About your back-care expert, Sara Hauber, MA
Sara Hauber is an excellent teacher, explaining the mechanics of the human body and movement with great examples and demonstrations, individualized attention, and so much expertise. And she makes it all fun while being super approachable and concerned about each student.
--Laura O., workshop participant
Sara Hauber, MA
I am an American now living in Germany. I teach people all over the world, via workshops and 1-on-1 sessions, how to end back pain.
As a healthy lifestyle and functional movement specialist, I have empowered others to achieve long-term maintenance of healthy, pain-free lifestyle behaviors.
My areas of fitness expertise include back care, core training, joint health/injury prevention, functional movement, and modified yoga for people with back and joint pain/injury.
My graduate-school education and coach training primarily focused on empowerment, social support, and wellness coaching for the achievement of long-term health behavior change and maintenance of pain-free activities.
I have trained clients from age 22 to 78, with special needs (MS, arthritis, obesity, scoliosis, spinal fusion, post-partum), and from all walks of life.
For more about my own personal victory over back pain, be sure to see Sara's Personal Journey to a Pain-Free Back.
Highlights from my 20-year holistic healing career include:
Multimedia Projects
HauberMethod.com:
• Produced series of progressive exercises and stretches designed specifically to reduce or eliminate back pain from the average person’s life. Live workshops in addition to online/video-based program content (see Workshops and Publications sections, below).
DNA Digital Media Group “Nestle Fitness Virtual Coach”:
• Wrote content and demonstrated exercises for interactive fitness-coaching software distributed in 12 European countries and the United States.
Lifestyle Management Associates wellness education courses:
• Wrote, produced, and narrated 90-minute continuing education CD-ROM entitled “Essentials of Coaching for Wellness Professionals.”
• Co-wrote, edited, and narrated continuing education courses “Incorporating Nutrition”
and “A Call to Action: 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Adults.”
Workshops, Classes, & Speaking Engagements
• The Hauber Method™: Stop Back Pain & Improve Posture, and Core Integration, Balanced Movement Studio, Carrboro, NC
• Heal Your Back with Yoga, and Yoga without Back Pain, Carrboro Yoga Company, Carrboro, NC, and Namaskar YOGA, Chicago
• Yoga per Tutti, Astera Associazione, Puglia, Italy (taught series in Italian)
• Yoga Immersion & Wellbeing Retreat, Trullo Solari, Puglia, Italy
• Happy Hips & a Healthy Back, Namaskar YOGA, Chicago and Hillsborough Yoga, NC
• The Three Pillars of Core and Back Strength, Namaskar YOGA, Chicago
• Managing Conflict and Stress at Work, Esperanza Community Services, Chicago
• Coaching Skills for Fitness Professionals, YMCA of New Bedford, MA
• Take Control of Your Health!, Days Inn of Chicago
• Core Synergy, Holmes Place and Lakeshore Athletic Club, Chicago
Publications & Media Appearances
• Stretches for Tight Hamstrings Handbook, 2015; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Save Your Neck & Shoulder Handbook, 2013; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Hauber’s Heal Your Back Handbook, 2013; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Featured Health & Fitness blogger at CareerGirlNetwork.com (now defunct), a professional development and networking site for women aged 26-44
• “Understanding the Non-Adherent Client,” Personal Fitness Professional
• “Self Care for Helping Professionals,” Wellness & Fitness Entrepreneur
• “Coaching Communication for Wellness Professionals,” simultaneous appearance in Wellness & Fitness Entrepreneur and Personal Fitness Professional
• “More than a Workout,” a 5-page cover story in Personal Fitness Professional, December 2004, about coaching trends in the personal training industry
• Exclusive segment on WGN-TV Chicago news about in-home training using the Resist-A-Ball
• Sixty-minute live interview on Chicago Roundtable, WHPK 88.5FM radio, discussing American health and fitness needs
• Two-page feature in the South Bay Daily Breeze spotlighting in-home training using the Resist-A-Ball
• Also featured in Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest online, Glamour.com, MSNBC.com, Skyline News, Pioneer Press, My Family Doctor, and on CBS2 Chicago morning news.
