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If you’re not already a member, enjoy your 7 day FREE trial now, and let us know if you need any extra help. You deserve to feel better. We mean it.

A great place to connect with everyone is on our Community Board at Strala Home

Please join us for practice and sharing at StralaHome.

Download the April Strala Home Calendar.

We have our usual new every day practices for in the Practice this Week category right at the top.

You can now sync the live classes to your calendar so you have easy reminders of our together time. Just press the three little …under the class description and you can sync to your calendar and never miss a live class!

A great place to connect with everyone is right here on our Community Board at StralaHome. Please let us know your requests, suggestions, how it’s going for you and how you are feeling. We love hearing from you. Also feel fee to use this as a place to post how you are feeling, share pics of your practice, let us know what you are up to, events you’d like to bring awareness to, and things like that. It’s social media that’s positive!

We’re happy to let you know the app version of StralaHome, Strala Yoga for iphone android, apple tv, roku, and all the fancy places, has some great updates that you have been asking for including the ability to create multiple playlists of your favorite practices, instead of just one favorites list. Yay!

If you’d like some reading inspiration to support your practice this month, we are reading The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

Upcoming Training & Events

Retreat – Dolomites, Italy Peaks + Forest + Flow

April 28 – May 3, 2024 (Full)

This is a special collaboration retreat with our longtime friend and OG strala guide, Erin Lewis, founder of Eat Pray Move. Join us in the spectacular Dolomite region of Italy for a week of luxurious self-care, daily yoga, forest bathing meditation, spa time, and learning how to find ease and flow in our lives.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike in Geneva, Switzerland

June 29, 2024 – June 30, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

Strala Yoga Festival – Practice Yoga, Practice Life, Metzingen Germany

July 6, 2024 – July 7, 2024

Strala Yoga connects and so, over all the years of practicing and practicing together, a global community has emerged – a community for exchange, development, collaboration and shared learning and being. We would like to give this gathering a very special meaning this weekend and so we are really looking forward to the first Strala Yoga Festival on July 6th and 7th, 2024 in Metzingen.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike at the Farm in Rhinebeck NY

July 20, 2024 – July 21, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

Creative Writing & Wellness Retreat with Tara Stiles & Ann Garvin, Tuscany, Italy, 

September 22, 2024 – September 27 2024

Join Tara Stiles and Ann Garvin for a restorative and creative retreat in the Tuscan countryside. In our private boutique villa you will be surrounded with breathtaking views, mesmerizing sunsets, and a wonderful sense of peace – the perfect setting to nurture yourself and your creative spirit. Set your body at ease to let your mind flow with ideas – as we enjoy la dolce vita together, with just the right dose of local cuisine, culture, creativity and wellness.

Learn more here

200+Hour Yoga Training with Tara and Mike in Berlin, Germany

November 18, 2024 – December 1, 2024

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What: Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training, with a new curriculum, and a whole year of live (and saved!) Zooms for sharing, practicing, and supporting each other, beginning in April 2025.

Strala shares yoga with millions of adults and kids in studios, schools, events, and homes all around the world, including through our partnerships with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and BOKS. In an all-new curriculum for this training, we’ll share our uniquely-special approach with you here. It’s a wonderful chance to discover powerfully-enabling practices for taking good care of you, and the people you lead.

You’ll progress with a broad range of foundations and skill-sets, from healing to longevity and well-being to strengthening performance – everything you need for your own practice, as well as for leading people with many diverse backgrounds and needs, on this wonderfully magical path.

Certification: If you’re looking to lead classes in yoga, or carry new approaches, skill-sets and practices into your work, you’ll graduate with a 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification.  And if you’ve already completed our 200, 300, or 500 hour programs, this certification combines for an advanced degree and training certification.

When: Our live Zooms together begin with meeting every Saturday in April 2025, and then once a month for the whole year, through March 2026.  We’ll have these sessions at a variety of weekend and mid-week times, so everybody has lots of chances to join, whatever you schedule and time zone.  Plus our sessions together are also all saved, so you can always ask your questions in advance, and watch everything on your own schedule.

This training also includes a complete library of instructional sessions and practices that are all recorded, so you can watch whenever you want, and go all at your own pace. You can begin with this part of the training as soon as you register.

Training Registration: The early-bird special for this training is $1,300, which is half the usual cost of $2,600. This special is open through April 30, 2024, and is given in two equal parts. The first $650 registers you now, and the remaining $650 can be given any time before we begin in April.

Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.  Strala is also a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Click Here to Register for the Early-Bird Special

“Strala is an elegantly simple and sophisticated way to move our breath, our body, and our whole self into the state we need, to create who we want to be: the optimal expression of ourselves.”

– Dr. Rudolph Tanzi – Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

Training Details

This training is a special chance for you to slow down, connect, heal, and empower across your whole life, while discovering new yoga, tai chi, qigong, and meditation practices for taking good care of you. You’ll create the ground you need to move easily, confidently and capably through all that you love doing, and a path for sharing this with your family, friends, and the people you lead.

Where: This course is entirely online, so you can join from right where you are each day.  You’ll also have forever access to the private online group for everyone in this training, so you have all our shared sessions, questions, and discussions forever, as well as a place to keep connecting with your whole group.

When: Our live Zooms together begin with meeting every Saturday in April 2025, and then once a month for the whole year, through March 2026.  We’ll have these sessions at a variety of weekend and mid-week times, so everybody has lots of chances to join, whatever you schedule and time zone.  Plus our sessions together are also all saved, so you can always ask your questions in advance, and watch everything on your own schedule.

This training also includes a complete library of instructional sessions and practices that are all recorded, so you can watch whenever you want, and go all at your own pace. You can begin with this part of the training as soon as you register.

Begin and Watch Any Time: Everything we share here is recorded and saved, so you can begin any time after April 5, 2025, watch on your own schedule, and keep it all as a resource forever.

Private Online Training Group. For the time between sessions, as well as ongoing after this training, you’ll also have access to our private online group for everyone in this course, where we’re sharing more discussions, video sessions, and all kinds of help, as questions and experiences come up.  If you’re taking this course as a teacher training, review and practice is super-important, so please go through the instructional sessions at least twice, and always you can come back for more whenever you need it.

Early-Bird Special Training Cost: The early-bird special for this training is $1,300, which is half the usual cost of $2,600. This special is open through April 30, 2024, and is given in two equal parts. The first $650 registers you now, and the remaining $650 can be given any time before we begin in April. You can click here to register.

Click Here to Register for the Early-Bird Special

Common Questions

Q: Can I call my class Strala after taking this training?

A: Yes of course, once you’ve completed this training, you can join Strala Home for continuing education.  It’s our way of sharing, growing, and progressing together in these skill-sets, practices, and approaches, for connecting and helping.  As long as you’re here, you can use the name Strala Yoga as your class title.  Often teachers and care providers also keep going each year or every few years, with another online or in-person training here.  Always what we share is new each year, so you’re never repeating hours, and everything builds toward a more advanced degree and certification.  Please click here to start with your Strala Home classes, we’re so happy for this place to keep supporting each other and practicing together each week.

