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After finishing school, she spent considerable time in an ashram, a surreal community where she practiced and demonstrated yoga and focused meditation. She knew she was home when she left the ashram and drove by Joseph Goldstein to her first Buddhist Insight Meditation retreat.

She explains that I had found shrewdness exercises and teachings that train the heart and mind to be present and loving in real-time. "I understood that this was a valid form of freedom. Over the following year, Tara completed her dissertation for her Ph.D.

in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute, which examined how reflection might be a valuable tool for developing rewarding habits. She then went on to complete a five-year program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center run by Jack Kornfield for the preparation of Buddhist teachers.

As a psychotherapist who also taught reflection, she naturally blended these two great traditions, teaching western mental concepts to reflection students while also bringing contemplation to her therapy clients. This combination has developed through time into Tara's important work in educating psychotherapists on integrating care systems into therapeutic practise.