Sarah Tomlinson
I'm here to share time-tested tools that have transformed my own life.
This wisdom has helped me become more fully the woman I am meant to be. In my thirties I had a successful career yet my personal life was in pieces.
It took a direct experience with Yantras to help me see clearly — and find my way back to myself. I left a dysfunctional relationship and almost immediately met the man I would start a family with. In my forties I became a mother. Now my children are in their late teens and I am living my truth that your work and spiritual practice can be one and the same.
This experience is why I do this work. It isn’t self-help — it’s a clearing of the cobwebs that stands between you and your unique path in life.
“You already have what you need to thrive. The Yantras help you remember.”
The Lineage
Sarah is perhaps the only Western teacher initiated directly by both Harish Johari and Sri Amritananda — two of the greatest masters of the Yantra tradition.
Harish Johari — known to his students as Dadaji — was an artist, family man and one of the great transmitters of Eastern wisdom to the West. Raised in a family steeped in Ayurveda, gemstones and the power of the planets, he brought these teachings alive through Yantra painting, and through his books Tools for Tantra, Chakras and Healing Power of Gemstones. Sarah met him at Ananda Ashram in Upstate New York, and from there travelled back and forth to his home in Haridwar to study with him directly. It was Dadaji who taught her that the sacred and the domestic are not separate — that cooking for your family in accordance with the planets is itself a spiritual practice.
Shortly after, Sarah was introduced to Sri Amritananda of Devipuram, who was visiting students in New York. He initiated her into the practice of drawing the Sri Yantra, and over subsequent years Sarah travelled to his ashram in South India to receive the deeper teachings of Sri Vidya. Sri Amritananda taught her that the Sri Yantra is not an external symbol — it is our own body. Through this subtle transmission, Sarah embodied these teachings in her practice. He was also a radical teacher in the truest sense: inviting Western students to learn the secrets of Tantra, teaching local village women to become priests, and refusing to keep the higher wisdom locked away from those deemed unworthy by tradition.
It is this spirit — ancient wisdom made living, practice inseparable from life — that Sarah carries into everything she teaches today.
Press Bio
Sarah Tomlinson — known as Sarah Yantra — is a Yantrika, artist and lineage holder in the Sri Vidya Tantric tradition with over two decades of teaching and practice. She is the author of Coloring Yantras (Shambhala) and Nine Designs for Inner Peace (Destiny Publishing), creator of the Yantra Oracle Deck and the mantra album Celestial Healing: Mantras of the Nine Planets. Her work has drawn praise from teachers including Sharon Gannon, Elena Brower and Krishna Das.
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FULL BIO
Sarah Tomlinson, known as Sarah Yantra, is a Yantrika, artist, yoga teacher and lineage holder in the Sri Vidya Tantric tradition with over two decades of teaching and practice.
Her path to the Yantras came through a rare convergence: a practising artist after graduate school in New York City, already deeply rooted in yoga, she encountered the Yantra tradition and recognised immediately the synthesis she had been seeking — the creative, the spiritual and the practical meeting in one practice.
She studied directly with Harish Johari, the foremost teacher who brought the Yantra tradition to the Western world, and received the initiation of the Sri Yantra from Sri Amritananda of Devipuram — one of the great masters of the Sri Vidya tradition.
She is the author of Coloring Yantras (Shambhala, 2017) and Nine Designs for Inner Peace (Destiny Publishing, 2008), creator of the Yantra Oracle Deck, and the mantra album Celestial Healing: Mantras of the Nine Planets (2026). Her forthcoming book brings the ancient wisdom of the ten wisdom goddesses into a living practice of healing through Yantras.
She lives in the English countryside with her husband and two sons — communing with the Goddess daily in her painting, her teaching, and the ordinary remarkable beauty of family life.
“Sarah Tomlinson's work painting, teaching, describing and discussing the goddess Yantras is transformational. She is truly a modern master working with these energies.”
— Felicia Tomasko, President Bliss Network, Editor in Chief LA YOGA“Sarah teaches with a graceful simplicity that brings light to this ancient practice.”
— Krishna Das“You are so amazing! Thank you! I love learning from you.”
— Julie Mehretu, Painter, NYC, Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People list in 2020.
Nine Designs For Inner Peace
The Ultimate Guide to Meditating with Color, Shape, and Sound. See how the practice of creating the Nine Planetary Yantras can transform your life.
Coloring Yantras
24 Sacred Symbols for Meditation, Healing, Abundance, and Creativity. A coloring book for all ages — for your altar, your family, your practice.
“More than a coloring book, this collection of art teaches us the meaning of Sacred Yantras, encouraging us to use them as empowerment symbols to create the life we want with deep respect for the ancient science of Yantra. For you, your altar, your children, your family art time; we love the moments of art-making together with Sarah’s precious work.”
— Elena Brower, Author, Art of Attention and Practice You