News From the World of Tara Dhatu Dance
Jacquline’s report on her offering together with her husband Rigdzin
Tara report 2025: below is a report about this event offered by Jacquline and Rigdzin Many years ago, I joined the Tara Dhatu Student teacher’s program and lead a local…
Tibetan Spirituality and Tara Dance in El Cerrito, bay area California
Join Jacqueline and Rigdzin on Oct 28, 2025 at 7 pm address: Hillside, An Uran Sanctuary 1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito, CA 94530 Free of charge, everyone welcome contact Jacqueline…
Tara Ling welcomes Japanese Visitors
TaraLing welcomed fourteen Japanese visitors August 10, 2025 TaraLing welcomed fourteen Japanese visitors August 10th, who came to meditate at the Tara Temple and experience TaraLing. Haruko, a new student…
Hope Leads Tara Dances in Mexico
We had an amazing night in Mex City with 23 women participating, , deep souls and one who I haven’t seen since we learned the Green Tara practice together from…
OM AH HUM – Zenia at Dharmacity, Belgium 13/07/2025
Zenia is one of our senior teachers from Natal, Brazil. She attends Patrol Rinpoche’s summer course in ‘Dharma City, Belgium every year. She often shares the dance with other students.…
Hope Leads Tara Dances at a World Sacred Circle Dance day in Vermont
Yesterday Sunday July 6, 2025 I shared dances of Tara invited by Gwyn Peterdi to lead dances as part of a celebration of World Sacred Circle Dance Day, https://globalcircledance.com/world-circle-dance-day an…
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Katherine Walker acknowledged for leading the Dances in New Zealand
Katherine Walker has been leading a circle of dancing Taras in the South Island of New Zealand for many years. Prema decided to graduate her to Level 3 in the…
Summertime news! Weekly zoom in Spanish; Key West, Florida Sangha; Monthly event at the Abode…
Mary Campos and Flavia Livacicr have organized a Zoom practice gathering in Spanish on Tuesday evenings. The practice takes place at 7:30 pm from Santiago, Chili. Flavia shares her inspiration…
Gratitude and Testimonials: Tara Dhatu Annual Retreat 2025 at Tara Ling
Click here for ongoing contributions to the testimonials of the 2025 Annual Tara Mandala Dance Retreat This retreat was a blessing for me, a space of light, a gift so…
2025 Annual TaraDhatu Retreat at Tara Ling, Pirenopolis, Brazil
May in Pirenopolis is temperate and lush with spring flowers and gentle breezes. The Retreat Kitchen is fully functional, Pool a luxurious fun comfort and the Temple is a glorious…
Tara Mandala weekend at the Sedonya Conscious Living Center – Sedona, AZ April 2025
Parvati was invited to Share the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara in Sedona. Please enjoy these lovely photos of the event and check back for a detailed…
Tara Dances in Japan 2025 with Felicity
Felicity is a Tara Dance Mentor leading the dance in her homeland of Australia and in Japan. she writes…
Dancing Tara’s Praises in Natal
Our wonderful translator, friend and sincere student of the dharma, Zenia Machado invited Myri and Prema to offer a mandala workshop and offering in her town of Natal in the…
Offering Guru Rinpoche Plaque to the Sea – Natal Brazil
The black diamond-carved Guru Rinpoche statues, which contain iron beads, relics and scriptures were made according to Guru Rinpoche’s prediction. Placed on mountains, rivers or caves, in lakes or in…
Ushnisha Vijaya Long-Life Puja and 1000 offerings
Our annual Ushnisha Vijaya (Tibetan: Namgyema) long life puja with a 1000 lamp offerings was performed for the well being, good health and happiness of all beings on Dec. 15th,…
Karen Greenspan includes Taradhatu dances in her 4 week sacred dance course
Dear Prema and Myri, I wanted to let you know that I will be co-teaching a 4-week online course on sacred Buddhist dance–its origins, history, and ongoing iterations practiced in…
Explore the Tara Wisdom Cards with Jessica Zebrine
The Tara Wisdom Cards are a unique deck created by Zebrine based on the many forms of Tara. Following the structure of a traditional Tarot, the deck includes 22 major…
Sedona Arizona Mandala Retreat April 11-13, 2025
This is a Special opportunity to dance in Tara’s mandala guided by senior teacher Parvati and friends in Sedona, AZ April 11-13. Come dance with us! Contact Parvati parvatiforrest@gmail.com for…
Sarah A. Witham ~ a generous supporter of TaraDhatu
In Memoriam Sarah A. Witham 3/26/47 – 4/20/23 Our dear friend, Sarah Abigail Witham, was a longtime Tara Practitioner who enthusiastically danced the Goddess with her Flagstaff, AZ sangha from…
Mandala Dance Offering in Fortaleza OM TARE!
A lovely photo of the 21 Taras at Fortaleza fall 2024. I love the joy smiles beauty of this photo. Enjoy the JOYFUL video below of the 4 Immeasurables Dance
Water, Water, in out and around
Tara Ling Update from Prema Our water issues started just before everyone arrived for the Monlam. Our neighbor refused to honor our arrangement for drainage requiring our engineer and construction…
Clare Woodham Lovingly Transports Tsa Tsa from Napier, New Zealand to TaraLing
Clare expresses such delight in delivering these votive sculptures, intact and gleaming, to Prema and Myri as part of this beautiful celebration of TaraLing. As part of our practice we…
The Meditation Games Project – Prayer Flags for Tara Ling
Lia, one of our senior students living in Porto Alegre, Brazil has a school for children. O projeto Jogos para Meditar atende um grupo de crianças de 5 á 12…
The Dandelion wall at Tara Ling
Prema’s Inspiration of “Street Art” on the walls enclosing Tara Ling gets its first offering of “Dandelions” from our very own Min. The Story of Dandelion Mural at TaraLing Tara’s…
More Tara sisters share their experience at Tara Ling
A note from Sabrina Beach Good morning, Prema. Please enjoy this video. It was the honor of my life to be present at a moment when you and your life’s…
Tara Sisters share their Monlam experience
Here is a link to Sherry’s story with photos please click here for the full story and document Theresa Elwell shares her experience of Tara Ling and the Monlam Stepping onto…
Zoom Along with Prema , Oct. 20, 2024 11am Hawaii time
zoom sessions are free and to make a donation scroll to bottom of this page for more information about the zoom programs and to make an offering thank you The…
Dance Tara’s Mandala in Vermont
AllTogetherNow! Dance the Mandala of Tara with Janice Walrafen in Vermont Join us Sunday August 18, , 1-3pm at AllTogetherNow! to circle and dance the 21 Praise of the Divine…
Shell Dance in Pacifica, CA with Pia Aug. 13, 2024
Hello Beautiful Tara, I hope the sun is shining in your world. The circle will open back up August 13th.. We will have a celebration for the passing of beloved Amina. Anyone…
Tara Dhatu bliss at the Abode!
What a blessing the Empowered, Healed and Blessed Through Sacred Dance Retreat was at the beautiful Abode of the Message www.theabode.org. Thanks for being there! We couldn’t be happier with the outcome and the light and love we…
FIFTH TARA DANCE RETREAT IN CHILE
29th to 31st MARCH 2024 “Purification, Healing and Celebration of the Precious Human Existence”. Tremonhue Center San Alfonso, Cajón del Maipo, Metropolitan Region A beautiful meditative Tara Dance Retreat In…
TaraDhatu Sangha assists with prayers and donations for those affected by flooding in south Brazil
Flooding in the South of Brazil Dear beloved dancing sangha, Dani Shiravasti and family. There is currently some internet contact in her village and she took the time to talk…
Welcoming New Students to the TaraDhatu Educational Program
Welcome Nicolette to the TDEP . Phyllis Moses will be sponsoring Nicolette as her Mentor in the TaraDhatu Educational Program. Phyllis and Nicolette live in Vancover WA across the river…
Felicity continues her offerings in Japan
April 28th we danced Tara again in Tokyo with some new and ‘old’ Tara sisters. Mattchan, an enthusiastic Tara sister brought her 92 year old mother who was a bit…
Our Beloved Amina ~ Updated
This post flows from most recent updates back to earlier notices….. FREEDOM, PEACE, LOVE, LIGHT Dear Ones In The Circle Of Love, Our beloved Amina, mother, wife, sister, aunt, friend, and…
Transitions -impermanence & honoring our Tara Sisters
Our circle of dancing Taras has suffered some intense episodes of impermanence. Peggy Hitchcock, a woman whose support in the early years of the Mandala Dance of Tara, enabled Prema…
Prema’s activity in Brazil
Prema Decided to visit with our Tara sister Zenia in Natal and an event at the University there was well attended. Here are some photos of the event and a…
New Years Puja with Andrea Abinanti in Kathmandu
On New Years January 1st 2024 we sent blessings from Manjushri Hill and Swayambhu to all beings…May everyone have a Wonderful New Year!!! 💖🌟🙏🏼🌟💖 For many years I had arranged the Lhapsang,…
Seeing the World in a new way – Phyllis and Candle lead a winter solsitce event
In our modern times we can be anywhere with the touch of our fingers ~ Google Earth, Internet, and even satellite internet. Yet in our bones, we are a part…
Zoom Along with Prema Sunday Feb. 4, 2024
Join Prema at 10am Hawaii time and 17:00 Brazil time An Appointment with your Enlightened Potential Let Us Share In The Transformation of Consciousness Enter the magical mystery tour, the…
Pia leads a Tara Dance Circle in Santa Cruz
I began with reading a meditation on the birth of Green Tara presented to me from Prajwal in 2013. It goes through much of the human condition and seemed perfect…
Dorotea visits Khadro Ling, the beautiful estate of Chagdud Tulku,
Dorotea, one of our Brasilia students, was visiting Khadro Ling, the beautiful estate of Chagdud Tulku, now in the hands of his widow, Khandro. Dorotea was making different dance offerings…
April 2023 Pilgrimage to Bhutan
Intro by Priya I was so very fortunate to be accepted to join the 2nd Tara Mandala Pilgrimage to Druk Zangri Khamar, Bhutan to learn and embody the ancient…
Lakshmi Yangdrup Puja in Nepal
Andrea Abinanti, a Tara Dance Teacher living on Manjushri Hill in Kathmandu, has maintained a wealth vase for Tara Dhatu for many years. Each year she brings it to the…
A Crystal Bead Blessing
The story of the Crystal Bead Mala: I wore a crystal mala for many years since at least 2003, while dancing in many mandalas and asking many Lamas and…
Dakinis Dance to Bless the World and Transform Suffering Into Bliss – 2023 Retreat in Portland
In September, 2023, nestled in the elemental beauty of Forest Refuge, twenty Taras gathered near Portland, Oregon at the second Sky Dancers Retreat. For many people the word ‘retreat’…
Phoenix Mandala in Nov. included Parvati’s Birthday, welcoming New Tara dancers and a baby girl born !
