About the Author

Daria Halprin trained since early childhood as a dancer and performance artist and toured internationally in the Dancers' Workshop Company. She has appeared in several films, most noteably in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. In 1978 she co-founded the Tampala Institute in California, the first training center for movement-based expressive arts therapy, where she developed and codified her approach. She holds a Masters degree in psychology, and is a gestalt therapist and a registered expressive arts therapist. She conducts training at the Tampala Institute, teaches internationally and has a private practice in Marin County, California.