yoga background
TaraMarie is a Vinyasa Hatha yoga teacher certified through OM Yoga, NYC and is a
registered yoga teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance.
Her study of yoga began in 1997 and stemmed from a lifelong fascination with body awareness and movement as a professional dancer. TaraMarie
received an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she
was also exposed to the bodywork and somatic studies of anatomy,
kinesiology, Pilates, Feldenkreis, and Laban/Bartenieff integrated throughout her
conservatory dance training. Her unique teaching style is greatly influenced by the dynamic flow of Vinyasa and Ashtanga, the precise alignment principles of Iyengar, and her natural sensitivity to movement with an understanding of the human body.
TaraMarie is on faculty at NYU Tisch Dance, Joffrey Ballet School, Namaste New York, Yoga High and East Yoga in New York City.
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yoga for everyone
TaraMarie teaches yoga to
dancers, performing artists, athletes and professionals from many walks of life,
tailoring yoga programs to suit their specific needs, in group and
private settings. She is also the consultant and model for Guided
Yoga, an online yoga class sequencing website.
For more information on scheduling private or group yoga classes, click here.
yoga for dancers
TaraMarie specializes in teaching yoga to dancers. Through her ongoing research, she has developed her own Yoga for Dancers curriculum, a series of anatomically and energetically themed classes incorporating classical yoga into a structure more sensitive to a dancer's technical needs, as well as designed to help treat and prevent injury. This curriculum has been recognized an essential part of the professional dance training programs at both Tisch School of the Arts and Joffrey Ballet School where she is on faculty. She also provides ongoing yoga therapy in the Tisch Dance Department through group and private sessions. In 2008, she was invited as faculty to teachYoga for Dancers at the American Dance Festival Winter Intensive in New York City and the 75th Anniversary season of American Dance Festival in Durham, NC.
For more information aboutYoga for Dancers or to book TaraMarie to teach this course material at your university, school or dance festival, click here.
dance education and more
Over the last 12 years, TaraMarie has also been teaching
ballet, modern dance, movement studies and dance composition in
various US and international venues. She was invited as Guest Lecturer to
the MA Programs in Practice-Based Research and Drama at Queen Mary University
and Goldsmiths University in London. While in residence, she developed
two workshops: Space, Time and Breath as Performance Allies (2005) and Using
Movement as an Educational Tool (2006). TaraMarie is a dancer, choreographer and
costume designer, critically acclaimed in The New Yorker and The
Village Voice, among other publications. She continues to perform
with independent choreographers in New York City.
For more information on TaraMarie's dance performance/choreography, dance teaching, costume designing, and other projects, click here.