Shary’s Biography

Shahrzad Nasrabadi (SHARY) is a Certified Yoga Instructor(IYT200) and a  Professional Yoga Therapist (IYT1000).

She is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance(*RYT200). After two years continued study, in June 2007, She completed Integrative Yoga Therapy program, and she became a  professional yoga therapist (IYT1000).

Moreover, she is a member of international yoga therapy association. In her particular public health background, Shary had been a leader of a health research project in Tehran University in 2002. The university research project was performed to inquire the Effects of Yoga on Mental Health in a group of people who were practicing yoga regularly.  In fact, her health science background in public health has conducted her to incorporate elements of Iyengar, Hatha, Vinyasa, and Kundalini yoga as well as a holistic health approach to her teaching and practice.

Actually, Shary began her teaching career in Tehran University in 2000. Before becoming a wife, she had persuaded her career as a public health manager at Tehran Beheshti University. After moving to United States, she continued her teaching as a Yoga Program Director at RIO Sport & Health Club and as a Group Exercise Instructor at Lake Forest Sport & Health Club.

 She desires to apply her holistic health approach to her style of teaching, So she can help her students to explore and develop their own abilities to heal the emotion, mind, and body. Her passion of learning about Chakras and energy balance directs her to create her special style of synchronized yoga movements with breathing while holding the Mudras to help yoga learners to open the chambers of their inner light. Furthermore, she is a natural health practitioner. she believes that natural healing has a lower cost for every one and emphasis that healing yoga prevents and treats various physical and mental disease. Shary’s naturopathy approach encourages her students to apply more herbal and natural treatments in order to lower the side effects of chemical therapies.

Naturopathy is a system of therapy that employs natural forces such as light, heat, air, water and massage. This system differs most significantly from Allopathy by focusing on building health rather than on treating disease. The techniques used are non-invasive and may include foods, herbs, fasting, nutritional supplements, bodywork, hydrotherapy, forms of exercise or body movement and/or meditation.

 In fact, her passion for learning and teaching yoga and natural health stemmed from her public health background study and her positive positive experience of yoga and naturopathy that have had on her own life. She loves to share her yoga skills and transfer her natural health approaches to all who are passionate about their health. She enjoys to help the people to experience the benefits of healing, growth, and transformation in their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being.

 Her classes are creative, spontaneous, strong and soft, and allow each student to unite with breathe. In practice with Teresa, expect Pranayama, creative and challenging flow sequences and time to be present to peace within.

Shary is thrilled by the opportunity to share her love of yoga and art with children. An abundance of warmth, enthusiasm and compassion is awaiting the youngsters! Shary’s classes offers a cozy, welcoming space for stretching, relaxing, and self expression.  Shary leads students to have fun while exercising their bodies, minds and creative spirits through the arts of yoga and craft-making.

She enjoys challenging all class participants to open their hearts and heal themselves physically and spiritually. Her flow classes fuse breath with motion, opening energy channels, and releasing blocks in the body and mind. shary has studied with John Friend, Joe   , Bob       , Scott blossom.

     Finally, her last words are:

 “Your body is an ocean rich with hidden sources.

    Open your inner most chambers, and light its lamp.”