Sarah Yamasaki

Sara Yamasaki :  Finding Your Genius

Sara Yamasaki is the founder and head instructor of the Moving Words Writing Clinics, a summer writing program for elementary, middle school, and high school students grounded in the belief that everyone has an authentic voice, everyone has genius, and everyone can write. She is a writer, multi-sensory learning specialist, and certified teacher with over 30 years experience teaching children, graduates, teachers, and professionals. She is trained in the Slingerland® Approach, Lindamood-Bell® Learning Processes, and Wired for Reading. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching English, specializing in composition and rhetoric, and she is a recipient of the Hedgebrook Writing Residency, with poetry published in Calyx and Echoes From Gold Mountain, essays in The Kyoto Journal, Tikkun, and Crab Creek Review, book reviews and articles in the International Examiner, and she is a monthly contributor to New York Spirit. Sara has two grown children and resides in Seattle with her husband, Tom Ikeda. You can find more information about the Moving Words Writing Clinic at: movingwordsclinic.com

Thanks to Tom Ikeda, Sara’s husband, helped with the recording and format of this program.

Recorded in February, 2021. A special Thank you to Sally Hedges-Blanquez for helping me make this connection to Sara Yamasaki.

Sara Yamasaki, coming from a childhood of challenging issues, has become a woman of wisdom about people and their needs, their expansion of possibilities.  She helps each person to find their genius. She developed this awareness through dealing with her own challenges while integrating dance, music and then writing.  She found the common links.  And now she helps others quickly move from not being able to do some things to understanding their own uniqueness and finding their own genius.  This concludes in people finding their own voices and using it to express their own lives.

What a gift for all of us, and for each of us.

Brenda Asterino, producer for KLOI 102.9 FM