#85 – Keen on Yoga Podcast with Tara Mitra

Tara has been a dedicated practitioner of yoga for over 18
years. She has been blessed to practice with some of the most
dedicated ashtanga teachers in the world.

Studying with Johnny Smith, Tim Miller (completing
both his primary and intermediate series trainings), R.
Sharath Jois & R. Saraswathi Jois. She has apprenticed
with only certified teachers (6 years) with R. Saraswathi
Jois for 4 of those years in her very busy Mysore shala
where she assisted up to 200 students a month for nine months of
the year. Tara has a special bond with Saraswathiji and is one of
the few students authorised by her to teach. 


Tara is also a Certified Yoga Therapist in the
tradition of T. Krishnamacharya & his son T.K.V.
Desikachar in Chennai, India. Her interest in yoga therapy is a
focus to help heal others from injury and imbalances within the
body. She has helped many students learn to understand their
bodies while bringing back health and stability through yoga
therapy, diet and lifestyle changes. 


She has studied Pranayama with Sri O.P. Tiwari, Philosophy
with Prof. Nagaraja Rao and Vedic
chanting with Dr. Vigneshwar Bhat and Madhavi
Kotha in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. 


Tara has been studying ritual, chanting and Vedic chanting for
the last 7.5 years and is a long
time Vipassana Meditator. Both R. Saraswathi
Jois, Saraswathi Vasudevan & Vigneshwar Bhat have
given her blessings to share the teachings as taught to her
through parampara. 


Other interests


Tara’s curiosity for understanding the mind and body led her to
study psychology (since 1993)
and nutrition (since 1999). 


She is a trained Chef, has worked with
many healing modalities, and has recently spent 5
years living in Mysore, India in order to seek and learn pure
knowledge directly from the source and continues to visits India
every 6 months to be with her teachers. Tara has also studied
classical Carnatic music with two of
Mysore’s greatest teachers and she has and continues to
study Ayurveda with Dr. R. Padmini.


Tara believes that to be a good teacher one needs to be a good
student. Therefore, she continually expands her knowledge on the
subjects of yoga, health, nutrition and healing through sound and
other methods. She teaches in a traditional yet playful
manner incorporating the teachings of her teachers.


Tara now lives in Sicily with her husband Dr. Rob Lamport of
@morethananatomy 


You can find Tara on Instagram @taramitrayoga and on her website.