About Tara Khandro
ABOUT TARA KHANDRO: Tara Khandro is a natural born mystic, healer, clairvoyant and spiritual artist. At three years of age Tara spontaneously sat in full lotus position, chanting while watching cartoons. In the same year Tara’s family visited a Cherokee Indian reservation. As the car slowly drove past the family dwellings, Tara received a past life vision. She saw herself as a member of the Cherokee Nation when the military drove the tribe from their native land to live on this reservation. The first words that Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, a kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru said upon meeting Tara were: “You have been doing this work(mystical arts) for lifetimes.”
Tara practices to accept all of life’s experiences with an attitude of gratitude. This relationship allowed Tara to embrace her three experiences with violent trauma as catalysts for her soul’s awakening. Arising out of this direct relationship with Spirit and her soul’s journey, Tara developed Alchemy of Wonder™, an integrative consciousness healing modality for violent trauma survivors. Tara was invited to present her work at United Nations conferences, in drug treatment and crises centers, in universities and colleges, interfaith conferences, with genocide survivors, anger management programs, in natural disaster zones and in human development centers such as the Omega Institute in New York. The author of ‘Waking Woman: The Spiritual Journey Through Trauma,” with Shambhala Publications, Tara is developing a one woman performance entitled: Standing Naked in the Light
Tara’s mystical wisdom has naturally deepened and matured with her current life experiences. Yoga as a spiritual path is her intimate companion of 36 years. Tara studied all forms of East Indian yoga as well as Mayan yoga, marital arts, and West African Dance. For a decade Tara co-developed and taught transformative psycho-physical acting techniques with an avant garde theatre company as well as performed in original plays, internationally. Tara also wrote and produced commercials and marketing videos and produced her first 16mm documentary film in 1979.
Tara considers her root gurus to be the many emanations of the Divine Feminine that have given her transmissions and teachings. Along her life’s journey Tara received initiations into the Lakota Sioux, Cherokee and Peruvian Pachakuti Mesa traditions as well as the Sufi Order of the West and the Mevlevi Order of America. Tara has taken refuge in Mahayana Buddhism with the Dalai Lama, learned to sing her prayers with East Indian Raga singers and received transmissions into Zen, Dzogchen, and Tantric Buddhism. Tara is an ordained interfaith minister who has initiated and produced interfaith programs in NYC, Chicago, New Mexico and Kansas City.
Tara was one of the first people to introduce Thai Massage to the United States. Tara taught this integrative bodywork in the United States, Peru and the Philippines. As a competitive tennis player from age 8-22, Tara kept her edge through working the inner game of tennis-a Zen approach to competition. This is where she first became aware of her ability to shift outcomes through intuitive conscious intent.
Tara’s Quechua name is Muyu, meaning “emptiness’. Tara’s choice to live life with ‘fearless integrity’ allows her to continually empty herself so that she can fulfill her one true desire: To live as Love. Tara shares a heart centered, practical, body based, and earth honoring wisdom that empowers people from all faiths and backgrounds towards living with a radiant, open heart.
Tara is a planetary citizen recently relocating from Ubud, Bali to Manila, Philippines.
