Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Directory
Current Active Circles | USA Listings |
South America Listings | International Listings
Select an area for information and contacts for the most current active Tara Dance Circles
Kihei, Maui
Prema Dasara,along with senior student teacher, Pyria Gauch and Jasmine Judith
Prema Gathers for a special outdoor Tara Dance every full and new moon when she is on the island. When she is away Pryia Barbara Gach and Jasmine Judith help keep the mandala spinning. They meet in a pleasant seaside park in Kihei, Maui Please see the listing for Maui in the USA Listings below
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Kauai Island, Hawaii
Eana Rose, Trishana Star, Ivy Garlynd and Robin Mazor
Kauai Tara Circle meets every 3rd Sunday of the month. Currently at the Golden Lotus Studio in Kapaa and occasionally at different locations around the island and outdoors when possible. see USA listings below for more information Pacifica, California
Pia Hagan, leads a Tara Dance circle meeting at "Shell Dance" and other bay area locations
for more information see Pia's listing in the California tab under USA LISTINGS below
605-451-2616 purpletara21@gmail.com
A San Francisco Bay area Chapter of our international community
TaraDhatu.org
Phyllis Moses, Noelle Faulkner, Kim Abbey
Please see Oregon and Washington tabs in the USA listings below for more information
Every Wednesday 5pm CT
( Arkansas time)
Adrianne and the Virtual Tara Circle
Register in advance to receive link to join and password:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwode-uqDIoEtRmw9cRh8pV6ErnUR6qjsLA
Meeting ID: 885 2666 9280
Motivation, Refuge & Bodhicitta, Tara’s Qualities,The 8 Precious Offerings
White Tara of the 6 Shields
Questions? Contact Adrianne at adrianne.smith22@gmail.com
Amber Roniger, New York and Janice Walrafen Vermont
Woodstock - Amber amber@findingtara.com
Vermont - Janice - jwalrafen@gmail.com
See tabs in the USA LISTINGS below for New York and Vermont
Napier - North Island
Clare Woodham - Clare leads a weekly Zoom meeting during this time of social distancing and also to connect with our international community. She leads from her local Dharma Center. You can find the link for her meetings on the Zoom connection banner on our home page.
You can reach Clare here at her email:
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Bhavna Nagar - bhavna@alivepsych.co.nz
Bhavna participated in the Napier Circle and sometimes fills in for Clare when she is away.
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Nelson - South Island
Catherine Walker
Catherine has been holding monthly Tara Circles in Mohua/Golden Bay and Whakatuu/Nelson for the past ten or so years. Also, Tara Weekend Retreats at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, Upper Moutere, and Shambhala Retreat Centre.
We love to meet and welcome Tara Sangha to our Circle.
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Jislaine Santi - jislaine@gmail.com
Jislaine lives in Nelson and is currently finishing up some studies and plans to participate in creating a circle in later in 2021
Russia
Perm
Lybov Korotovskikh
Lybov practices and leads Tara Dance circle in Russia. She has traveled many times over the years to be with the international gatherings of TaraDhatu
she can be reached at her email:
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St. Petersburg
Hope Jinishian is a senior teacher living in Massachusetts. She organizes Tara Dhatu retreats and leads Tara dance circles in Spanish and English both online and in person. She has taught in the U.S., Mexico, Peru and Scotland. She first learned this inspiring sacred practice from Prema Dasara in Bali not long after learning the traditional Tibetan practice of Green Tara from Khenpo Khartar Rinpoche in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in upstate NY, where she also frequently shared dances of Tara with children and adults. This has been a life changing practice for Hope and it brings her great joy to share it with others.
contact Hope at dancing4peace@gmail.com and (845)417-1554
USA Listings
Here you will find an active list
of Student Teachers &
Facilitators listed by state.
Arizona
Phoenix Area
Meeting for over fifteen years, the Phoenix Area Tara Sangha 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 the third Sunday of each month from 3:30-5 pm and welcome all to join. Check out their web site
for information about meetings, special events and other area tidbits or view the Circle’s Face Book Page.
