Hi, I'm Tara
I'm a Somatic Practitioner supporting connections for an embodied life
Curiosity is a gateway to understanding, and I've always had a keen interest in practicing it. Especially when it came to things beyond my familiarity.
Curiosity for me, felt best explored as a traveller and, as a result, I often found myself out of my comfort zone. Throughout my experiences of heartfelt inquisitiveness, I've had some incredible global experiences and, expanded my role as an educator and facilitator in environmental education, holistic health, restorative movement and somatic therapy. I have also had the very human experience of finding my own place in the world and overcoming challenges.
Through weaving together a foundation in holistic health, international retreats, and as a Somatic Practitioner, my work supports you to relate to your body with ease, reduce anxiety, and feel more peace and vitality.
What if our bodies aren't something we need to overcome, but a place we can begin to listen.
~ Tara Campbell
The way life can take you on an adventure...
I believe there is a deep knowing of experience that we can tap into within the layers of our minds and bodies. For me it began with a background in cultural studies during my Bachelor of Arts degree. This academic experience became more expansive with an opportunty to study in India where rich tapestries of color, ancient civilizations, and drinking chai on street corners brought me into a deep connection in discovering new ways of knowing.
Travel to India upleveled my curiosity, and I enjoyed being in new countries embracing wild natural places. Later, I went to Japan as an English teacher. As a cultural experience, I began the study of Shodo arts (the art of calligraphy), mindfulness and Zen meditation. My curiosity was immediately drawn to the experience of connection and stilling the mind. Life and culture in Japan are incredibly influenced by natural simplicity, while appealing to seek balance with one's environment.
Inspired and curious about furthering education, I began a Masters in Environmental Studies (MES) where my passion for nature-based exploration and holistic health met. The focus of these studies explored the role of herbal medicine on physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and developing environmental education programs. Around the same time, I was training in herbal medicine making with a local traditional Herbalist, apprenticing and manufacturing medicine for Naturopathic Doctors.
exploration and journeys
sensory experiences
The fascination with healing and people & plant relationships...
The fascination with healing, people and plant relationships brought me on field research to Costa Rica where I developed an education program on the sensory experiences of medicinal plants. In understanding that we can enliven our senses and perceive how our environment and nature affects us, similarilty somatic practices can bring us into deeper trust and knowing into our own layers.
In Costa Rica, my passion for Latin America took hold, that later brought me to working in adventure travel that started off in the Andes of Peru. My joy of being immersed with people, cultures and integrating experiences fell in perfect alignment. Facilitating travel journeys in Latin America turned into over a decade of sharing with people from around the world in both inspirational, and at times, challenging contexts.
Filling my senses to the brim with a lot of movement and activity, it was the practice of yoga that I had begun in my teen years that kept me grounded through some of the most difficult and agitating times. I had spent over a decade as a student of yoga before I became a certified RYT Yoga Teacher. With over a decade of experience in teaching Hatha and later Restorative yoga, I had become a well-versed Yoga Instructor.
