Zara is a lifelong Bay Arean, originally from San Francisco now an Oakland resident, who has been a professional bodyworker since 1996 at community health centers and in private practice. Her practice is shaped by Western and Eastern healing arts of somatic awareness, Five Element theory, Chi Nei Tsang, Deep Bodywork and different forms of movement meditation. She thinks of massage therapy as a listening art. Zara is continually grateful to travel these paths as practices of expansive slowness in a sped-up world, of time nourishment, curious embodiment, exploration of inner ecosystems and landscapes. She is also a teacher in undergraduate interdisciplinary education at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Sofia University, with a focus on cultural studies and social justice-based curriculum.

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