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Solana Tara has been an international teacher and student in the field of body, mind and spirit for over 25 years. She was a former guest on the Shakti-Hill's TV talk show "Living in Balance" aired on the Wisdom Channel and has taught at the Omega Institute in New York. She has interviewed Deepak Chopra on, "Buddha, A Story of Enlightenment."
She is a former instructor of the Silva Mind Development training, a Reiki Master, an Ordained Minister in the Church of Wisdom, a certified Trance Dance Instructor, a Ro-hun Therapist, a Yoga Teacher with several Yoga Teachers Training Certifications and is the producer of "Prayer Yoga" Video.
Her primary yoga teaching style is from the Sivananda lineage and holds three of their certifications including for the Yoga Sutras. She also has had trainings from the lineage of Indra Devi, Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar, Astanga and Ananda Yoga.
She also holds several certifications in Jyotish, vedic astrology.
Solana received a degree in Traditional Eastern Arts with a focus in Yoga and a minor in Visual Arts from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She started her Masters in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University in Berkeley and has transferred to California Institute of Integral Studies for her Masters in Philosphy and Religion with a focus in Asian Comparative Religions and has completed her requirements as of May, 2011. She is staying on another semester to further her studies. Her present academic research studies are on the topic of Spiritual Enlightenment in the West.
She continued her studies of Sanskrit from the Vedic Vidya in San Rafael, Ca. and is now studying Sanskrit through CIIS in San Francisco. She is considering continuing her education at the University of Florida in Gainesville for a Ph.D in Religion, Asian Studies.
Solana has volunteered for the Circles of Love Inside Prison project and has taught meditation to prisioners in the CA State Prison System. She has also volunteered for Hospice of Marin, Big Brother and Big Sisters of Marin, and the Marin Emergency Homeless Shelter.
Solana has traveled extensively and her travels have taken her to Canada, Aruba, Belize, Mexico,Costa Rica, Puerto Rico,Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Hawaii, Mauritius, Renunion, Egypt, India and Mt.Shasta, and all across the United States several times.
Solana moved back to Florida taught several classes in Brevard County on the topic of Spiritutal Awakening.
She is the author of "Letters Through the Veil " and is in the midst of continuing "Letters Through the Veil, A Journey Into the Mystery."
Her next Journey is to India in January of 2011 for further yoga studies at Krishnamacharya Center and at the International Yoga Conference in Rishikesh. She will then travel to Bali and then onto Australia.
Her heart yearns to realize the mystical union with the Divine Beloved and to assist others on their own path toward their great awakening.
Blessed be to all.
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