Maya Taahira

Maya Taahira has been a student of Middle Eastern dance since 1998 and a teacher since 2002. She has studied with many exceptional pioneers in her field, including Angel, Rhea, Elizabeth Artemis Mourat, Saqra Raybuck, Delilah Flynn, and Suhaila Salimpour, and has performed throughout the United States and Germany.

Maya has taught hundreds of students in different locations throughout the Washington, DC area, and has developed a unique niche through teaching pre-natal belly dance workshops as well as a mom and baby postpartum belly dance workout for Hot Mama Fitness Studios in Bethesda, MD.

Currently, Maya serves as the director of the Triple Goddess Tribal Belly Dance Troupe and is hard at work on a series of young adult novels about belly dancers and drum circles.