Tatiana Cira Sanchez
Tatiana Cira Sanchez, a native
of La Paz, Bolivia is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer/choreographer,
musician, certified yoga instructor, Certified Thai Yoga Massage
therapist, naturalist, and educator. Her first love and passion
for over 20 years in dance training, performance, choreography and
teaching has created a foundation to organically explore music and
yoga as an integral part of her evolution.
She has danced professionally from the age of 18
with Ensemble Espanol Dance Theater, Mordine and Company Dance Theater,
among others. Specializing in ethnic dance, modern dance, contact
improvisation, percussion/music, Tati has created multiple city
arts and outreach projects nationally and internationally. In 1994
she co-founded and co-directed MASS Ensemble, where she explored
dance, music, long stringed instruments and installations, three
CD recordings and releases, among multiple theater, educational,
and special events throughout the country and internationally. After
seven years of developing and touring with the company, she inevitably
had a calling to develop and explore her own work and her deep interest
in yoga, the healing arts, nature and aboriginal survival skills.
In 2001 she became a certified Thai Yoga Instructor
where she studied at the White Lotus Yoga Retreat Center with Saul
David Raye in Santa Barbara, CA . Back in Chicago, Tatiana began
to deepen her practice at the Moksha Yoga Center, where she participlated
in multiple events, master workshops, including kirtan performances
with David Stringer and Devi 2000 til present. In 2002, Tati studied
with Rod Styker in his Pure Yoga Tantra Hatha teacher training certification
program at Moksha Yoga. Tatiana was on the Moksha schedule that
fall where she began to develop Yogadance, her own exploration of
these two forms. By the fall of 2002 and spring/fall of 2003, she
continued her second teacher training, completing level III Universal
Freestyle Yoga with yoga master, Andrey Lappa, of Kiev, also at
Moksha Yoga. This practice along with the study of Dance of Shiva,
has inspired her deeply to continue evolving and integrating yoga,
dance, music and nature. Tatiana ‘s love for performance and
teaching has now come full circle in developing Shakti Muse, an
interdisciplinary art and yoga organization, collaborating with
sangha / community, nature, artists, healers, scientists, and people
of all walks of life, backgrounds, and abilities.
She recently returned from her first month-long visit
to Sikkim, India. Also, most recently, Tatiana assisted the Universal
Freestyle Yoga level I teacher training with Andrey Lappa in San
Francisco, CA. Truly inspired, she is now delighted to be teaching,
sharing, and serving the community at Nature Yoga as part of the
big experiment. |
