My name is Sahar. (سحر)  In Farsi it means "dawn".
 

I grew up in Iran, an artist and a sensitive kid who felt everything a little too much. I came to the Bay Area in 2014 and kept doing what I'd always done: searching. I trained in somatics, Hakomi, and IFS. I sat in ceremony. I tried every path that promised to make me lighter, freer, more spiritual.

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For a long time, I thought freedom meant rising above myself — leaving behind the sensitive one, the one who needed too much.

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Then one day, mid-turn in a Sufi whirling practice, something landed, quiet and clear:

You're not becoming free. You're trying to leave yourself behind. Turn the other way. Bring all of you with you.

I turned. And everything changed.

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That's the heart of how I work now.

Not fixing you .

You were never broken.

Helping you grow big enough to hold all of yourself, with love. The anxious part, the tired part, the part you've been trying to outgrow for years.
They're all welcome here.
 

In our work together, I bring three things I love:

• Somatics : Because the body remembers what the mind talks over

• Parts work (IFS) : Because every part of you, even the hard ones, is trying to help

• Sufism :  The root of everything I do is the knowing that I am another you.

I work mostly with women — many of them Persian, like me — who are tired of abandoning themselves to be good, calm, or enough. I see clients in person in my home sanctuary in Berkeley, and online, in English and Farsi.

If any of this feels familiar — if you've been trying to become more by becoming less of yourself — I'd love to talk.