- Daria Halprin: Dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community based arts and health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change and performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work , published writings include : Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; contributing author Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices, Poesis: Essays On the Future of the Field; Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced. In 1978 Daria co-founded the Tamalpa Institute where she directs training programs in movement/dance and expressive arts education, consultancy and therapy. She teaches in educational, health and art centers throughout the world. (December 2012)
- Her grandmother, Rose Halprin, was national president of Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, from 1932 to 1934 and again from 1947 to 1952.
- Her father is renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and her mother is dance pioneer Anna Halprin.
- Teaching movement-based healing arts at Tamalpa Institute, California
- Mother of Ruthanna Hopper.
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