Who I am and What I do

Hi my name is Sharon Calvert, founder and director of Ayurvedic Yoga Lifestyle and Author of Yoga & Ayurveda: Natural Remedies for Back Pain. My purpose in life is to help people achieve optimum health and well-being and guide them on how to live a pain free and happier lifestyle.

When working with patients, I intuitively integrate different techniques from a scientific, holistic and spiritual foundation and I am solely dedicated to my patients success. I only work with people I know I can genuinely help.

As a result my patients feel stronger and have increased mobility and flexibility. They are much happier enjoying life again now they are pain free doing the things they loved to do before the pain took over their lives. My patients have changed their mindset and are now positive about their future and feel confident that if they ever do have a flare up again, they have the tools they need to give them instant pain relief.

 In short, they have the tools they need to live a pain free life!

Why I Guide People to Heal Themselves Naturally

To explain what led me to become an Ayurvedic Yoga Lifestyle Coach, let me tell you about my journey so far, and how breaking my back turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

When I left school I was passionate about so many different therapies. My time was consumed with studying. After qualifying as a Sports Therapist, Beauty Therapist and Personal Trainer, I opened my first clinic in Ashton where I helped people to heal physically, mentally and emotionally. For me, nothing is more satisfying than helping people to achieve their goals and become healthier and happier.

After working diligently to build a reputable business, in 2004 I had a serious accident and broke L2 and L3 in my lower back. I was bed bound for several months, unable to walk or sit up. I lay on my back for months heavily sedated on different medications. When I finally got back on my feet again, despite being in chronic pain, I went back to work as a mobile therapist.

Many doors opened for me in 2005. I got into teaching fitness classes and coaching. I absolutely loved teaching high intensity classes and along with the mobile therapy business, this became my full time job. I was working over 70 hours per week and my love and passion for what I did helped me to put the back pain to the back of my mind but I was always aware it was there.

I seen so many different doctors and specialists and they told me that I would be in pain for the rest of my life and I had to learn to deal with it. Sadly, I did for a while. I kept trying to convince myself the pain didn’t exist; but it did. I was determined to heal myself naturally. I researched different holistic and alternative therapies. 

Before I broke my back I was practicing yoga and kickboxing once a week from being the age of 17. Yoga helped me to calm my over active mind and increase my flexibility, which was great for my martial arts training. After doing extensive research, my heart felt compelled to enrol on a Yoga Teacher Training course. Little did I know that this would change my life forever.

Yoga is a complete science that dates back 5000 years. When you align your body, mind, heart and spirit, you create the perfect environment for the body to heal itself.

With my new found knowledge, I put together a 6 week programme that focused on healing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. To my amazement, after a week on the programme I felt great. It was the first time in years I had gone a full week without experiencing pain. I was elated!

Within 6 weeks I was completely healed! It was a miracle! The pain had disappeared which immediately improved my mental and emotional well-being too. I started to do the things I hadn’t done for over 7 years that I previously enjoyed so much. It feels amazing to be able to do martial arts again and deep back-bending postures in yoga.

To integrate all of my skills and deepen my knowledge around the healing benefits of yoga, I lived in India at the beginning of 2012 for a month where I intensely studied yoga therapy for 16 hours a day, meditated regularly, truly living the yoga lifestyle.

I am now the fittest, strongest and happiest I have ever been. Using the same programme I created to heal my own back, I now dedicate my life to showing others the light. Anything is possible when you put your mind to it. The power of the mind is a big aspect in the healing process.

The thing that gets me out of bed every morning, my “big why”, is to inspire people to take control of their own health and well-being so they can live a pain free life. The human body has the potential to heal itself naturally, all you need to do is create the right environment for this to happen and my job is to educate as many people as possible and provide them with the tools they need to control pain and to achieve optimum health and well-being and live the life of their dreams!