The Phoenix Area Tara sangha hosted a weekend workshop November 3-5, 2023. This year’s theme was “Elemental Balancing with the Mandala Dance Of The 21 Praises Of Tara”. …
Tara at the Abode, NY – Sending our light to Maui
Amber generously picked me up at Newark and drove we drove up to the Abode the next morning. I arrived at 11:30 at the Abode and was met by Aimee. We…
Dancing with the Dakini! Khandro Kunga Bhuma at Land of the Medicine Buddha – Santa Cruz, CA
June 28 – July 3, 2023 Arriving at Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB) was the very first treat of walking into a sublime Buddha Field! Traveling up the narrow road…
Austin Tara Dance Circle to resume in person meetings
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…
Land of Medicine Buddha – Tara Dance Circle events
Greetings Tara Dance Friends, We are so grateful to all who came out for our first public Land of Medicine Buddha Tara Dance Circle. It was such a joy to…
Tara Ends War – An Afternoon Workshop at Shell Dance in Pacifica, CA
On Tuesday, April 4th, a new dance “Tara Ends War” was offered. We had 10 registered for the session, but by the time we set everything up, there were 20…
Tara’s Mandala Turns in the San Francisco Bay Area
On March 31st – April 2nd, Prema, Myri and the Bay Area Taras came together with Tara friends to engage in a “Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara” …
A Tara Dance event at the Portland Insight Meditation Center with Phyllis and Candle
On one of the first Spring like days here in the Pacific Northwest, I teamed up with Candle Summers to offer an exquisite and heart warming event at Portland Insight…
Maui Full Moon Dance in the Park with Priya – Wed, April 5th – 5:30pm
Dance Tara Wednesday April 5th at 5:30 PM – Priya will lead Tara Dances in the park. Prema is off to Brazil with Myri April 5th. During These Challenging And Chaotic…
Dharma for a day of rejuvenation and healing in Portland, Oregon with Phyllis March 18th,2023
An in person meeting from 10am – 3pm at the Portland Insight Meditation Center Click here to view the event and registration when your go to this site, scroll down…
Delving into the Depth of the Unknown in 2023 With Tara by Jacquelyn
by Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta In November I submitted a Tara and dharma dance proposal to a newly owned yoga studio in Berkeley. I discovered it as a result of attending an…
New Year 2023 the 21 Tara Prayers were Recited in the Early Morning for the sake of all…
May our New Year 2023 be filled with positive situations for the sake and benefit of all beings and may the past year’s negative circumstances start to disappear! I have heard that the Covid Virus is starting…
From our Holy Swayambhu Hill we send New Year Greetings to all for 2023!!
Our precious sangha sends offering every year to Andrea to include in her New Years Celebrations. Andrea sent these photos and accompanying Story to us to share with everyone .…
Phoenix Area Sangha Tara Retreat: Nov. 2 – 7, 2022
Parvati and the Phoenix Area Tara Sangha resumed our traditional Fall Retreat with an extended weekend of dharma, meditation, music and dance, including the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises…
Tara Mantra Accumulation with Pia Feb 5, 12, 19 & 26
Mantra Accumulation Om Tare TuTare Ture Soha https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduCvqzgoGdDucxEHwcRbRK86H6R0caP1 ID 841 1975 3234 password 212121 Pia purpletara21@gmail.com The path of chanting led to sound…1/2 a million to go!!!
Saraswatii Tara in Bali
One of our new student teachers, Sylvia Blanchet, is resident in Bali. She has started sharing some of our dances with some of the Balinese children and, with her husband,…
Mantra Accumulation with Pia
Join Pia for Mantra Accumulation Om Tare TuTare Ture Soha12/7- 12/27 2022 at 6:00-6:30 AM PacificBring your mala and your coffee!!!Full Short Practice, Mantra Accumulation ending with Eight Precious Offerings…
Michele Trentin offers the Mandala at her studio in the far south of Brazil
Michele Trentin is a dance instructor in Caxias, far south of Brazil. She owns her studio and has a Tara Dance meeting once a week. She and her students offered…
Myri Offers the Mandala in Guarapari
Oct 20th Myri flew to Guarapari, a city in Esperito Santo on the South East coast of Brazil. She has been sharing the Mandala of Tara for the past seven…
Tihar Yangdrup Puja
Andrea Abinanti is a dear friend and Tara Dance teacher living on Manjushri Hill in Kathmandu. Andrea organizes Tara Dhatu’s participation in Wealth Vase Pujas at the Thukche Choling Monastery…
Charya Dance in Kathmandu with Prajwal
Karen Greenspan, one of our east coast dancer has been traveling in Kathmandu with our Charya Dancer friend teacher, Prajwal. She wrote to me….” I had set up a meeting…
Giving Thanks Mandala Dancing Tara On Zoom December 4th, 2022
We have so much to be thankful for. Let’s celebrate by offering an online Mandala Dance of Tara. We are requesting a $25-$108 sliding scale registration donation. To Register, Click Here Once…
The Dakinis are Calling
Phyllis Moses is one of our most senior Tara Dhatu teachers, a long time dharma practitioner, a respected yoga teacher, with a number of healing modalities as part of her offering…
Tara Puja to Remove Obstacles
Andrea Abinanti is a dear friend and Tara Dance teacher living on Manjushri Hill in Kathmandu. She keeps an account of donations from Tara Dhatu sangha and friends to sponsor…
Shelldance Tara Circle is Open
Pacifica, California Activate Your Wisdom, Compassion and Power!!! Connect with the 21 Praises of Mother Tara Tara vowed to remain in the body of a woman as she reached enlightenment…
TARA DANCES RETREAT AND TEACHINGS OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM
During These Challenging And Chaotic Times We Chant And Dance Tara To Hold Up The Light For Our World. Connection with the divine nature of TARA Online via Zoom MARCH 19-20, 2022With…
Thanksgiving Virtual Offering of Dancing Taras
These dances are wonderful, very, very inspiring. It is living dharma, dynamic, to enlighten everybody to experience their own innate goodness, their own infinite love, their own compassion. It is such an important time to…
Tara is dancing in Massachusetts
Hope Jinishian is a Tara Dhatu Student Teacher. She was instrumental several years agoin bringing our Dances of Tara to the Woodstock Monastery (KTD) where she practiced,studied and served. She is a member of…
Tara’s Mandala Dances in Pacifica
Pia Hagan of Pacifica, California is one of our senior Tara Dance teachers. Due to therestrictions of the pandemic this past year she confined her practice of offering the MandalaDance…
Australian Cham Tour 2005 Videos
Felicity Oswell has been dancing in the Mandala of Tara for several decades, leading circles in, Australia and Japan. In 2005 she was invited to assemble a group of Tara…
Tara is Dancing in Virginia
Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta has been sharing the Dances of Tara with the support of her husband, Rigdzin, at their home town, Albany, CA for many years. They have also established…
Drolma (Tara) Yuldhog Puja Offered for All on June 2nd in Kathmandu
Andrea Abinanti lives on Manjushri Hill in Swayumbhu, Kathmandu. She is one of our senior Tara Dhatu teachers. She invites us to engage with the various traditioinal pujas she sponsors…
Tara is Dancing in Pacifica, California
Pia Hagan, one of Tara Dhatu’s Senior Teachers, organized a small mandala at Shell Dance, the Pacifica home, art studio and orchid business of Nancy Victoria. Pia writes: We were…
School’s Opening Late June: A Bright Nepal Report
School’s Opening Late JuneThe new school year usually opens (mid- April). Because of the pandemic many of them were sent back to their villages without internet access.There are plans to go…
Karma Lekshe Tsomo Kicks-Off White Tara Mini-Monlam
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Tradition, activist and scholar, and Founder of the Jamyang Foundation and Sakyadhita Internatonal gave an inspiring talk on Zoom by invitation of Tara Dhatu. It was…
Bardor Tulku Rinpoche Passed Away
We just received news that Bardor Tulku Rinpoche passed away after a prolonged illness. We send our condolences to his wife, daughters, and the many students that were privileged to…
A Thank You Gift for Frontline Covid Workers in Brazil
Things in Brazil are really desperate due to the Pandemic. Our focus on White Tara this month is especially poignant for our Brazilian sangha. When Myri decided to offer the…
Kathmandu New Year 2021 Offerings – Part 2
After our offerings at the Swayambhu Stupa we returned to the monastery to finish the Lhapsang puja… I was given a special wand to invoke the deities and send positive…
Kathmandu New Year 2021 Offerings – Part 1
Every year we invite our members to send donations to Andrea Abinanti to make offerings at the Swayumbu stupa, Manjushri Hill and the local monastery. Andrea writes…. May all who…
2020 Christmas Puja & Prayer Report
Andrea Abinanti is a long time friend of Prema’s and a senior teacher of the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara. Each year Tara Dhatu invites friends to…
Tara Dancer Renee Thibodeaux’s Daughter, Nita Perez, First Inspiring Single Recording!
