About me

Hello! My name is Sandra Sanabria.

I am a certified Compassion Cultivation Teacher (CCT©) at the Compassion Institute (CI™). CCT is a program developed at Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers. The program was designed to develop the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and others.
I’m a graduate from the Applied Compassion Training ™ (ACT 2020), a program of the Applied Compassion Academy (ACA) and CCARE at Stanford University.
I’m a certified facilitator of “The Mindfulness Ambassador Program” y “The Mindfulness@Work Program” with Mindfulness Without Borders.
I’m IMTA Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P)

I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. I have a degree in Physics and a master degree in Biomedical Engineering. Thanks to a scholarship, I moved to Belgium where I obtained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. After that, I moved with my family to the US and have been working in the corporate world since.

Life has been generous to me. I love my job (at least, most of the time), but it can also be stressful and demanding. Life is never short of challenges. The day-to-day chores and disappointments, challenging situations and relationships, the loss of loved ones, and so much more.

My encounter with mindfulness meditation in 2014 started a profound and positive change in my life. Then, the CCT with Robert Cusick in early 2018 made it possible for me to start sharing and enabling others to use compassion in their lives. I was so inspired by this experience that I decided to take the CCT Teacher Training.

The study of the Buddhist ideals, the Vipassana meditation practice and the cultivation of compassion have become an essential part of my life, reinforcing my wonder for science and empowering me to serve my community. My wish is that ¡Viva la Compasión! sheds some light on the power of compassion and how it can become a way to be in the world.

“Compassion can be the antidote to our polarized world, let’s be more compassionate in our homes, cities, countries, and across the globe”