Shari took her first yoga class from a friend a few years ago who had recently completed her teacher training and immediately fell in love with yoga. Although her body shape had begun to change and her strength and flexibility increased, as a busy working mother of three children it was the inner peace, the quieting of the mental chatter and the self acceptance that compelled her to continue her practice. "For me yoga is a powerful tool for self transformation. It taught me to quiet the mental chatter (or monkey mind) that I heard most of my waking moments, to accept myself and my body right where I was today, and then by doing so, to experience that deep sense of peace and joy. I believe my yoga practice has had a direct effect on how I am as a wife and a mother and now that my girls are teenagers and my son is 10, yoga and meditation help me to stay in the present moment where I can be a kind, gentle, compassionate woman, wife and mother."