Renee Thibodeaux and her daughter Nita Perez, of Baton Rouge, LA, have been studing with Prema since Nita was 6 years old. Now, a young lady of 13 she has…
Yangdrup, Wealth Vase Puja Nov. 22nd-27th, 2020
This year’s annual Yangdrup/Wealth Vase Puja was performed at Thuckche Choling Monastery, November 22nd-27th. Dzambhala, the Tibetan name for the God of Wealth, grants financial stability and prosperity…he is also a Bodhisattva of…
Tara is Dancing in Cincinnati
Nita-Rose has been leading a Tara Dance circle in Cincinnati for some years. Considering the pandemic she has not lead any meetings for months. This October she decided to see…
Tara Dhatu Featured on Tricycle Site
Karen Greenspan is a New York City based dance journalist. She reports on global dance traditions and contemporary dance and is a frequent contributor to Natural History Magazine and Ballet Review among other publications.…
Dancing Tara in Olympia
Kim Abbey holds a Tara Dhatu circle in Olympia, Washington. She writes… Here’s a photo of the Nalanda Institute in Olympia where we have ‘circled up’ for two years now.…
Annual Tara Retreat Golden Bay, NZ
Catherine Walker has been offering a Mandala of Tara retreat at the Shambhala Center in Golden Bay, the far north of the South Island of Aotearoa, (New Zealand) for five…
Spontaneous Dance of Tara’s Qualities in the Ozarks
Adrianne LaBry Smith is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu teacher, living in Lafayette, Louisiana and on her family retreat land next to the Katog Rit’hröd Mountain Retreat Center in the…
Tara Danced at KCC Portland
Phyllis Moses is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu teacher. She has supported the Tara Dance since it’s inception on Maui 32 years ago. Now residing in Oregon she has been offering…
Tara, Dancing in Phoenix, Vermont, Guarapari and Maui
It was a powerful approach to the full moon, November 8-10. We had three mandalas turning that weekend, one in Phoenix, one in Vermont and one in Guarapari in Brazil.…
Tara Dances In Virginia Beach
November 2019 Jacquelyn Sendak-Zavaleta and her husband Rigdzen returned to Virginia Beach to share dances of Tara with a group that has been gathering there. She writes…. Despite the cold and rainy…
Felicity is Dancing Tara in Japan
Felicity Oswell is resident in Sydney, Australia and has been leading a circle of Tara Dancing there for 22 years. She has lived in Japan and has worked as a…
Nritya Mandala Mahavihara Celebrates 10 Years
Nritya Mandala Mahavihara is an authentic Newar Nepali temple in the heart of Portland, Oregon. Prajwal, the resident priest, is the son of Ratna Kaji, who introduced Prema to the…
Dancing Tara in Virginia Beach
July 2019 Jacquelyn Sendak-Zavaleta and her husband Rigdzen returned to Virginia Beach to share dances of Tara with a group that has been gathering there. She writes…. Despite temperatures of…
Tara is Dancing in Woodstock
Amber Roniger recently joined our Tara Dhatu Educational Program as a Level 1 facilitator. Inspired by the activity generated by Hope Jinishian’s efforts to introduce the dance at Karma Triyana…
Tara Danced at the Sakyadhita Conference In the Blue Mountains Australia
Felicity Oswell is one of Tara Dhatu’s most senior teachers. Her residence is in Sydney, Australia where she has worked with a group of dancers for more than 20 years.…
Dancing Tara at the Portland Buddhist Festival
Phyllis Moses is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu teacher. She has supported the Tara Dance since it’s inception on Maui 32 years ago. Now residing in Oregon she has been offering Tara…
Dancing Tara for Women with Disabilities
Amina has worked with disability most of her life. She has often represented the differently abled, advocating for their rights and place in society. Several years ago she became a…
Tara Is Dancing In The Encyclopedia Of Women In World Religions!
Several years ago Phyllis Moses was asked to write a lengthy article about Taradhatu. When Barbara Patton, a TDEP Facilitator of Pacifica, California noticed it, she mentioned that her sister,…
Charging the Wealth Vase
For some years our good friend Andrea Abinanti, who lives on Manjushri Hill, Swayambu, Kathmandu, Nepal, has kept a Wealth Vase for Tara Dhatu. Every year a Puja is performed…
Prayers for Our Dear Elizabeth Breck
Elizabeth Breck dancing Tara of Irresistible Truth Teresa Tara Noor is a long time Tara dancer and leader who lives in Tucson and has shared leadership with Elizabeth Breck in…
Tara Dances at the Parliament Of World Religions
Parvati led a group of Tara Dancers in presenting a Tara Dance workshop at the Parliament Of World Religions in Toronto, Canada this November. She writes… The Promise Of Inclusion…
Tara Dances in Chile
The Flowering Of Divine Mother Tara In the Andean Lands Myri Dakini has been cultivating a group of young women in Chile for several years. This November she offered a…
Tara Retreat at Shambhala, Golden Bay, Aotearoa
Catherine Walker has been a devoted Tara Dance teacher for many years. She has kept the dance alive in the Nelson area of the South Island of New Zealand and…
Giving Tues 2018
Your support makes it possible for us to spin the wheels of of light and inspiration all over this beautiful blue green ball of earth and share the tools in…
Tara’s Masks Dance the Mandala in Caxias
For many years I have had the impulse to create masks of Tara for the dancers, and this aspiration has gone through several incarnations. One Retreat on Kauai the dancers created…
Congratulations – Two Tara Babies Born
At the monlam this year we were treated to two of our lovely dancers pregnant, and only a few days apart in their anticipation of birth. Dani and Jocelyn delighted…
Tara is Dancing in Guarapari
A few days after Myri Dakini arrived at her home in Brasilia, after traveling more than 24 hours from Portland, Oregon, she headed out to the North East of Brazil. She was invited…
Dancing Tara at the Sakya Monastery in Seattle
Seattle was one of the first cities outside of Hawaii that the Tara Dance was offered. In the audience was Dagmola Kushog, the first Tibetan woman who ever witnessed the…
Tara Dances in Virginia
Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta has been sharing the Tara Dances in Virginia for several years,accompanied by her Tara Protector husband, Rigdzin Zavaleta. She writes… Rigdzin and I had two welcome dinners organized…
Tara Dances in Portland
Myri Dakini is Prema’s personal assistant, Assistant Director of Tara Dhatu’s Educational Programs and the Director, President and main mentor of Tara Dhatu South America. This October she headed to…
Tara Dances at KTD Woodstock, New York
Hope is dedicated to the dances of Tara Dhatu and has organized workshops for Prema, Parvati and other senior teachers. Hope Jinishian works in the bookstore at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra,…
Gutsy Women – Prema & Myri on FM Radio
Our dear friend and Tara dancer, Amorah St. John, has a radio program called “Gutsy Women” on Maui public radio, KAKU. She has been interviewing the fun and fabulous women…
Tara Dances in Phoenix – A Profound Weekend Retreat
The Phoenix Tara Circle has been turning for many years under the guidance of Senior Mentor and Teacher, Parvati. Each year they host a weekend Tara Dance retreat. This year’s retreat,…
Dancing Tara in New Zealand: A Magical Mystery Mandala Tour
Adrianne LaBry Smith is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu teacher. She met Clare Woodham at the Monlam in Brazil and these two lovely Taras cooked up a teaching tour for…
Phyllis Reports on Monlam in Northwest Dharma Web News
Phyllis Moses is one of our precious Level 3 Tara Dhatu teachers, living in Vancouver, Washington. She has been our representative in the Northwest Dharma Association for several years It…
Dancing Tara at the Women in Buddhism Conference in Seattle
Kim Abbey is a relatively new Tara Dance facilitator but a long time Tara Dancer. It is wonderful to see her spread her wings and share the dances. She has…
Dancing Tara at the Sakya Monastery in Seattle
Seattle was one of the first cities outside of Hawaii that the Tara Dance was offered. In the audience was Dagmola Kushog, the first Tibetan woman who ever witnessed the…
Post-Monlam Brasilia Tour & Prayers
Sherry Harris from Kauai, Hawaii traveled to Brasilia, Brazil to participate in the Festival of Peace, Festival of Prayer, Tara Dance Monlam. She shared a bit about Monday’s Post-Monlam Tour….…
