Charla Shamhart has been working with herbs and nutrition for over 40 years. She began herb collecting with her family for the first time when she was 3 years of age. She wildcrafts many herbs in the mountains of Southern California and Arizona. Charla is a member of the American Botanical Council and regularly attends the Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine held at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM) in Tempe, Arizona. Charla offers classes in herbs and nutrition in the Yucca Valley area of California and is available to travel to give lectures and classes in Southern California. 

 She has assisted many people in finding relief from chronic health conditions using herbs and nutrition. As a Medical Intuitive, Charla is frequently able to understand underlying conditions causing health complications and systemic imbalances. As a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, she often recommends traditional foods that have been known for centuries as superfoods in various cultures to guide people into more holistic diets that better suit their personal nutritional needs.

As the primary moderator of Facebook page IODINE SUPPORT GROUP and a lecturer on using Iodine for health, Charla has been assisting people in restoring their health using Lugol's Iodine and the Iodine Protocol for years.

Both Charla and her husband Michael are certified as Elite Master Practitioners in B.E.S.T., BioEnergetic Synchronization Technique by founder Dr. M. T. Morter, Jr, DC, PhD, of Morter HealthSystem. B.E.S.T. is a non-forceful, energy balancing hands on procedure used to help reestablish the full healing potential of the body. Understanding that the body makes no mistakes regarding health and longevity, B.E.S.T. principles acknowledge the concept of Interference we create with our conscious and sub-conscious mind. This Interference caused imbalance in the autonomic nervous system leading to exhaustion of our organ systems over time. Researched at major universities, taught in several Chiropractic Colleges and in professional continuing education seminars, B.E.S.T. is recognized as an effective healing science. Using this system, people are able to release emotional traumas that block the natural healing process.

Charla began meditating at age 11 and practicing yoga at age 13. In her early 20s she was trained and menotred by Joyce Creamer for several years in Ashtanga Yoga, classical Indian yoga as taught by Patanjali, the father of yoga. Sha has also studied with Roy Eugene Davis, founder of the Center for Spiritual Awareness in Lakemont, Georgia. Roy is a direct student of Yogananda. She also took classes with Dr. Ramamurti S. Mishra, M.D. and with Baba Hari Das, a yogi in Santa Cruz, California who is associated with the Mount Madonna Center. Charla began studying the Science of Mentalphysics Tibetan Breathing techniques and Tibetan meditation at age 18. While working at the Institute of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree, California, which was founded by Master Ding Le Mei who learned in China and Tibet in the early 1900's, she taught the Initiate Group and Inner Chamber Courses developed by him. Mentalphysics now hosts Joshua Tree Retreat Center. Charla developed the Breath of Life Training, a fast-track series of those teachings for people who have already been actively expanding their consciousness.

Charla the founder and lead minister, along with her husband Michael, at The Circle of Life, a Sunday gathering of Spirituality Beyond Religion that meets every Sunday at Rainbow Stew 55509 Twentynine Palms Hwy. in Yucca Valley, California. She was ordained in 1972 through the Universal Life Church and in 2006 through the Institute of Mentalphysics. She and Michael ran the spiritual division and First Church of Mystic Christianity at the Institute of Mentalphysics for 6 yrs. She offers Weddings, Commitment Ceremonies, Memorials, Winging on the Way Ceremony (for those recently deceased) and Spiritual Counseling. Charla received a Doctorate of Metaphysics from the Church of True Grace in 2008.

For 30 yrs. the Shamhart family has sold Native American books, music, DVDs, crystals and herbs at Native powwows, primarily in Southern California through their business The Desert Star. Charla is of Cherokee, English and Scottish ancestry and was trained in several Native traditions including Sweat Lodge and spiritual uses of Native herbs through Heart Medicine Lodge and later Rainbow Heart Medicine Lodge in the lineage of Paiute elder Grandpa Raymond Stone, Evelyn Eaton, Willow Woman and Phil Moon Dancer Sniderman.

She studied Shamanism with Richard Lee of Joshua Tree and Jade Wah'oo of Sedona in the 1980s and went through a series of Shamanic initiations over several years including Bridge of Transcendence (fire-walking), Ceremony of Purification Through Grandmother Ocean and Burial in the Womb of Mother Earth. Charla offers Shamanic clearing of homes and businesses, clearing and removal of spirits and entities, as well as breaking up and cleansing of crystallized and fragmented energies in people. She also studied for several years with Julia Wilmot of Angel Light Academy to invoke and work with Archangels and Spirit Guides as well as clearing ancestral lines of energy

Both Shamharts are beekeepers and work with High Desert Beekeeping and High Desert Beekeepers Association in rescuing unwanted honeybees and mentoring others in both keeping bees and using different products from the hive for restoring wellness. Charla has been mentored by internationally known Apitherapist Don Downs and is personal friends with Ellie Lobel who pioneered using cutting edge techniques of Bee Venom Therapy for Lyme Disease. Charla is a member of the American Apitherapy Association.