The Phoenix circle is under the direction of Parvati Forrest Anee Burke. She is a level four mentor in the Tara Dhatu Educational Program (TDEP). She traveled on pilgrimage with Tara Dhatu to India in 2001 and 2013 as well as Indonesia in 2015. She has facilitated the Phoenix Valley Tara Mandala since it began to meet in 2001.
Parvati Forrest Burke Phone: (602) 412-7386
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Carey Avery also assists leading in the Phoenix area and in daily zoom meetings
Carey can be reached at this email:
taraworkshop@icloud.com
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Flagstaff
Khadaravani Tara Ling Tara Dance group meets once a month at a private residence
Please contact Cynthia for information and to join her circle
Contact Cynthia here:
Cynthia Knox phone (928-607-0344
Tucson area
Teresa Newberry - Teresa is a Level 3 Dance leader and is active in the Tucson area. You can contact Teresa here:
California
Pacifica
Pia Hagan
Phone: (650) 451-2616
Pia travels for her work but holds a meeting in Pacifica/San Francisco bay area once a month when she is home. She also occasionally offers gatherings while on the road. Contact her to see where is gathering Tara Dancers. Please contact her if you would like to know about her gathering in the SF California bay area. Thank you, Pia <3
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Sebastopol
Lori Ingram - Lori is a Level 1 Tara Dance Leader in also in the San Francisco Bay area. you can contact her at this email
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The Bay Area Lotus Circle
Ursula Jacobson <de_jacob@msn.com
Ursula is also active in the Sebastopol Tara Dance circle and manages the Bay area website
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Oakland
Jacquelyn Sendak
Phone: 1-510-526-2343
Jacquelyn and her husband Rigzin
are both members of Tara Dhatu Educational Programs
Our teaching is in Albany and Berkeley, California area. Have traveled in US for presentations.
Tara dance facilitator Rev. Jacquelyn Sendak-Zavaleta Joined Tara Dhatu student teacher program in 2000, and has danced on pilgrimages in Nepal, India, & Japan. She has danced in Az, Hawaii, Ca, and facilitated Intro to Tara dance programs in New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, and Ca. Currently she Leads a Community Sacred Dance Circle in Albany, Ca. And has also studied two lineages of Tibetan Yoga.
Jacquilyn shares her facilitation with her husband Rigdzin Zavaleta. He is in TaraDhatu Student teacher program and He assisted the dancers on the Tara pilgrimage in 2001 to India and Nepal. In 2010 he danced as protector in Japan, Ca., and Tara camp in Hawaii.
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El Cerrito
Meadow Lisa Wong leezher@gmail.com
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Karen Metta Fleischer - Level 3 Tara Dance Leader lives in east bay San Fransisco area. Contact Karen here at this email address:
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Santa Cruz
Adora Deva - Adora lives in Santa Cruz, California -
She can be reached here at her email: adoradeva888@gmail.com
and her phone number 831-566-9678
1818 Felt Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
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Raga Ronda Wiley - Level one Tara Dance leader. She is in the greater SF bay area - Santa Cruz, CA
contact her here: windhorse8@yahoo.com
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Marin County
Maurizia Zanin - mauriziazanin@gmail.com
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San Francisco
Mai Chen - chenxm11@gmail.com
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Redding
Kathryn Henderson
"I often offer Tara Dances at Association for the Study of Women and Mythology conferences and other Women's Gatherings such as the
Reformed Congregation of the Goddess Priestess Gathering and Southern Oregon Women's Land Collective gatherings"
Kathryn can be reached here:
Ph# 979-575-0780
and by email: khenderson.soc@gmail.com
Hawaii
Kauai
We meet the 3rd Sunday of each month 9am - 12 noon at the Golden Lotus Studio in kapaa.