Q: I’ve already done my 200 Hour and 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, is this the same?

A: We follow a completely unique curriculum, grounded in the movement and healing foundations of Tai Chi and Qigong. There’s a lot that’s truly wonderful and unique here, so what you’ll learn is all new, and makes a wonderful addition to any previous studies.  And every year we share a new curriculum in all our courses, so always we can keep growing and progressing together.

Q: I’m not interested in teaching yoga, but I want more self-care, intuition, empowerment, and this kind of connection in my life. Is this for me?

A: Absolutely. We all deserve to feel better, and what you do for yourself is so important. Always this is what we have to share with others. Fair warning, once you start walking around embodying care, connection, and ease, folks are going to start asking you to show them how you’re doing it. We’ve had quite a few scientists, moms and dads, school teachers, actors, and business leaders join these programs for personal reasons, and end up sharing yoga in creative ways with those around them. A big part of my goal is de-mystifying leading yoga as something for a select few. Just like cooking, once you know and love the recipe, it’s impossible not to share.

If you have questions or need anything, please always just email us using Help@StralaYoga.com.

What’s in This Training

Yoga, tai chi, qigong, and neigong. Personal practice and leadership, for many settings, many people, many needs. Movement, breath, meditation, sensitivity, alignment, experiential anatomy and physiology, touch, support, safety, strength, flexibility, stability, mobility, injuries, stress, healing, chronic pain and ailments, disease, psychology, anxiety, depression, therapy, health, nutrition, spirituality, history, language, voice, sequence, pace, music, position, body language, attitude, adults, children.

How to Enable an Always, Everywhere, in Everything Practice. We can accomplish so much by giving ourselves a little time each day to slow down, feel what we feel, and respond in a way that makes things better, right now. Imagine how powerful it is when we discover it’s possible to carry this always, into every moment, in everything we do. Even when things get tough, we can find a way to make here better, and make it better to be here. It’s the practice of a lifetime, and we’ll share the practical foundations together here.

Softness, Movability, and the Breath Body Connection: Your Neurophysiological Reset Button. Softness enables you to move your whole self without a fight. Movement is guided and fueled by your breath. Every inhale lifts, expands, strengthens. Every exhale softens, makes it easier to be here, and moves you further. This oceanic experience allows your body to go along for the ride, creating space for lightness and ease in your experience.

Foundations of Movement: Tai Chi, Qigong, and Traditional Medicine.  How to accomplish far more, in everything you do.  Begin with softness, the ground for moving your whole self with ease. From here you discover how to use breath, center, and all the movement principles found in tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to unlock energy and bring your whole self into harmony. Challenge is met with peace and ease, rather than force and aggression.

Feeling, Sensitivity, and Response. Slow down and breath deep enough to feel, believe that what you feel is worth responding to, and respond. Your connection to feeling and intuition allows you to move into exactly what you need in each moment.  You’ll learn to be in alignment with yourself always, and feel good every step of the way. You’ll also learn how to create a safe place for feeling, so you’re able to connect fully with where you are, right now.

Healing and Support for Trauma.  When you’re in a caregiver role, remember to care for yourself. Everything you can do for someone else will come from what you’re doing also for you. It’s an understanding that exists in the foundations of tai chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine practices. And there’s an approach for trauma in the tai chi and yoga healing practices we’ll share together here. Trauma might not be something we can heal right away. But through these practices, we create emotional and chemical change that does help, right away.

Practice: Make Hard Things Easy.  It’s possible to get where you want to go by learning to drop the stress, and move easily through challenge. In fact, it’s not just possible. The best among us – the most inspirational of any human effort – has been achieved in this way.

We’ll replace the self-limiting myth of no pain no gain, release stress and struggle from our bodies and minds, and use the principles of movement found in tai chi in our yoga and everyday activities, to make the impossible possible.  This becomes your way of being. It becomes how you move, how you create yourself, and the world around you.

We learn something valuable about ourselves, moving this way. W can accomplish much more in our lives without stress and struggle than with it. We can get to wherever we want from wherever we are. We can feel good, always.  It’s not about the handstand. It’s how you get where you’re going that creates what you have.

Guiding: how to create an uplifting and enabling experience.  Your first responsibility is to take really good care of yourself. What you have for yourself is what you have to give to others.  From here, we move through the best ways to orchestrate an amazing experience for everyone around you.  You’ll learn to lead people into their own freedom, intuition, creativity, and radiantly good health.

Connection: Touch and Support for Healing.  How to create a supportive, enabling, and healing relationship with yourself, and with others. We’ll detail the core principles of safety, alignment, and practical anatomy, and provide an effective approach for healing of both acute injury and chronic pain.

Stress, Health & Nutrition.  We’ll explore your mind-body connection and the role of stress in disease, alongside techniques for releasing stress, activating your body’s Relaxation Response, and enabling optimal health.

Leadership, Work, Life.  We’ll carry our practice of being, moving and healing into how you create the life you want.

More Practice.  All of our trainings are very practical.  We’re not just talking about all of this – we’re going to do it together. So we have plenty of real class time for practice, exploration, and making what you want real in your everyday life.

What You Get

Advanced Approaches, Practices, Skill-sets: We’ll explore many advanced practices, foundations, and applications that work in a broad range of settings, for people and groups with a broad range of backgrounds and needs. You’ll discover and enliven who and how you are, in everything you do, using Strala’s approach to yoga, tai chi, qigong, and meditation.  And you’ll carry with you something both simple and straightforward enough to practice every day, right where you are, in whatever you’re doing.  This is powerful enough to change everything.  You are powerful enough to change everything.  It all begins with you.

A Whole Year of Live Zooms for Sharing and Practice Together, plus recorded Instructional Sessions and Practices: You can join and progress through everything during this time together, or watch later whenever you want.  And once we get started, you can begin whenever you like.  These sessions can be completed in two or three months, or you can go entirely at your own pace.  For a look at our recorded sessions and curriculum, you can click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2.

Everything here is all recorded and saved, so you can begin any time, watch on your own schedule, and keep it all as a resource forever.

Private Online Training Group. During and after this training, you’ll also have access to our private online group, specially created for everyone in this training, where we’re sharing more discussions, video sessions, and all kinds of help. as questions and experiences come up.  If you’re taking this course as a teacher training, review and practice is super-important, so please go through the instructional sessions at least twice, and always you can come back for more whenever you need it.

Community: Once we’ve completed this time together, you’ll have access to our other private online community, this one for Strala graduates worldwide. It’s our way to keep connecting with each other, and with Tara and Mike, for ongoing questions, sharing experiences, and progress.

Teaching Foundations: Following this training, if you want to share what you’ve learned here in your own Strala yoga class, this is wonderful. You can also call your classes by the Strala name, for as long as you’re staying current in your practice through enrollment in Strala Home.  Of course there’s always more to learn and share as we keep growing together, so if you’re inspired for more, it’s wonderful to progress from here with more detailed guidance, approaches, and practices offered in our ongoing training program.

