Shar Lee Yoga

Few words about Shar Lee, your Yoga instructor in Santorini!

Shar Lee began her Buddhist meditation and studies in 1964 at the Zen Buddhist Temple in Evanston, Illinois. She has studied Buddhism at the White Temple near the Boudhanath Stupa in Nepal with Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (Sakya Tradition), Tenga Rinpoche (Kagyu Tradition), and Choekyie Nyima Rinpoche (Nyingma/KagyuTradition).

In the 1960s Shar Lee studied yoga, Ayurveda, and massage therapy. She became a yoga teacher in 1966 and a massage therapist in 1967. In the late 1970s, Shar began traveling around the world looking for healers. “At first it was just my hobby,” she says. The hobby became her life’s work as she began learning from a wide variety of gifted healers. In between trips, she studied and continued her own healing practice.

Shar concluded that it is her dharma to pass the Tibetan Cranial work on to others and build the tradition that was nearly lost. By this time, Shar had been practicing the work for many years, establishing a vast body of knowledge and experience. Shar began taking on Apprentices – gifted people she feels she can teach. She teaches in the traditional style, without many words and with no text or charts. She feels that the work is authentically Eastern and not translatable into Western ways of understanding. She believes that students learn the work better if they surrender to the style of teaching and working that Lama Dorje showed her.

Shar has achieved much success with the work. Hundreds of people have told Shar that they experienced significant improvement with migraines. She also has had positive results with TMJ, tremors, seizures, Parkinson’s-like diseases, Multiple Sclerosis, concussions, car accident injuries, depression, sciatica, dementia, brain tumors and trauma, scoliosis, and many other conditions.