Tara Teng

Tara Teng (she/her) is an Embodiment Coach who works in the intersections of spirituality and sexuality. She helps people find their way back to their bodies, overcome shame, heal trauma and dismantle purity culture in a way that is in alignment with their values and beliefs so that they can build a healthy, sexual ethic and thrive in freedom and wholeness.

Aside from her 1:1 coaching, Tara hosts women’s circles, workshops, online classes and retreats on the topics of embodiment, justice, sexuality, and relationships. Her debut book, “Your Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other and the Earth” was published June 2023 from Broadleaf Books and Dundurn Press and is available in print, e-book and audiobook everywhere books are sold!

She also has spent ten years working to advance the socio-economic status of women, diminish sexual violence and end human trafficking alongside collaborative work with community stakeholders, lawmakers, and some amazing organizations. Her advocacy work has helped to pass new laws in Canada that protect victims of human trafficking and she has established Canada’s first Municipal Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.

Beyond her work, Tara is a TEDx Speaker, a former Miss Canada and was named Canada’s “Woman of the Year” in 2011. She is one of the Globe and Mail’s “Top 25 Most Transformational Canadians”, received an International Heroes award from the Joy Smith Foundation, as well as the Diamond Jubilee medal from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her vast human rights work.

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Your Body is a Revolution: an Exploration into the Intersections of Social Justice and Somatic Healing

We are the women to heal the world. But sometimes it feels overwhelming to know where to start. Join author and somatic practitioner, Tara Teng, for a community exploration into the intricacies of reciprocity, healing, and reconnection. Together we will remember what it means to come back together. Through a trauma-informed lens, we will deepen into the journey of justice and inclusion and how we can be a part of this good work together in a nourishing, life-giving way. This experience will invite you to move, rage, grieve, express and inspire the medicine that the world truly needs right now.

Meet your teacher: Tara is a queer, disabled, mixed Asian, second generation Canadian. Her human rights advocacy has been internationally recognized and she received a medal from Queen Elizabeth II for her work to end human trafficking and gender-based violence. In her debut book, Your Body is a Revolution, Tara explores all the ways that every injustice in the world begins with the body and how we can come back together to heal our relationships with our bodies, each other, and the earth.