Meet Tara Mitra…
Tara Mitra has been practicing yoga for twenty-two years and teaching for seventeen, not as a career that began with a teacher training, but as a life shaped by direct transmission from some of the most respected teachers alive in this tradition.
Of East Indian and Canadian heritage, with Ayurvedic doctors and yogis in her family lineage, Tara carries an understanding of this knowledge that is both inherited and earned. She spent years living in Mysore, India, immersed in Ashtanga yoga under R. Sharath Jois and R. Saraswathi Jois, where she was authorised Level 2 and spent four years assisting at the main shala, working with hundreds of practitioners every month.Tara, with her unique blend of East Indian and Canadian heritage, has been practicing yoga for 22 years and has been exploring the mind since 1989.
Her study didn’t stop at the physical practice. For over twelve years she has studied the Upaniṣads, Bhagavad Gītā, and Vedic chanting under Dr Vigneshwar Bhat; Vedic priest, scholar, and one of the most rigorous teachers of this knowledge in the tradition. She continues her study of Antaraṅga Yoga and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali under Raghu Ananthanarayanan, and Ayurveda under Dr Padmini. She visits India every six months to remain in direct contact with her teachers.
More about Tara
Tara is a Certified Yoga Therapist within the Krishnamacharya lineage, specializing in stress, anxiety, and trauma. Her therapeutic work is rooted in a genuinely integrated understanding of the human system, drawing on Ayurveda, nutrition, lifestyle, and the psychology of the mind alongside the classical tools of yoga. A trained chef and longtime student of Ayurvedic nutrition, she understands that healing does not happen on the mat alone. It happens in how a person eats, sleeps, breathes, and relates to their own nature.
She teaches advanced mentorship for yoga teachers and serious practitioners, those ready to move from the performance of practice toward its actual meaning. Her mentorship program is co-held with Dr Vigneshwar Bhat (Vedic Philosophy), Dr Padmini (Ayurveda), and Dr Rob Lamport (Chiropractic, Anatomy, Physiology).
She doesn’t simplify yoga as wellness. She teaches yoga as a complete system of knowledge, one that has survived intact for centuries precisely because it was never meant to be diluted.
Tara Mitra teaches yoga in person internationally and online daily at taramitrayoga.com.
