Sana Teaches the Newest Trainees

Sana remembers exactly how it felt to walk into the studio for the first time — the fear of being judged, the certainty that everyone else already knew more. So when she became skilled enough to teach, she knew exactly the kind of teacher she wanted to be: the patient kind.

She now runs the first weeks of training for new arrivals. She shows them how to wedge clay without wearing themselves out, how to forgive their own early mistakes, how to keep going when the wheel feels impossible. “I tell them my first ten pots collapsed,” she laughs. “They don’t believe me until they see the photos.”

For Sana, teaching has been its own kind of healing. “Helping someone else find their feet,” she says, “reminds me how far I’ve come.”