
Online Workshop: Wild Wonder: A Family Guide to Creative Nature Connection with Taira Restar
Saturday, January 31, 2026 | 9 am – 12 pm Pacific Time
Cost (includes Eventbrite fees):
$81 with early registration by January 17th & grads anytime
$90 regular price after January 17th
Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect student privacy.
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Nature Connection is a nourishing path to well-being for children and adults. Studies show that spending time in nature can improve mood, lower anxiety, strengthen resiliency and promote self-care.
This workshop provides you with Wild Wonder: A Family Guide to Creative Nature Connection. The guide contains monthly activities that are simple, meaningful, creative and nature-based.
The intentions of the Wild Wonder guide are to
- Grow together as a family.
- Promote the well-being of individuals as well as the family as a whole.
- Strengthen your family’s nature connection and sense of belonging to our living earth.
- Explore the seasons in your own home place.
- Inspire earth stewardship.
- Spark creativity.
The guide’s flexibility allows you to
- Start the activities any time.
- Customize the activities to suit your unique home life and family interests.
- Explore activities with your children, grandchildren, friends, students or even on your own.
During this workshop, you will have opportunities to slow down and to tune into your own body’s wisdom as a source of inspiration and guidance.
Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.
Taira Restar is co-founder of In Place, nonprofit for place-centered nature education. For over 35 years, Taira has worked with children, families and adults in a wide variety of settings including grade schools, high schools, universities and museums as well as forests, beaches and city parks. After completing her first Tamalpa Institute training in 1984, Taira embraced Halprin Life/Art Process® and integrated it into every aspect of her life. In 2000, she began working closely with Anna Halprin, which continued steadily until 2018. Taira is a mother and grandmother, who lives in the forest on the shores of Tomales Bay, unceded Tomalko lands, where she is in love with the place herself.
Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect student privacy.
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS: Email Workshops at Tamalpa
PLEASE NOTE: You will be taken to Eventbrite to finish your registration. You must complete the information on the Online page in order to receive your Zoom link for the class. If you have issues please email Workshops at Tamalpa at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the class.
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Tamalpa InstituteEvent MemberTamalpa Institute, founded in 1978 by dance and expressive arts therapy pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, is a non-profit organization internationally recognized for its ground breaking training programs & workshops in a unique approach to movement based expressive arts education and therapy.
We offer expressive arts training programs and workshops for healing, education, and social transformation. Our innovative work has been brought into classrooms, businesses, hospitals, mental health care settings, hospices, prisons, and disadvantaged communities, among others. The Tamalpa Life/Art Process®, which combines movement, dance, drawing, and writing, has influenced the fields of dance, environmental design, theater, movement therapy, and art-based psychology. Our approach is based on the theory that people’s own life experiences are the most meaningful sources for artistic expression and social change.
Tamalpa has worked with over 10,000 people from more than 50 countries, including students, educators, therapists, artists, social workers, and health care providers. Today our movement-based, expressive-arts training programs are ranked among the best in the world. And our public and social engagement programs serve diverse communities from all walks of life, including children, elders, and virtually everyone in between.
Tamalpa Institute’s programs are recognized by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA).