Post Monlam Visit to Chapada Imperial
Our last official day together in Brazil Prema and Myri put together a very special grand finale. An hour bus drive out of Brasilia, down windy dirt roads through the bush,…
Read More: Monlam Day 2, May 24, 2018
Glad you are with us today! Prajwal continued teaching his morning class, which was deeply appreciated. Dressed in white, we opened the morning with our preliminary practices—Beloved Tara, Refuge and…
Read More: Day 1 Monlam May 23, 2018
Greetings from Paradise on Earth. After years of aspirations, devoted work and planning, today the Monlam begins! Om Tare! Guided by Lama Sonam from the dharma center in Brasilia, we…
Read More: Pre-Monlam Day 3 May 22, 2018
The excitement is building—the Monlam starts tomorrow! Today is a day of practice and preparation centered around the Mandala of masked dancers. As we described yesterday, the practice of mask…
Read More: Pre-Monlam Day 2 May 21, 2018
Welcome to Pre-Monlam Day 2! We hope you feel connected to us here at the Paradise on Earth Retreat Center in Brazil–we are so happy to be able to share…
Read More: Pre-Monlam Day 3 (Tuesday) May 22, 2018
Premliminaries Dukkar–Portuguese an English Setting up the mandalas: 3 groups two that would have masks–amazing job as usual of honoring everyone’s request–got through three mandalas turning simultaneously. My own experience…
Read More: Pre-Monlam Day 1 May 20, 2018
Sunny skies and cool temperatures welcomed us to Day 1 Pre-Monlam. After generating our Motivation and dancing refuge and bodhicitta through Shantideva, Myri Dakini taught us the practice of Dukkar,…
READ MORE: Arriving at Paraiso Na Terra May 19 2018
We are so happy to be connecting with all of you from beautiful Paradise on Earth retreat center in Brazil! May our prayers for the world unite as one voice!…
Live From The Tara Peace & Prayer Monlam Festival in Brazil
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Read More: Monlam Day 3, May 25, 2018
Our last day at the retreat center before leaving for our next location in the city of Brasilia… At our inspiring morning practice, Prema gave us a teaching on working…
Read More: Monlam Day 4, May 26, 2018
Greetings from Brasilia–so glad you have connected with us today! Our morning was left open so we could enjoy a local fair, and I hear that the artisanal offerings there…
Read More: Conclusion of Monlam, May 27, 2018
So happy to be connecting with all of you one last time and to have the opportunity to share the exciting conclusion of the Monlam! Dressed in white for our…
Tara is Dancing in the Heart of Acadiana!
Adrianne LaBry Smith is a Tara Dhatu Level 3 Teacher. In 2005 she was inspired to join the Tara Dhatu Educational Program after participating in a Tara Mandala Weekend led…
Tara is Dancing in Virginia
By Rev. Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta Having shared the Introduction to Tara and the Dharma dances of Tara Dhatu in Virginia Beach for many years, we had a solid group of…
Dancing Tara with Prema and Myri in Europe
Almost a year ago I was asked, if I could go anywhere before I died where would I go. Bubbling up from my far distant childhood I realized, I would like…
Tara is Dancing in the Bay Area, California
Floods, Hurricanes and Fires Oh My!!! Pia Hagan is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu Teacher in the Bay Area of California. Many of you remember Pia as one of our most excellent…
Myri On Tour, Dancing Tara in Chile and S. Brazil
Myri Dakini Naves is an outstanding dancer and a sincere dharma practitioner. In Tara Dhatu South America she is the moving force of all the accomplishments. Because of her careful…
Parvati Leads Tara’s Mandala – Seattle, Phoenix, Woodstock
Parvati Forrest Anee Burke is one of our most senior teachers. Her dedication has led her to be our Central Coordinator, holding together the reins of our international Tara Dhatu. This…
Dancing Tara in Woodstock
Dance in the Mandala of Tara In Woodstock, NY Fri Intro Evening open to all at KTD Monastary With the weekend workshop and offering across from the KTD Monastery November…
A Precious Meeting in the Heart of Tara
September 10th the Maui Tara Dancers had the good fortune to present a sacred dance offering to the respected and beloved dharma teacher, Anam Thubten. Eighteen dancers of all ages and experience offered…
Dancing Tara for Dagmola on Maui
While on tour in Europe I received a message from my dear dharma friend and teacher, Dagmola Kushog. Some members of her family had made arrangements to spend some days…
Annual Aug Kauai Tara Retreat Special Offer & Reflections
For many years Tara Dhatu has hosted and annual camp on the beautiful island of Kauai. Situated in one of the most beautiful spots on the planet, the rustic camp…
Creating A Brighter Future: A Bright Nepal Report
It’s a New Year! The Nepali school year transitions from one to the next around the middle of April every year. This year’s transition was a big one for the…
Tara Dances at Texas Yoga Retreat
Anjali Maazel is a Tara Dhatu Student/teacher in Austin, Texas and was invited to teach at a weekend-long women’s yoga retreat entitled “Wash, Rinse, Retreat!”. She writes… The retreat was…
Tara is Dancing in New Zealand
Catherine Callaghan is one of our most active Student Teachers in New Zealand. She is based in Nelson, in the South Island. She recently led a workshop at the beautiful…
Long Life Prayer Music & Dance For Prema Dasara
Anjali Maazel shares… The beautiful recording of Mercedes Bahleda and Shivadam singing our Long Life Prayer for Prema, which is now available as a download in the Tara Dhatu Dance the…
Bright Nepal ~ Girls Rising… with a little help from their friends
Bright Nepal Girls Begin the New School Year with BIG Changes And they need your generous support! ******************************************************************* “Money is like manure. It’s meant to be spread around encouraging young things…
Tara is Dancing in Virginia
Jacquelyn Sonam Lhamo and her husband Rigdzin are ardent dharma practitioners. Jacquelyn is a Level 2 Tara Dance teacher. She has shared the dance several years in Virginia and returned…
Tara Is Dancing In Wimberly, Texas
Anjali Maazel has been leading a Tara Dance Circle in Wimberly, Texas. The group has lately been working with the Mandala Dance of the 21 Taras, focusing on individual Taras.…
Dancing Tara With the Children in Victoria, Australia
Clare Woodham is a Level 2 Tara Dance teacher in Napier, New Zealand where she facilitates a lovely dharma center and a very loyal group of Tara Dancers. Recently she…
Tara Dances in Vermont
Jacquelyn Sonam Lhamo and her husband Rigdzin are ardent dharma practitioners. Jacquelyn is a Level 2 Tara Dance teacher who has introduced the dance to several new communities. She and…
Blessings To All From Kathmandu
Every year our good friend Andrea Abinanti, long time resident of Kathmandu, Nepal, invites us to support her in making special prayer offerings during the holiday season. She invites us…
The Balinese Masks of Tara – Complete
Mekare Fiske has midwifed through her capable hands and radiant heart the completion of a long held aspiration of Tara Dhatu – masks of the 22 Taras of our dancing mandala…
Season of Sangha’s Creative Wisdom Manifest
We asked you to share your creative explorations into your Tara practice. Here is a sample of the tremendous talent and creativity in our Tara Sangha. We thank each one…
Tara Dhatu Season of Sangha FaceBook Fun with Friends
We have been playing some fun Q&A with FaceBook friends. See some of the answers below… Join the fun on FaceBook, click here Hope Jinishian: I met Tara in Bali and it…
Tara Mantra Accumulation Invitation Attunement
Phyllis Moses writes: One tried and true method of bring these practices deeper within so that we can always feel the joy and freedom of our True Nature dancing in our…
Samdong Rinpoche Celebrates the Tara Dance
In 1998 fifty Tara Dancers from 11 countries of origin traveled to India and Nepal to dance the Mandala of the 21 Praises of Tara for the Tibetan Refugees. One…
Eulogy for a Great Master of Odissi Sacred Dance Guru Ramani Ranjan Jena
My beloved Odissi teacher, Guru Ramani Ranjan Jena, has passed away. My sister dancer friend Elizabeth Burnett, who has a school for orphans in Puri, Orissa, wrote of his March…
Tara Dances in Java at the Sakyadhita Conference
