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
March 14 - April 4
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.
April 3 - April 24
Online Series: In Your Own Skin: Embodying Self-Confidence with Marialuisa Diaz de Leon
Join us for a four-week journey to embody self-confidence by exploring and harvesting the wisdom of Clarissa Pinkola-Estes’ story of Sealskin, Soulskin.
April 19
Online Workshop: Singing Body ~ with Dohee Lee
Using the tools of breath and rhythm, Dohee will lead you in tuning your body instrument and freeing your voice to activate sounds, songs and movement. This workshop will expand your expressive vocabularies of feelings, energies, memories and stories to create a new art practice.
May 1 - May 29
Online Workshop: Elemental Earth Body Workshop & Performance Lab ~ with Dohee Lee
Starting with movement and sound, we will expand our practices into ritual performance that bridge ancient wisdom into daily life with personal meaning.
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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