Certification: We provide a 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification upon graduation, and if you’ve previously completed any of our 200, 300, or 500 hour programs, you’ll receive a combined advanced degree and certification. Just like our in-person trainings, these hours include our instructional sessions, repetition, and practice.  You’ll receive a formal 200 Hour Diploma (or an Advanced Diploma), and a profile on our website that documents all your hours, coursework and degrees completed.

Strala is credited by the Professor of Neurology at Harvard, Director of the Genetics Research and Aging Unit and Co- Director of the Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Continuing Education Credit: This training provides you with 200 hours of credit, which also counts toward the additional study and practice components in our additional Leadership Trainings.

Lifetime: Inspiring and uplifting leadership – creating the space for ground-breaking achievement in your own life and the lives of the people you lead – is the practice of a lifetime. When you learn to release stress, find harmony in your body and peace in your mind, heal what needs healing, and accomplish challenge with ease, you have something amazing to share.

Who Is This For

Everything we do is designed to help people begin where they are, and develop the concrete practices that carry us where we want to go. So wherever you are is a perfect place to begin. This is true for all of our courses, including this online training.

The people joining our trainings and retreats are a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group. They range from 16 to over 80. They’re from dozens of countries worldwide. They are entrepreneurs and chief executives, professors and librarians, scientists and researchers, studio owners and fitness instructors, yoga teachers of every style, psychologists and physiotherapists, life and health coaches, doctors and lawyers. They are moms and dads, daughters and sons, and lifelong friends.

Some are relative beginners, some are long-time practicers and teachers.  Some want to teach, and some want to progress with their own yoga.  Wherever you are now is a great place to begin.  We’re lucky to have this rich diversity, it makes wonderful ground for real-world learning and sharing.

You might join for your profession, for teaching yoga or tai chi to kids, or you might join just for you.  Whatever your purpose, we have this time to share a set of holistic skills and practices, that carry across your everything you do.

How It Works

All our trainings and retreats have a unique curriculum that’s different from what’s covered in other intensive, 100, 200, and 500 hour programs. So what you learn here will be all new approaches, practices, and skill-sets, and makes a nice continuation from any previous studies with Strala or anywhere, without repetition. You’ll always discover new ways to take good care of yourself, find harmony and ease in your body and life, and give this to the people you lead.

All this begins with you.  You’re always leading what have, how you are, in everything you do. It’s in how you get around a room, how you get around your life, that people follow. Much more than what you say.

And it’s wonderful, magical, when what you say agrees with what you do.  So we’re coming together here to share this as a practice.  To create the ground we all need to be how we want to be, first in our selves, and then for each other.

It’s not always complicated, but it’s also not easy.  It takes some slowing down, simplifying, subtracting the noise around us and in us.  From here we see where we are, and discover who it is we’re meant to be.  What are you good at?  What do you love?  It’s in these simple practices to find this, and grow stronger, more capable, in who we really are.

The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

FACULTY

Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders, and every member of our faculty has more than 20 years of practical experience, and between 4 and 10 years of advanced education at top institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and University of Edinburgh. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala. Strala is practiced in more than 100 countries, and thousands of people are leading Strala in studios, gyms, and schools worldwide. Even more Strala training graduates bring what they learn to their office, team, healing practice, and across all of life. The mission we share is to help people accomplish far more, through softening and connecting with our creativity and purpose.

Tara has authored several best-selling books including Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, Yoga Cures, Make Your Own Rules Diet, Strala Yoga, and Guiding Strala, all translated and published in several languages. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and featured in most major national and international magazines. Harvard profiled Tara‘s work in a case study, and she has spoken with students at Harvard and New York University about her experience, and approaches to creativity and leadership.

Tara supports The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the American Heart Association initiative to combat childhood obesity, as well as BOKS, which together are bringing Strala classes to more than 30,000 schools around the United States and Canada.

Tara studied classical dance with ABT Principal Rory Foster, and choreography with Paul Taylor original member and world renowned master Eileen Cropley. She is married to Strala co-founder Mike Taylor.

Mike Taylor is the resident healer and co-founder of Strala. Named “Best Mover” by MindBodyGreen, he’s practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques, including tai chi and qigong, for more than four decades.

In his younger years, Mike learned tai chi and other martial arts, with a practical military perspective guided by his grandfather. He later studied with Ken van Sickle, one of Cheng Man Ching’s original students on Broadway in New York City. Mike also explored the medical applications of these arts, studying mind-body medicine at Harvard. After running into walls with standard medical practice, Mike took up mountaineering, worked at a steel mill, and founded a software company in the healthcare industry. Now Mike has found his way back to tai chi, as a practical everyday way to help people be safe, and transform wherever they are into a better place.

Mike is married to Strala co-founder Tara Stiles, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time. Tara and Mike live in the Berkshire Mountains with their daughter Daisy.

EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION

Training Registration: The early-bird special for this training is $1,300, which is half the usual cost of $2,600. This special is open through April 30, 2024, and is given in two equal parts. The first $650 registers you now, and the remaining $650 can be given any time before we begin in April. You can click here to register.

Installment plans and scholarship help are available, just email Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Please understand that all payments are final, and this is non-refundable, except if you are not admitted this time. Admission to training is solely at Strala’s discretion.

About Strala

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.

It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.

In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

Resources

We have an online library of classes, retreats, and trainings with Tara and Mike, which includes weekly live classes and workshops. New videos added regularly, and always we’re here to help.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Help@StralaYoga.com.

Click Here to Register for the Early-Bird Special

Open the door to a whole new way of connecting, sharing, and growing with everyone in your life.

These trainings are an incredibly rewarding life-long adventure of mutual support, and inspiring accomplishment. We’re lucky to have this in our lives. Thank you everybody, it’s so exciting to get started with you here.

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Strala Yoga connects and so, over all the years of practicing and practicing together, a global community has emerged – a community for exchange, development, collaboration and shared learning and being. We would like to give this gathering a very special meaning this weekend and so we are really looking forward to the first Strala Yoga Festival on July 6th and 7th, 2024 in Metzingen.

The focus of the weekend is on having fun with the practice, connecting with one another and, of course, constantly replenishing and connecting with the values ​​and possibilities that practice on the mat gives us for our lives. In addition to the valuable experiences in the yoga classes, the weekend is inspired by exciting talks and content about Strala Yoga as a life practice. Tara Stiles, Mike Taylor, Anna Rampf and Julia Kupke will guide you through the weekend with various sessions.

Save Your Space Here

Where: Metzingen Kanalstrasse 6, The Gallery, Kanalstraße 6 in Metzingen

When: Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7 2024. 9am – 6pm Saturday. 9am – 5:30pm Sunday.

What to bring: Comfortable clothes for moving, a yoga mat if you’d like one, and after-class snacks.

Who is this for: Anyone who wants to feel better, hang out with a wonderful group of friends, and enjoy this time together with community.

Cost: EUR 130.00 per day (Early Bird price until May 31st, 2024, then EUR 180.00)
EUR 200.00 for the whole weekend (Early Bird price until May 31, 2024, then EUR 290.00) By reservation only, please sign up in advance.

Please understand that reservations are not refundable or changeable.

