Experience the fundamental principles of the TARA Approach from the woman who designed it, Dr. Stephanie Mines. This course is a professional training for healthcare providers. It is also available to anyone who wants to understand how to balance the nervous system and restore its innate integrity after it has been overwhelmed or overloaded. Dr. Stephanie Mines integrates the most current neuroscience with energy medicine and energy psychology. The course focuses on learning a meridian based approach to nervous system alignment. Subtle touch stimulates bioelectrical current through connective tissue. Peer reviewed, published studies demonstrate that this system, the TARA Approach, is successful in a variety of circumstances including sensory disorders, head injury, speech disorders and related conditions including PTSD, stroke and autism. Learning is highly experiential and personalized. The goal of the TARA Approach is the resolution of shock and trauma and its repetition in individuals, families, and communities.

The Practicum is a professional certification process in which people truly identify their assets and liabilities as TARA Approach practitioners. The Practicum can also be taken as a class to help students prepare for certification.

The study of Yoga, the study of Oriental Medicine and Neuroscience, or the study of the brain and the nervous system, are one and the same. To understand why this is so and how a heightened consciousness of all three will enhance your health and vitality, attend this remarkable and unique program. The program is the form of two workshops. Each workshop introduces you to three of the Elements of Nature and how they live in your body and your mind as well as in the world of nature. This is the paradigm of the TARA Approach. The first workshop on May 11 is about the elements of Earth, Wood and Fire. The second, on May 12, is about Water, Air and Primordial Fire. The focus is on how Yoga and Oriental Medicine utilize these elements to unlock intelligence, optimum health, structural and mental resilience and emotional balance. The interactive quality of the emotions, the brain and the body will be the theme in both of these experiential workshops. The TARA Approach fuses neuroscience and Oriental Medicine. It was developed by Dr. Stephanie Mines. Its efficacy has been tested in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke, Aphasia and Autism. In this system there are 26 Power Points on the body that harmonize all the elements within you. You will learn these Power Points in this program. You have in your own fingertips the capacity to integrate, optimize and drive your potential forward in your life. These workshops will show you how.

Are you ready for a life changing new healing tool that will increase your vitality and empower you and your family with optimum health? The TARA Approach is an evidenced based integrative modality that includes acu-touch. It was developed by Dr. Stephanie Mines. It is available to anyone willing to invest the time it takes to learn it. Using simple touch combined with awareness you are empowered to calm yourself, balance your nervous system, stimulate your immune system, resolve the past and fully inhabit the present. Yes. Using your own hands and your own consciousness! And you will be able to share this system immediately upon learning it. In fact, you will not be able to stop yourself. Your enthusiasm will be uncontainable. The TARA Approach is a fusion of Eastern and Western healthcare paradigms. You will learn: How the elements of nature live within you and how to balance them, the Sacred Sites of the Body, the blueprint of health at every level, and the artful use of your own touch to organize, stimulate and harmonize every aspect of your expression and being. The TARA Approach is practiced by health care providers world-wide as well as by parents, individuals, and all who wish to create more balance in their life. It has been clinically tested and proven effective in the treatment of autism, head injury, stroke and aphasia. It used by nurses and physicians in family birthing units, by midwives, psychologists, social workers, massage therapists, physical and occupational therapists. Dress comfortably and maybe bring a swim suit if you'd like to swim in the waterfall.

Play, movement, creativity and communication are the building blocks of joy. They are also the best brain development available. When families move and play together they cultivate resiliency for children's developing brains. They also keep the family happy, related, and growing together. Jackie Diner, movement educator and owner of Joy in Motion Studio, joins with neuroscientist Stephanie Mines, Ph.D. for an afternoon of pre-vacation play. This is the perfect event to prepare you for those car trips, family visits and summer excursions. Transform tight spots into springboards of resiliency. This two hour workshop is for parents, special educators and children. They will learn separately and together. While adults learn experientially about brain development with Stephanie, the kids will be jamming with Jackie. Adults explore short-hands-on ways to change nervous system wind ups to fluid cooperation and how to heal owies of all kinds. Then everyone will come together to celebrate who we are through movement and play. This will be the first in a series of interactive kinesthetic learning labs to strengthen and empower sustainable somatic tools forintergenerataional joy. Both Stephanie and Jackie are committed to inclusion. Families living with autism, disabilities and sensory integration needs of any kind are very welcome, along with the care providers who serve them. An elevator provides access to the studio if necessary. Stephanie is the author of the forthcoming New Frontiers in Sensory Integration and regularly conducts family clinics in Boulder.

