Ishita Sharma was born in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas and now lives on the west coast of the United States where the oceans meet the mountains. She walks as a devotee of Life, an apprentice of the fire of aliveness. 

Ishita has spent her life asking big questions that have no answers, pushing curiosities to the edges of knowing, making and celebrating beauty, truth and wonder!

Her restless investigations into the fundamentals of being began as a child in the foothills of the Garwhal Himalayas. Fascinated by but skeptical of the rich religious and spiritual mythology, she looked for a framework to explain what felt obvious but impossible to explain- the underlying oneness of All Things.

At 18 she took her first flight alone, leaving her homeland and family to move to the US to pursue a multi-disciplinary education. Questioning the most elemental constructs of life, often taken for granted, drove her explorations of the world, self and humanness through computer science, physics, poetry, history, art, architecture and literature.

Exploring and assimilating a foreign culture, finding the intersections of the universal and particular within herself and the world around her, Ishita practiced as an architect, moonlighting as a columnist, photographer and a multi-disciplinary artist. This rich period fueled rapid growth through personal, relational, professional and spiritual struggles and triumphs.

Intrigued by the contrast in community life in India vs the US, she sought to use design as a tool to mitigate disconnection, depression, isolation and overconsumption, asking- how can we connect people to themselves, each other and natural rhythms using space and form?

Grappling with steel and concrete on one end, and her place in the Everything on another, she quickly encountered the incapacity of her chosen discipline to address the enormity of her longing to serve and address the core of the human condition. And the big questions of being remained…

Until, right as her own spirituality came calling and her notions of self, community, culture and relationship fell apart. Standing at this inflection point she reckoned with the edges between conformity and sovereignty, familiar and foreign, true power and victimhood, love and suffering, and the places in her oppressed by yet perpetuating toxic social, familial and cultural norms.

Freedom from fear came knocking as clarity. The socio-cultural conditioned narratives surrounding her became transparent, and subsequently powerless. It was the beginning of the end of engaging obsolete oppressive structures- within and around her.

And one evening, standing in her bedroom, she found herself jumping up and down with joy, kissing the Bhagvad Gita, laughing hysterically at her beautiful, hungry and limited mind!

The game was up- she couldn’t deny to herself that what she had been seeking lay within, and had always been right there- and her incessant inquiry pointed outwards was just a way to delay that recognition.

Separating knowing and understanding, she finally surrendered to the knowingness within her.

As surrender ripened, it pointed her further inwards towards her Self until she became quiet, clear and still. She had never been trained in meditation though she’d known for years it would be key in her life, but now the pull into the silence was palpable. Following an inner arising to do so, she found herself sitting in silence each morning, right before it was time to leave for work. Short bursts of meditation happened. Dimensions opened. As she sat attuning to Life itself, her silence began to resound with tears of gratitude and the words “so much beauty, so much joy!”

Later, at age 29, a visit to the Kashmir Himalayas on family vacation brought her into an unexpected, profound and fundamental shift in consciousness.

As I-ness dissolved into into All-ness- alive, awake and loving, it brought a direct recognition of the underlying wholeness and perfection in all things and events- even our deepest pain and suffering.

Her deepest intuitions confirmed, she emerged humbled from the experience, excited to “be a girl in the world,” fundamentally grounded in a loving, awake silence that has still never gone away.

Assimilating Direct Self-knowledge, an ongoing period of integration began…falling in love, living and working as an architect, punctuated by deeper openings. These paradigmatic shifts led her to leave her career in design and move to India for a period to “rest in being and create space for new becomings,” looking to different wisdom/healing lineages and traditions to better understand her own experience, and language it.

As people started seeking her guidance, it illuminated her ability to lead them through their darkest nights and deepest wounds, into freedom and joy born of inner alignment.

Yielding to her deepest inner calling she began the process of consciously clearing and strengthening her own vessel to “come out of my spiritual closet” and serve. Returning to the US in 2016, she established Come to Center to share the joy and freedom of living an awake, connected and fulfilling life.

Ishita teaches from her direct experience, integrating non-dual, relational and embodiment practices, while facilitating authentic community.  Demystifying the mystical, opening the heart of devotion and embracing the fullness of our Humanity lies at the core of her invitation for us all to Come to Center, starting of course, with herself.

Jesse Goldmark (Energetics + Ceremony in Twisted Hairs Lineage) – 2022-present
Lynda Caesara (Energetics + Ceremony in Twisted Hairs Lineage)- 2016-present.
Dr. Lorraine Delear (Subtle Energy + Relation)- 2017-present
Dr. Karyne Wilner, Core Energetics Institute (Holistic Somatic Psychotherapy)- 2017-19Suzi Tucker (Systemic Family Constellations writing studio) – 2024
Kate Rafferty (Soul Infusion, formerly Transformational Kinesiology)- 2016-present
Steve Ulicny (Subtle Energetics + Transmission)- 2016 – present
Patrick Connor- 2025
Thomas Huebl (Relational Trauma Healing)- 2021, 2023
Janet Evergreen (Pre and peri-natal trauma healing)- participant and assistant- 2023 + 2024, Poly-vagal Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Healing Touch Skills- 2024
Dr. Dan Brown/Dustin Diperna (Mahamudra, Dzogchen Meditation)- 2021
Joe Hudson- Earth Shakers Forum, Firekeepers (Conscious Business + conflict resolution)- participant 2016-18, co-facilitator 2018-2020
The Center for the study of Non-symbolic Consciousness- Finders + Explorers Course- participant 2015, facilitator in 2017
Isha Yoga- Shambhavi Mahamudra, Bhuta Shuddhi, Upayoga, Self-restorative practices
Sivananda Yoga- self-study and immersion 2011-2016
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaja,
Swami Paramhansa Yogananda,
Sri Ramana Maharishi
Arunachala Shiva
Kailash Mansarovar
The River Ganges
Mount Tamalpais
The Bhagvad Gita,
The Tao Te Ching,
and the Sanskrit language.