Sah D'Simone

Sah D'Simone is a spiritual teacher and author, now based in Ojai, California, whose work joins Buddhist meditation with movement and dance. He left a career in fashion after a personal crisis and turned to contemplative practice, going on to spend more than 300 days in silent retreat over a decade and to train in spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. Service has run alongside his teaching, from volunteering at a children's home in Bali to work with unhoused people in Los Angeles that earned a city award.

He created the SAH Method, a somatic dance practice that moves through breath-led postures, dynamic meditation, free movement, affirmations and trance dance. He leads it live on Zoom each Sunday with Nathan Hirschaut, trains new facilitators in a 16-week online course, and takes it to retreat centres such as Blue Spirit in Costa Rica. His books are Spiritually Sassy and Spiritually, We, and with Benjamin W. Decker he made The Modern Mythology Oracle Deck. His podcast is called Solving the Riddle of Being Human, and through Insight Timer he shares meditations, affirmations and multi-day courses.