Listen to Your Life

Self-Study Courses

Are you ready to thrive?



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Listen to Your Life offers self-study courses and guided groups for people moving through meaningful transitions — midlife shifts, identity changes, questions of purpose, and the quiet sense that something deeper is asking to be lived.

These offerings are not about collecting more information or finding the "right" answers.
They are about embodiment.
Learning how to listen inwardly, recognize what is shaping your choices, and align your life with what truly matters.

Whether you are practicing on your own or in community, the approach is the same.
Slow down.
Deepen awareness.
Translate insight into lived experience.

The focus is on integration, not consumption.
Presence, not pressure.

Grounded in Insight practice and supported by modern science, this work goes to the root. It helps you cultivate clarity, steadiness, and self-trust that carry into everyday life.

This is for people who are done circling the same questions.
Who sense that knowing is not the issue.
Living it is.

Begin where you are.
Move at your own pace.
Practice in a way that supports you.
Let your life lead.

Available Courses

Meet Your Guide

About Your Instructor

Sharon Shelton



Sharon Shelton, mindfulness teacher and coach

I discovered meditation in early recovery from alcoholism nearly 30 years ago, and it has been the throughline of my life ever since.

Alongside decades of executive leadership, including serving as a Vice President in the corporate world, I trained as a coach and mindfulness teacher so I could support others in navigating change with clarity, courage, and compassion.

My work is shaped by years of teaching and mentoring through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), Banyan, and Insight-based Dharma communities, where I offer guidance rooted in mindfulness, ethical living, and lived experience.

I am especially interested in how practice moves from concept to embodiment, how insight becomes something we live, not just understand.

I am also a wife, stepmom, and grandmother, and an ocean lover who finds renewal in the waves. These relationships and experiences keep my practice grounded in the realities of everyday life: love, loss, resilience, and the ongoing work of showing up.

Today, I support women in midlife to meet this chapter not as a crisis to manage, but as a doorway to freedom, meaning, and joy.

My teaching emphasizes steadiness over striving, presence over perfection, and embodiment over accumulation.

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What Others Are Saying

Words of Encouragement

From teachers, mentors, and clients



Tara Brach
Tara Brach
Teacher & Mentor
“Sharon Shelton is a gifted mindfulness teacher, compassionate, clear, and deeply wise. Her skillful facilitation creates a safe, sacred space where real transformation and insight can unfold.”
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield
Teacher & Mentor
“Let me happily recommend Sharon to you. She is a wise, loving and skilled teacher.”
Consolata Peyron
Consolata Peyron
Client Feedback
“I worked with Sharon in groups and privately for years, and it was truly special. She is light and deep, wise and funny, and always attentive. With her guidance, I no longer define myself by my job, but by my deeper purpose. If I could give advice, I'd say: don't wait. Finding the right mentor can change your life.”
Jataunia Schweitzer
Jataunia Schweitzer
Client Feedback
“Having Sharon as a mentor is amazing. She offered wisdom, kindness, and deep support as I taught at Esalen for the first time. Sharon guided me to slow down, connect inward, and return to the foundations of mindfulness. I feel more confident, authentic, and grounded as a teacher. The connection I feel with her is like being at home.”
Kimberly Dixon
Kimberly Dixon
Client Feedback
“Sharon is simply amazing. She is sincere, warm and caring and most importantly, knowledgeable. I joined Sharon's coaching group to gain clarity of purpose and strategy design. Four weeks into the program I developed clarity of purpose and a new boldness that I never knew I possessed. Heartfelt thank you to Sharon for helping me turn my insight into action.”
Shauna McDonald
Shauna McDonald
Client Feedback
“For anyone considering this, I am a 2x alum. Sharon's groups get you focused and MOVING on your life and goals instead of another year of jabber! I am MIA in the Saturday L2YL groups because of my own focus that she lit under me a couple of years ago! Totally worth the investment!”
Caroline Durham
Caroline Durham
Client Feedback
“At the time I signed up for coaching with Sharon, I felt swamped by the challenge of figuring out what my next life steps are. Through Sharon's insightful guidance, she has helped me focus on the right questions that have enabled me to see and embrace my true goals and desires. The group approach provided me the opportunity to gain perspectives from a broad spectrum of people. Learning from others, while learning from myself. Sharon gets you there!”