Welcome your Weekend Yoga with Shari Beard

Class description

Come digest your week and make space to welcome in a wonderful weekend of wellness. All is welcome, the aches, the pains, the tender hearts and overwhelm too. Expect to move and breathe with your community and possibly share your voice. Led by Shari Beard.

Donation

Your donation is appreciated. Suggested donation is $10-$30. Pay what you can, and for those with ample funds feel free to increase your donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

About Shari

My life in short: 

Mama, lover, teacher, friend. Daughter, sister, auntie, cat owner. Meditator, yogi, climber, skier, dancer, art dabbler, nature enthusiast.

My life in lengthened form:

The longer I am on the path of yoga, the harder these bios are to write.  I have been at this yoga thing since 1996 amongst the mountains of Lake Tahoe and became devoted to it when I took the leap to start teaching in Truckee, CA in 2003.  I have been teaching full time ever since in these glorious mountains.  What I have discovered is this path chose me.  It would not let me get off if I tried.  I always tell people that sign up for Teacher Training, get ready for your whole life to change.  I taught yoga and resisted meditation for another 8 years.  You could of asked me to do almost anything, but sit with my mind.  Eventually life made it clear I could no longer run away.  My marriage had become toxic and my young daughter was bringing everything up that needed to healed/held.  Embracing meditation gave me the life that I had always wanted to live, that of great depth and intimacy with all of it.  I can truly say I love this life, the ups and downs, the fun times and the rough times, even the dreadful past that haunts, the dirty floors/dishes/laundry and this aging body.  All of it is so incredibly beautiful!  Forever grateful to yoga.

I teach to the life that is presenting itself.  I love asana for everything it does for our body and being, but it is not the main focus of what I like to share.  I intend to nurture the connection to one's own heart. I am a lover.  People come to my classes, workshops and trainings to learn how to love, be loved and remember they are love. I encourage vulnerability, imperfection, getting messy and falling apart.  I strive to embrace with my students the tougher emotions such as shame, guilt, anger, grief and doubt.  I walk alongside students where we support each other in this school of life, where life is continuing to experience itself. I really don’t know where this life is going, maybe even this bio, but I know I am enjoying the unfolding as I go.  My relationships are richer.  I love being mama even though it's the hardest thing I have ever done.  My capacity to let life in is greater and in that I find myself blown away by the awe of it all.  If you are reading this, my hope is you will be a part of this unfolding someday whether it’s in class, a workshop, a series, a retreat or maybe out playing in the mountains. Thank you for seeing me and I hope to see you.