Dalya Tamir was introduced to Buddhist teaching and practice during her first Vipassana meditation retreat in Bodhgaya, 1983. Since then, she has participated in retreats under the guidance of prominent dharma teachers in the west among them Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Narayan Liebenson, and Rodney Smith including two three-month-retreats at IMS. In recent years she has been practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition receiving teachings from Anne Carolyn Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) and Harvey Aronson (Lama Namgyal Dorje.)
Dalya has been facilitating meditation circles and retreats for women in Ithaca, NY, Israel, and online since 2002. During a two-year sabbatical in Israel, she led meditation and dialogue retreats for Israelis and Palestinians. Since the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, she has been leading a weekly online meditation and conversations circle for peace.
Dalya works as a psychotherapist in private practice. She integrates Buddhist practices with experiential methods of psychotherapy. In 2024 Dalya published her first book called Turning Back to Ourselves- A Women’s Guide to Healing-Self Abandonment and Loving Who We Are. She lives in Ithaca, NY with her husband and daughters.