North Shore Yoga

Sharyn Galindo, certified yoga instructor and lifelong learner, is the owner and studio director of North Shore Yoga. Since the late 1990s when she began her yoga studies, she has completed the Moksha Yoga Teacher Training course in Chicago, as well as teacher training courses with David Life of Jivamukti Yoga, Beryl Bender Birch, author of Power Yoga, Tias Little of Yoga Source, and Nancy Gilgoff of Ashtanga Maui. She has been to Mysore, India to study with Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute and with Sri. Venkatesh at the Atma Vikasa Center of Yogic Sciences. She has studied a number of times in Thailand with Paul Dallaghan of Ashtanga Yoga Thailand, who she considers her primary teacher, along with Amy Beth Treciokas. In addition she has done extensive work in Pranayama and Sutra Study with O.P. Tiwari of the Kaivalyadhama Institute.

In 2007, Sharyn expanded her studies to include a Masters program in Holistic Nutrition. In September 2008, she completed 543 hours of study to receive an Ayurvedic Health Educator (A.H.E.) certificate from both the California College of Ayurveda and the American Institute of Vedic Studies.

Sharyn believes that only with a strong, healthy body-attained through proper diet, asana practice, pranayama, and meditation-can one begin to calm the fluctuations of the mind and move towards true spiritual growth.

Sharyn lives in Northfield, Illinois with her husband, Steve–who is also a teacher at North Shore Yoga–and their two boys, Joey and Louis.

Prior to North Shore Yoga
In 1996, with an entrepreneurial spirit and credentials in personal training, spinning, group fitness instruction and nutritional consulting, Sharyn opened the doors to SoFunToDo, a boutique mind body fitness studio. A few years later she introduced yoga, and evolved her business into the North Shore Yoga of today–a studio dedicated to helping individuals take charge of their well being, health, and quality of life through yoga.

Prior to 1996, Sharyn worked in the corporate world and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Masters in International Business from the American Graduate School of International Management.