Emboded Arts Faculty
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Daniella Salzman has been deeply inspired by her studies in dance expressive arts therapy at the Tamalpa Institute with Daria Halprin, her classes with movement pioneers Anna Halprin and Emily Conrad, and her retreats on spiritual awakening with Adyashanti, Amma, and Rabbi David Cooper. Her therapeutic training includes gestalt, psychodrama, and transpersonal psychology. As a teacher, Daniella has taught English at UC-Berkeley Extension, instructs in the Teen and Family Program at Spirit Rock, and leads expressive arts workshops in various settings. For Daniella, dancing, writing, and art-making are bridges between daily life and spiritual awareness, enriching both.
“Find how much your movement moves you, how the images you bring to life surprise you, and how your words, heard clearly or for the first time, hold the wisdom you seek.”
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Jamie McHugh, RSME (Registered Somatic Movement Educator) is an educator, dancer, writer and artist. He has been teaching movement-based work for over twenty-five years, and has developed an approach to the body called “Somatic Expression.” Jamie offers Somatic Expression classes, workshops and trainings throughout the United States and Europe. In his individual practice, Jamie works with hands-on healing, somatic re-education and emotional balancing.
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Liz Boubion has been a dance-theater artist for 20 years, both locally and internationally. She has a B.A. in Dance from Cal State Long Beach and is a Graduate of the Tamalpa Institute. Liz teaches Post-modern dance, improvisation and the Halprin Life/Art process to people of all ages, backgrounds and physical abilities. She has lead groups with the LGBT community, professional dancers, women on parole, the elderly, mixed abilities dancers and youth. Her Life/Art practice includes bridging personal process work to the stage, site-specific improvisation, mothering, and creating ceremony. Liz brings her training in somatic practices, expressive arts, dance, contact improvisation, acting and voice retrieval to her work with groups and individuals. She invites participants to creatively access and share personal material within the art mediums.
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Luisa Diaz’s passion is movement; she works with it as a way to guide and support each person’s path toward self discovery and transformation. She brings to it her deepest care, love and curiosity for the human soul, and her respect and trust for each individual. She is the creator of PlasmArte—through which she offers classes and workshops, drawing people from different life paths in Mexico and the USA. Luisa holds a BA in Psychology and has trained in Contemporary Dance. Her intuition about the possibility of marrying dance and psychology led her to study the Halprin Life/Art Process, a movement-based expressive arts therapy and education program at Tamalpa Institute. She leads individual sessions and workshops with teens, the at-risk population, women victims of domestic violence, and adults from different backgrounds.
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Taira Restar is a visual/movement artist and an arts educator. She has a B.A. in visual art and a M.A. in Movement Education. For 25 years, Taira has guided explorations into the body as a source for personal discovery, spiritual insight, creative expression and play. Taira enjoys teaching both children and adults. She teaches at Tamalpa Institute, a movement-based Expressive Arts training center. She performs with and is the Associate Teacher for dance pioneer, Anna Halprin. Taira is also an ordained minister. Currently, she is delighting in the connections between photography, the body and prayer.