EDUCATION
Professional Certifications & Recognition
• CPR/AED
• 230-hour Yoga Teacher Training (Asheville Yoga Center)
• American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Health Fitness Specialist
• American Council on Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer
• National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM) Personal Trainer
• Sports Performance Enhancement Specialist (NASM)
• IDEA Advanced Personal Fitness Trainer
• Certified Wellness Coach by Wellcoaches
• ACE Lifestyle and Weight Management Coach
• Certified Nutrition Manager Consultant
Continuing Education Courses
• Back Injury Prevention Specialist
• Post-Orthopedic Rehab for Personal Trainers
• Chronic Musculoskeletal Challenges and Exercise
• Pro-active Postural Restructuring
• Low Back Disorders with Dr. Stuart McGill
• Kinetic Anatomy
• Health Behavior Theory with Dr. Phil Troped
• Health Communication with Dr. Susan Morgan
• Lifestyle Fitness Coaching with Dr. Jim Gavin
• Basic Training for Cycling with Dr. Tom Seabourne
• Coaching Psychology Workshop
• Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors
• Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Jacqueline Elders
• Functional Training with Juan Carlos Santana
• Medical Wellness Coaching
• Advanced Training in Weight Management
• Nutrition Specialist Course with Dr. Jane Pentz
• Senior Fitness: Evaluation, Measurement, and Intervention
• Core Board Master Class with Jeffrey Scott
• Paul Chek on Exercise, Training, and Rehab
• Club Industry: Exercise Innovations; Manual Resistance Training; Wellness Programming
• FACT Fest Personal Trainer Congress: Realistic Periodization; Physics Before Physiology; Sports Moves Analysis
• Resist-A-Ball Module I Basic Training and Module II Dynamic Flexibility
• Dr. Dan Kosich on Exercise and Training
Higher Education
• M.A. in Health Communication w/minor in Research Methods, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• B.A. in English (magna cum laude) w/minor in Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Phi Beta Kappa honors society
As a healthy lifestyle and functional movement specialist, I have empowered others to achieve long-term maintenance of healthy, pain-free lifestyle behaviors.
My areas of fitness expertise include back care, core training, joint health/injury prevention, functional movement, and modified yoga for people with back and joint pain/injury.
My graduate-school education and coach training primarily focused on empowerment, social support, and wellness coaching for the achievement of long-term health behavior change and maintenance of pain-free activities.
I have trained clients from age 22 to 78, with special needs (MS, arthritis, obesity, scoliosis, spinal fusion, post-partum), and from all walks of life.
For more about my own personal victory over back pain, be sure to see Sara's Personal Journey to a Pain-Free Back.
Highlights from my 20-year holistic healing career include:
Multimedia Projects
HauberMethod.com:
• Produced series of progressive exercises and stretches designed specifically to reduce or eliminate back pain from the average person’s life. Live workshops in addition to online/video-based program content (see Workshops and Publications sections, below).
DNA Digital Media Group “Nestle Fitness Virtual Coach”:
• Wrote content and demonstrated exercises for interactive fitness-coaching software distributed in 12 European countries and the United States.
Lifestyle Management Associates wellness education courses:
• Wrote, produced, and narrated 90-minute continuing education CD-ROM entitled “Essentials of Coaching for Wellness Professionals.”
• Co-wrote, edited, and narrated continuing education courses “Incorporating Nutrition”
and “A Call to Action: 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Adults.”
