Meet Bill Tara
Bill Tara's session at the 2024 MGI Food as Medicine Conference is
"The Ecology of Eating"
About Bill Tara
Since 1967 Bill Tara has been a leading pioneer for the macrobiotic approach to nutrition, sustainable environmental living and social justice.
He was the Vice President of Erewhon Trading Company, one of America's first national distributors of organic foods, and was a co-founder of Sunwheel Natural Foods in London, England. He has been a health counsellor, teacher, author, entrepreneur and creator of health education centres in Europe and North America. His innovative and creative teaching of traditional approaches to health, healing and personal development has taken him to over twenty countries as a seminar leader.
In 1975 he founded the Community Health Foundation in London England, a Charitable Trust that was the largest natural health education centre in the world. Together with Michio and Aveline Kushi, he was a founder of the Kushi Institute and served as Executive Director of the institute programs in London, England and Boston, USA. Bill has served as a senior faculty member for the Kiental Institute in Switzerland and the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and was the Director of Natural Therapies at the SHA Wellness Clinic in Albir, Spain. He was elected Chairman of the European Macrobiotic Assembly for four years and Chairman of the North American Macrobiotic Congress for two years.
In 1976 he edited and published, Your Face Never Lies, based on the teachings of Michio Kushi, which continues to be one of the most popular books on Oriental Diagnosis. In 1985 he published Macrobiotics and Human Behaviour, the first book by a Westerner on the Chinese theory of the Body/Mind connection a new edition called, Macrobiotics, Health, Emotion and Behaviour in now available. His latest published books, Natural Body / Natural Mind, Portal of Dreams, and How to Eat Right & Save The Planet are available worldwide on amazon. Bill and his wife Marlene Watson-Tara are very passionate about inspiring and empowering others to become teachers and to share their work around the globe. They created their hugely successful Macrobiotic Vegan Health Coach Programme and have students come from 28 countries around the world to study with them. Their charity, The Human Ecology Project is aimed at educating a younger audience to the benefits of a healthy diet.