Born to Swiss and Filipina parents and raised between the Swiss Alps and the Philippines, Shāradā grew up within two very different cultural worlds. In Davos, she was surrounded by snow, fine dining, precision, achievement, and the refined codes of European society. In the Philippines, she ate with her hands, slept beneath the stars on the 100 Islands, and was held within the warmth of her grandmother Lola, who had given birth to 15 children and whose life was woven into a family of more than 70 people.

These contrasting environments shaped Shāradā deeply. One world emphasized individuality, ambition, status, and personal achievement; the other was rooted in family, community, simplicity, and *kapwa*—the Filipino understanding of shared identity and interconnected humanity. Living between these worlds brought both richness and inner conflict, but it also gave her an intimate understanding of duality, belonging, and the longing to feel whole. 

Shortly after turning 18, Shāradā travelled to India, driven by a profound ache and a desire for freedom beyond the familiar structures of her upbringing. During a plant-medicine ceremony guided by four Babas, she underwent an intense spiritual experience that she understood as an awakening into the recognition of oneness. Although doctors later diagnosed the experience as psychosis, Shāradā chose to meet it with humility, discernment, and an enduring commitment to discovering her own truth. 

Her path carried her through India, Venezuela’s La Gran Sabana and Salto Ángel, temazcal ceremony, devotional temple traditions, and eventually Bali—the island of a thousand temples—which has been her home for the past 17 years. Across these journeys, she has continued to explore the meeting point between spiritual experience, psychological integration, cultural tradition, and embodied human life. 

For more than 24 years, Shāradā has immersed herself in the spiritual heritage of the Vedic tradition.

She has studied, practised, assimilated, and taught Vedānta, Sanskrit, Vedic chanting, Āyurveda, Pūjā, yoga, and sacred ritual under the guidance of teachers within the lineage of Swami Dayānanda Saraswati, as well as respected teachers in their respective fields.

At the heart of her work is the recognition that our essential nature is whole, limitless, and not separate from life. For Shāradā, this understanding is not merely philosophical. It is a lived practice of learning to rest in reality as it is—to meet each moment with openness, including the painful, the pleasurable, the uncertain, and the beautiful. This embodied freedom, known in Sanskrit as moksha, is the deepest return on our lifelong investment: immeasurable, priceless, and available through a gradual process of self-acceptance and clear seeing with the help of the timeless teachings of Vedanta. 

Shāradā’s teachings are also shaped by her background in Odissi, the classical Indian dance tradition with roots in temple ritual, and by her work in inner-child healing, trauma integration, sacred sexuality, and relational embodiment. As a certified VITA Sex, Love & Relationship Coach, Sacred Sexuality Teacher, and philosophy educator, she bridges ancient teachings with the realities of modern life.

Through Devi School, she offers certification programs, immersive retreats, personalised mentorship, and educational experiences for emerging teachers, facilitators, and conscious leaders. Her work invites people to reconnect with their bodies, their inherent wholeness, their capacity for intimacy, and the freedom to live with greater truth and aliveness.

Shāradā shares her teachings internationally through her online platform, annual festival appearances, retreats, and collaborations with leading yoga teacher-training programmes. Her approach is at once rooted and expansive: grounded in lineage, informed by lived experience, and devoted to helping people discover that spirituality is not an escape from life, but a way of meeting life more fully.