LEADERSHIP TEAM
Staff
Daria Halprin, MA, REAT, RSMT
Co-Founding Director
Daria Halprin: dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. In 1978 Daria co-founded the Tamalpa Institute with Anna Halprin, where she directs training programs in movement/dance and expressive arts education, consultancy and therapy. She teaches in educational, health and art centers throughout the world. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community based arts and health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change and performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work, published writings include and appear in : Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices, Poesis: Essays On the Future of the Field; Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced, Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities; de l’une `a l’autre ContreDanse.
Daria Halprin’s website: www.dariahalprin.org
Lori Richloff, MA
Administrative Director
Lori is a Tamalpa graduate and holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Meridian University. Her employment history includes over a decade of experience in the non-profit industry as an administrative professional and 10+ years of experience as a computer programmer/systems analyst. Lori has always had a passion for the arts. She has led weekly collaborative creative arts groups and incorporated the expressive arts into her volunteer work with hospice patients. She has also presented the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® at the International Psychosynthesis Conference in Italy.
Sarah Morin
Admissions and Projects Administrator
Sarah Morin is a dancer, visual artist, and Tamalpa graduate based in San Francisco. Her career in online learning and education technology includes work in learning experience design, program management, digital marketing, and community building and organization. Sarah has a deep understanding of education and learning experience design, and curriculum she has developed has been offered through universities across the country including Harvard, Emory, and NYU. Sarah is merging her career in online education with her deep experience in the arts in her role at the Tamalpa Institute.
Iu-Hui Chua
Marketing and Social Media Coordinator
Iu-Hui, RSMT/E, ACC, holds an MFA in Dramatic Arts/Choreography and a BA in Sociology/Race and Ethnic Relations. She received her Movement Ritual Certification from Anna Halprin and worked intensively with her for many years as both a performer and associate teacher. Iu-Hui currently teaches at University of California Berkeley and Berkeley Rep School of Theatre. She was a resident artist at Djerassi, CounterPulse, Shawl Anderson Dance Center, and Penasco Theater Company.
Maren Oom Galarpe
Administrative Assistant
Maren Oom Galarpe is a RSME/T and multidisciplinary performing and visual artist. She is a Tamalpa graduate, and holds a Master’s in Dance Education from the University of Hawaii and a BFA in Theatre Studies from Emerson College. Her professional career spans over 25 years in arts education and leadership with an emphasis on the creative process and co-creation of new programming and design in PreK-12 schools, museums, and non-profit organizations. Maren’s experience includes dance, theatre, instrumental and vocal music, visual arts, environmental/spatial design, creative writing, and curriculum design/consulting. She shares the Life/Art Process® through her private practice, workshops and online communities. Maren is passionate about cultivating a lifelong love of learning to live more artfully and sustainably within ourselves, our communities and the planet.
Board
Dana Swain
Chair
Dana is a movement based-expressive arts facilitator trained in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process. Dana used the Tamalpa approach to facilitate 50 Angolan youth in a week-long expressive arts workshop and performance that explored issues of conflict and peace in their community. Dana holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is a doctoral candidate in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. For the past 12 years Dana has lived overseas in Angola, Africa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and currently resides in Jakarta, Indonesia. She believes that a body based, expressive arts approach is a powerful way to engage and address personal and community issues in any culture.
Rodman Marymor
Treasurer
Rodman Marymor is a graduate of the inaugural Tamalpa Training Program in 1978 and also has a BA and MFA in Music. A musician, composer and entrepreneur, Rodman has received industry recognition as a visionary business leader and has served on numerous professional trade and non-profit boards.
Sue Heinemann
Secretary
Sue Heinemann, a visual/performance artist, writer, editor, and Tamalpa graduate, has assisted Anna Halprin on various projects, including the Venice Biennale, and belongs to Anna’s performance lab. She is the author of Timelines of American Women’s History and worked with Heresies, a seminal feminist art journal. She also served as a principal editor at UC Press.
