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Byron Bay

Terrafirma Yoga - Teacher Trainings by Tara Fitzgibbon in Byron Bay.

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TARA FITZGIBBON

 
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Hi, I’m Tara

Yoga Teacher. Mother. Lover. Yogi.

Let me help you breathe better.

Move easily.

Rest comfortably.

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, pronounced Terra. Terra means Earth in Latin. The word firm in Sanskrit is sthira.  'Sthira, Sukham, Asanam' is one of Pantanajali's Yoga Sutras This translates as firm, happy, pose - a balance between effort and ease. Yoga asana (poses) are connected to Earth always, so let us find ease in the body and contentment in the mind.

Terrafirma Yoga.

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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 was one of the first yin yoga teachers and teacher trainers in Australia in 2000. I have been teaching yogis my yin course since 2014 and I founded the yin yoga teacher training at Byron Yoga Centre in 2016. 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 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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Over 1000+ hours of training and 10,000 hours of teaching.

My biggest influences are: Rama Berch aka Swami Nirmalanda (yoga guru), Dr Libby Weaver (super human), Bernie Clark (fellow Canadian) and most recently Light Watkins (meditation teacher).

50 Hour Advanced Asana Sequencing
BodyMindLife & Noelle Connolly
Byron Bay, Australia 2020

50 hour The Subtle Practices
Creature Yoga
Online 2020

20 hour Yoga Nidra Training
With Swami Mukti
Brisbane, Australia 2019

35 hours Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
With Lainie Jenkins
Brisbane, Australia 2019

25 hours Yoga for Teens
with Chloe Thorogood
Byron Yoga Centre 2019

Tantra Teacher Training Course
with Diane and Kerry Riley
Byron Bay, Australia 2016

50 hours Yin Yoga
with Bernie Clark
Vancouver, Canada 2015

100 hours Pre and Post Natal Yoga
with Bliss Baby Yoga
Byron Bay, Australia 2014

110 hours Yoga Therapy
with Maria Kirsten
Byron Bay, Australia 2013

Certificate IV Yoga Teaching
with Byron Yoga Centre 
Byron Bay, Australia 2012

500 hours Level 1 & 2 Purna Yoga
with Byron Yoga Centre 
Byron Bay, Australia 2011

80 hours Embodyment Yoga Therapy
with Rama Berch
Brisbane, Australia 2007

80 hours Foundations of Svaroopa Yoga
with Master Yoga Academy
La Jolla, California 2006

250 hours Hatha, Yin & Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
with Master Yoga Academy
La Jolla, California 2000