Sharon Shelton is a founding advisor and mentor at Banyan, a mentor in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, and a certified life coach.
 
Sharon completed the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) and is now a mentor in the program. She is on the boards of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and Peace at Any Pace, and has been published in both Spirituality & Health and Thích Nhất Hạnh's The Mindfulness Bell magazines.
 
Sharon offers talks regularly at the Triangle Insight Meditation Community in Durham, North Carolina, and guest teaches at other sanghas. As founding advisor and mentor at Banyan, an online mindfulness community, she mentors groups weekly. She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified life coach and has been working with groups and individuals focusing on intention, alignment, and mindfulness for nearly two decades.
 
She discovered meditation and mindfulness when in early recovery from alcoholism in 1997 and has been studying and practicing ever since.