Danielle Nicole Sarris is an active, registered yoga instructor (200-hour level) living a blessed life with her husband in the weird and crazy 78704 of Austin, Texas (SoCo baby!).

She recently logged in over 160 hours of personal practice time in the Ashtanga, Anusara and Hatha Flow styles.

“It’s important for me to keep on bringing new ideas to my classroom, so I’m very dedicated to learning from the strong yoga community in Austin.”

In 2003 Danielle was working in a very high-stress, fast-paced corporate environment and needed to find a release. It was actually a hot yoga studio where she took her first real class. Initially the practice satisfied the physical need and over time it became about the spiritual journey.

In 2008 she was blessed to study yoga full-time in New York City. And had the honor of studying with ‘The Teacher’s Teacher,’ Sri Dharma Mittra. (And also studying with creative unblocking guru Julia Cameron.)

Danielle's Teaching Style

Her influences are too numerous to list and include everyone from Ki-Yoga (Ki-Yoga.com) founder Isauro Fernandez to Shiva Rea to B.K.S. Iyengar.

She emphasizes that breath is first and foremost – and is the key to really feeling wonderful and alive. 

She grooves on teaching challenging vinyasa flow -- so her students experience the strength, balance and flexibility that comes from the style.

Prior to becoming a yoga instructor (college and corporate life):

After graduating from the oldest women’s college in the West in 1995, she entered the journalism business -- and built a five-year career with the Belo Corporation, which owns The Dallas Morning News. (Danielle was the first female their interactive group promoted outside of the Dallas market.)

While working at Belo she worked through some of the MBA coursework at The University of Texas at Dallas. And Danielle also worked in the advertising industry – on the interactive side – for the biggest brands in New York City at Ogilvy and Mather (Mead Johnson, Eli Lilly, etc.).

She is also very proud of finishing the Dallas White Rock Marathon in 5 hours and 25 minutes in 2000.