Call eana 808-353-1071 taradhatukauai@gmail.com
We invite you to visit the Kauai Tara Dance Face book page
Eana Rose- Level 4 Tara Dance leader and Mentor in the Student teacher program. She facilitates the monthly Kauai Tara Dance Circle
Trishana Star - Level 2 dance leader and facilitator of the once a month ongoing Meeting. you can reach her here:
Robin Mazor- Level 3 Dance leader and contributes to the monthly circle meeting on Kauai. Robin can be reached at this
email: msrobinmazor@gmail.com
Sherry Harris - is a student of the Tara Dance and regularly participates in the monthly meetings and events on Kauai and beyond. you can reach her here. Harriss023@gmail.com
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 for over 30 years. Eana Rose was one of the first Tara dancers to enter the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program (STP). Eana traveled with TaraDhatu on the 2001 Pilgrimage to India and Nepal as well as 2015 Bali, 2017 Brasilia, 2018 Tara Monlam in Brasilia and 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Maui
Prema Dasara is the Creatrix of the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara and founder and president TaraDhatu Foundation. The Realm of the divine Feminine.
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 a monthly meeting is happening. When Prema is home on Maui she gathers for a Tara Dance practice twice a month, on the new moon and the full moon. contact Prema here: prematara@mac.com
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Dechen Groode
phone: 808-874-5554
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Priya Barbara Gach
Phone: (808) 298-3187
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Jasmine Judith Arnold
Jasmine and Priya both lead the dance often twice a month on the new and full moon in Kihei, Maui
Rev.Dr.Jude Arnold
jude.rev.dr.arnold@gmail.com
Louisiana
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 Katog Ratna Ling dharma center.For more information about the circle in Lafayette please contact Adrianne
Adrianne LaBry Smith Phone: (337)739-2597
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Baton Rouge/New Orleans area
Renee Ishtara
suziperez@gmail.com
Phone number
225 305 4554
Michigan
Northport
The Northport Lotus Mandala meets
every Sunday, 4:30pm – 6pm.
Located on the Leelanau Peninsula, in the town of Northport, 26 miles north of Traverse City.
Contact Marie Elena for further details.
Marie Elena Gaspari Phone: (231)633-632
Amber Roniger - zioncowgirl@gmail.com
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7187199507?
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New Lebanon
Aimée Brodeur Johnson has been an enthusiastic devotee of Tara ever since encountering the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara in 2001. She has danced Tara in Brazil, Bali, and Kauai, as well as numerous times at the Abode of the Message, the Sufi community in upstate New York where she has lived since 1988. She facilitates a monthly Tara Circle in the Meditation Hall at the Abode. Om Tare!
Aimee Johnson johnsondlalb@gmail.com
Phone: (413)358-8203
North Carolina
Winston Salem
Mekare Fiske
After the sublime blessing of meeting Prema and dancing the Tara Dance for the first time in 1995 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mekare committed 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.
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.
Mekare Fiske DevadasiM@aol.com
Phone: (336) 761 1427
Oregon
Vancover/Portland Oregon
Phyllis Moses lived on Maui when the Tara Dance first began and felt an affinity with the Dance from the beginning.
Phyllis lives in in Vancouver, WA. She offers the practice every month alternating between Vancouver WA and Portland Oregon.
Phyllis Moses
Phone: 425-922-0268
To visit Phyllis’s personal website…..
Portland
Noelle Faulkner - firebirdfae@earthlink.net
Noelle is a level 2 dance leader. She lives in Portland OR and also provides us with beautiful costumes as well as participates the zoom meetings. see the banner on the home page
Ohio
Cincinnati
Nita-Rose Augsbach
Embodying meditation through a combination of powerful visualizations, beautiful devotional mantras and meditative movement. Deity-Yoga meditation offers the opportunity for a deeply moving experience within the Tara Temple. The Tara Temple is a beautiful red cedar wood cabana built behind our home for this sacred meditation practice. During COVID in order to maintain social distancing and safely engage in the practice we are being hosted by various yoga studios in the area who are able to accommodate the circle. Please e-mail me for the current address. RSVP: tararose@cinci.rr.com
Phone: (513) 510-9347
Where: Please call to confirm the location.
