My
first experience with Iridology was when I was told
my eyes had turned blue!!! I later learned the
cleansing that had healed the cause of the breast
cancer had also released the yellow and brown
pigments from my iris, and I no longer needed to
wear glasses!"
Farida Sharan, ND, is the Founder and Director
of the School of Natural Medicine, an author,
educator, natural physician, mystic dancer and yoga
teacher, international lecturer and seminar leader.
Her training includes Esalen massage, Gestalt
Therapy, European Massage & Beauty treatments,
Reflexology, Shiatsu, Yoga Teacher Training with
Yogi Bhajan, Polarity Therapy, Iridology,
Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine (MH) with Dr.
Raymond Christopher and his the School of Natural
Healing, and Iridology with Dr. Bernard Jensen.
Later training also includes lymphatic massage, tai
chi, chi gung, essential oils, aromatherapy, flower
remedies with Nora Weeks of the Bach Flower
Institute in England, Ashtanga yoga, Living Food
Teacher Training and Core Synchronicity cranial
bodywork.
Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1942, trained as a
gymnast, dancer and yogini, Farida moved to
California, USA in 1963 where she managed health
and beauty spas and trained massage and beauty
therapists. After healing breast cancer with
natural medicine in the early seventies at an
Essene healing center in southern California, she
made natural medicine her life work.
From l977 to l988 she lived in Cambridge, England,
where as a leader in complementary and alternative
natural medicine she founded the British School of
Iridology, the British Register of Iridologists
(the premier register honored by the Institute of
Complementary & Alternative Medicine in London)
and the School of Natural Medicine. During this
time she hosted symposiums in Cambridge to bring
together renowned teachers such as Dr. Bernard
Jensen, Dr. Raymond Christopher, Dorothy Hall,
Willy Hauser, Harri Wolf and Denny Johnson to
present research and create a synthesis of
Iridology teachings.
Together with John Morley, she founded Iridology
Research and wrote the Iridology Manifesto. She
also traveled to Germany to meet with the renowned
iridologist, Joseph Deck, and Willy Hauser, and to
visit nature cure clinics. In 1986 HarperCollins
published her definitive hard back textbook
Iridology — a complete guide to diagnosing through
the iris and to related forms of treatment.
Farida was appointed a Director of the Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine to represent
Iridology, awarded a doctorate (MD) from Medicina
Alternativa in Copenhagen, Denmark and appointed a
Fellow of the Guild of Naturopathic Iridologists.
For twelve years she worked with hundreds of
patients and students, discovering revelations in
physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of
Iridology and Natural Medicine that she shares in
her books, teachings and practice.
During these years Farida traveled to India three
times a year to visit and teach at the Institute of
Naturopathic & Yogic Sciences, yoga ashrams,
Ayurvedic clinics and spiritual colonies. A Natural
Physician, Naturopath, Master Herbalist and
Iridologist, Farida has been in private practice
for twenty-five years, several of which were in a
gynecological medical clinic in London, England
where client progress was confirmed by medical
tests taken before and after treatment. Her
associate, Dr. Shirley Bond, commented, "I never
knew such tissue changes were possible". She also
worked with the Gerson Cancer Clinic and the
Bristol Cancer Clinic, receiving regular referrals.
Farida Sharan developed a new model of the
Iridology constitutional types, Transformational
Iridology (TI) which she presented to the Guild of
Naturopathic Iridologists in Regent’s College in
London, England in May 2000, at the International
Iridology Symposium in Sydney, Australia in March
2001, at the International Iridology Expo in San
Marcos California in June 2002 and at the American
College of Iridology Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
in October 2002.
Currently residing in Boulder, Colorado, Farida
Sharan devotes herself to writing, traveling,
seeing clients and teaching selected students who
choose to receive the wisdom and experience she has
to share. SNM offers Natural Physician training —
Master Iridologist (MIr), Naturopathy (ND), Master
Herbalist (MH) — mentored Study Materials, Summer
School, Clinical Training, Apprenticeship,
Graduation Intensives, Self Healing Modules, Living
Food Teacher Training, and Healing &
Rejuvenation Retreats.
Immensely creative, Farida developed unique mystic
yoga and dance processes which include
TranscenDance, Elemental Dances of Life, Primal
Impulse Yoga, Flowers of Peace, Evolutionary
Spiral, and Sacred Geometry Pathways. She presents
these transformational Mystic movement processes in
the SNM Summer School, and at her Healing Retreats
in India, Iceland, Australia, Thailand, Puerto Rico
and Hawaii, and by invitation to other countries.
Farida Sharan is the author of Iridology — a
complete guide to diagnosing through the iris and
to related forms of treatment, published by
HarperCollins, Creative Menopause — Illuminating
Women’s Health & Spirituality, Herbs of Grace -
Becoming Independently Healthy, and the Iridology
Coloring Book and the Dictionary of Iridology which
were co-authored with illustrator, Ghatfan Safi,
ND, graduate of the School of Natural Medicine.
Member International Iridology Practioners
Association (IIPA), Fellow of the Guild of
Naturopathic Iridologists
Farida Sharan, ND MH MIr FGNI FBRI MDMA
"I developed my teaching based on the philosophy of
purification, regeneration and transformation after
healing breast cancer through natural & mystic
self-healing in the early seventies. I mentor
students to become a living example of the laws of
living in life and work — wisdom embodiment — and
to share the truth as a teacher and guide for those
seeking health and healing.