Most of our Bali pilgrims opted to join us at the 14th Sakyadhita International Conference in a lush resort outside of Yogyakarta. It was a short hop…
Bali – Tara’s Pilgrimage in the Island of Wonder
June 2015 Myri and I took a group of pilgrims to Bali, land of beauty and mystery. Mekare Fiske had been commissioned to engage a mask maker to create 22…
New Year’s Greetings & Blessings From Nepal
Every year Tara Dhatu and members send Andrea Abinanti donations for the many pujas she arranges during the holiday season. Donors names are read out, along with the names of…
Dancing Tara Deep Down Under
Catherine Callaghan (center), Level 2 Tara Dhatu Teacher, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand reports… Judy (right), Liz (left) and I danced White Tara and the Six Shields at the Saturday…
Lamas Dance Tara at KTD
This year our merry Tara band was joined by Hope Jinishian. A resident of New England, Hope was volunteering and studying the dharma early this year at KTD, His Holiness…
Tara is Dancing in Golden Bay, Aotearoa
Catherine Callaghan has been leading the Tara Dances in New Zealand for six years. An accomplished dance teacher, she has ongoing circles of Tara dance in Nelson, South Island and…
Myri Leads Cincinnati Sangha in Dancing Tara
Nita-Rose has been leading a circle of dancing Taras at her sacred abode in Cincinnati for several years. She invited Myri Dakini to share a weekend of Tara Dhatu dances.…
VIDEO 11/11/11 – Prema leads Maui Taras in Mandala Dance Offering
Prema leads a group of Maui Taras in offering the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara at a celebration event 11/11/11
Brasilia – Retreat Into the Heart of Tara
Back in Brasilia we focused our attention on getting some songs recorded in Portuguese before heading out to our annual retreat. Ricardo gathered a group of young teenage girls…
Tara is Dancing in Virginia
Jacquelyn Sonam Lhamo has been introducing groups to dancing Tara for many years. She was recently in Virginia and this is her report… Spreading Tara and Dharma dances is such…
Headed South – From Ocean to Mountains Dancing Tara Brazil
First Stop, Florianopolis, On the Beach From Bahia to Brasilia, we had only a couple of weeks to catch our breath and then we headed off to one of our…
Prema Dances Tara In Brazil
Myri met me at the airport in Salvadore, Bahia and we were whisked off to a hotel on the beach for two days of R and R. Having just come…
Northwesterners Dance Tara in Indonesia
Kim Abbey was a member of our pilgrimage to Bali and Yogyacarta. Deeply involved in supporting the dharma in Seattle, Washington, she submitted an article about the pilgrimage to the…
Update On Nepal Retreat House Restoration Project – Andrea Abinanti
For several years I have been planning to restore these dilapidated five retreat houses for the nuns on Manjushree Hill, one of the World Heritage Sites in Nepal. I am…
Tara Dances In South Africa
Nita-Rose, one of our Tara Dhatu Dance facilitators, took a group of the Tara Dance community in Cincinnati to her former sangha in South Africa. They shared White Tara and…
Dancing Tara in Austin and the Abode
Austin – In the Light of Guru Rinpoche Palri Pema Od Ling dharma center in Austin is a magical display of Guru Rinpoche’s pure land. Last year I danced Kurukulle…
Dancing With the Dakinis – Prema On The Road
Things have been moving along magnificently and intensely and though I have the best intentions to keep up with my reports, I have fallen far behind. Finally I have enough…
May Special Price Offer Kauai Retreat 2015
An Exceptional Opportunity We have a great offer for you. Huge Discount for the Kauai Tara Retreat May/June Special Offer: Tara Dhatu Members $500 for a week in Paradise All…
Devastating Earthquakes in Nepal ~ A Call for Action
Contribute to the Nepal Relief Fund ~ Read More About Tara Dhatu’s Community Relief Activity ~ Click Here Dear friends, In recent days I wrote to request your prayers…
Fundraiser Spotlight – The Swayambhu Retreat House Restoration Project
Andrea Abinanti shares: For the last several years I have been wanting to start the Retreat House Restoration project on Manjushree Hill, a World Heritage Site in Swayambhu. With the…
Tara’s Wisdom Cards Ready to Print
FANTASTIC GOOD NEWS The Long Awaited Tara Wisdom Cards are Ready for Printing My niece Jessica Zebrine has designed a unique deck of cards based on the manifestation of the…
Ruth Denison – Dancing in the Clouds
A dear friend and profound dharma teacher, Ruth Denison passed away Thursday morning, February 26, 2015, at her Joshua Tree home, surrounded by loved ones. Ruth is a Great Soul.…
Tara Dancing at the Theosophical Convention
Marlene Butler, one of our Tara Dhatu facilitators in Napier, New Zealand, was invited to share Tara and the dance at the 118th National Summer Convention of the Theosophical Society…
Alchemy Through Trust & The Tara Dance
Marlene Butler, one of our very active Tara Dance Facilitators in Napier, New Zealand was invited to write an Article for the fifth edition of ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE dedicated to ALCHEMY. 14 Authors from…
Prayers for Long Life and Good Health
Andrea Abinanti, one of our senior teachers and a long time resident of the Kathmandu Valley invites Tara Dhatu every year to participate in sponsoring prayers of long life based…
Tara is Dancing in Belo Horizonte
Sayane is a new, Level One Facilitator of the Tara Dhatu Educational Program South America. She invited MyriDakini, the Director of TDSA, to share the path of Tara in Belo…
Tara Dhatu’s Wealth Vase
Tara Dhatu has the good fortune of maintaining a “Wealth Vase” in the Kathmandu Valley. The Tibetans have a ritual of assembling precious objects and sacred substances and sealing…
Tara Dances at Nouveau Devadasi Fusion Dance Festival
Pia Hagan graduated to Level 3 Tara Dhatu Student Teacher this year at our Kauai Camp. She has been developing a circle of Tara Dancers in Pacifica, California and had…
Tara Dances in North Island, New Zealand
Marlene has been introducing the Tara Dance at Havelock North Taruna College, North Island, New Zealand. This Sunday – 23 November 2014 – she led a small group and had…
Strength In Adversity
Isabel Cristina de Azevedo is a Level 4 Tara Dhatu South America teacher/mentor based in Rio de Janeiro. She has been leading the Tara Dance for many years and has…
In Memory of Rinchen Khandro
Rinchen Khandro passed away Friday, November 14th. She was one of the early members of the Tara Dhatu Council of Trustees. She supported our organization for many years. She was…
Tara Dances in Caxias do Sul, South Brazil: by Michele Trentin
Michele Trentin is the owner/director of Rakaça Temple of Dance in Caxias do Sul, South Brazil. On 10 – 12 October 2014 she organized a workshop at her school featuring…
*Now Available for Download* White Tara of the 6 Shields Meditation MP3
White Tara of the 6 Shields Meditation Mp3 Download was just made available in the Dance the Goddess Tara Dhatu Online Emporium. http://shop.taradhatu.org/product.sc?productId=81&categoryId=11 Recorded live in a Sausalito workshop in…
In Memory of Our Dear Tara Dance Sister, Mary Hunter
Our dear Tara Dance sister, Mary Hunter just passed away. Please keep her in your prayers, I am sure she is keeping us in hers. Abi, Mary’s close dharma sister, wrote…..…
Rare Nepali Dance Sponsored by Tara Dhatu Bay Area Circle
Helen Appell is one of the foremost instructors in the exquisite art of Charya, an esoteric dance form developed by the Newars of Nepal. It is based in Vajrayana Buddhism,…
Peru Called Tara to Dance
Visit the Photo Essays Below for ALL THE PICTURES! PHOTO ESSAY ONE: http://www.premadasara.net/TaraDhatu2014/Peru.html PHOTO ESSAY TWO: http://www.premadasara.net/TaraDhatu2014/Peru2.html I heard Peru call us last year. I asked Myri if there was…
A New Means of Support
Tara Dhatu is pleased to announce that we are now able to receive monthly donations through PayPal. For years our students have asked if there was any way they could…
Tonesket Tara Dance for Lama Zopa
Last month (August) Lama Zopa asked to see the progress of the Tara Dance that he had directed his students in Tonesket, Washington to learn. Because Phyllis Moses, their Tara…
Dancing for the Great Dragon in Brazil
Cilene has been a Tara Dancer in the Brasilia Circle for some years. While Myri was on tour with Prema, Cilene took the initiative to organize an offering of dance…
