A consummate fitness professional who doesn’t just practice, but lives what she preaches, Tari Rose inspires clients, readers and viewers with her knowledge and style.  “I’ve studied extensively and have experienced the positive results of a healthy lifestyle.  I enjoy sharing my knowledge and techniques with people who want to change their lives—and their looks,” she states.

When a paralyzing neurological and muscular illness, Guillian Barre’ Syndrome abruptly ended her classical dance career, Tari learned the body’s tenacity first-hand. After becoming completely paralyzed from the neck down followed by a year in physical therapy she developed a commitment to learning and understanding anatomy and physiology and started her new career in fitness, one that has flourished.  

A sought after Health & fitness consultant for Fortune 500 companies such as First Data and Disney, Tari delivers motivating and inspiring seminars and speeches on all aspects of health, fitness and nutrition.

Tari has served as a fitness consultant for “The Sports Authority” an international sporting goods chain of over 228 stores.  As a “fitness authority,” Tari appears in a series of “Get Fit” segments in The Sports Authority stores.  These “Get Fit” videos cover strength training, proper exercise form, use of gym equipment and other related fitness topics. Nike has also tapped Tari’s expertise, requesting her participation as a yoga technical advisor on photo shoots.

As a free-lance writer, TV guest and motivational speaker, as well as a model and actress, Tari has shared her fitness philosophies and talents with many. She has been featured many times in health & fitness segments on local news channels in Miami.   She also has movie credits in front of the camera and behind the scenes including performing her own stunts in the movie “Disciples” and training actors like Nick Nolte for his role in “The Thin Red Line” and several actresses for the movie “Striptease.” 

Tari is the fitness consultant for several Health Clubs and exercise studios on Fort Lauderdale Beach. She developed a number of popular programs including long-standing Beach Cross Training, which mixes early morning beach runs with calisthenics and strength training exercises.   Tari also instituted Full Moon Yoga for enthusiasts who enjoy the energy of the rising moon while practicing yoga on the beach.  Tari also created “Yoga Beach”—a series of specialized yoga classes that includes niche interests from Mommy & Me and Yoga for Kids, to Pre-Natal, Basic and Yoga Challenge.  Out of her “Yoga Beach” program and her classical pilates training came the development and design of an all new original style of training called “Hard-Body Method™”  Tari describes it as “yoga & pilates meet strength training”.  It’s a very popular, effective and fun way of developing a long, lean, strong, flexible body without the bulk.  In fact, the popularity of the concept is what drove Tari to create The Hard-Body Yoga™ video.  It is the first in a line of videos she will produce with national distributor VAS entertainment.  She is also promoting the Hard-Body Method™ style of training across the country, presenting at fitness conventions such as ECA World Fitness and health clubs. 

www.TariRose.com is Tari’s health & fitness website dedicated to providing web surfers with an ideal place to go for all kinds of health & fitness information.  It also serves as an online store and receives thousands of hits a week with numbers climbing every day. 

Presently, a tremendous amount of her time goes into her nutrition seminars and programs including “Nutrition For Young Children” and her most successful program: the “BodyInstinct” 6 week Total Transformation program.  In the BodyInstinct program,  Tari’s extensive nutrition & fitness backgrounds come together impeccably to produce the single most comprehensive and effective health & fitness program available. Tari is eagerly awaiting the release of her very successful BodyInstinct 6 week program in book form.  She is excited about the opportunity this will afford her to share her insights into health & fitness with everyone!

Tari is a faculty member and also a continuing education specialist with the American Council on Exercise.  She also studied with Dr. Tony Abbott at the International Fitness Institute and has earned certifications in nutrition, strength and conditioning, exercise testing and prescription, programs for special populations, yoga, biomechanics, rehabilitation, functional training and more.  Recent articles on her Hard-Body Method™ program have appeared in Oxygen, South Beach, Elle and Fitness magazines.   Tari and her husband Jack have 2 children:  a seven year old daugter who was  featured in an article her mother wrote for Shape Fit Pregnancymagazine (March 2002 issue) and a 3 year old Son.  Tari, who will also turn 45 this year, is truly a living testament to a healthy lifestyle!