Sharon Paquette
About Grounded & Calm
About Sharon Paquette (she/her/they)
Sharon Paquette founded Grounded & Calm (formerly Mindful Meditations) in 2021. She is a certified mindfulness teacher and mentor, having completed two years of training in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., and Tara Brach, Ph.D. through the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.
As part of this program, Sharon also completed a six-month DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accountability) Training. Most recently, she completed the six-month MMT Mindfulness Mentor Training Program with Jack Kornfield, Sharon Shelton, and Tara Brach, and is currently mentoring under La Sarmiento.
With over 10 years of mindfulness meditation practice, including 10-day silent retreats at Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Sharon brings a deep personal commitment to her work. She also has 25+ years of experience as an educator and holds both a current Ontario College of Teachers (OCT #469564) license and a State of Nevada teaching license (NDE #88061), both in good standing.
Grounded & Calm Offerings
✅ Mindfulness & Nature and Mindful Music classes at Encompass Academy Charter High School in Reno, Nevada
✅ Bi-Weekly Mindfulness Mentorship Group
✅ Private One-on-One Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Courses
✅ One-on-One Mindfulness Mentoring
✅ Seasonal Daylong and Weekend Retreats (announced on our Events Page)
Our Mission
Sharon’s mission is to help you cultivate grounded presence and calm through life’s many changes. She creates a playful, inclusive, and supportive space, using a science-based curriculum to explore mindful awareness of the breath, body, mind, and heart.
Register & Contact
📧 Register for a class or mentorship session at info@groundedandcalm.com.
✨ Build self-esteem, manage stress, and skillfully navigate challenges with ease and compassion.
Radical Welcome
We want to acknowledge the rich diversity that you represent.
We welcome each of you, in the many countries and rich cultures you represent.
We welcome people of all economic backgrounds and current situations.
We welcome your bodies. Bodies of all sizes, abilities, and challenges, whether visible or invisible.
We welcome those who are of Latino, Latina, or Latinx descent, who are First Nations or Indigenous people from around the world, those who are of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, Pacific Islanders descent, those of European descent and those who are mixed race.
We welcome those who are new to training, and those who have a great deal of experience. We welcome all ages, from young adults to elders.
We welcome all faith traditions. Those who identify as spiritual, or as mindfulness practitioners, and all the guiding beliefs that help us in how to live our lives.
We welcome your politics, left, right, or moderate.
We welcome all the languages we bring, and the many ways we speak English.
We welcome people of all genders, including people who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender queer, and everyone for whom those labels do not apply.
We welcome all sexual orientations, whether queer or straight, partnered or polyamorous, or asexual.
We welcome each of you in the rich complexity of your identity, including dimensions we have not mentioned.
We honor each of you.
Welcome.
“Create the change the world needs by creating change within yourself”
— Layla F. Saad
Sharon’s Story