This program gives you a template to use in less than fifteen minutes to help differentiate the past from the present and resolve current difficulties by uprooting causation. The Mini Rediscovery Journey is especially for practitioners who serve adolescents, young adults and youth or anyone who does not have access to a clearly developed witness consciousness. The Mini Rediscovery Journey™ is easily incorporated into any therapeutic or healthcare practice. The dialogue is engaged and active. Practitioners learn to ask stimulating questions that brilliantly illuminate the connections between early causation and present stuck conditions in the mind/body. Energy protocols that support sure fire resolution are provided. This will be a fast paced, fun filled, dynamic exchange. Students of all levels are welcome. We will explore the neurochemistry of habituation and how memory can be updated to unglue outmoded patterns . All participants give and receive treatment. You will also receive person specific guidance on how to find your own style of question asking that is non-threatening, evocative, playful and that liberates awareness. If you are a TARA Approach practitioner you will learn to follow pulse listening directly to these stimulating questions. If you are not experienced with the TARA Approach you will learn the observational and attunement clues to question asking.

Beginning students learn the fundamental principles of the TARA Approach, from the map of the Sacred Sites to the Rivers of Splendor. The enigmatic art of pulse listening decoded, opening you to a new way of reading the subliminal advertisements of the mind-body. For students repeating the Foundations this is an opportunity to prepare for the Practicum which will be offered twice this summer. You can take the Practicum to receive the Foundations Certificate on July 2, or use that Practicum to prepare for the next one which will be offered on July 29.

Back by Popular Demand! The TARA Approach brings a refreshing perspective to chronic conditions such adrenal depletion, asthma, digestive problems, immune and auto-immune deficiencies, habituation, inflammation and related patterns. This advanced class offers revelatory insight that is unavailable elsewhere. Students must have completed one iteration of the Foundations courses to attend. The TARA Approach gives you the eyes, ears and hands to decode symptoms and unmask causation. Practitioners gain a fearless perspective and an unprecedented array of resources that have been clinically tested. Students receive an advanced text and handouts that provide not only the energy recipes that work but also the artistry to use them with attunement.

The Practicum is required for those applying for the Foundations Certificate. Only students who have completed two iterations of the Foundations courses can receive this certificate. Any student wanting to practice, however can attend and demonstrate their skill as well as receive treatment. Students explore their development in pulse listening, elemental assessment, dialogue, attunement, implementation of flows, and directing self-care follow through appropriately. Practitioners are mentored with compassion to cultivate compassion, centeredness, alignment and authenticity in implementing this comprehensive and holistic healthcare paradigm that has been designated as a clinically tested rehabilitative therapy.

Participants in this course learn how to reclaim and support their essential selves using a combination of dialogue and applied touch. Professional practitioners as well as lay people can engage equally in the stirring reclamation of self that restores the health of the physical and energetic bodies simultaneously. Those who have experienced shock or trauma of any kind will be happy to find this simple approach to recovery. Those with chronic or mysterious health conditions will be amazed at how quickly these diagnoses disappear. Those in life transitions will be supported in finding their way to the next level of their evolution.

Dr. Stephanie Mines is the author of numerous books including the award winning We Are All in Shock: How Overwhelming Experience Shatters You and What You Can Do About It. She was the keynote speaker at the Findhorn Conference on Conscious Medicine in April 2011. Her new books on sensory integration will be released from Jessica Kingsley Publications in 2013. Dr. Mines teaches internationally. She is based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.