Flutter-By : A Poem by Leanora Orr
Leanora Orr has been a dancer in Tara’s Mandala for many years. She has supported so many, selling her personal items and artwork to raise $$ for the Kauai Circle…
Indian Village Children and Tara’s Songbook
Tsering Drolma of Arunachala Pradesh, a remote district in North East India, met our group of Tara Dhatu pilgrims at the Conference of Buddhist Women in India a couple of…
Alchemy and the Tara Dance
Marlene Butler is a Tara Dhatu Student Teacher in Napier, North Island, New Zealand. She has been guiding the Napier circle for over six months while Clare, the former Tara…
Bright Nepal
Anahata Iradah is the co-director of Tara Dhatu’s Humanitarian Outreach. She writes… In May 2014 I guided a Dances of Universal Peace pilgrimage through India and Nepal. There were many…
Stormy and the Lama
Renee (Ishtara) is a new Student Teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her daughter Nita (Stormy) is seven years old and is just as eager as her mom to dance Tara.…
Jessica is Headed to Tara Camp on Kauai : Fundraiser Report
Due to the generosity of the Tara community and beyond, Jessica Zebrine has met her fundraising goal, purchased all necessary plane tickets, and will be joining us for the retreat…
Tara is Dancing in Caxias
Michele Trentin is a Level One Facilitator in Tara Dhatu South America. Michele has developed a dance school in the South of Brazil for the past 17 years, featuring Middle…
Tonasket Celebrates Their 2nd Annual Tara Dance Festival
Phyllis Moses, one of our main Tara Dhatu Teachers in the Northwest has been working with the Tonasket Community for several years. She writes… Tonasket is a small town in…
Tara is Dancing In Dublin
Natalie Barella is a Tara Dhatu Student Teacher from Brazil, living in Dublin. She has been leading a monthly class and sent this report about a Tara Dance meeting she…
Phyllis Keeps Tara Dancing in the Pacific NorthWest
Phyllis Keeps Tara Dancing in the Pacific NorthWest Phyllis Moses has been dancing Tara since its early years on Maui. A few years ago she decided to get more active…
Tara Is Dancing in Arunachala Pradesh
Tara Is Dancing in Arunachala Pradesh Prema Dasara, Spiritual and Creative Director, Tara Dhatu At the Sakyadhita conference in Bihar India last year we had the wonderful experience of sharing…
Tara Dancing in New Zealand by Marlene Butler
Marlene Butler started facilitating the Tara Dance circle in Napier, New Zealand at the request of Clare who was going into retreat for six months. Marlene’s enthusiasm and diligence has…
Tara Dancing in Uruguay – Photo Essay
Uruguay, a southern neighbor of Brazil, is the second smallest nation in South America, with a highly educated population of 3 million people. Three enormous rivers flow through the country, with…
The Mandala Turns in Curitiba, Brazil
Leila Carvalho is our Tara Dhatu South America Facilitator in Curitiba, Brazil. She sent this photo of her group practice on the 26th of April and took this opportunity to…
Giving Back Through Tara by Pia Hagan
Pia Hagan has been dancing Tara for seven years. Well known by attendants of the Tara Dance Camp in Kauai as our expert Head Chef, she moved into the realm…
Tara Dances in Austin, Texas
Austin is a town in Texas with attitude. One arrives at the airport and blasting forth is a sign declaring Austin the music capitol of the world. My workshop happened…
Tara is Dancing in New Zealand
Catherine Callaghan is our Tara Dhatu Student Teacher in Nelson, South Island, New Zealand. She writes…. Judy Crowe and I decided to make three special Tara Dance offerings. …
Mother’s And Daughters Dancing Tara in Tucson
Teresa and Heather, Parvati and Amina, Amita and Lily, Elizabeth and Arabella From Prema’s Diary On Tour – March 2014 I rarely lead Mandala of Tara Performance weekends anymore,…
Tara Gathering in Prescott, AZ
On February 1st 2014 Parvati led an introduction to Tara morning session in Prescott, Arizona. Carey Avery had arranged this meditation and dance session as a special event for a…
We Are All Differently Abled
On the road Prema writes…... I am so happy I had the good fortune of dancing into Phoenix this year. Parvati and Shivadam were my most gracious hosts and I…
A New Circle in Massachusetts
Sharon Gonsalves is a Level 3 Tara Dance Teacher. She danced for years on Kauai and thought to retire her Tara Dancing shoes when she moved back east. Instead the…
The Masks Came Out To Play in Kauai
Sherry Harris is a student in the Tara Dhatu Education Program and a long time Tara Dancer and friend. Despite her long hours as a nurse in the Kauai Hospital…
Prema – On the Road
How glorious to be out and about sharing Tara through dharma and dance. WOW….what a lucky grrrrl am I. I had the most magnificent send off from the Maui Taras…
One Billion Rising On Maui
By Rebecca French With a shared mission to uplift and empower women across the world, Prema Dasara, the Executive Director of Tara Dhatu, shared the Dance of Motivation and the Dance…
Moving the World with Sacred Mudra: Buddhist Dance from Nepal to Oregon to Brazil
Our dear friend and colleague, Helen Appell, precious teacher of the Sacred Charya Dance of Nepal, went to Brazil to teach at the invitation of Myri Dakini and Tara Dhatu…
Our Oceans: Tara Dancers and Water Offerings – Albany, CA
Albany, CA Group danced Tara Dance Dedicated to Healing waters Tara Dance Practice Healing Waters By Rev. Jacuqelyn Sendak Zavaleta During the many years I have danced and taught aspects…
Opening the Way
New Student Facilitators Opening the Way in Austin, Texas For years Kathryn Henderson has kept a circle of Tara Dancing going in Austin, Texas. Health and life issues caused her to…
Tara Retreat, Brasilia, December 2013
Myri Dakini offered a one day retreat at her dance studio, Om Tare!! Her intent was to give her students the chance to deepen in the practice of Tara. She…
Dancing Tara in the Far South Brazil
Liamara Chemello is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu South America Student Teacher in Porto Alegre, one of Brazil’s largest cities in the far South. Every time our Student Teachers offer an…
2014 Tara Camp Young Adult Scholarship Recipients!
Tara Dhatu has confirmed three members for our Young Adult Work Trade Scholarship Program, 2014 Kauai Tara Camp. Gina Shure, Hannibal Boyd and Jenny Alpert, all from the island of…
Tara Is Dancing in Australia
Felicity Oswell is a Level 4 Tara Dhatu Mentor and has been leading circles in Australia and Japan for many years. She reports….. The group in Sydney has gone through…
A Flutter By – Kauai Taras Fun Raisers
One of the many things artist LeahVani is known for is wearing beautiful scarves and she has quite a personal collection. She decided to gift some of her scarves to…
Dancing Tara in Hokkaido, Japan
Yasuko is our Tara Dhatu Facilitator in Japan. She writes…. This year there were so many challenges, for myself personally and also for our Tara Dance Circle in Japan. As…
Tara is Dancing in Santé Corps – São José – Santa Catarina
Andressa has been representing Tara Dhatu South America as a Regional Director of the South Eastern circles of Brazil. She writes…… Our meeting of Santé Corps took place during the…
Sacred Dance In the Water in Barcelona
Elena Lopez Sans is a Tara Dhatu Student Teacher who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her birthplace is Barcelona, Spain and she travels there every year to be with family…
The Radiance of Tara, Dancing in Fortaleza
This November Myri Dakini, our beloved Central Coordinator of Tara Dhatu South America, Assistant Director of the TDSA Educational Program, and Treasurer of TD International, was invited to lead a…
Tara is Dancing in Dublin, Ireland
Natália Barella is one of Myri Dakini’s students, a Tara Dhatu South American Student Teacher who has been facilitating a circle in the far south of Brazil. She recently moved…
Offering the Mandala at a Care Center
Phyllis Moses is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu Teacher residing in Kirkland, Seattle Washington area. She led a group of dancers in offering the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of…
5th Annual Phoenix Area Weekend Retreat – November 8-10
Parvati is Tara Dhatu’s treasured International Central Coordinator and Assistant Director of our StudentTeacher Program. She writes… This November 8-10th marks the 5th year I have led the Phoenix Area…
Tara Dhatu’s Sponsor a Child Atisha School Raffle!
