The TARA Approach has been an innovative leader in holistic designs to restore balance to the human nervous system after overwhelming trauma since it was founded in 1994. Clinically tested and effective for all ages and all demographics, the TARA Approach is a fusion of Eastern and Western medicines; it synchronizes ancient and contemporary healthcare wisdom. It incorporates applied touch with assessment and dialogue skills organized to maximize human potential and restore equanimity.

 In this professional training you will learn how to:

 1.       Differentiate sympathetic from parasympathetic nervous system dominances;

2.       Practice skills shaped to bring these dominances into equilibrium;

3.       Strengthen immune function by recalibrating adrenal responses that have been habituated by past trauma;

4.       Learn and experience how to decrease allostatic load quickly;

5.       Identify and awaken essential resources to deactivate traumatic repetition;

6.       Open new neurological pathways for self-regulation;

7.       Cultivate a self-care practice and learn how to transmit it to others;

8.       Experience how trauma is healed in community; and

9.       Become a sustainable health leader;

 Health is the thread that weaves through every consequence of the climate change that is rapidly accelerating globally. To meet this challenge TARA Approach Founder Dr. Stephanie Mines has adapted her paradigm to meet the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations and also to develop sustainable health leadership. As the convener and vision-holder of Climate Change & Consciousness (www.ccc19.org) Dr. Mines is intent on forming a cultural library of sustainable health resources for communities. Dr. Mines is the author of five books on the treatment of different aspects of trauma and shock. Her research and experience inform her understanding of grassroots empowerment from a healthcare perspective.

 This professional training is experiential, inspirational, community oriented and highly personalized. Dr. Mines meets her students where they are and imparts her faith and passion in human resilience through the resolution of past traumas as a path from I to We.

REGISTER HERE

Break the chains of addictive dependence on false sources of energy whether they be sugar, work, consumerism, destructive relationships or fossil fuels. Advanced TARA Approach students learn to reach to the causative level of addictive behavior and uproot it where it started. Using energy medicine and cranial applications that are subtle, nuanced and effective, TARA students step into mastery at a time when only mastery will work the magic we need to turn the tide of humanity’s downward spiral. No matter what the data says, we can do this if we bring our consciousness to bear!

REGISTER FOR BOTH NORWAY COURSES HERE:

Learn how to activate the vitality of the Five Elements of Nature from within your body so that you live in harmony with Gaia in a climate changing world. Sustainable Health maximizes human potential using our hearts, our voices and our hands. Stephanie Mines is the founder of the TARA Approach for the Resolution of Shock and Trauma, the convener of Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth (www.ccc19.org) and the creator of a new paradigm in health delivery. Her Sustainable Health vision is a direct experience of tapping into the wellsprings of health and vitality and how to transmit it. Learn to be a leader as we prepare for and encounter the health consequences of climate change.

This course has no pre-requisites.

Private sessions with Dr. Stephanie Mines will be available while she is in Norway from May 2nd-16th, 2019.

FIRST TIME 90 MINUTE SESSIONS:

FOLLOW UP 60 MINUTE SESSIONS:

SERIES OF 3 PRIVATE SESSIONS:

The CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS: OUR LEGACY FOR THE EARTH conference is an intergenerational, international and multi-cultural event that will be held at the iconic Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, April 20-26, 2019. The goal of this unprecedented gathering is to create the atmosphere in which an emergent conversation can develop among those committed to resilience and stewardship in the face of climate change. Environmental scientists and activists like Bill McKibben, Charles Eisenstein, Xiutezcahtl Marinez and Christina Figueres will collaborate with artists, writers, parents and educators to explore deeply into the core issues that have caused the crisis in climate change. This education will lead to the essential conversation about cultivating the resilience that will allow us to thrive in our changed world. Our goal is to ignite an action plan for networks and sustainable communities to create sanctuaries that will support humanity, including children now and the children of the future.

During the event, we will awaken a passionate spirit of creativity and resilience for our love of Mother Earth and for our children and the children of the future. Through interactive, embodied and experiential dynamics, participants will access intelligent and innovative constructs to meet the demands of this new world. Each individual will be invited to invoke their Legacy for the Earth. And when all our roles are combined we will represent a global mission of stewardship. This conference will be a sizeable life-raft for humanity!

