Now Accepting Applications for our 2025 Level 1 Hybrid Weekday Program. Training begins Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
Go to our ADMISSIONS page for more information.
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
November 5 - November 26
Online Series: Resourcing Your Mythic Journey ~ with Marialuisa Diaz de Leon
Embodied explorations of your Hero/Heroine’s Journey through the Tamalpa Life/Art Process
December 2 - December 16
Online Series: Movement Ritual and Dance Explorations: Winter Solstice Series with Joy Cosculluela
Movement Ritual and Dance Explorations weave in sensations, feelings, and images, as we find inspiration from darkness and light, honoring the transitions between.
December 6
By exploring our anatomy experientially and artistically, we connect more deeply with our bodies, creativity, and lived experience.
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.
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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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