Brian Collentine
Brian is an entrepreneur, graphic designer and dancer. He’s worked with a variety of companies, primarily in the fashion industry; Esprit, Levis, Gap, Banana Republic and Benetton. In 2011 he launched Yolo Farmstand, purveying premium organic nuts & dried fruit. In 1999 he began his 20 year artistic relationship with Anna Halprin. He performed with Anna in ‘Intensive Care’ at JCCSF in 2006. His work with Ms. Halprin has been seen at YBCA, Berkeley Art Museum, the De Young Museum and a number of other Bay Area venues. He continues to lead Anna’s Performance Lab.
Daria Halprin
Daria is the co-founding director of Tamalpa Institute where she directs training programs in movement/dance and expressive arts education, consultancy, and therapy. She teaches in educational, health, and art centers throughout the world.
James Nixon
James Nixon is Co-Founder and Principal of Sustainable Systems, Inc., a business and economic development corporation, located in Oakland, CA, that provides market-based strategies for the achievement of sustainable development and smart growth. He is also on the Leadership Team of Our Planet Our Future. He has participated in the work of the Halprins since the early 1970’s and served as the Chair of Tamalpa’s first board of directors.
Alice Rutkowski
Alice Rutkowski, Ph.D., is a movement specialist, humanistic artist and master teacher. In the course of the last three decades, she has consulted widely in the fields of allied healthcare, higher education, the arts, and corporate business. A highly sought after coach and trainer for alternative healing arts practitioners/businesses, artists, teaching professionals and Fortune 500 executives, Alice has literally moved from 1 to 1,000 people at a time blending innovation, imagination and the language of the body. Her method, Motional Processing, is rooted in the renowned work of Anna Halprin, Daria Halprin and the Tamalpa Institute – the flagship program of its kind in the world. Motional Processing has deeply and profoundly impacted the lives of thousands of people from all walks of life.
Advisors
Jack Kornfield Founding Director of Spirit Rock, is one of the pre-eminent and most popular teachers in the vipassana movement of American Theravada Buddhism. He has taught meditation worldwide, and authored many books on Buddhism philosophy and practice as a daily learning and art.
Dr. Ken Dychtwald has, over the past 35+ years, emerged as North America’s foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, healthcare, and workforce implications of the age wave. He is a psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of sixteen books on aging-related issues.
Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body holistic health movement and the first to recognize the role of the spirit in health and the recovery from illness.
Marion Weber, member of the Common Weal group, founder of the Flow Fund, and a life-long supporter of the healing arts.
Robert Hall, an MD, Gestalt therapist, founder of the Lomi School, and meditation teacher, was one of the early pioneers in the somatic psychology movement.
Michael Samuels, M.D. has used guided imagery, creativity, shamanism, and art with cancer patients for over twenty five years in private practice and in consultation.
Marc Kasky moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and headed the San Francisco Ecology Center, and later the Fort Mason Center.
Eiko & Koma, acclaimed Japanese-born, NYC-based choreographers/dancers/performance artists, have received two “Bessies”(1984 and 1990), as well as the Guggenheim (1985), the MacArthur(1996), and the United States Artists (2006) Fellowships. They were honored with the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award (2004) and the Dance Magazine Award (2006) for lifetime achievement in modern dance.
Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is an eco-philosopher as well as a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.
Michael Murphy is the co-founder of the Esalen Institute, a key figure in the Human Potential Movement, and author of both fiction and non-fiction books on topics related to extraordinary human potential.
Stanley Krippner is an internationally known humanistic psychologist, having written extensively on dreams, altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, shamanism, dissociation, and parapsychological subjects.
Janice Ross is a professor in the Theater and Performance Studies Department and director of the Dance Division at Stanford University, is the former dance critic for the Oakland Tribune. She is the author of San Francisco Ballet at 75, Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance, and Moving Lessons: Margaret H‘Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education.
Toby Symington has headed up a small family foundation for 30 years. The foundation supports visionary, grassroots cancer programs that offer healing on multiple levels. He also has a private practice in astrological counseling, especially designed for people going through major life transitions. Toby’s core vocation is philosophy, understood both as the love of wisdom and as an integral way of being.