Official Conference Website: www.ccc19.org

Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/CCC19Findhorn/

THIS CONFERENCE IS SOLD OUT BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT BY BUILDING A LIFE STREAMING HUB IN YOUR COMMUNITY PLEASE CONTACT STEPHANIE MINES at Tara-Approach@prodigy.net.

This advanced training has two components. The first focuses on how the nervous system can be vitalized and regenerated no matter what its biography. In this course those who are interested in being Sustainable Healthcare Practitioners, leaders in a climate changing world, buttress their nervous system resilience and enhance it exponentially so that the echoes of historical trauma become extremely faint. Participants have the opportunity to truly step into their capacity as healthcare leaders ready to empower others to do the same. Of necessity, this involves ending habituation. This leads to Part Two of this course: ending addiction. You read that correctly. COMPLETELY ending addiction. This component includes not only energy medicine but also another palpation process that has to do with cranial treatment. Subtle, nuanced and completely safe cranial applications uncouple habituated and consolidated neuronal pathways to liberate optimum resilience. The nervous system comes home to a spontaneous and liberated body. Healing trauma is thus the path to freedom. Students receive a guidebook for cranial treatment as well as charts, maps and handouts.

Course tuition is entirely non-refundable but can be transferred to another similar program within one year.

The TARA Approach to cranial treatment evolved out of Dr. Mines’ research with Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurodiversity. It is a fusion of Cranial-Sacral Therapy and the work of Stephen Porges and Stanley Rosenberg, along with other influences, to release the twelve cranial nerves. This flows out of an understanding of the Social Engagement System that includes the Polyvagal System.

In this course students learn:

1. Exercises to prepare themselves to be able to use the palpation skills required for cranial treatment;

2. Ways to assess each individual’s readiness and availability for cranial reorganization;

3. Assessment skills to read the health of the Social Engagement System;

4. An overview of the relationship between early trauma/shock (including birth trauma) and the Social Engagement System;

5. Tools to evaluate cranial structures;

6. Palpation skills to read cranial rhythms;

7. Interventions to release cranial nerve impingement;

8. How to implement safe cranial treatment without fear of any contraindications; and

9. How and when to integrate cranial treatment into other modalities, especially other aspects of the TARA Approach.

This course is considered an Advanced TARA course and counts as a credit for Advanced Certification.

Register by contacting Peter Heard - captainenviro@gmail.com or on 027 431 3544 OR

Course tuition is entirely non-refundable but can be transferred to another similar program within one year.

The proceeds from these trainings benefit the Sustainable Health Taranaki initiative and the Climate Change & Consciousness Conference 2019 - https://ccc19.org

The TARA Approach is a clinically tested paradigm developed by neuroscientist Stephanie Mines for the effective resolution of shock and trauma in the human nervous system. TARA shows the nervous system the way home after overwhelming and shattering disruption. We learn to listen to the body, to read it, and to follow its directive. It is as simple as that…our hands are our ears; our voices are our hearts; and intuitive spontaneity is our intelligence.

Students may also opt to only participate in the 2-day Self-Care portion of the course, January 17th-18th.

Self-Care: $450NZD / $310USD:

Foundations: $1250NZD / $850USD:

Contact Peter Heard in New Zealand for questions or cash registration:

027 431 3544 - captainenviro@gmail.com

Course tuition is entirely non-refundable but can be transferred to another similar program within one year.

The proceeds from these trainings benefit the Sustainable Health Taranaki initiative and the Climate Change & Consciousness Conference 2019 - https://ccc19.org

The TARA Approach returns to Taranaki with a Foundations course in New Plymouth. Join the TARA Whanau to empower yourself to be a practitioner and leader in sustainable and regenerative health. In this course you experience the art of uprooting causative conditions to uplift the greatest potential in human function. Learn to strengthen immune response, find nervous system equanimity, enhance the body’s ability to adjust to temperature changes, increase resilience and elasticity in movement, and optimize emotional and spiritual wellbeing. The TARA Approach reveals how the human nervous system resonates with Gaia’s through its emphasis on the Five Elements of Nature.

This course is the first step in becoming a TARA Approach Certified Practitioner. It empowers you to tap into cellular memory through assessment of bioelectrical pulse. Participants learn both language and hands-on skills that are immediately effective in relieving stress and awakening alignment. The TARA Approach allows you to manifest your purpose and stimulates the vitality to walk your path with confidence and enthusiasm.

