NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR OUR LEVEL 1 WEEKEND TRAINING.
Training begins Friday, October 3, 2025.
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MOVEMENT, DANCE & EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Founded in 1978 by dance and expressive arts therapy pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, Tamalpa Institute is internationally recognized for its unique approach to movement, dance, and expressive arts therapy and education.
EMBODIED HEALING & CREATIVITY
We offer classes and programs throughout the year for people who wish to incorporate the embodied creativity of the arts into their personal lives and professional practices.
SOCIAL CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION
We train and empower the next generation of leaders to utilize dance and the expressive arts as a catalyst for change and transformation in their communities, and throughout the world.
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 5 - February 26
Online Series: From Me to We: The Art of Relating with Dr. Rosario Sammartino
This workshop is an invitation to rediscover the connections to ourselves, to others, and to the natural world and explore the art of relating through a somatic and creative lens.
March 3 - March 7
In Person Workshop at ESALEN INSTITUTE: Art as Medicine ~ with DARIA HALPRIN
Since time immemorial, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, spirit, and connection. We now need to reconnect with these ways more than ever.
March 7 - March 28
In this four-part class series, we use the Life-Art Process to explore leadership as an art. We engage the artmaking process to enhance our leadership know-how in service of remaking our world so that we all can thrive.
March 10 - March 31
Let’s welcome springtime by bringing more awareness to how we move and inviting ease, pleasure, and excitement to our dances.
View our calendar for all Tamalpa events >
In loving memory of Anna, who forever will dance in our hearts.
July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021
100 Years, A Life of Dance
BPPE Documentation for California Students
This information is provided for the benefit of California students as required by the BPPE (Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education). All reporting data refers only to past students who were resident in California at the time of enrollment.
Mountain Home Studio, the historical site of the Tamalpa work, sits on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the First Nations Coast Miwok peoples. We acknowledge that we meet and work on Indigenous lands across the globe and we pay respect to elders, past and present, and acknowledge the role that Indigenous peoples continue to play within their local communities.
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