Tara Dhatu Student Teachers
USA
Arizona
Flagstaff
Level 3-i
Phone: (928)607-0344
Level 2-i
928 779-4321
Phoenix Area
Meeting for over eight years, the Phoenix Valley Tara Mandala has generated a strong central circle of enthused and experienced Tara practitioners. Gatherings are comprised of participants who range in age and in experience. Meetings happen monthly and all are welcome to join. Check out their web site
for information about meetings, special events and other area tidbits.
The Phoenix circle is under the direction of Parvati Forrest Anee Burke. She is a Level Four Mentor, Assistant Director of the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program . She traveled to India with Tara Dhatu for the 2001 Pilgrimage and has facilitated the Phoenix Valley Tara Mandala since it began to meet in 2001. To read some of the Phoenix Group’s Past stories, please visit here.
Level 4
Level 1
Level 1
Level 1
Tucson
Level 3
520 822-1412
Level 3
802 453 2145
California
Tara has been dancing up and down the coast of California since the Mandala went on the road in 1988. We offered the dance in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, El Cerrito, San Jose, Healdsburg and a tiny town near Arcata.
The Lotus Circle keeps a monthly meeting turning in the Bay Area. Karen Metta, Marie Elena and Bonney Meyer are a dedicated group of teachers/organizers and our yearly celebration there is an ecstatic connection with old friends and new.
Lama Kunga, who lives in the Berkeley Hills offers empowerments during our celebrations and dharma support through the year. Many of the Lotus Circle have studied the 21 Praises in depth with him.
We invite you to visit our Events page.
El Cerrito
Level 3
Phone: 510-525-2560
Level 3
Phone: (510)964-9178
Level 3
Phone: 707-887-2210
Oakland/Berkeley/Albany
Level 2
Phone: 510-525-2343
Halcyon
Level 1
805-904-7318
Georgia
The circle in Georgia has inaugurated a wonderful program of sharing the Tara Dance
go to www.taradanceatlanta.com for more information
Atlanta
Level 3
Phone:(404)584-5242
Level 2
404-431-1136
HAWAII
Kauai
Shortly after the Tara Dance was born on the island of Maui, Prema took the dance to Kauai at the invitation of Eana Rose. Prema made a commitment to the Kauai dancers to offer the Tara dance there once a year and to this date has kept this commitment, over 20 years. Eana Rose was one of the first Tara dancers to enter the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program (STP). She kept the dance turning on a regular basis since 2000 at a lovely temple she built behind her house on the lush north shore of Kauai.
A Level 4 Mentor of the dance, Eana encouraged Trishana Star and Sharon Gonzales to lead the meetings when she left the island for a few years. Robin Mazor joined the Student Teacher program
and the dance has been turning at Tara Sangha, her dharma center home in Kapaa. Lora Lynne joined the program and together with several Taras who have been dancing for years, the monthly meetings are well attended, deep and fulfilling.
Eana has just returned to the isands, Trishana and Robin are now Level 2 ST and Sharon graduated last year to a Level 3 leader. The Kauai Taras are very active in offering the dance in Community offerings..
These pages are being updated....but you can get a taste of the activity.
We invite you to visit the Kauai Community page
along with their Current Events page, as well as their Past events Page.
Level 4
Phone: (808) 828 0138
Level 3
808 823 9364
Level 2
808 828 0076
Level 2
808 651 0286
Level 2
808 346 9380
Maui
The Tara Dance was born on Maui in 1986 and some of the original dancers are still dancing!!!! Dechen and Kachina have held things together since Prema started traveling so extensively. Now Barbara has joined the Tara Dance Student/teachers program. With their dedication and Prema more in residence a monthly meeting is happening.
Please contact Barbara for our Monthly meeting information.
Please visit here to see our meeting dates.
Level 2
808 874 7412
Level 3-i
Phone: (808) 879 5554
Level 1
Phone: Phone (808) 874-8191
Illinois
Level 1
847 364 4149
Indiana
The Tara Dance Group in Indiana is just starting under the leadership of Jenny Malika Mish. She just moved to the area as a professor at Notre Dame. Dance practice will be Thursday, Oct 29th. 7 PM. They will continue to turn the third Thursday of every month.
Call Jenny for more information.
Level 2
574-344-3989
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Jessica Zebrine is Prema’s niece. For almost ten years she has been dancing and studying the Tara Dance.While completing her PhD in Theatre at Louisiana State University, Jessica also serves as Director of Religious Education at a local Unitarian Universalist church. She leads a monthly Mandala Dance Circle at the church, sharing the dances of Tara and other Dances of Universal Peace. For more information about these classes. Or if you live in the Baton Rouge area, join the MandalaDanceBR yahoogroup at Click to join MandalaDanceBR
Jessica and her husband, Rhye Gray are dedicated to a ministry that combines Buddhist and Pagan inspiration and ritual through Graystar Ministries.
