Sharkey is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). She has additional certifications in Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga and has studied ayurveda intensively under several professors and ayurvedic doctors for over 2.5 years, conducting case studies and learning how to read the pulse and help make recommendations for clients to balance their doshas based on current vikriti and prakriti. She is also a certified special education teacher, with 10+ years in the classroom working with special populations and has carried that same experience into her yoga offerings, through adaptive classes and private sessions for people with disabilities seeking a more discrete setting for their practice.