Background

How did Tara become interested in animal communication? It came about naturally. She grew up on a horse farm in Maryland and by age seven was riding horses daily. She developed close relationships with the horses, dogs, cats and birds on the farm, as well as the wildlife in the area. As she grew up, she ran pony camps, galloped horses at Pimlico race track, and competed in horse shows and other events.

In her early twenties, Tara spent four months in Kenya. There she lived with the Maasai, who are pastoral nomads, and learned how they related to their environment and cattle. She also hiked across vast savannahs where she saw wildlife such as giraffe, elephants, gazelles, Cape buffalo, and lion. This experience of not being at the top of the food chain changed her worldview and increased her ability to communicate with animals and nature.

After college she became a writer and environmental journalist. She also studied nature awareness, survival skills, and animal communication with Tom Brown, Jr., a renowned animal tracker, for six years. In addition, having already earned a MA in Creative Writing, in which she focused on nature writing and travel writing, Tara then returned to school to earn a PhD in anthropology. Her anthropological interests center on the inter-relationship between the environment and healing, as well as the study of animal behavior (ethology).

Tara has lived and worked in the jungles of Panama, the mountains and jungles of Ecuador, the savannahs of Southern and East Africa, throughout Mexico, and on the MicMac reserve in Nova Scotia. She was one of the first tourists to visit the mountain gorillas in Rwanda five years after the genocide there. Most recently, she explored horseback riding and other ecotourism possibilities for Tibetans who live in Amdo and Kham, which are areas located in the northern and eastern regions of the Tibetan plateau in Tibet, China.

Her extensive experience with numerous animal species, with pets, and with people from other cultures who relate closely to animals and their environment, have led her to offer animal communication sessions.