Tara Bernstein
"Tara Bernstein is the director and owner of University District Yoga, a yoga studio located in Seattle Washington where she presently lives. She is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and has traveled to India to study with the Iyengar family and their senior teachers, in Deereden and Pune India. Presently she is on the board of the Iyengar Yoga Association Northwest (IYANW). IYANW is committed to study, teach, disseminate, and promote the art, science, and philosophy of Iyengar Yoga. Before opening her studio, Ms. Bernstein worked for the YMCA for 15 years and was involved with their annual fundraising campaign.
"A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she spent 20 years choreographing and performing contemporary dance in New York as well as Seattle. Presently she is on the Advisory Committee of New Dance Alliance (NDA) in NYC. (NDA) is an arts service organization whose mission is to actively promote emerging forms of innovative dance, music, video, and interdisciplinary performance. Tara was a Grant recipient from the Washington State Arts Commission, Artist in Residence, as well as performed with the AVA/Teri Dance Company in Washington DC in the eighties." [1]
- Director, Bernstein Family Foundation