Meet Sharon

I didn’t learn presence by adding more.
I learned it by letting go.

My work was not only shaped in theory or technique.
It was shaped in places where life was reduced to its essentials
and where the body, the breath, and human presence were not ideas
but lived realities. From my myself and working with others.

I worked for extended periods in some of the poorest regions of Africa.
In communities marked by poverty, illness, and loss,
I witnessed how simplicity, attention, and connection sustain life
when little else remains.

Years later, my path led me to India,
where I lived in a yoga village devoted entirely
to training the mind and returning to inner stillness.

There, I encountered my spiritual teacher in an unexpected way.
Before I ever spoke with him,
before I understood his teachings,
I heard his chanting.

Something in that sound opened my heart instantly.
Not emotionally, but deeply and quietly,
as if something in me remembered where it belonged.

In the years that followed, I would meet him many times again.
Each encounter brought me back to the same place.

His presence was humble, grounded, and profoundly simple.
No performance.
No spiritual display.
Just clarity, warmth, and an unwavering steadiness.

Being with him felt like coming home
again and again.

Through him, I learned the power of returning
to the same simple practice,
of staying devoted without force,
of planting seeds and trusting their growth.

His way of being taught me that presence does not need to impress.
It only needs to be true.

Africa showed me what remains when there is almost nothing.
India showed me what remains when everything unnecessary is released.

That understanding became the foundation of my work.

For over twenty five years, I have worked with more than twenty five thousand people,
guiding them back to their bodies, their breath, and their inner stillness.
Not to change who they are,
but to remember what is already true.

Raafwerk is not a method.
It is a lived practice of presence.

The message I carry forward
is the one I received there.

That presence is enough.
That simplicity is strength.
That returning is the practice.

This is the place I work from.
This is where I come home.