Dr. Sará King, PhD · Neuroscientist · Contemplative Scientist · Educator
I work with executives, organizations, and readers who are ready to let their healing and their leadership be one motion.
Loving-awareness in action is a practice that starts in the body and ripples out into the collective nervous system.
Hello, I'm Sará
I am a daughter of California — born in Woodland, raised between Los Angeles and Compton, schooled at Pitzer and UCLA, and now living in San Francisco. For two decades I have studied the relationship between contemplative practice, the nervous system, and collective liberation, and for twenty-one years I have lived the practice of yoga and meditation in my own body.
I work from a simple conviction: that knowing about loving-awareness is not the same as knowing it, that healing is irreducibly relational, and that the science of well-being only matters when it is offered in service of justice.
More about my path →How we work together
Executive coaching for leaders ready to do their internal work as the foundation of their external one. Built around the SBAM framework. For those in transition, in pressure, or in the slow work of becoming who they are next.
Inquire about 1:1 coaching →Workshops, retreats, advisory engagements, and leadership cohorts for non-profits, mission-aligned corporations, and institutions ready to weave the science of well-being into the architecture of their work.
Inquire about engagements →Published research, journal essays, podcast appearances, keynotes, and a book in progress. The body of work that holds the lineage of this practice — open to anyone who wants to enter it.
Enter the writing →The frameworks
SBAM
A framework for understanding how the personal nervous system and the collective nervous system are in continuous relationship — and how contemplative practice, held with identity-awareness, can heal at both scales at once.
Learn about SBAM →SSJ
The integrated study of how well-being practices, neuroscience, and the work of collective liberation become one motion when held in right relationship. The intellectual spine of the forthcoming book.
Learn about SSJ →
Northern California · Photo: Sará King
Currently building
A trauma-informed companion for love, healing, and well-being — and a world map of how devotion travels through wires.
A quiet, dignified place to sit with your own life around the themes of love, set inside a watercolor atlas of how others are practicing care around the world. Three layers of story live on the map: curated entries from the field, real-world reporting from the news filtered carefully for register and dignity, and members' own stories from the community shared with consent at every threshold. Around the map: a private journal, an AI presence named Agape who listens well and forgets when you leave, embodied practices offered as possibilities, a place to honor ancestors. No streaks, no notifications, no public profile. Built for forgetting, in an industry built on remembering.
You'll hear from me when the private beta opens. Nothing else. Built with Juno, an AI collaborator on Lovable.
California · Photo: Sará King
In partnership with
From Yafah
On my first journey to West Africa, I stood inside the doorway where my ancestors were last on this side of the water. This is what I came home holding.
Coming with the zine launch.
Visit Yafah →Stay close to the work
Once a month or so, I send a short reflection, a contemplative practice you can take into your day, news of what I am building, and where I will be speaking. No noise. No funnel. Just the slow current of the work.