Sham Rang (Cynthia Nelson)

Sham Rang was born in Toronto and raised in Oakville.  As a child she was fascinated by the concept of love and felt that she was somehow missing the depth and breadth of its reality.  Discovering the truth behind and beyond love became a passion for her.  After the birth of her first child she developed another passion – the brain and its capacity for learning.  Watching in awe the intrinsic intelligence of her son and intrigued by the automatic nature of his learning she attended Teacher’s College and became a teacher with the Halton School Board.

In the classroom setting, she was keenly aware of the restrictions of the education system and the impositions society places on the psyche of developing children, but she was also aware of the privilege of being surrounded by the vibrancy and intelligence of her students.  The birth of her second child reinforced her awareness that for the human child learning is intrinsic and that much of this learning must be overturned later in life so that ‘self’ can be revealed.

Recognizing that the restrictions of the conventional classroom were also restricting her ability for self-expression, she offset this disconnect through the practice of yoga and meditation. This enabled her to explore different processes that would help uncover the expansiveness of her true self and of the truth of others.

After living many years with ‘mind over matter’ as her mantra and of negating her personal needs, she developed a life-threatening illness.  It was then that she made the decision to leave the education system and become a teacher of yoga and meditation.  Through her on-going exploration of the body and the mind, she has discovered that both the quality of love that she sought as a child and the astounding capacity for learning that so intrigued her as a parent and teacher are to be found, intrinsically, within the body – an extraordinary, magnificent and unique vehicle for the expression of existence.

Living in Oakville with her husband David, she is certified to teach Kundalini Yoga, The Five Tibetan Yogas, and to work in Transformative Self-Healing and Transformational Fantasy.  She helped develop the Samagra Meditation Teacher Training program and has taught Samagra meditation programs for many years.