Sharon Hicks likes to think of herself as a holistic visionary. As a very small child, she discovered that she could make her visual field jump left and right by closing one eye, and then the other. Her natural curiosity and appreciation for the gift of sight continued to grow, helping her to enter more deeply into her studies as a painter, and later as a yoga instructor and vision educator. Her discovery process continues, and you, too, are invited to enter into a healthy, participatory relationship with your natural vision ability.

For more than twenty-five years, she has expressed her artistic vision through painting and exhibiting her work. As an adjunct faculty member of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she integrated meditation and holistic philosophy into drawing and painting classes.

Ms. Hicks began teaching visual-motor-perceptual education in 1994 as a vision therapist. In recent years, she studied with Deborah Redmond, founder of Red Mountain Yoga, Dr. Roberto Kaplan, international vision educator and Dr. Ellis Edelman, behavioral and syntonic optometrist. Continuing studies include certificates in yoga for the special child, movement for self-healing, Thai-yoga bodywork and Reiki.

Currently completing clinical fieldwork for an M.S. in occupational therapy, her expected graduation from Philadelphia University is in the Spring of 2009. She holds a B.F.A., cum laude, from Tyler School of Art, 1982. She also studied at The Barnes Foundation, and served as Assistant to the Director of Education, 1987-92.

Sharon Hicks is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Association of Vision Educators, and the College of Syntonic Optometry. Her articles on the topic of vision have been published in Yoga Living and New Visions magazines.