About Grounded & Calm
Sharon Paquette
Sharon Paquette (she/her/they) founded Grounded & Calm (previously, Mindful Meditations) in 2021. She is a certified mindfulness teacher, having attended 2-years in training with Jack Kornfield, Ph.D, and Tara Brach’s, Ph.D, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program through the Awareness Training Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. As part of this 2-year program, Sharon completed a 6-month DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accountability) Training. Sharon has 10 years of mindfulness meditation practice experience, including 10-day silent retreat sits, 20+ years experience as an educator with a current Ontario College of Teachers teaching license (OCT #469564) in good standing.
Her mission is to help you ground and calm through life’s many changes. She is here to help you explore mindful awareness of the breath, body, mind and heart utilizing a science-based curriculum in a playful, inclusive, and supportive space.
Register for a class at info@groundedandcalm.com to build on your self-esteem, manage stress and skillfully approach 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