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Read more about Jessica Zebrine'sTara Dance journey
Level 3
Phone: 225-773-2376
Level 1
225-773-3429
Level 1
225 773 0861
Lafayette
Adrianne LaBry connected with the Tara Dance through a Mandala Offering held at Jessica’s church in Baton Rouge. The Dance touched a deep place within and she gathered a small group of dancers and started a weekly meeting. Encouraged to look for dharma centers in her area she connected with Katog Choling and has facilitated the dance meditation of Tara's 21 Qualities monthly at their facility.
Sophia's Circle, a women's spirituality center of Lafayette recently invited her to give regular classes to their group as well. For more information about the circle in Lafayette please contact Adrianne.
Level 3
Phone: 337-237-2233
Maryland
Level 2
New York
Brooklyn
More than 10 years ago Elena heard about the Tara dance and was in touch with the adventures of Tara Dhatu through its newsletter emails. She decided to celebrate one special birthday and attended the Tara Mandala with Prema and Anahata in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She was inspired to learn to teach the dance and went to the Tara Camp on Kauai. The Tara Retreat was a wonderful experience and she committed to offer the Tara Dance every full moon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and when the weather is nice she has a loyal group join her in Prospect Park or,when the weather is not so accommodating, at Patsy’s house, one of the Tara dancers. She often travels to Barcelona, Spain, the land of her birth, and has started initiating her friends there in the joys of Tara’s Dance.
Level 1
Phone: (718) 788-8905
New Lebanon
Level 1
Phone: 518794-8641
North Carolina
Winston Salem
After the sublime blessing of meeting Prema and dancing the Tara Dance for the first time in 1995 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mekare commited to bringing the Tara Dance as often as possible to North Carolina. It all began in the fall of 1997, when Prema and Anahata arrived in Winston-Salem. A full Mandala with protectors and a large group of children spontaneously arose from this somewhat conservative southern town. It was so very powerful! Women from this original Tara Dance are still dancing in NC. The wheel began turning with such joy.
Tara Circles began meeting in 1999 in North Carolina, after Mekare was invited by Mary Miller Stair of Asheville to lead the Mantra dance for a large DUP circle. The response was so overwhelming that with Prema's blessing, Mekare traveled to Asheville from her home in Winston-Salem one Sunday a month for a year and a half leading a wonderful circle of Tara Dancers, which culminated with bringing Prema and Anahata to Asheville for the third full Mandala Dance weekend in NC. Three glorious women from the Asheville circle, Anna, Jan, and Susan, went on the 2001 Pilgrimage.
Mekare then established a Tara Circle in her hometown of Winston-Salem where a small but devoted group danced together as often as possible in living rooms, gardens, and porches. Tara has also danced her blessings at a funeral, a croning ceremony, birthday celebrations, a New Year's ceremony, and numerous gatherings for the healing of our world.
Level 3
336 761 1427
Ohio
The Tara Dance has been turning in Ohio for almost ten years. Starting in Cleveland the circle moved to Youngstown when Julie Thomas joined the Student/teacher program.
Konchok, a Level 2 of the STP has been assisting Julie, and leading the circle when Julie is traveling.
She is starting her own circle in Salem, Ohio.
More information on our Youngstown Tara Community, please visit here.
For our schedule please visit here
For more information on our Salem Tara Community,please visit here.
Youngstown
Level 3
Phone: (330) 941-1735
Salem
Level 2
330 550 2341
Oklahoma
Edmond – Oklahoma City
Level 1
405 341 4066
Oregon
Portland
Level 1
(503) 208-3979
Texas
Austin
Level 2
979 822 2722 or 979 575 0780
Utah
Salt Lake City
Level 1
(801) 349-0006
Level 1
801-355-1077
Vermont
There has been an ongoing circle of Tara Dancing in Vermont since 1999. For a schedule of Tara Dance events in Vermont and to meet the Vermont dancers, please visit here.
Plainfield
Level 3
802 454 1461
Level 2
Phone: 802 477 2401
Washington
Seattle
Seattle hosted one of the first Tara Dances outside of Maui. At the dance Dagmola Kushog, the esteemed wife of Sakya Lineage Holder Dagchen Rinpoche attended the dance. She was entranced and had many wonderful things to say about it. She became a close friend of Tara Dhatu and has continued to give encouragement and support for the dance.
She has requested that it be a yearly performance in Seattle.
Phyllis Moses lived on Maui when the Tara Dance first began and felt an affinity with the Dance from the beginning.
Seeing how the dance evolved and grew over the years, and how many people benefit from it,
she was recently inspired (by Tara, of course!) to hold the monthly dance offerings at her home in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle.
Level 1
425 814 4702
To visit Phyllis’s personal website.....
Level 1
Eastsound, Orcas Island
Level 1
370 376 8272
Wisconsin
Madison
Level 2
608 257 3802
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