I have been teaching yoga and meditation since the year 2000 and training yoga teachers since 2011.  Born in Calgary, AB, Canada, I fell in love with yoga in 1997 after (reluctantly) attending my first yoga class in Byron Bay, Australia.  This yoga class changed my life. I had never felt so at peace in my body afterwards and I was hooked.

Terrafirma Yoga is named after the sound of my first name, Tara, but it sounds like “Terra”. Terra means Earth in Latin. The word firm in Sanskrit is sthira.  One of Pantanajali's Yoga sutras is 'Sthira, Sukham, Asanam'.  This translates as firm, happy, pose - a balance between effort and ease. All yoga poses (asana) are connected to the earth in some form, so let us find ease in these poses. Terrafirma Yoga.

Yoga isn’t only about asana. Yoga also has a philosophical side and the first thing we learn here is the practice of Ahimsa. 

Ahimsa is working with the body in a precise and compassionate way. When you hold the asana a little longer and consciously breathe into that place of discomfort, layer by layer, breath by breath an unraveling occurs. A true letting go. This is the real yoga.

I founded the yin yoga teacher training at Byron Yoga Centre in 2016 and I have been teaching yoga teachers yin since 2014. I also host yoga retreats, yin workshops & private classes in this special part of the world called Byron Bay.

Weekly classes taught at Elements of Byron Resort Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.