Suzanne Sterling

Suzanne Sterling is cocreator of Off The Mat, Into The World™, an organization offering training programs combining yoga and sustainable activism. A vocalist and composer whose devotional music has been commissioned for film, theater, and DVD, she has enjoyed mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Burning Man, Reggae on the River, and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama).

Sterling has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many years, and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings, and apprenticeship programs combining ritual and activism for numerous communities. She offers a unique blend of yoga, music, sacred ceremony, and activism to conferences, institutions, and festivals worldwide, including Yoga Journal conferences, the Esalen Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Earthdance, where she led the world’s largest Spiral Dance for 5,000 people.