Hello Instructor Community!
We are excited to bring you our first Community Champion Spotlight of 2022. Each month we’re helping you get to know some of the community’s most active instructors on a more professional and personal level.
This week we are putting the spotlight on a familiar face in the Instructor Community, Sharon Ramel. She has been teaching Shamanism & Spirituality on Udemy for 8 years and has been a part of the community for 6 years.
Get to know more about Sharon in our interview below:

Who is Sharon Ramel?
My passion is to make shamanism practical and accessible to everyone. I like to use down-to-earth practical spiritual ways to weave ancient techniques alive in order to solve modern problems. It was not always easy - I was the first to bring shamanism alive online in video format and was often sneered and jeered by my peers. Who now..... all teach online.
I currently live in Orchid Valley, Western Australia - a small remote rural farming community 40 kilometers from the nearest town. However, from February 1 we move to the coast to a township called Yallingup. I am looking forward to not being so isolated.
What is your teaching style?
Engaged and eclectic - I am here for my students. It is a very practical style interspersed with the nuts and bolts of knowledge to deepen the learning.
What is one thing you wish that every NEW Udemy Instructor knew?
To teach to the best of your emerging ability only what you are genuinely an expert in.
Can you share your favorite experience/interaction with a student?
One of my students who had a few physical disabilities became my PA. She loved the work and was very good at it. It worked well for her as it was task, not time orientated. She was fun, not afraid to tell me what she thought, an amazing woman. Sadly Covid claimed her last year.
If you didn't teach on Udemy what would you be doing?
I am in my 63rd year - probably even more community work than I currently do!
What is your favorite thing about being an online instructor?
The aliveness of the body of work I have created and continue to do so. I am the pioneer of teaching shamanism online, it is now commonplace and valued. I smile inside when I see others who once knocked me fervently for undermining the practices now embracing it.
Who would you want to be stranded with on a deserted island?
My dear partner, Jorn.
If you were a superhero, what powers would you have?
I am a superhero, I am an ecstatic, intuitive lover of life.
Have a question for Sharon? Ask her in the comments below!