About – Sarah Tacy

Professional Bio and then... A story.

Professional Bio

Sarah Tacy Tangredi is an accomplished mind/body trainer of former Olympians, professional athletes, executives, and entrepreneurs. She has a masterful understanding of the way the body functions, and how its function impacts emotions and quality living. Through nervous system support, attuned listening, and somatic exploration, her work creates new possibilities for her clients lives, their work, their bodies and beyond.

Sarah has helped people with debilitating injuries, chronic pain, anxiety, as well as walking people through their own personal dark night of the soul. She has taught other teachers multidimensional techniques in various local and international yoga teacher trainings since 2010. She has hosted a handful of thought leaders in Maine for Leverage Events, and is now the host of Threshold Moments podcast, a podcast about the journey to truer versions of ourselves, and helpful tools to get us there.

Sarah is an evolving mother, wife, and friend. She believes that the body is always speaking to us, and if we can create space and support on as many dimensions as possible, repair and transformation will unfold.

My Story

Growing up as an athlete, my body was for performance. Injuries, fatigue and sickness were things that got in the way.

At age 18, what was once an inconvenience became a debilitating crisis – my back pain was so acute it rendered me immobile and threatened everything I identified with.

Finding a way out of pain became a full-time job and my initiation into mind-body healing. My body went from being a performer to my most credible guide with loads of feedback. A no BS GPS.

I was twenty one the day I attempted to help my father out of excruciating and debilitating back pain. He had already had his third back surgery, but despite his best efforts, the pain would not go away.

At that time, I had been studying and practicing yoga, so I offered to bring him through some poses. We moved, which was a gift, but his pain remained.

Then, without knowing why, I placed my thumb on his lower back. I felt a sensation shoot up my thumb like an electric shock. When I removed my hand he asked, “What did you just do?”

“Nothing?” I responded. He replied, “My pain is completely gone.”

This marked the beginning of spontaneous healings.

I mostly kept it a secret because I barely believed it myself. I had no idea how to control what was happening, and if I’m being honest, I didn’t want to be “weird.”

So, I whispered to a desperate few, “This may sound strange. I can’t promise anything. Do you want to try this?”

The majority of the time the pain would resolve and full range of motion returned.

On December 28th, 2008, this mysterious version of spontaneous healing stopped.

I was 26.

Intro to Science and Philosophy

During those years, I was a psychology major and world religion minor, proposing a method for athletes that wove in western psychology with eastern methodology, to help teens with performance anxiety.

After graduating I earned my 500hr yoga teacher certificate. Simultaneously I held a role as Director of Research and Development at an athletic performance center, studying the retraining and up-regulation of the nervous system and gait techniques.

Psychology, anatomy, and physiology all gave me a sense of predictability and normalcy. Science was a language I understood, and people trusted.

Yoga Career

For over 15 years I used this combination of mindbody, energy, psychology, and physiology to work with professional athletes, business executives, and highly vulnerable people entering or recovering from surgeries or chronic pain. For over ten years, I taught these multidimensional skills to yoga teachers in 100hr programs or weekend long modules.

My clients and students moved in the direction of their most beautiful lives, many of whom had been told they would be stuck with their physical or mental pain forever.

My soul was full.

Intro to Motherhood, Relational and Generational Healing

In June 2015, I turned 33. I left New York and settled in Maine. A few weeks after landing in this new place, I had my first daughter. Motherhood catapulted me into a seismic shift I could never have prepared for.

Intuitively I prioritized community. We held one another through the pain, grief, depletion, reclamation and ultimately the love. I learned that true healing, sustainable healing, happens in the presence of others.

Here, I began to access generations of wisdom and opportunities for repair.

I can do much of this work for myself, but my growing edge is to be accompanied in my healing. I have a mentor who practices similar work*. Together, we slow down to a rhythm in which my body and mind can sync up, and wisdom can come through.

Transformation is never rushed, and the unique way my body asks for repair is never shamed. Tiny steps are taken to move from freeze, to mobility and choice. I gain awareness of resources, seen and unseen, and access to my voice to make vulnerable requests toward my own liberation.

Current Time Integration and Offering

At the time I’m writing this, I’ve just turned 40. I am now deeply aware of how my presence can create a sense of safety for those I’m stewarding. I am aware of the way safety allows for wisdom to rise to the surface and announce its long-awaited knowing. I call upon my years of study, and the flow of intelligent energy, as guide points to navigate me and those I work with toward deep and lasting healing.

For all of this and more, I am grateful.

For sweet support, guide points for your nervous system, and soulful love letters.

*Since 2019, I have been hugely influenced by Brigit Viksnins, the creator of a multi-year educational program called Alchemical Alignment. The program is a weaving of her studies and fieldwork in Somatic Experiencing (trauma resolution through the body), CranioSacral Therapy, ancestral healing, Family Constellations, nervous system repair, and embodiment of spirit. She is a descendant of a long line of healers and war survivors from Latvia. Tele Darden is a primary teacher for Alchemical Alignment and is also a mentor of mine. Currently, I’m honored to assist in the AA training.