This workshop is open to anyone interested in maximizing human potential and grassroots health at the individual, family and community level. This includes parents, physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare providers, bodyworkers, massage therapists, therapists, psychologists, midwives and educators.

Local New Zealand contact: Peter Heard - captainenviro@gmail.com or 027 431 3544

“The TARA Approach allows healing to unfold naturally through the elements. You obviously need to be present and connected to the process but through the elements healing follows its own path and its own pace because the natural process knows intrinsically how to unfold itself.” ~ Eleni Charalampous

Course tuition is entirely non-refundable but can be transferred to another similar program within one year.

This course will demonstrate how we can, with our own hands, bring our nervous systems back home to our bodies. This means using the gentlest energy medicine as the seductive siren song that convinces the human nervous system that it no longer needs to remain fragmented. An ancient Japanese healing art called Jin Shin has the recipes for this restoration of nervous system function. Dr. Stephanie Mines has adapted these formulas for current conditions, and even for those that are accelerating now through the advance of climate change. The TARA Approach is a merciful system, named for the forces of compassion that reach out to humanity to show them the way. Jin Shin TARA shows the nervous system the way home after overwhelming and shattering disruption. We learn to listen to the body, to read it, and to follow its directive. It is as simple as that…and as miraculous. Our hands are our ears; our voices are our hearts; and intuitive spontaneity is our intelligence. Who ever thought that healing trauma could be pure joy?

Location outside of Bellingham, Washington will be sent upon registration.

Course tuition is entirely non-refundable but can be transferred to another similar program within one year.

TARA Approach students at the 2017 Advanced Essence and Empowerment course asked for a continuation in 2018 of the TARA Approach to Ending Shame and Addiction. Using neuroscience to comprehend the patterns of satisfaction and compensation that are thwarted by trauma, TARA Founder Stephanie Mines developed language and energy medicine protocols that shift habituation of all kinds. As we enter the era of accelerated climate change we are called by Gaia to step into the full power of who we are and act in our own unique and collective ways to stand for the Earth and the children of the future, as well as all the creatures and beings of our blessed Natural World. To support this movement into a New Story of who we are individually and together this course focuses on ending old patterns of shame and addiction gracefully and thoroughly. This workshop is open to those who have absorbed TARA’s Foundations and are ready to inhabit their soul’s essence and be free of the entanglements of the past. ADVANCED ESSENCE AND EMPOWERMENT is a highly experiential and emergent threshold dance that incorporates hands-on energy medicine practice with expressive and creative events that free us on the spot and in the moment to be our full selves. Get ready to turn the volume up on the authentic message of your incarnation!

REGISTRATION IS THROUGH THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION HERE

The TARA Approach is an integrative design that fuses Western neuropsychology and a simple meridian based touch system.

We live in a world of increasing sensory inundation where identifying and following one’s purposeful inner guidance becomes more and more complicated. The TARA Approach guides you back to your essential purpose, the one you brought with you when you were conceived and empowers you to follow your truth into this world where it is desperately needed.

Participants in this course learn how to reclaim and support their essential selves using a combination of dialogue and applied touch. Anyone can engage equally in the stirring reclamation of self that restores the health of the physical and energetic bodies simultaneously.

REGISTER THROUGH FINDHORN HERE

Dr. Stephanie Mines is a neuroscientist and trauma expert who founded the TARA Approach, a holistic healthcare paradigm for the resolution of trauma. Stephanie incorporates the healing art of Jin Shin which she learned from the woman who brought it from Japan to the US, Mary Iino Burmeister. Jin Shin includes a map of the body with areas that Stephanie calls the Sacred Sites. These are derived from the folding and unfolding process of the human embryo. In this two day courseparticipants learn to identify and experience the power of these sites through the dynamics of movement.

The objectives for this weekend of movement based learning are self-discovery, self-awareness and self-care. The Sacred Sites combine to create simple acu-touch practices that enhance resiliency at all levels including immune vitality, muscular tonicity, flexibility, endurance, longevity and rehabilitation.

There are no pre-requisites for this course. It is open to everyone. It will be especially interesting to healthcare practitioners, parents who want to learn about early development, bodyworkers, dancers, movement  teachers (including yoga teachers), healthcare and healing arts practitioners and anyone committed to developing human potential. Students of Jin Shin and the TARA Approach will experience an in-depth and profound exploration into the Sacred Sites to deepen their understanding of them. This course applies towards certification for those becoming TARA Approach practitioners and teachers.