Save Your Space Here

About Strala

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the practice forms of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, as a way to help people release stress, heal, and move more easily through all kinds of challenge.

Strala is practiced in more than 100 countries, and thousands of people are leading Strala in studios, gyms, and schools worldwide. Even more Strala training graduates bring what they learn to their office, team, healing practice, and across all of life. It’s an inspiring group of leaders in business and government, art and architecture, schools and families.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here.

– Tara & Mike

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If you’re not already a member, enjoy your 7 day FREE trial now, and let us know if you need any extra help. You deserve to feel better. We mean it.

A great place to connect with everyone is on our Community Board at Strala Home

Please join us for practice and sharing at StralaHome.

Download the March Strala Home Calendar.

We have our usual new every day practices for in the Practice this Week category right at the top.

You can now sync the live classes to your calendar so you have easy reminders of our together time. Just press the three little …under the class description and you can sync to your calendar and never miss a live class!

A great place to connect with everyone is right here on our Community Board at StralaHome. Please let us know your requests, suggestions, how it’s going for you and how you are feeling. We love hearing from you. Also feel fee to use this as a place to post how you are feeling, share pics of your practice, let us know what you are up to, events you’d like to bring awareness to, and things like that. It’s social media that’s positive!

We’re happy to let you know the app version of StralaHome, Strala Yoga for iphone android, apple tv, roku, and all the fancy places, has some great updates that you have been asking for including the ability to create multiple playlists of your favorite practices, instead of just one favorites list. Yay!

If you’d like some reading inspiration to support your practice this month, we are reading Everyone but Myself by Julie Chavez.

Upcoming Training & Events

Strala at Edition Farm – Yoga Class & Stroll around the Horse Farm

Saturday, March 28, 2024

Join us at Strala Studio (Strala 2.0) at Edition Farm close to Rhinebeck NY for a class and hang around the farm.

Learn more here

Retreat – Dolomites, Italy Peaks + Forest + Flow

April 28 – May 3, 2024

This is a special collaboration retreat with our longtime friend and OG strala guide, Erin Lewis, founder of Eat Pray Move. Join us in the spectacular Dolomite region of Italy for a week of luxurious self-care, daily yoga, forest bathing meditation, spa time, and learning how to find ease and flow in our lives.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike in Geneva, Switzerland

June 29, 2024 – June 30, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike at the Farm in Rhinebeck NY

July 20, 2024 – July 21, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

Creative Writing & Wellness Retreat with Tara Stiles & Ann Garvin, Tuscany, Italy, 

September 22, 2024 – September 27 2024

Join Tara Stiles and Ann Garvin for a restorative and creative retreat in the Tuscan countryside. In our private boutique villa you will be surrounded with breathtaking views, mesmerizing sunsets, and a wonderful sense of peace – the perfect setting to nurture yourself and your creative spirit. Set your body at ease to let your mind flow with ideas – as we enjoy la dolce vita together, with just the right dose of local cuisine, culture, creativity and wellness.

Learn more here

200+Hour Yoga Training with Tara and Mike in Berlin, Germany

November 18, 2024 – December 1, 2024

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We are a strong, vast community together. sharing the values and practice of ease, softness, taking good care of ourselves, and using our gifts for good. I am in awe of everyone at this point, and it’s often hard for me to believe it’s real. But it is. We started with a garden and grew into a jungle. I am so grateful, and we are here for supporting more life, more ideas, more of you.

Starting right now for everyone enrolled in the course How to Write Your Book and Get It Out in the World, you can publish your writing on stralayoga.com. And we’ll keep widening the door and growing together from here. It’s a wonderful platform for support, a beautiful expansion of all the awesomeness that has happened so far.  As always, everyone is invited.

When we take good care of ourselves it’s a joy to take good care of others.

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How to Share Your Writing

If you’d like to share your writing with our community on StralaYoga.com, you can enroll now in How to Write Your Book and Get It Out in the World. This course is bringing together a wonderfully supportive group of all kinds of authors, from all around the world. I’m so happy to share this chance now for expanding and growing our writing together here.  And to help along the way, I’ll share a few thoughts and guides with you below.

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1. Community and Connection

Strala Yoga is all about creating a supportive community, and your writing should reflect this spirit of connection and inclusivity.

2. Authenticity and Ease

Strala Yoga encourages authenticity. Write from your heart and share your unique experiences. Embrace the principles of softness, harmony, and ease, just like in our yoga practice.

3. Writing Process

The course How to Write Your Book and Get It Out in the World offers guidance on writing and publishing, so this is the perfect place to begin. It covers topics like finding your book’s theme, creating an outline, working with editors, marketing and more. Remember that successful writing isn’t just about the end product. It’s about the journey and community you create.

4. Scholarship and Support

Strala Yoga offers all kinds of scholarship help and easy installment plans. If you need help, please reach out to Mike using Mike@StralaYoga.com.Our program is backed by experts including Dr. Rudolph Tanzi and Dr. Deepak Chopra.

5. Terms of Use 

If you’re contributing to StralaYoga.com, make sure to follow the website’s terms of use. Writing is a journey, and Strala Yoga values both the process and the community it creates.

6. Submitting Your Writing

You can submit your writing to info@stralayoga.com. Please include your name, and a link to where people can learn more about you. We are opening this opportunity up first to people enrolled in How to Write Your Book and Get it Out in the World, and once this course is complete, we’ll grow toward widening our writing community to Guides, Strala Home members, and everyone practicing softness and ease together here.

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How to Write Your Book and Get It Out in the World

Early-Bird Registration is Now Open

Writing your book, getting it out in the world, and feeling great about it, all seems like an impossible expectation. But like a yoga practice of softness, steadiness, and ease, no matter the challenge, it’s completely possible. I am so thrilled to guide you through the whole process!

I’ve written and published 8 best-selling books, translated into multiple languages, with a 9th in process, all in completely different ways. How I came up with the idea, how I wrote each book, worked with an agent or not with an agent, found the right publisher, marketed each book, and found the perfect supportive community of authors and readers – the best way through every step has been unique, each and every time.

These beautiful books have been my ticket to traveling the world, allowing me to meet and connect with so many amazing people who want more ease in their lives, just like me. And whether you’re just beginning to think about writing and sharing your story, or you’re looking for some detailed support and inspiration along any and every step of the way, what we’ll share together here is perfect for where you are right now.

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This course begins on Sunday May 12, and once we begin, you can get started whenever you like, and go all at your own pace.  Also once complete, our live Zooms, instructional sessions, and practices are all saved and remain yours to use a resource, whenever you want. Please understand that once a reservation is made, we are not able to give refunds.

The early-bird special is open now through Friday March 1, 2024, and gives you $250 off the usual total of $700, so your special total is $450.  Please click here to register for your early-bird now.

We also have scholarship help and easy installment plans available.  If you want to be here and need help, please just let us know (email Mike@StralaYoga.com).

Our program is backed by the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, as well as by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra.  Strala is also a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird Special

Here’s a secret, just to begin.

Having a successful book isn’t about being popular. It’s about creating a community, that people want to be part of.

This Was My Dream. What’s Yours?

