Tamalpa Institute

Tamalpa Institute Tamalpa Institute is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that offers expressive-art

Tamalpa Institute, founded in 1978, offers training programs and workshops in the Life/Art Process, a movement-based expressive arts approach that integrates movement/dance, visual arts, performance techniques and therapeutic practices. This approach supports personal, interpersonal and social transformation, teaching new models for health, psychology, art and communication. This work was originated in the 1950's by Anna Halprin, who is among the first pioneers in the contemporary Western world to use dance as a healing and transformative art. In the 1970's, Daria Halprin further developed the artistic and therapeutic aspects of this work and articulated the methodology that is currently taught in our programs. The institute is a non-profit organization and provides one of the most renowned movement-based healing arts programs in the world.

Check out Daria Halprin's book "The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy" on Esalen's Bookshelf!
10/14/2025

Check out Daria Halprin's book "The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy" on Esalen's Bookshelf!

Our March slate of workshops is packed with brilliant opportunities for growth, resolution, self-reflection, and emotional connection. Since we can’t partake in them all, we’re enjoying recommended reads by (and suggested by) workshop leaders to absorb some knowledge from the page as the next be...

Join Natan Daskal, Tamalpa Institute Core faculty, for a special in-person East Coast Tamalpa Life/Art workshop at Earth...
10/01/2025

Join Natan Daskal, Tamalpa Institute Core faculty, for a special in-person East Coast Tamalpa Life/Art workshop at Earthdance in Massachusetts this October 23-26, 2025. Details in the link in bio.
Photos: Rick Chapman, Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, Natan Daskal

4 spots left for Daria Halprin's Esalen workshop next week!
07/23/2025

4 spots left for Daria Halprin's Esalen workshop next week!

July 28 – August 1, 2025 Daria Halprin

It’s in The RSVP Cycles, that Lawrence Halprin laid out the theory and process that drove all his work. RSVP stands for ...
06/09/2025

It’s in The RSVP Cycles, that Lawrence Halprin laid out the theory and process that drove all his work. RSVP stands for Resources, Score, Valuaction, and Performance that when put together, create a creative cycle for collaboration and improvisation.

When a book is referenced twice, from two different people in two different places, in the same week, I know I need to buy it immediately. That’s why Lawrence Halprin’s The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment arrived on my doorstep last week. I was vaguely aware of Halprin b...

Join Daria Halprin this summer for her week-long workshop Empowering Creativity and rejuvenate your artistic soul at the...
06/09/2025

Join Daria Halprin this summer for her week-long workshop Empowering Creativity and rejuvenate your artistic soul at the Esalen Institute.

July 28 – August 1, 2025 Daria Halprin

Transform your life with our Level 1 Hybrid Training. Early bird registration is open! https://conta.cc/4m6YSsF
05/10/2025

Transform your life with our Level 1 Hybrid Training. Early bird registration is open!
https://conta.cc/4m6YSsF

Email from Tamalpa Institute Applications open Photo credit: Brian Collentine Level 1 WEEKEND HYBRID Training 2025-2026 Personal Embodiment  October 3, 2025 - September 13, 2026 with a 6-day in-per

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734 A Street
San Rafael, CA
94901

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Monday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 5:30pm

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+14154578555

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