Participants learn:

*About embryological unfolding;

*How movement patterns originate;

*The source of structural strengths and difficulties;

*How to repattern suboptimal movement and structural dynamics;

*How to balance the nervous system using the Sacred Sites;

*How to support children in optimizing development and sensory integration;

*The source of habitual injuries and how to end those patterns; and

*The freedom of authentic movement.

Participants should dress comfortably for movement on the floor. There will be a break for a light meal. Our sharing will be in the context of group co-intelligence and is not intended as psychotherapy.

REGISTRATION IS THROUGH SALT & SALT YOGA STUDIO HERE

Somatic listening is an art you can learn. Health is efficiently restored when the body's messages are heard and understood. By reading the pulses of the Five Elements and evaluating cranial structures and rhythms you can identify core issues and from this identification know what interventions to use. The TARA Approach is returning to Norway August 11-13, 2018 to impart this art.

TARA Approach Certified Teacher and Advanced Practitioner Runa Helmersen has established the TARA Method in Norway. She has been preparing her students for this advanced course for over a year. You can join them in the exquisite Norwegian town of Friedrichstadt and share the magic of Norden Lys, the Northern Light, which is also the name of the lovely clinic in this historic village where the course will be held.

Advanced TARA practitioners see through the veil of symptoms and pierce to the essence of need. The tools in this course enhance this skillfulness alongside another TARA hallmark tool: attuned mirroring in language.

Learn how to read somatic advertisements of need and answer them efficiently. Be more than a healer or healthcare practitioner. Become a mentor by embodying the art of somatic listening.
 

Tuition: $450USD*

*This price does not include lodging, meals, lodging or transportation. Lodging can be arranged at a nearby hotel (Gamlebyen hotel, http://gamlebyenhotell.no is one suggestion). Food can be bought nearby and stored in the refrigerator at the center. Several small restaurants and cafes are in walking distance from the center.

Directions from abroad: Train or bus from Gardermoen airport/Oslo. Please contact bente@nordenslys.no for more information.

We will be learning the 26 sacred sites of the body, which when accessed through
touch, dialogue and presence can promote healing and wellbeing. These
applications have an emerging evidence base, supporting their efficacy and value in
modern healthcare and everyday life as a sustainable healthcare tool.

This course is ideal for you if:

- you are experiencing stress in your life and need some easy to use tools to promote
body awareness and self regulation
- you have had a history of traumatic life experience and wish to develop a self care
practice to support your healing journey
- you are curious about how compassionate touch can help balance and integrate
the nervous system and body/mind wellbeing.

When: 21/22 July 2018, 10 – 5pm each day
Where: The Burren Lowlands, County Clare
Investment: 150 Euro including lunch and handouts
Contact and Facilitator: Suzie McGreevy mobile 085 142 8403 or suziemcgreevy@hotmail.com

Suzie is an integrative and holistic therapies practitioner, currently completing post-graduate studies in trauma-informed healthcare practice.

**places are limited. A 50Euro deposit will secure your place

With a strong welcome from a community near Bellingham, Washington the TARA Approach will offer one more Foundations course on US soil this year. This special five day class focuses on TARA’s Foundations to stabilize the human nervous system to anchor leadership and wellbeing in a world in upheaval. 

There are only two places left in this course as it was initiated by a group of therapists working with individuals and families. Foundations materials will focus on:

*Preventing burnout when you a caregiver;
*Rapid assessment for effective on the spot and longer term trauma resolution;
*Addressing a world in crisis from a FiveElement standpoint;
*Manifesting sustainable health for individuals, families and communities;
*Addressing trauma and shock in a collective setting;
*Pediatric treatment during crisis conditions;
*Neurodiversity and other vulnerable populations that are at risk; and
*Finding the beauty of presence and creating a caring environment.

CONTACT US AT thetara.approach@gmail.com BEFORE REGISTERING HERE TO ENSURE THERE ARE OPEN SPACES. WAITING LIST AVAILABLE. 

Contact us to be put on a waiting list at thetara.approach@gmail.com

Art Infused Healthcare with Stephanie Mines and Dana Lynne Andersen
June 11-16, 2018
Ananda Laurelwood
 
This six day immersion has two components. Participants are invited to register for all or either of the moving parts.
 