Welcome to The Great Tara Dhatu Sponsor a Child at Atisha School Raffle! If you are interested in printing a poster and collecting for the raffle Here is a…
Tara Dancing With Children in Florida
Nurallah joined the Student Teacher program last year with the intention to teach local children the dance drama, Tara Tames the eight Fears. She writes…. Watching the DVD Tara Tames the…
Prema’s Boyz Behind the Scenes
In August of 2012, Prema welcomed two new caretakers and students into her life. They have since become a fundamental part of Prema’s life as well as Tara Dhatu. This…
From Tara Dhatu South America
Watch The YouTube Special! Tara Dance Retreat in Brasilia 2013 Tara Dhatu Student Teachers in South America By Myri Dakini Naves – Assistant Director, Tara Dhatu Educational Programs, South America…
Prema & Myri Dance and Play in the Bay Area
Our last mainland stop was in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Myri had never been to California and the Taras in the Bay Area were excited to share some…
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche: Friend & Guide
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was a dear man. Humble in his brilliance, he always had the most infectious smile. I called him the bliss bunny. Just to look at him made…
Ashland, OR – A Leap of Faith
Dancing Tara with this new community was filled with many surprises and delights. You can get a taste through this photo essay…. Click Here to View the Photo Essay The…
Dancing Gold Tara & Worthy of Honor in Portland
Prema and Myri spent two magnificent days in Portland during their Spring 2013 Tour. They taught their new Dance Sadhana of Gold Tara, Goddess of Abundance, at the exquisite Newari…
Dancing White Tara for Dagmola: The Photo Essay
Dagmola Kushog is one of Prema’s most treasured teachers. She was the first Tibetan woman to witness the Tara Dance, in 1989, and felt compelled to offer empowerment to the…
Tara Dances in Tohoku, Japan 2013
Felicity is a Level 4 Mentor in Tara Dhatu, from Sydney, Australia. She has been teaching in Japan for many years and speaks Japanese fluently. She writes… When the earthquake,…
Garchen Rinpoche Receives White Tara in Ohio
Nita-Rose is the Tara Dance Facilitator in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was invited to Gar Drolma, the Drikung Kagyu Center in Dayton, to lead her Tara Dance circle in the White…
First Annual Tara Dance Festival in Tonasket, WA.
Phyllis Moses witnessed the Tara Dance for the first time in the 80’s. She performed with the Tara Dancers many times on Maui and then moved to Seattle. A few years later…
Prema Dancing & Singing in Brazil
Prema taught and toured throughout the spring and summer. She had a fabulous two months in Brazil. In our last newsletter she shared photo essays of her time in Natal…
Music for Bali Retreat 2013 – Ricardo from Brazil
Ricardo has been playing music for the Brasilia Taras for the past four years. He will be our main musician for the retreat in Bali. He has written this amazing…
Inside the India Pilgrimage with Phyllis Moses
Phyllis Moses has been dancing Tara for more than 20 years. She is a Level 2 Tara Dhatu Student Teacher and facilitates a circle of dancing Taras in Seattle, Washington. She was…
Dancing Tara in Tonasket, Washington
Phyllis Moses will be returning May 31 – June 2 to the powerful and sacred area of Tonasket, Washington. A Level 2 Tara Dhatu student teacher, Phyllis is excited to…
Tara is Dancing in the East Bay, And Aspiring to Share Widely
Rev. Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta, also known as Sonam Lhamo, and her husband Rigdzin Zavaleta are intensely active dharma practitioners and supporters. Both are members of the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher…
Parvati Leads the Mandala of Tara in Indiana
On the week-end of March 15 – 17 at the Sacred Waters Center in Mishawaka, Indiana (just a stones through from South Bend of Notre Dame fame) the local community…
New Circle Dances Tara in Australia
Jenny Swan Raynor has started a new Tara Dance circle after the energizing visit of Prema and Myri to the Daylesford, Australia area last fall. She writes….
White Tara Dances in New Zealand
It was a superb mellow autumn day at the Chandrakirti Buddhist Centre’s Music Day on 24 March 2013 in Upper Moutere, Nelson, New Zealand. The sun was shining dazzlingly, a gentle…
New Photo Essays of the 2013 Tara India Pilgrimage
Prema has just completed 11 NEW photo Essays from The 2013 Tara India Pilgrimage. Visit the links below, and travel along with us for an exclusive new look into the…
Mask Dancing as Deity Yoga
Mekara Fiske, Level 3 Winston-Salem, North Carolina ” ‘But why should I emanate myself as [Tara] or any other diety?’, you may ask. ‘It is already difficult enough for me…
Dance White Tara for Garchen Rinpoche – May 12, 2013
Dayton, Ohio May 12, 2013 Nita-Rose has been leading a circle of dancing Taras in Cincinatti, Ohio, for several years. A long time Tara practitioner, she brings a dynamic understanding…
Dancing in the Masks
Eana Rose has been studying and working with Prema for over 30 years. A Level 4 Mentor in the Student Teacher Program, she has long facilitated a Tara Dance Circle…
Ani Samten Dolma – Yogini Extraordinaire!
Over the years Tara Dhatu has arranged for sponsorships for a number of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. Jackie Johnson has adopted several women, sending them steady support to allow them to…
Praying for World Peace – Kanaio, Maui, Hawaii
Just before leaving for India I received an impassioned email from Keiko, the Japanese woman who arranged for us to have a peace pole in Kanaio, the remote mountain retreat…
New Tara Circle in Pacifica, CA
This December 2012, Barbara Patton, a local woman who danced in Tara’s Mandala several times, asked me to begin a circle here in Pacifica. Her friend, Nancy Victoria Davis, was…
Young Adult Scholarships for Kauai Retreat 2013 – Apply Now!
Tara Dhatu presents the Young Adult Scholarship Program If you are between the ages of 19-29, and unable to afford Tara camp, this is an opportunity to attend camp in…
Dance Tara in Bali
Bali, a small island in the archipelago of Indonesia, has a fascinating culture. Animistic in depth, Hindu in modern expression, the Balinese have developed magnificent artistic expressions in the realms…
Sound of the Heart, Spirit of the Wind
Myri Dakini, our Central Coordinator for South America and Assistant Director of the Tara Dhatu Educational Programs, just returned from a Tara Dance teaching tour in Argentina, Chile and the…
Myri Leads Tara Dances in Argentina
Click Here to View the Full Album on Facebook Norma is a Level 1 Facilitator in the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program. She attended the 2012 Tara retreat in Brasilia…
Myri Leads Tara Dance Retreat in Chile
Click Here to View the Full Album on Facebook Vera Morán joined the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program after attending the Tara Dance retreat this year in Brasilia. She has…
Tara Dance Retreat With Myri in Caxias
Click Here to View the Full Album on Facebook Caxias is in the far south of Brazil. Our precious Level 3 Tara Dhatu teacher, Isabel Azvedo has nurtured a…
Tara Dances in Australia with Prema & Myri
Eh Ma Ho…..Immeasurably Wonderful. To complete the story of our Down Under teaching tour, you can join Myri and I through these Photo Essays…. __________________________________________ Visit Daylesford with us and…
Dancing Tara in a Home for the Aged
For the past month the Tara dancers of Florianopolis in the South of Brazil were preparing to offer the Mandala Dance as part of a fund raiser for the local…
Dancing Tara in Phoenix
Parvati Forrest Burke is our precious Central Coordinator and the Assistant Director of Tara Dhatu’s Educational Programs. She writes…. For the past many years the Phoenix Area Tara Sangha has…
Tara Dances In Aotearoa
Prema and Myri have been traveling down under, offering classes and workshops in the Mandala of Tara. The springtime weather has been cold, the flowers blooming in glory and wonder.…
Springing Along – Prema’s Outbound Tour
Greetings dear dancing friend. This year tumbles on and I have not been very good at keeping you informed of my adventures in sharing Tara’s Dance. I have been wrestling…
Tara Tames the 8 Fears at KTD with Elizabeth Breck
Children’s Tara Dance: “Tara Tames the 8 Fears” with Senior Tara Dance Leader Elizabeth Breck Location: KTD Monastery of His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Dates: May 18-20 FRIDAY 5-18-2012 –check in…
Tara Leaders Featured: DUP NA Song of the Month
Our Sister Organization, Dances of Universal Peace North America (D.U.P. N.A.) has a “Song of the Month” page. These offerings are full of the magic and wisdom, grace and inspiration…
Tara, Dancing in Phoenix
Amina Kruck has been dancing in Tara’s Mandala for 14 years. As a Level One Tara Dhatu Student Teacher she facilitates Tara circles in the Phoenix area and has taken…
Dancing the Divine Feminine in Brasilia, Brazil
Myri Dakini is the Central Coordinator of Tara Dhatu for South America. In the beginning of December 2011 she organized and offered two performances of sacred dance, featuring the Mandala…
Tara Dancing in Morocco, Spain & Brooklyn
Elena Lopez Sans is a Tara Dance teacher. This year she shared the Tara Dance in her place of residence, Brooklyn, New York; in her birth place, Barcelona, Spain; and…
