
She holds D.M. and M.M. degrees in voice performance from Florida State University’s College of Music, and is currently in her 23rd year on the voice faculty at The Hochstein School, which honored her with the Faculty Service Award in 2013 and the Faculty Excellence Grant in 2019. She provides voiceover talent for commercial and media venues through SBS Vocalworx (www.sbsvocalworx.com) and West Rush Media LLC (www.davesluberski.com), and is listed for booking on Backstage (https://www.backstage.com/u/sandra-sluberski/).
Her audiobook narration is on Audible.com (Stories of Food and Life by Mariuccia Milla).
She’s married to Dave Sluberski, professor of audio recording for film/animation/gaming at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Film & Animation/MAGIC Spell Studios, and broadcast audio recording engineer for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. When not on the mat or behind a mic, Sandra enjoys her pet Silkie hens, or works on cars in the garage with Dave, who enjoys being married to a yogini.
Sandra has used singing bowls from The Ohm Store for several years in her chanting workshops and in Kirtan group singing. She's also written online essays for TOS and will soon be collaborating with Ohm Store owners, brother-and-sister team Frank and Nikki, on a live web presentation. TOS sources their bowls directly from artisans in Nepal, importing small batches in order to ensure quality and fair trade practices. Visit them at The Ohm Store!
Check out Sandra's article and video on their web site:
https://www.theohmstore.co/blogs/our-stories/how-a-veteran-voice-teacher-uses-singing-bowls