My dream since I was little was to meet people from all around the world who are different from me, and share my gifts for good. I didn’t know how that would look, but it feels super amazing to be living this out. Writing, having my books published, and the work of promoting and touring with them, could be my full time job. But I also enjoy our incredible Strala Yoga community, and spend a lot of my time leading classes, workshops, and trainings, and volunteering my time with various organizations that can use some more ease.

I also have a young daughter and a partner and a full family life of responsibilities and priorities. All of my work feels like fun and it is, but it also needs to work to support the people in my life, and it does. I tell you all of this, because I know your life is also probably very full already, with some space for your dreams. It’s important not to waste attempts at your dreams on processes full of stress and fear, that lead you in a non-productive direction. Everything new can be scary and full of unknowns, and I know that book writing, publishing, and marketing can be especially challenging with all its mysteries.  But, it’s magical to go after your dreams. And it’s possible to make it all work wonderfully, in your real life.

There Are No Short Cuts, but You Can Do This.

After nearly two decades of having my books published, and enjoying all the benefits that come along here, I’ve also been pitched along the way a whole lot of courses and programs that promise to make your book a best seller, and make all of your life’s dreams come true. I find them, and I’m sure you might as well, a little off-putting. I’ve been exposed as well to lots of insider-insanity – authors buying and storing piles of their own books in order to make a best-seller list, posting loads of reviews from their own teams instead of actual readers, making people buy many copies of books to attend an in-person event – the list goes on and on. I’ve stayed far away from all of these tactics, mostly because those kinds of pressures and actions make me feel uneasy. It’s all so far away from the magic of why we come together here, to share our stories.

I’m finally coming out with this course, because so many of you have asked me these questions over the years, about all the ins-and outs of ideas and writing and publishing. And even though there are no short cuts, I’m happy to share with you everything I know from start to finish, to starting and finishing again and again. Writing a book is hard. It’s even harder to convince someone to publish it. It’s even harder to convince people to read it. It’s even harder to create a community around your ideas.

I’m here to take the heavy out of hard, and show you how to work through these challenges with actions that will move you toward your goals, and probably a whole lot past them. Achieving more than you thought possible, just like in yoga, happens so often when you stay focused on the process, instead of just one end point along the way.

Also please remember, there’s no need to be organized or perfect or have your endpoints all figured out. If you’re interested in writing, but don’t have a strong desire to publish your work, you’ll also discover here a structure and support for ideas and writing to flow into your self-care practice. Follow your unique dream. Publishing a book is not a requirement for enjoying the process of writing.

Let’s begin. Your Chapter One Starts Now.

What You’ll Find Here

I’ve been a reader and a writer like most of you, since kindergarten. I wrote a story in first grade called Liquid Love, about a magic potion that escaped a bottle, and seeped everywhere to spread love. I followed that up with something similar but a bit more fantastical, involving a bathtub full of green jello oozing out of the tub and house, and all over town.

It doesn’t take too much self-reflection to learn I like to spread good things. Thankfully, I found yoga and ease. It set me on a wonderful path to finding a way to be in my life that is helpful and soft, and a community that I can lead, be led, and share with others.

Finding your theme for your writing won’t take too much, but it is a little bit of a fun dig. Chances are you are already creating, writing, or living out this theme in so many ways, in all that you do. Writing is all about focusing those feelings and ideas into a gorgeous poetic structure, that includes and excites anyone who picks up your pages.

We’ll dig into your theme, your book’s theme, and all the ins and outs of getting it on the page, into the form of an actual real-life book, and into the hands of your amazing readers. I’ll share all I know, and be with you every step along the way. And of course, because it’s us, we will practice a lot of ease in some yoga that’s especially designed for writers, to keep us feeling calm, creative, and connected along the way.

What You Get

When:  This course begins on Sunday May 12, and once we begin, you can get started whenever you want throughout the year.  We’ll always be here, practicing and sharing together, right alongside everyday life.

Watch: 20 Instructional Sessions, including finding your overall theme, your book’s specific theme, goals for you book, timeline, writing your outline, writing your proposal, submitting to agents and publishers, online platforms, writing the whole book, working with editors, marketing, yoga practices for writers, and so much more.

Watch: 4 Live Training Sessions on Zoom, for working through your process, asking questions, getting feedback from this community, and sharing all kinds of stories and support for right where you are, right now.  These Zoom sessions are on Sunday May 12, 19, 26, and June 2. You can join live if you like, or just send your questions in advance. We’ll cover everything together in each session, and all the sessions our saved in our course playlist, so you’ll have them to watch whenever you want.

Practice: Over 10 Classes, for a complete self-care-for-writers toolkit.

Connection and Community. Join our special online group for sharing questions and experiences with Tara, and everyone in the group. Always we’re here each day, to support each other along the way.

Forever resource. There’s no need to complete everything within a month, or even a year. This entire course will all be right here for you as an ongoing resource, for many years of practice to come.

Certification: We provide a Strala 25+Hour Certification and formal diploma upon completion, and list your degree and certification on our website.

Our program is credited by the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, as well as by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra. We’re also accredited by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Continuing Education Credit: This course counts for 25 hours of continuing education and practice credit, including for our online and in-person 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 300+Hour and 500+Hour Advanced Leadership Trainings.

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We all have a responsibility and a gift, to share our unique stories, lessons, and experiences, to guide and inspire others along the way.

Topics and Practices Include

Finding Your Overall Theme
Finding our book’s specific theme

FACULTY

Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders. Every member of our faculty has more than 20 years of practical experience, and between 4 and 10 years of advanced education at top institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and University of Edinburgh. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.

Tara Stiles is the co-founder of Strala Yoga, best-selling author, and well-being expert. Tara revolutionized yoga for millions, transforming a practice so often seen as foreign, dogmatic, and guru-based, into an everyday movement that supports ease and well-being. Strala Yoga is practiced in more than 100 countries, thousands of Guides lead Strala classes around the globe, and Tara shares daily yoga with thousands of people on the Strala Yoga app. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and featured in most major national and international magazines.

When Can You Begin

This course begins on May 12. Once we begin, you can get started whenever you want, and go all at your own pace. Also once you’ve completed everything, it’s all still here for you. Whenever you need it, just keep coming back for more.

Please Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird Special

About Strala

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.

It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.

In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts, from your psychology, chemistry and neurology, to your chromosomes and even gene expression. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here.

– Tara & Mike

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We need a practice that’s practiced always, in all the hours, in all the places, that carries us into a world where we are sustainable, connected, harmonious, and at peace in our selves. This is how we get there together.

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Please Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird!

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Writing your book, getting it out in the world, and feeling great about it, all seems like an impossible expectation. But like a yoga practice of softness, steadiness, and ease, no matter the challenge, it’s completely possible. I am so thrilled to guide you through the whole process!

I’ve written and published 8 best-selling books, translated into multiple languages, with a 9th in process, all in completely different ways. How I came up with the idea, how I wrote each book, worked with an agent or not with an agent, found the right publisher, marketed each book, and found the perfect supportive community of authors and readers – the best way through every step has been unique, each and every time.

