Bara Sapir

Bara is an internationally recognized expert in high-performance coaching, personal empowerment and transformative test preparation. She partners with each of her students to achieve success. She is an inspirational, highly skilled, passionate expert and teacher with twenty years’ experience teaching test prep, including six years as an instructor for The Princeton Review.

Sapir is the pioneer in bringing holistic, human potential techniques to the test preparation field, she is the creator of HypnoPrep® and Yoga for Your Mind®, which optimize test-taking results and professional success by reducing anxiety and enhancing concentration, confidence, and ease. To make these proven techniques available to a wider audience, Sapir has produced the Full Potential Audio Course — a unique interactive 5-hour course for standardized tests, as well Study Support for College and Highschool. She, along with her head verbal specialist and TPNY staff, wrote the Full Potential GMAT Sentence Correction Intensive published by Nova Press on the GMAT, and co-wrote the forthcoming Full Potential MCAT CARS Intensive.

Sapir has coached hundreds of clients, including students at top prep schools, physicians, entertainment and advertising professionals, and advisors to U.S. government leaders. Her clients have been accepted at such leading schools as Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, INSEAD, London School of Business, Northwestern, Stanford, University of Chicago, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin and many more.

Sapir holds masters degrees in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Art History from the University of Michigan. She has certification in Hypnosis, Neurolingistic Programing and is Reiki practicioner. She is a published author and professional artist. (A selection of articles and art pieces are viewable here.) She conducts workshops for students, parents, educators, business people, and creative professionals seeking high-performance results at school, work, and in life. She lives in New York City with her rescue pup, Eloise.