Sarah Alayne Martin is a Black queer, yogi, poet, storyteller, and healing artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. As a certified 200-hour yoga teacher, Sarah blends poetry with yoga into a novel healing practice to support trauma recovery. Currently helping to tell the story of the National Endowment for the Arts initiative, Creative Forces, Sarah has also been recognized as a 2022 Anaphora Arts Poetry fellow and a recipient of the Young Black Climate Leaders Youth Futures Fund grant. Inspired by nature and their lived experiences, Sarah's work offers spiritual ascension and opens portals to other worlds of being.Follow their journey on Instagram @poeticportals.