Workshops, Classes, & Speaking Engagements
• The Hauber Method™: Stop Back Pain & Improve Posture, and Core Integration, Balanced Movement Studio, Carrboro, NC
• Heal Your Back with Yoga, and Yoga without Back Pain, Carrboro Yoga Company, Carrboro, NC, and Namaskar YOGA, Chicago
• Yoga per Tutti, Astera Associazione, Puglia, Italy (taught series in Italian)
• Yoga Immersion & Wellbeing Retreat, Trullo Solari, Puglia, Italy
• Happy Hips & a Healthy Back, Namaskar YOGA, Chicago and Hillsborough Yoga, NC
• The Three Pillars of Core and Back Strength, Namaskar YOGA, Chicago
• Managing Conflict and Stress at Work, Esperanza Community Services, Chicago
• Coaching Skills for Fitness Professionals, YMCA of New Bedford, MA
• Take Control of Your Health!, Days Inn of Chicago
• Core Synergy, Holmes Place and Lakeshore Athletic Club, Chicago
Publications & Media Appearances
• Stretches for Tight Hamstrings Handbook, 2015; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Save Your Neck & Shoulder Handbook, 2013; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Hauber’s Heal Your Back Handbook, 2013; available only to members of The Hauber Method™
• Featured Health & Fitness blogger at CareerGirlNetwork.com (now defunct), a professional development and networking site for women aged 26-44
• “Understanding the Non-Adherent Client,” Personal Fitness Professional
• “Self Care for Helping Professionals,” Wellness & Fitness Entrepreneur
• “Coaching Communication for Wellness Professionals,” simultaneous appearance in Wellness & Fitness Entrepreneur and Personal Fitness Professional
• “More than a Workout,” a 5-page cover story in Personal Fitness Professional, December 2004, about coaching trends in the personal training industry
• Exclusive segment on WGN-TV Chicago news about in-home training using the Resist-A-Ball
• Sixty-minute live interview on Chicago Roundtable, WHPK 88.5FM radio, discussing American health and fitness needs
• Two-page feature in the South Bay Daily Breeze spotlighting in-home training using the Resist-A-Ball
• Also featured in Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest online, Glamour.com, MSNBC.com, Skyline News, Pioneer Press, My Family Doctor, and on CBS2 Chicago morning news.
EDUCATION
Professional Certifications & Recognition
• CPR/AED
• 230-hour Yoga Teacher Training (Asheville Yoga Center)
• American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Health Fitness Specialist
• American Council on Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer
• National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM) Personal Trainer
• Sports Performance Enhancement Specialist (NASM)
• IDEA Advanced Personal Fitness Trainer
• Certified Wellness Coach by Wellcoaches
• ACE Lifestyle and Weight Management Coach
• Certified Nutrition Manager Consultant
Continuing Education Courses
• Back Injury Prevention Specialist
• Post-Orthopedic Rehab for Personal Trainers
• Chronic Musculoskeletal Challenges and Exercise
• Pro-active Postural Restructuring
• Low Back Disorders with Dr. Stuart McGill
• Kinetic Anatomy
• Health Behavior Theory with Dr. Phil Troped
• Health Communication with Dr. Susan Morgan
• Lifestyle Fitness Coaching with Dr. Jim Gavin
• Basic Training for Cycling with Dr. Tom Seabourne
• Coaching Psychology Workshop
• Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors
• Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Jacqueline Elders
• Functional Training with Juan Carlos Santana
• Medical Wellness Coaching
• Advanced Training in Weight Management
• Nutrition Specialist Course with Dr. Jane Pentz
• Senior Fitness: Evaluation, Measurement, and Intervention
• Core Board Master Class with Jeffrey Scott
• Paul Chek on Exercise, Training, and Rehab
• Club Industry: Exercise Innovations; Manual Resistance Training; Wellness Programming
• FACT Fest Personal Trainer Congress: Realistic Periodization; Physics Before Physiology; Sports Moves Analysis
• Resist-A-Ball Module I Basic Training and Module II Dynamic Flexibility
• Dr. Dan Kosich on Exercise and Training
Higher Education
• M.A. in Health Communication w/minor in Research Methods, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• B.A. in English (magna cum laude) w/minor in Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Phi Beta Kappa honors society