These beautiful books have been my ticket to traveling the world, allowing me to meet and connect with so many amazing people who want more ease in their lives, just like me. And whether you’re just beginning to think about writing and sharing your story, or you’re looking for some detailed support and inspiration along any and every step of the way, what we’ll share together here is perfect for where you are right now.

–

This course begins on Sunday May 12, and once we begin, you can get started whenever you like, and go all at your own pace.  Also once complete, our live Zooms, instructional sessions, and practices are all saved and remain yours to use a resource, whenever you want. Please understand that once a reservation is made, we are not able to give refunds.

The early-bird special is open now through Tuesday April 30, 2024, and gives you $200 off the usual total of $700, so your special total is $500.  Please click here to register for your early-bird now.

We also have scholarship help and easy installment plans available.  If you want to be here and need help, please just let us know (email Mike@StralaYoga.com).

Our program is backed by the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, as well as by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra.  Strala is also a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird Special

Here’s a secret, just to begin.

Having a successful book isn’t about being popular. It’s about creating a community, that people want to be part of.

This Was My Dream. What’s Yours?

My dream since I was little was to meet people from all around the world who are different from me, and share my gifts for good. I didn’t know how that would look, but it feels super amazing to be living this out. Writing, having my books published, and the work of promoting and touring with them, could be my full time job. But I also enjoy our incredible Strala Yoga community, and spend a lot of my time leading classes, workshops, and trainings, and volunteering my time with various organizations that can use some more ease.

I also have a young daughter and a partner and a full family life of responsibilities and priorities. All of my work feels like fun and it is, but it also needs to work to support the people in my life, and it does. I tell you all of this, because I know your life is also probably very full already, with some space for your dreams. It’s important not to waste attempts at your dreams on processes full of stress and fear, that lead you in a non-productive direction. Everything new can be scary and full of unknowns, and I know that book writing, publishing, and marketing can be especially challenging with all its mysteries.  But, it’s magical to go after your dreams. And it’s possible to make it all work wonderfully, in your real life.

There Are No Short Cuts, but You Can Do This.

After nearly two decades of having my books published, and enjoying all the benefits that come along here, I’ve also been pitched along the way a whole lot of courses and programs that promise to make your book a best seller, and make all of your life’s dreams come true. I find them, and I’m sure you might as well, a little off-putting. I’ve been exposed as well to lots of insider-insanity – authors buying and storing piles of their own books in order to make a best-seller list, posting loads of reviews from their own teams instead of actual readers, making people buy many copies of books to attend an in-person event – the list goes on and on. I’ve stayed far away from all of these tactics, mostly because those kinds of pressures and actions make me feel uneasy. It’s all so far away from the magic of why we come together here, to share our stories.

I’m finally coming out with this course, because so many of you have asked me these questions over the years, about all the ins-and outs of ideas and writing and publishing. And even though there are no short cuts, I’m happy to share with you everything I know from start to finish, to starting and finishing again and again. Writing a book is hard. It’s even harder to convince someone to publish it. It’s even harder to convince people to read it. It’s even harder to create a community around your ideas.

I’m here to take the heavy out of hard, and show you how to work through these challenges with actions that will move you toward your goals, and probably a whole lot past them. Achieving more than you thought possible, just like in yoga, happens so often when you stay focused on the process, instead of just one end point along the way.

Also please remember, there’s no need to be organized or perfect or have your endpoints all figured out. If you’re interested in writing, but don’t have a strong desire to publish your work, you’ll also discover here a structure and support for ideas and writing to flow into your self-care practice. Follow your unique dream. Publishing a book is not a requirement for enjoying the process of writing.

Let’s begin. Your Chapter One Starts Now.

What You’ll Find Here

I’ve been a reader and a writer like most of you, since kindergarten. I wrote a story in first grade called Liquid Love, about a magic potion that escaped a bottle, and seeped everywhere to spread love. I followed that up with something similar but a bit more fantastical, involving a bathtub full of green jello oozing out of the tub and house, and all over town.

It doesn’t take too much self-reflection to learn I like to spread good things. Thankfully, I found yoga and ease. It set me on a wonderful path to finding a way to be in my life that is helpful and soft, and a community that I can lead, be led, and share with others.

Finding your theme for your writing won’t take too much, but it is a little bit of a fun dig. Chances are you are already creating, writing, or living out this theme in so many ways, in all that you do. Writing is all about focusing those feelings and ideas into a gorgeous poetic structure, that includes and excites anyone who picks up your pages.

We’ll dig into your theme, your book’s theme, and all the ins and outs of getting it on the page, into the form of an actual real-life book, and into the hands of your amazing readers. I’ll share all I know, and be with you every step along the way. And of course, because it’s us, we will practice a lot of ease in some yoga that’s especially designed for writers, to keep us feeling calm, creative, and connected along the way.

What You Get

When:  This course begins on Sunday May 12, and once we begin, you can get started whenever you want throughout the year.  We’ll always be here, practicing and sharing together, right alongside everyday life.

Watch: 20 Instructional Sessions, including finding your overall theme, your book’s specific theme, goals for you book, timeline, writing your outline, writing your proposal, submitting to agents and publishers, online platforms, writing the whole book, working with editors, marketing, yoga practices for writers, and so much more.

Watch: 4 Live Training Sessions on Zoom, for working through your process, asking questions, getting feedback from this community, and sharing all kinds of stories and support for right where you are, right now.  These Zoom sessions are on Sunday May 12, 19, 26, and June 2. You can join live if you like, or just send your questions in advance. We’ll cover everything together in each session, and all the sessions our saved in our course playlist, so you’ll have them to watch whenever you want.

Practice: Over 10 Classes, for a complete self-care-for-writers toolkit.

Connection and Community. Join our special online group for sharing questions and experiences with Tara, and everyone in the group. Always we’re here each day, to support each other along the way.

Forever resource. There’s no need to complete everything within a month, or even a year. This entire course will all be right here for you as an ongoing resource, for many years of practice to come.

Certification: We provide a Strala 25+Hour Certification and formal diploma upon completion, and list your degree and certification on our website.

Our program is credited by the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, as well as by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra. We’re also accredited by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Continuing Education Credit: This course counts for 25 hours of continuing education and practice credit, including for our online and in-person 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 300+Hour and 500+Hour Advanced Leadership Trainings.

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We all have a responsibility and a gift, to share our unique stories, lessons, and experiences, to guide and inspire others along the way.

Topics and Practices Include

Finding Your Overall Theme
Finding our book’s specific theme

FACULTY

Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders. Every member of our faculty has more than 20 years of practical experience, and between 4 and 10 years of advanced education at top institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and University of Edinburgh. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.

Tara Stiles is the co-founder of Strala Yoga, best-selling author, and well-being expert. Tara revolutionized yoga for millions, transforming a practice so often seen as foreign, dogmatic, and guru-based, into an everyday movement that supports ease and well-being. Strala Yoga is practiced in more than 100 countries, thousands of Guides lead Strala classes around the globe, and Tara shares daily yoga with thousands of people on the Strala Yoga app. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and featured in most major national and international magazines.

