yoga background
TaraMarie is a Vinyasa Hatha yoga teacher certified through OM Yoga, NYC and is a registered yoga teacher (E-RYT) with Yoga Alliance and member of Yoga for NY.  Her study of yoga began in 1997 and stemmed from a lifelong fascination with body awareness and movement as a professional dancer.  She has completed meditation training at Shambhala Meditation Center of New York and advanced studies in Yoga Anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff at The Breathing Project, NYC.  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, Dance New Amsterdam, and Namaste New York 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.

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yoga for dancers
TaraMarie specializes in teaching movement and yoga to dancers.  Through her ongoing research, she has developed her own Mind Body Dancer™ curriculum, including a yoga 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 as an essential part of the professional dance training programs at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Joffrey Ballet School, Dance New Amsterdam and American Dance Festival where she is on faculty.  Most recently, she has taught master classes from this body of work to the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre and during the Paul Taylor Dance Company Summer Intensive.   In addition to her work with dancers, TaraMarie teaches yoga to performing and visual artists using Mind Body Artist™, and to athletes and professionals from many walks of life, tailoring yoga programs to suit their specific needs, in group and private settings.

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dance education and more
Over the last 15 years, TaraMarie has been performing and teaching yoga, ballet, modern dance, movement studies and dance composition in various US and international venues.  She has held dance faculty positions at Performing Arts Institute at Wyoming Seminary, Brandywine Ballet Company and Worcester Youth Ballet.  She has been a visiting dance lecturer at College of the Holy Cross, Goldsmiths University and Queen Mary University in London.  TaraMarie has been teaching yoga in the NYC community since 2004 in a number of locations including Yoga High, Sonic Yoga, Namaste New York, East Yoga, Grand Street Yoga Spot and lululemon athletica for their in-store and Bryant Park summer class series.  She was the teaching consultant and model for an online yoga sequencer, GuidedYoga.com.  

TaraMarie is a dancer and has also spent a number of years as a 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.

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