Part One - June 11-14 - Facilitated by Stephanie Mines
 
The TARA Approach to Empowered Healthcare in A Climate Changing World
 
This course defines and implements sustainable healthcare in a climate changing world. Our primary teacher is the Natural World. How do the Five Elements of Nature evolve in our bodies during our formative years? How is their evolution shaped by our experiences, just as a tree is shaped by the wind? Your elemental story is the story of the development of your personal nervous system.
 
Participants gain access to their deepest and most essential natures and learn how to support others to do the same. The methods include understanding the language of the Five Elements in their human idiom. This language is communicated in behavior, voice, skin tone, energy pulse, health symptoms, personality and movement. By translating your elemental idiom you unearth your essential nature and find your purest expression, the one that you took on a body to present to the world. In this way each participant will experience a kind of birthday during these four days.
 
The formula for thriving in a climate changing world always includes the expressive arts. Because Stephanie knows this so well she has invited a collaboration with Dana Lynne Andersen, founder of Awakening Arts Academy. This collaboration shapes the remaining two days of our immersion. This is the birthday party!

REGISTER HERE FOR PART ONE

 
Part Two: June 15-16th ~ Facilitated by Stephanie Mines and Dana Lynne Andersen
 
CELEBRATE WITH HeART with Stephanie Mines and Dana Lynne Andersen
 
Your birthday party is an opportunity to be guided by the brilliant artist and founder of the Awakening Arts Academy, Dana Lynne Andersen, in using the visual arts to express your neural networks and your elemental truth. We will go one step further in our celebrations by linking our neural networks to those of the world. Stepping out of the world of language into the world of art we will expand our personal expression as far as it will go with color and shape. By finding out who we really are we also find our inter-relatedness with our global community. Self-advocacy becomes a pathway to advocacy for all humanity. When this syntonic relationship is celebrated we can move fluidly, with laughter and motivation, from I to We find and fulfill our individuated purpose at what is surely the most significant and fateful threshold for our entire planet.

*TUITION DOES NOT INCLUDE LODGING AND MEALS AT ANANDA.

REGISTER HERE FOR PART TWO

REGISTER HERE FOR PARTS ONE AND TWO

BOOK LODGING AT ANANDA HERE

This weekend will focus on the Extraordinary Meridians, the eight “Rivers of Splendour. They present a deeper level at which to treat Shock and Trauma. We will be deepening and expanding our Pulse listening skills and will practice treatments on each other. We will practice listening, empathy and observational skills along with the use of language in therapeutic contexts.

To register email Anneke Stolte directly at annekestolte@hotmail.co.uk 

TO CONTINUE LEARNING THE TARA APPROACH AFTER ANNEKE'S CLASSES COME TO FINDHORN STARTING SEPTEMBER 1 FOR THE ESSENCE & EMPOWERMENT SERIES WITH DR. STEPHANIE MINES, CREATOR OF THE TARA APPROACH! 

DETAILS HERE

This four-day Foundations Training is for those who are already using self-care and want to go to a higher level of treatment options for self and others. Students will learn how to read pulses and apply specific protocols  for common needs such as strengthening the immune response, supporting adrenal vibrancy, living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, sustaining vitality, and cultivating neuro-resiliency. Dr. Mines always shapes her teaching to the needs of those present so your particular goals will be woven into the course curriculum. Participants will have the opportunity to practice the skills of treating others. This course is open to healthcare providers, bodyworkers, individuals interested in becoming TARA Approach practitioners, parents, grandparents and family care providers.
 
Participants receive training manuals.
 
Pre-requisite: Some experience with TARA Approach self-care. You can gain this experience by using the practices described in Jin Shin TARA Self-Care (order here) and We Are All in Shock (order here)



REGISTER HERE
 

The focus of this weekend is how to diagnose and heal Trauma by treating the twelve Meridians at Extraordinary Meridian level. We will learn to listen to the Pulse as a tool of diagnosis (using a simplified pulse listening system) and will be practicing the Flows of the twelve Meridians. We will practice treatments on each other.

To register email Anneke directly at annekestolte@hotmail.co.uk 

TO CONTINUE LEARNING THE TARA APPROACH AFTER ANNEKE'S CLASSES COME TO FINDHORN STARTING SEPTEMBER 1 FOR THE ESSENCE & EMPOWERMENT SERIES WITH DR. STEPHANIE MINES, CREATOR OF THE TARA APPROACH! 

DETAILS HERE