06/12/2025
Although today I hold many labels — mother to one very active teenage boy, Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Sports Nutritionist, Yoga Teacher, NLP Master Coach — they’re just that… labels.
What really shapes a person, a business, and a service is the lived experience behind those words. The years of learning, trying, exploring, failing, rising and refining. That’s where the essence of Calma Health was born.
I’ve been in the health and fitness world for over 25 years. I started at 16, teaching aerobics in a local gym, and movement became the thread that wove through every chapter of my life — dancing in my school years, competing in long-distance running, falling in love with yoga in my early 20s, and more recently finding strength and joy in weight training, which eventually led me to fitness-model stages nationally and internationally.
In my 20s, I spent five years travelling — two years in the UK and three in South Korea — exploring life, culture and the human spirit across 32 countries. Those years cracked me open to a truth that has shaped everything since:
Health is everything.
Without it, our quality of life shrinks. With it, possibility expands.
Caring for people with end-stage dementia in England was another defining chapter. It taught me presence, compassion, and how fragile life truly is — and why building strength, vitality and resilience matters so deeply.
Before that, I completed my Bachelor of Human Movement Science in 2004, followed by a Post-Graduate Diploma in Exercise Rehabilitation while living in South Korea. I returned home to complete clinical placements across hospitals, rehab units and musculoskeletal clinics… all while becoming a new mum.
Where I stand today...
My mission is simple: to help as many people as possible become the strongest, calmest, most alive version of themselves — no matter their starting point. I believe everyone has a “highest self” within reach, and with the right mix of movement, nutrition, mindset and support, vitality becomes possible for anyone.
Calma Health isn’t just a business.
It’s everything I’ve lived, learned and embodied.
It’s the work of my life — and the gift I’m here to share.
x Sharna
