About Dara
What I do
I teach breath, meditation, movement, and stillness as practical disciplines — for people who need steadiness, attention, and composure under real pressure, not as abstractions.
The work is simple and repeatable. We learn to breathe more quietly, notice more clearly, and become increasingly comfortable with stillness itself.
Who this is for
Clients come to this work facing demanding environments and situations where attention, presence, and composure matter — executives, performers, and people whose work asks a great deal of them.
The practice is the same whether the pressure is a stage, a boardroom, or daily life.
How we work
Sessions draw from the Buteyko Method, Classical Pranayama, meditation, gentle movement, and periods of stillness.
The emphasis is not on performance or intensity. It is on developing a practice that can be carried into everyday life.
Training and background
I’ve delivered more than 500 sessions — with private clients and through luxury hospitality and cultural institutions across the U.S. and Europe.
I am certified in the Buteyko Method with Patrick McKeown and in Classical Pranayama with Michaël Bijker, and have taught at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
For more than thirty years as a professional actor, breath, attention, presence, and composure under pressure were part of the job — not concepts I studied, but capacities I had to call upon on demand, night after night, take after take.
That experience shapes how I teach now: simply, practically, and with close attention to the person in front of me.
Work with me
Private sessions are available online worldwide and in person by arrangement.