Photo credit: Daria Halprin & Tamalpa Institute

​IN-PERSON: Be Moved, Be Held, Belong: An introduction to the Life/Art Process® 

February 14, 2026 | 10 am-5 pm | $180

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There is always something held that needs to be moved, something that is so busy moving that needs to slow down, be listened to, be held. 

The studio is a moving space, a holding space, a space for us to 

   Sense 

              Feel 

                    Imagine  

                                 Create

In the act of moving, making, and witnessing together, we form a particular heightened quality of connection and belonging. 

The Life Art Process® is an invitation, an offering, a road map. 

Be Moved: This can refer to physical movement, such as migration and the shaping of identity through travel. It also deeply relates to being emotionally affected or inspired by something or someone, which is central to the human experience of connection and art.

Be Held: This phrase suggests a need for support, security, and care. It implies being emotionally or physically embraced by others or a community, feeling safe enough to be one's authentic self, including the "darker parts". It speaks to the trust found in relationships where vulnerability is encouraged.

Belong: This is described as a fundamental human need for connection, feeling at home in a place or a community, and being valued for one's whole self. True belonging involves feeling fully accepted and an integral part of a system or group, not merely tolerated.​

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This daylong serves as an introduction to the Tamalpa Training program.

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IN-PERSON: Introduction to the Life/Art Process®

Thursday, April 16, 2026 ! 2:00 pm - Sunday, April 19, 4:00 pm PST | $700.00 

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Grounded on the innovative work of the Halprins, the workshop will introduce an approach to movement /dance and the expressive arts that enlivens dialogues between body and imagination, life experiences and art making, creativity and healing. 

Through the use of movement, drawing, poetic writing, improvisational performance, and ritual, you will tap into art’s symbolic language to encounter and explore your personal mythology, generating new resources to apply in your personal and professional life.

Throughout each day, you will be guided to explore your personal material through an interdisciplinary model that integrates movement/dance, visual art, and poetic narrative, opening doorways of insight, creativity, and play.

You will be guided in movement exercises and explorations to develop somatic awareness and the expressive language of the physical body. Daria will introduce the Self Portrait Process and Body Part Mapping - visual and narrative maps will lead you into the themes and memories that inform your life. 

Over the course of the workshop, through group interaction and collaboration, we will form a community for healing art and ritual. Participants will leave having made meaningful connections with others and having learned models that generate creativity, insight, and transformation.

Participants are required to bring a box of oil pastels and a journal, water bottle, and clothing for indoors and outdoors.

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IN-PERSON WORKSHOP at Esalen Institute​

Movement as a Metaphor in Life and Art

March 9–13, 2026

Daria Halprin with Guest Faculty Natan Daskal and Guest Musician Miles Lassi

"Everything I have experienced in my life, I take into my art." —Anna Halprin 

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What if everything you’ve experienced in your life could be danced? What if an image drawn carried a message for healing? What if a dance inspired a drawing that sparks words for a poem and the poem transforms a difficult story that needs to be told into beauty?

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Grounded in the Halprin Life Art Process™, this workshop’s approach enlivens dialogues between body and imagination, life experience and art making, and creativity and healing. With creative explorations of the expressive arts — movement, drawing, and poetic writing — participants will be guided in creative encounters with the symbolic and metaphoric life of the body.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​