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While living a simple life of creative solitude along coastal California’s Cardiff by the Sea for the past few decades after many years of monastic life and then Hollywood filmmaking, Sharon, who also goes by the Sanskrit name "Kumuda," has steadily built and expanded, page by page and file by file, the Night Lotus Website of free multimedia spiritual resources, with thousands of files of books, videos, music, and more, all available for free in a noncommercial setting, serving hundreds of guests from around the world every day, while writing books, recording CDs, and producing videos for charitable and uplifting causes.
Sharon was introduced to the ideas of consciousness by her psychology teacher parents at an early age, taking a three-month course in hypnosis at age seven and lecturing in her mother's class on dream symbolism at age nine.
While studying neuroscience and film at the University of Michigan, she visited the local Ann Arbor ashram as part of a university field trip, experienced a spiritual awakening, and planned a two-month stay at the ashram of Baba Muktananda. Two months turned into a ten-year journey of monastic life, study, practice, service, and deep spiritual immersion, while scripting and editing hundreds of videos for the worldwide spiritual path of Siddha Yoga Meditation.
From the ashram, Sharon moved to Hollywood for an award-winning career as film editor, director, and producer, working on many news feature shows and television programs including The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and X-MEN (for which she was called an "unsung hero" in this October 2017 article in the Hollywood Reporter). These mainstream avenues honed Sharon's creative skills and brought her in touch with speaking to mainstream audiences.
Click the screen on the right to play a clip of Sharon (aka Kumuda) animated on X-Men.
Sharon has won these and additional awards for her television work:
The combination of monastic life and Hollywood creativity paved the way for Sharon to share her offerings with the worldwide community in a vibrant, down-to-earth style. Today, she lives in Cardiff by the Sea, California, as a spirituality author, singer, speaker, and documentary filmmaker, sharing a universal view of spirituality with humor and insight.