When Can You Begin

This course begins on May 12. Once we begin, you can get started whenever you want, and go all at your own pace. Also once you’ve completed everything, it’s all still here for you. Whenever you need it, just keep coming back for more.

Please Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird Special

About Strala

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.

It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.

In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts, from your psychology, chemistry and neurology, to your chromosomes and even gene expression. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here.

– Tara & Mike

–

We need a practice that’s practiced always, in all the hours, in all the places, that carries us into a world where we are sustainable, connected, harmonious, and at peace in our selves. This is how we get there together.

–

Please Click Here to Register for your Early-Bird!

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Early-Bird Registration is Open Now

What: 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training. This training is a special chance for you to slow down, connect, simplify, and discover new practices for taking good care of you. You’ll create the ground you need to move easily, confidently and capably through your whole life. And if you’re looking to lead classes in yoga, tai chi, or carry new approaches, skill-sets and practices into your work, it’s also a Leadership Training that provides a 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification.

Every year we share a totally new curriculum in this training, that also doesn’t overlap or repeat what’s covered in other 200 and 500 hour yoga teacher trainings.  So whether it’s your first time or you’re returning to reconnect, we’re excited to share a wonderful new experience with you here.

Where: Edition Farm, 90 Spooky Hollow Road, Hyde Park, NY (with a beautiful, expansive and sun-filled studio, surrounded by rolling pasture and trails)

When: Saturday 12 July through Friday 25 July 2025.  If you’re joining as a retreat for you, you’re welcome to arrive early or late, depart sooner or stay longer.  If you’re joining as a leadership training for certification, you’ll want to be here each day.  Also it’s always fine to join these trainings one week at a time, if this is easier for your schedule.

How to get here and where to stay: The farm is less than 20 minutes by easy taxi or car ride from the beautiful village of Rhinebeck, with many wonderful food and lodging options for a perfect weekend getaway. You can also stay at Omega Institute just 10 minutes away from the farm, which provides both really good food as well as a wide variety of perfect lodging options. All under two-hours’ drive from New York City, or just take the Amtrak train from Penn Station to Rhinecliff, then a 20-minute taxi to the farm.

Schedule: We’ll meet all day each day with weekend days a bit shorter, along with breaks for lunch and plenty of relax time.

Guides: This program is led by Strala Founders Tara Stiles and Mike Taylor

Cost: The early-bird special is open now through April 30, 2024.  The early-bird cost for two weeks is $1,200 less than the usual cost of $3,600, so your special total is $2,400 (given in two installments of $1,200). The early-bird cost for one week is $1,000 less than the usual cost of $2,200, so your special total is $1,200 (given as one installment of $1,200).  Please click here to register now.

Space in this training is limited, so please reserve as soon as possible. Enrollment will move to a waiting list when full.

Accommodation: There are many good hotel and Airbnb options all within easy walking or train distance.

Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.  Strala is also a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Please click here to reserve your Early-Bird Special

“Strala is an elegantly simple and sophisticated way to move our breath, our body, and our whole self into the state we need, to create who we want to be: the optimal expression of ourselves.”

– Dr. Rudolph Tanzi – Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

In Person Is Magic

I’m craving time for coming together. A place where we can take the pressure off as easily as we do our shoes. A place where we can let go the tension and step into our real, most authentic selves.

It gives an immediate invitation to soften, breathe deep and connect to yourself and the nature around envelops your being. Tensions drop, and after a few moments to steep, a personalized blueprint on how to proceed most gracefully in life emerges. We need this space to breathe, live, feel and thrive.  We will lean on each other. Breathe deep. Reconnect with ourselves and each other.

This training is a curve back toward your most natural self. It’s time for you to gain what you specifically need at this moment in your life. Whether you are craving some time for yourself, jump start your passion, gain insight for your practice or leading, entering a new phase of life, or just feel the urge to come for a reason you’re unable to articulate yet, you are invited to lean into these weeks of ease and connection.

I am happy to welcome you all here, and can’t wait to be with you to experience this transformation.

Love, Tara

What You’ll Find Here

All our trainings and retreats have a unique curriculum that’s different from what’s covered in other 100, 200, and 500 hour programs. So what you learn here will be all new approaches, practices, and skill-sets, and makes a nice continuation from any previous studies with Strala or anywhere, without repetition. You’ll always discover new ways to take good care of yourself, find harmony and ease in your body and life, and give this to the people you lead.

All this begins with you.  You’re always leading what have, how you are, in everything you do. It’s in how you get around a room, how you get around your life, that people follow. Much more than what you say.

And it’s wonderful, magical, when what you say agrees with what you do.  So we’re coming together here to share this as a practice.  To create the ground we all need to be how we want to be, first in our selves, and then for each other.

It’s not always complicated, but it’s also not easy.  It takes some slowing down, simplifying, subtracting the noise around us and in us.  From here we see where we are, and discover who it is we’re meant to be.  What are you good at?  What do you love?  It’s in these simple practices to find this, and grow stronger, more capable, in who we really are.

The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

Who Is This For

Everything we do is designed to help people begin where they are, and develop the concrete practices that carry us where we want to go. So wherever you are is a perfect place to begin. This is true for all of our courses, including this week-long training.

The people joining our trainings and retreats are a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group. They range from 16 to over 80. They’re from dozens of countries worldwide. They are entrepreneurs and chief executives, professors and librarians, scientists and researchers, studio owners and fitness instructors, yoga teachers of every style, psychologists and physiotherapists, life and health coaches, doctors and lawyers. They are moms and dads, daughters and sons, and lifelong friends.

Some are relative beginners, some are long-time practicers and teachers.  Some want to teach, and some want to progress with their own yoga.  Wherever you are now is a great place to begin.  We’re lucky to have this rich diversity, it makes wonderful ground for real-world learning and sharing.

You might join for your profession, for teaching yoga or tai chi, or you might join just for you.  Whatever your purpose, we have this time to share a set of holistic skills and practices, that carry across your everything you do.

What You Get

Strala is moving with ease during restful and challenging circumstances alike. When you find ease in effort, your body and life become very capable and strong. You become an expert at creating space in your life for peace, creativity, inspiration, and all-around feeling great.

Helping people release stress and tension from their bodies and minds, learn to move with grace and coordination through all kinds of challenge, and heal all kinds of injuries and ailments is important work. You’re empowering everyone you reach to become creators of their own destiny, on the level of their health, and their whole life. It’s a wonderful thing to share.

People are leading Strala all around the world following our Leadership and Advanced Leadership courses. You gain a unique set of skills, for living and sharing this way of being, moving, and healing, that people love everywhere you go.

Approaches, Practices, Skill-sets: We’ll explore practices to discover and enliven who and how you are, in everything you do, using Strala’s approach to yoga, tai chi, qigong, and meditation.  You’ll carry with you something both simple and straightforward enough to practice every day, right where you are, in whatever you’re doing.  And powerful enough to change everything.  It all begins with you.

Community: Leading up to this training, you’ll have access to our private online meet-up community, so you can connect with us and each other before our time together begins. And once you’ve completed this time, you’ll access to our private online community of Strala graduates worldwide. Connect with each other, and with Tara and Mike, for ongoing questions, sharing experience, and progress.