Hosting the Relics in North Carolina
Mekare Fiske, a 3rd Level Tara Dhatu Teacher, has been leading the Tara Dance in her home area of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for many years. She organized a visit from…
Dancing for Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche
Catherine Callaghan is our Tara Dhatu Student Teacher in the South Island of New Zealand. She has been working with a group of women who offered the Mandala of Tara…
Tara is Dancing 11-11-11
Prema and the Maui Tara Dancers have been honored to participate in the 1st Maui Spiritual Congress being held on 11-11-11 at the Sacred Earth Temple in Haiku, Maui (and around the…
Tara Dances at Youth Camp
Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta has been leading youth workshops for Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment for over 11 years. She is a Level 2 member of the Tara Dhatu…
Tara Is Dancing in Tonasket, Washington
Phyllis Moses witnessed the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara on Maui in 1987. Phyllis soon was drawn into dancing with the Maui Taras and had the privilege…
Offerings for Prosperity in Kathmandu
Every year a dear friend and Tara Dance Teacher, Andrea Abinanti, makes offerings for her friends, family and has included Tara Dhatu in the opportunity. Andrea has lived in the…
Shahodat from St.Petersburg, Sponsored
Shahodat Golomuz, our Tara Dhatu Student Teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia has been gifted the funds by family and friends to come to our Kauai Camp. A couple of weeks…
Happy Birthday, Gisele L’abbate
One of our Tara Dance 3rd Level Student teachers in Brazil, Gisele Labate has been traveling about with Anahata in Brazil, Â teaching Tara and developing a small group of dancers…
Deepening in Tara in Seattle
Phyllis Moses has been dancing Tara since the early years on Maui. She is now helping to facilitate a circle in the Seattle area. She and fellow Tara Dhatu Student…
Prema’s Health Update
Dear friends, So many of you have written to me with your prayers, your well wishes, your suggestions, your healing modalities, I am so grateful to have such a wide…
Prayers for Japan – Rainbow of Hope
Felicity Oswell is one of Tara Dhatu’s Mentors and has been teaching Tara in her native Australia and in Japan for many years. Last year her group performed Tara in…
Tara Retreat in Tucson with Prema
It was such a contrast going from the cold and wet winter of Portland to sunny Phoenix. The temperatures had been unseasonably cold just before I arrived, but for my…
Prema In Portland January 2011
Lena Grace has been busy for months working on developing Tara Dhatu’s eStore. I decided that I would start my January tour by spending a week in Portland. I was…
Prema’s Hospital Update
Well, it has been a wild ride, getting this stubborn hip polished by the most excellent Dr. Claudio…..waking up in the ICU of Sarah Hospital with tubes running into and…
Paradise On Earth – Tara Retreat in Brazil
Today we went out to Paraiso na Terra, the place where we will be having our Annual Tara Dhatu South American Tara retreat, May 14-21. Less than an hour outside…
Tara Goes to Bangkok
Several years ago Prema was invited to go to Bhutan by Kutira Decostard to look into the conditions of nuns in that part of the world. On the way they…
Introducing the Tara Dance at ARE in Virginian Beach, VA
Jacquelyn Lhamo is a Level 2 Tara Dance Facilitator who resides in Northern California. She travels a great deal and wherever she goes she likes to introduce new friends to…
Second Turning of Tara’s Dancing Mandala in Cincinnati, Ohio
Nita-Rose, one of our newest facilitators in the Tara Dhatu Student Teacher Program has been developing an active circle in Cincinnati. Here is her report and a few photos of…
Offering Tara’s Mandala Dance in Phoenix To Geshe Jampa
Parvati ‘s dynamic Phoenix Tara circle offered a powerful Mandala Dance of Tara in Phoenix in November. She writes…. It was a beautiful week-end, juicy and powerful. Things were so…
Tara dhatu South America Newsletter
Maria Ache has done it again……created a beautiful newsletter for Tara Dhatu South America. It’s in Portuguese, the pictures however are universal…..take a look…. Tarayana January 2011
Chaska of Argentina Writes……
Myri Dakini, Tara Dhatu’s Central Coordinator for South America, was invited to share the Tara Dance at the Annual Gathering of South American Women in Argentina. She met Chaska, one…
Tara Will Be Dancing in Woodstock, New York
Marie Giguere volunteers, studies and practices at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the seat of His Holiness the Karmapa in the West. We have offered several Mandalas of Tara Dance at that…
An Original Tara Dancer – Alecia Bay Laurel in Japan
Alecia Bay Laurel was a well known name in the 60’s. She wrote a book called “Living On The Earth†which was kind of like a bible for the off…
Tara to Dance in Switzerland
Marge Opplinger is a Tara Dhatu Level 3 Teacher from Brazil. Two years ago she moved to Switzerland with her husband, Jorge and daughter, Mikhaela. She writes….. Beloved Prema, How…
Moon Faced Rinpoche
Due to the modern wonder of Facebook I was contacted by a very dear young man that I knew before he was a breath in his mother’s belly. In 1987…
Argentina, The Energy of the Andes United With Tara
Myri Dakini is the Central Coordinator for Tara Dhatu South America. She was invited to share some Tara Dance practice at a South American Woman’s Conference in Argentina. She writes……
Peace to All Goddesses-Phoenix, Arizona
The Mandala of the 21 Praises of Tara dance turned in Phoenix Nov 12-14 weekend. Parvati Forrest Burke, Assistant Director of the Tara Dhatu Student teacher program leads a circle…
Aspiring to Dance Tara in Hamburg, Germany
Nirka Basei led a Tara Dance circle in Alto Paraiso, Brazil for several years. She then moved to Hamburg, Germany and has the aspiration to start a Tara Dance circle…
Dancing Tara’s Qualities in Arkansas for H. H. Getse Rinpoche and Khentrul RInpoche
At Katog Choling Rit’hröd Arkansas October 2010 * * * * * Adrianne LaBry Smith is a Level 3 Tara Dhatu Teacher residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. She has been leading…
The Great Atisha School Raffle-Winners!!!!
Every year Tara Dhatu Humanitarian Outreach holds a raffle to raise funds for one of our projects. This year the headmaster of Atisha school in Kathmandu sent a request for…
Vision of Tara – Dancing in Seattle
Parvati Forrest Burke  lead the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara at the Sakya Monastary in Seattle Washington  October 22. One of the participants, Marsha Emrick, wrote this…
Tara is Dancing in Cincinnati, Ohio
The Magic of the Tara Dance By Nita-Rose Nita-Rose Augsbach is a Licensed Massage Therapist living in the general vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. She contacted the Tara Dance through a…
Pooja Is Accepted to Medical College
One of our main humanitarian projects has been finding sponsors for Pabitra’s own and adopted children. Her oldest daughter, Pooja, graduated from high school with honors and has been applying…
Tara Dhatu Brasil Sul America
Once more Maria Ache has put together a fabulous newsletter to display the activities of the South America Taras. She also has a few photos of Camp Naue. This is…
Lubyov from Russia sponsored to attend Tara Camp on Kauai
Lubyov has been leading the Tara Dance in Perm, Russia for four years. Her only exposure was a weekend workshop that Anahata and I led in 2006. Living in the…
Dancing Tara in Florianopolis for Lama Tsultrim
Andressa Marie led a group of Tara Dancers in an offering for Lama Tsultrim in Florianopolis, Brazil. The group is quite active, dancing together often.
Lotus Circle of California Dances Midsummer’s Eve
“I am dreaming back my sisters, whisper-worn footfalls on the Temple steps, come home, sisters, come home†Marie Elena Gaspari, 1999 On Midsummer’s eve, the Lotus Circle presented a community…
Sandra Finds Magic in Tara’s Music
Abraços e beijos!!!! ( Embraces and Kisses) We had our Tara meeting on Monday, and we talked about the effect of the workshop on Music with Anahata. Everyone had a…
Creating Tara’s Pure Land through sound in Salvadore, Bahia
This weekend the Tara Dancing group of Salvadore, Bahia invited Anahata to give a workshop focused on the music for the Tara Dance. Anahata’s invitation….. “We will focus on sensitivity and contour,…
Tara is Dancing in Colombia
Our wonderful dancing friend, Maria Ache from Brazil (on the right), went to Colombia and introduced a beautiful group of women to the Mandala Dance of Tara. They met in…
Parvati Leads the Mandala in Michigan
Parvati led a beautiful Mandala of Tara Dance in Michigan. Here’s her report… Penny, and Brenda traveled with me from Phoenix to Grand Rapids, Michigan this June for a magical…
Tara’s Mandala Turns in Vermont
The Tara Mandala turns in Vermont By Suki Ciappara On the weekend of May 4 and 5th the Vermont Tara Circle hosted a Tara retreat weekend and Mandala Dance Offering. There…
Jacquelyn Shares Her Reflections of Ise
Tara Pilgrimage in Japan 2010 Excerpt from the chapter, “My Life with Tara†Angels and the Goddess. By Rev. Jacquelyn Sendak Zavaleta Arriving in Japan felt like coming home. In…
Tara is Dancing in Japan
Felicity Oswell has been sharing the Tara dance in Australia and Japan for many years. An accomplished dancer and long time student of the dharma, she is a jewel in…