For A More Beautiful World
Grassroots organisation dedicated to Healing, Community and Social Action
12
+
years since we opened our doors ❤️
Dedicated to Healing, Community and Social Action
We are a grassroots organisation dedicated to health justice for people living with the impacts of individual and collective trauma. We are a movement of people with lived experience here in solidarity with our community.
We strive to be a place that stands for love and the beauty of deep human connection.
- Online & In person classes and courses
- Free or Low-Cost Community Wellbeing Projects
- Trauma Education, Awareness & Healing
- Professional Accredited Training programmes
8500
+
Number of people we've supported since we opened our doors ❤️
25
+
Free & Low-cost Community Projects run over the past 12 years
HOW AND WHY WE DO THINGS THE WAY WE DO
- You are the expert of your own life and your story is yours. You never have to prove yourself or fight to be believed. No one knows what happened to you more than you do.
- Many of the conditions labelled as "mental illness" were originally completely healthy ways your nervous system responded to trauma in order for you to survive.
- There are no miracle cures or quick fixes, and we make no such promises. But by creating spaces for love and refuge, we hope we can foster an environment where you can trust again, where you can practice what it feels like to feel safe, and where you can reconnect with yourself and with life in a way that feels good to you.
- Individual trauma sits within a social, political and cultural context of ongoing injustice and oppression. Our internalised voices of not feeling good enough, feeling powerless, not feeling seen, feeling deeply alone, or feeling under threat, sit within thousands of years of patriarchal systems designed to make us feel exactly this. These systems of oppression hurt us deeply.
- The pain and suffering of our ancestors is ever present as emobodied individual and collective trauma for those of us alive today. We are born with fears and feelings that don't belong to us. And many of us know that we're here to clear the line for those who come after us.
- We draw on thousands of years of wisdom of those who've gone before us who understood the importance of energy healing, and the healing necessity of movement, music and song, as well as silence, meditation and ritual.
- Without community and connection we cannot heal, survive and thrive. We all need to love and be loved.
- We understand that living with trauma can mean experiencing pain, stress and anxiety, living with chronic health conditions and a sense of exhaustion and fatigue. We design our offerings with this in mind.
Online classes you can join from the comfort of your home
Online Qigong Class
Online Breathwork Class
Online Kindred Spirits Women's Circle
Online Trauma Education, Awareness & Healing
Low-cost Community Wellbeing Projects in Lancaster
Low-Cost Therapy Clinic
Mindfulness Meditation
Work with us one to one in Lancaster or online
Sound Healing / EFT with Elham Kashefi
Trauma Therapy with Nes Bear
Spiritual Mentoring with Ven Jitei White
Start your journey to becoming a practitioner
Compassionate Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Diploma
Trauma-informed Sound Healing Practitioner Diploma
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Special events
NEW 6-WEEK ONLINE COURSE
30-minute Weekly Online Breathwork practice with Nicola Garrett
Starting Wednesday 25th June 2025
7.30-8pm
NEW 5-WEEK ONLINE COURSE
30-minute Weekly Qigong Practice with Silvia Rossi on Zoom
Starting Monday 23 June 2025
7.30-8pm
(you can join anytime)
IN PERSON WEEKLY
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION with Adam Gregory
at the Tara Centre, Lancaster
Fridays 3.30-4.30pm
What people say about us
“I’m grateful beyond measure for the presence and gift that the Tara Centre brings to me in every interaction. It is the epitome of love, hope and friendship.”
“The Tara Centre has really helped me turn my life around completely. I have been in steady place for the first time in decades and am in the position to try out starting my own business”.
“The Tara Centre is a safe space to be honest and vulnerable. The online courses are things I would never be able to access in person and they have helped me so much more than I expected”.
“It has helped me at a time of personal difficulty. It helped me to feel, supported, loved and seen. I have gained the most beautiful friendships through the Tara Centre, These friendships have unfolded outside of the Tara Centre groups too, which has added another layer of connection. I’m grateful beyond measure for the presence and gift that the Tara Centre brings to me in every interaction.”
“Despite being almost housebound there is a local, supportive, trauma-informed community that I can lean into even if only in small ways. I appreciate the sheer warmth and humanity that underpins everything. The inclusive, non-judgmental, trauma-informed approach and the wide variety of ways to connect and join in. It makes it feel safe to join in when i am able.”
"The Tara centre has become my sanctuary. I visit it at least twice a week and cannot imagine my life without it now. It's a safe, beautiful place, a place I know I will not be judged but accepted."
Over the past 12 years we have gratefully received financial support from these organisations for some of our community projects.