6820 High Meadows Drive, Cincinnati, OH
OUR PRAYER
I pray that you come, Arya Tara
Everything is in readiness for you.
I offer the first blossoms of spring,
The fragrance of incense,
A fresh candle on the altar,
The music of your Mantra singing in my mind,
My dancing heart
You appear before me
That I may gaze upon the splendor of your beauty
And realize that beauty within me
Rhode Island
Jessica Zebrine Gray jessicazebrine@gmail.com
Jessica is a level 3 dance leader and a board member.
Texas
Austin
Anjali Maazel
Anjali is an artist, writer and teacher who introduced the Tara dance lineage to the beautiful Palri Pema Od Ling Tibetan Buddhist temple and co-hosted Prema’s return to the Austin area in 2014. She initiated Prema’s Long Life Prayer project.
We are so excited to be able to offer the Tara Dances again in person on the first Sundays of the month.
here are some more links for Anjali’s activity in the Austin area
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Vermont
Janice Walrafen - Level Three TeacherWashington
Vancover/Portland Oregon
Phyllis Moses lived on Maui when the Tara Dance first began and felt an affinity with the Dance from the beginning.
Phyllis lives in in Vancouver, WA. She offers the practice every month alternating between Vancouver WA and Portland Oregon.
Phyllis Moses
Phone: 425-922-0268
To visit Phyllis’s personal website…..
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Olympia
Kim Abby leads Tara Dance and Meditation Circle in Olympia.
Please give her a call for information about the next event location date and time.
Phone her at 206-387-6134
She welcomes you and is grateful to be able to offer this opportunity in the Olympia area of Washington
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Bellingham
Julia Sanders-Dobos Phone: (370)376-8272
Juilia's Email - julia93@orcasonline.com
South America Listings
President and Coordinator
of Tara Dhatu South America
Myri Dakni Naves
myriangela@gmail.com
Click Here to Visit Tara Dhatu South America's Directory of Facilitators
International Listings
Select a country for our international listings of student teachers and Dance leaders
Sydney
Felicity Oswell is a Level 4 Mentor of the Tara Dance. She lives in Sydney where she leads Tara Dance circles and events. They meet roughly every 2 months on a Sunday morning in Bondi at Karen and Ben’s fabulous house. People also join virtually from Melbourne and Bathurst. 
Felicity also has traveled to Japan for many years to lead the Tara Dance at sacred sites with a circle of Japanese women.
You can reach Felicity here at her email:
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Katrina Simmons tkat8888@gmail.com
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Daylesford
Melbourne
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Toronto
Phyllis Danu is a level 3 dance leader. She facilitates dance circles in Thunderbay, as well as zoom meetings. see the banner on the home page for our zoom meetings. You can reach Phyllis at her email phyllisdanu@gmail.com
Elena Sofia - elenazambrano@gmail.com
Napier - North Island
Clare Woodham - Clare leads a weekly Zoom meeting during this time of social distancing and also to connect with our international community. She leads from her local Dharma Center. You can find the link for her meetings on the Zoom connection banner on our home page.
You can reach Clare here at her email:
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Bhavna Nagar - bhavna@alivepsych.co.nz
Bhavna participated in the Napier Circle and sometimes fills in for Clare when she is away.
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Nelson - South Island
Catherine Walker
Catherine has been holding monthly Tara Circles in Mohua/Golden Bay and Whakatuu/Nelson for the past ten or so years. Also, Tara Weekend Retreats at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, Upper Moutere, and Shambhala Retreat Centre.
We love to meet and welcome Tara Sangha to our Circle.
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Jislaine Santi - jislaine@gmail.com
Jislaine lives in Nelson and is currently finishing up some studies and plans to participate in creating a circle in later in 2021
Russia
Perm
Lybov Korotovskikh
Lybov practices and leads Tara Dance circle in Russia. She has traveled many times over the years to be with the international gatherings of TaraDhatu
she can be reached at her email:
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