Tara is a certified yoga therapist, psychotherapist, and longtime guide of transformational healing practices. With over 35 years of personal practice and 12+ years of teaching experience, she brings deep reverence for the multiple dimensions of our being to every class.
Her teaching draws on thousands of hours of yoga training across multiple lineages—including a 1000+ hour Yoga Therapy certification, Ashtanga Yoga teacher training, Yin/Restorative, and trauma-informed yoga. Her background also includes focused study in yoga philosophy and yoga psychology, which continue to inform both her practice and presence. This work is further shaped by her clinical training in psychotherapy, neuroscience, and somatic healing. Tara’s classes offer more than movement; they’re a return to self. Her style is intentional, intuitive, and deeply attuned, creating space to feel, release, and reconnect.
Whether guiding postures, pranayama, vinyasa, or stillness, Tara invites students into honest relationship with their inner world. She believes healing unfolds when we slow down, listen inward, allow, and learn to stay present with what arises—messy, tender, magical, or true.
Alongside her work at The Sanctuary, Tara runs the Collingwood Psychotherapy & Yoga Centre, where she offers an integrative approach that blends depth psychotherapy and yoga therapy—particularly for complex trauma, post-traumatic growth, and embodied reconnection. Her offerings include individual therapy, deep-dive individual intensives, monthly group therapy, the Whole Again trauma healing program, and immersive group therapy intensives.
Her Monday night classes are a steady, soulful container for integration, rest, and reconnection—for both new and experienced practitioners.
