Tina Tazian
Yoga Teacher

Tina’s greatest joy  as a teacher is helping people find health and inner peace through yoga.  Her yoga journey began 30 years ago when she was introduced to yoga and meditation by a friend while still in high school. Later she practiced traditional yoga with Indian swamis and Tibetan lamas while attending Indiana University.  But she took a break from yoga for many years while pursuing her love for Modern Dance. In 1983 she received a BA in liberal arts with dance concentration from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.  After a 10 year hiatus, she returned to yoga.  Having been a dancer, she was never interested in fitness for its own sake but was drawn toward movement both as a form of self expression and as a form of sacred healing.  She loves both the athletic aspects of  yoga and the more subtle work with prana or life force energy.  She credits her yoga practice for not only helping her heal from dance injuries but to recover from anxiety and infertility and to cope with caregiving during her mother’s many illnesses including cancer and lupus.

Her style combines alignment, vinyasa  flow and tantric yoga. She integrates poses, breath and guided meditation in an organic whole. With over 20 years of yoga experience,  she is comfortable teaching both group classes and one on one privates involving more therapeutic work.

She has studied with master teachers, Rod Stryker (ParaYoga), Desiree Rumbaugh & Todd Norian, (Anusara) Gabriel Halphren & Manouso Manos, (Iyengar) Seane Corn (Vinyasa), Lilas Folan and others.  A lifelong student, in 2009, she received her 200 hr RYT through Kachmann Mind Body Institute/Prairie Yoga Teacher Training Program. She thanks her mentors Tricia Fiske and Joanne Snow for guiding her teaching practice.   And she is grateful for her family’s support and the life she shares with her husband Marc and daughters Adrienne and Sophie.