About Sarah Leah.
My name is Sarah Leah Melissa Sarramalho. I was born in Montreal, and after years in Latin America, Lisbon, and Paris, I came back home. Alongside my studies in psychology, I spent years learning Kabbalah, Torah, and Mussar — the inner side of Jewish wisdom. I was looking for answers that psychology (and the modern self help literature), for all it taught me, didn’t have.
I’m not an expert. I’m a student who shares what she learns.
I didn’t grow up with Judaism. I discovered my Jewish roots after my mother passed away, when I was sixteen. Since then, I’ve been working to build my relationship with Hashem, study His Torah, and do my best to return — to make teshuvah. This process is personal to each of us. My hope is that everything I share brings you closer to your own inner truth and helps you deepen your connection to G-d.
The P’nimiyut Method™ draws on what I have studied for years — Torah, Kabbalah, and Mussar — and on what I have learned alongside it from psychology and somatic work. The body and the mind each know things in their own way. Inner work grows in mind, soul, and body together. Each one opens the next.
P’nimiyut came out of that search. Meditations, a written course, one-on-one work, and a small library of writings for women who are tired of their inner life and their everyday life being two different things. I teach it, I write it, and I sit with women in it.
I write mostly in English. I also speak French and Portuguese. If something here speaks to you, write to me.
— Sarah Leah
A self to recognise, more than a self to construct.
Studied before it is written. Written before it is shared.
P’nimiyut will keep growing — the way it is made won’t change. Careful study, real practice, and teachings you can actually use on an ordinary Tuesday.
Come home to what is true.
The simplest way to step inside is a free meditation to keep.
Begin with Morning Alignment