Introduction
Sarah Dawson is a freelance journalist who writes travel, health and lifestyle features for national and international press. Sarah is passionate about travel and over the past ten years has contributed to a diversity of publications from The Guardian to Red Magazine.
Her specialist area is health and wellbeing holidays and Sarah regularly visits spas, health resorts and retreats to seek the most unique, holistic and downright quirky type of therapies and healing. Whether Sarah is interviewing a South African "Sangoma" (spiritual guide/herbal healer) or undertaking an Indian Ayurvedic programme in Goa her aim is to inspire, motivate, entertain and inform.
Sarah covers all types of travel articles from swimming with wild dolphins in the Azores to a glamorous shopping weekend in Paris. She also compiles short, snappy TV scripts for a web based travel programme and contributes web copy to sites ranging from opodo to treatmentabroad.net.
In 2007 Sarah spent three months travelling independently in Southern India, staying at ecological resorts and training to become a Yoga Siromani (teacher) at the Sivananda Yoga Centre. She now runs Karmiyoga and teaches yoga classes in Brighton, and abroad.
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Why commission Sarah?
Sarah is organised, competent and professional, and delivers high quality copy to deadline. She also supplies digital photography (see photography gallery), speaks reasonable French and basic Spanish, which is much better after a few glasses of Sangria.
"Sarah has a real talent for capturing the beauty of an environment. Her articles are really interesting and inspirational, she makes you want to pack your bags and go" says Halima Malik, Deputy Editor of Yoga Magazine.
"Sarah's travel content for Treatment Abroad is excellent, I thoroughly recommend Sarah to any editor requiring first class, well researched web content" says Keith Pollard, MD, Intuition Communications.
"Sarah is a regular contributor to Recline (MyTravel's in-flight magazine) and Lite Reading (MyTravelLite's in-flight magazine). I can fully rely on her to deliver top quality, well-researched and informative features, and she always adheres to deadlines", says Chloe Greenbank, Editor, Ink.