Certification: We provide a Strala 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification upon completion. You’ll receive a formal 200 Hour Diploma, and a profile on our website that documents your hours, coursework and degrees completed. Also this program progresses with new topics, concepts, and skill-sets each year, so you can keep connecting and growing with ongoing education and practice together.

Strala is credited by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, as well as Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics Research and Aging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi. We’re also accredited by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Continuing Education Credit: This training provides you with 200 hours of credit, which also fulfills the additional study and practice components in our 300+Hour Advanced Leadership Training.

Lifetime: Inspiring and uplifting leadership – creating the space for ground-breaking achievement in your own life and the lives of the people you lead – is the practice of a lifetime. When you learn to release stress, find harmony in your body and peace in your mind, heal what needs healing, and accomplish challenge with ease, you have something amazing to share.

Common Questions

Q: Can I call my class Strala after taking this training?

A: Yes of course, once you’ve completed this training, you can join Strala Home for continuing education.  It’s our way of sharing, growing, and progressing together in these skill-sets, practices, and approaches, for connecting and helping.  As long as you’re here, you can use the name Strala Yoga as your class title.  Often teachers and care providers also keep going each year or every few years, with another online or in-person training here.  Always what we share is new each year, so you’re never repeating hours, and everything builds toward a more advanced degree and certification.  Please click here to start with your Strala Home classes, we’re so happy for this place to keep supporting each other and practicing together each week.

Q: I’ve already done my 200 Hour Yoga Training, is this the same?

A: We follow a completely unique curriculum grounded in East Asian Healing and Tai Chi, address yoga sequencing as a vocabulary of movements rather than poses as end points, create connections based in Shiatsu principles for body position, inclusion, and creating a safe environment. There’s more, but hopefully this clears up fear of repeating material. What you’ll learn here is all new, and makes a wonderful addition to any previous studies.  And every year we share a new curriculum in all our courses, so always we can keep growing and progressing together.

Q: I’m not interested in teaching yoga but I want more ease in my life, is this for me?

A: Absolutely. We all deserve to feel better, and bringing sustainable ease into your life is a perfect reason to join in. Fair warning, once you start walking around embodying ease, folks are going to start asking you to show them how you’re doing it. We’ve had quite a few scientists, moms, school teachers, actors and performers join these programs for personal reasons, and end up sharing yoga in creative ways with those around them. A big part of my goal is de-mystifying leading yoga as something for a select few. Just like cooking, once you know and love the recipe, it’s impossible not to share.

You can always email us any questions through info@stralayoga.com.

FACULTY

Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders, and every member of our faculty has more than 20 years of practical experience, and between 4 and 10 years of advanced education at top institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and University of Edinburgh. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala. Strala is practiced in more than 100 countries, and thousands of people are leading Strala in studios, gyms, and schools worldwide. Even more Strala training graduates bring what they learn to their office, team, healing practice, and across all of life. The mission we share is to help people accomplish far more, through softening and connecting with our creativity and purpose.

Tara has authored several best-selling books including Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, Yoga Cures, Make Your Own Rules Diet, Strala Yoga, and Guiding Strala, all translated and published in several languages. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and featured in most major national and international magazines. Harvard profiled Tara‘s work in a case study, and she has spoken with students at Harvard and New York University about her experience, and approaches to creativity and leadership.

Tara supports The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the American Heart Association initiative to combat childhood obesity, as well as BOKS, which together are bringing Strala classes to more than 30,000 schools around the United States and Canada.

Tara studied classical dance with ABT Principal Rory Foster, and choreography with Paul Taylor original member and world renowned master Eileen Cropley. She is married to Strala co-founder Mike Taylor.

Mike Taylor is the resident healer and co-founder of Strala. Named “Best Mover” by MindBodyGreen, he’s practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques, including tai chi and qigong, for more than four decades.

In his younger years, Mike learned tai chi and other martial arts, with a practical military perspective guided by his grandfather. He later studied with Ken van Sickle, one of Cheng Man Ching’s original students on Broadway in New York City. Mike also explored the medical applications of these arts, studying mind-body medicine at Harvard. After running into walls with standard medical practice, Mike took up mountaineering, worked at a steel mill, and founded a software company in the healthcare industry. Now Mike has found his way back to tai chi, as a practical everyday way to help people be safe, and transform wherever they are into a better place.

Mike is married to Strala co-founder Tara Stiles, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time. Tara and Mike live in the Berkshire Mountains with their daughter Daisy.

Certification, 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Our program is credited by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.  We’re also part of the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.  Upon graduation, you receive a formal diploma and 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification.

All this begins with you, for you.  What we have for our selves is always what we’re able to share with the people we lead, the people all around us.  So to begin, this is a place to connect with your self, release stress, and discover practices for creating harmony and ease in your body and mind, and your life.

You’ll learn to understand and lead a Strala experience from the ground up, whether it’s in a class, at your work, or in whatever you share with the people in your life.  You’ll discover our Vocabulary of Movement, designed to harness your breath-body connection, and get you moving easily through any challenge. We’ll explore sequencing, pace, flow, psychology, language and music. You’ll learn how to create space, to support positive connection, healing, and inspirational accomplishment. You’ll also learn to be incredibly capable in your own body, and in your life.

We begin with breath, getting into your natural flow. You connect to creativity and intuition. You get happy. And you get to help everyone around you find their own way to energized, inspired, and all kinds of feeling great.

TOPICS

Movement, breath, meditation, sensitivity, alignment, experiential anatomy and physiology, touch, support, safety, strength, flexibility, stability, mobility, injuries, stress, healing, chronic pain and ailments, disease, psychology, anxiety, depression, therapy, health, nutrition, spirituality, history, language, voice, sequence, pace, music, position, body language, attitude, adults, children.

Softness, Movability, and the Breath Body Connection: Your Neurophysiological Reset Button. Softness enables you to move your whole self without a fight. Movement is guided and fueled by your breath. Every inhale lifts, expands, strengthens. Every exhale softens, makes it easier to be here, and moves you further. This oceanic experience allows your body to go along for the ride, creating space for lightness and ease in your experience.

Foundations of Movement: Tai Chi, Qigong, and Traditional Medicine.  How to accomplish far more, in everything you do.  Begin with softness, the ground for moving your whole self with ease. From here you discover how to use breath, center, and all the movement principles found in tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to unlock energy and bring your whole self into harmony. Challenge is met with peace and ease, rather than force and aggression

Feeling. Slow down and breath deep enough to feel, believe that what you feel is worth responding to, and respond. Your connection to feeling and intuition allows you to move into exactly what you need in each moment.  You’ll learn to be in alignment with yourself always, and feel good every step of the way. You’ll also learn how to create a safe place for feeling, so you’re able to connect fully with where you are, right now.

Healing and Support for Trauma.  When you’re in a caregiver role, remember to care for yourself. Everything you can do for someone else will come from what you’re doing also for you. It’s an understanding that exists in the foundations of tai chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine practices. And there’s an approach for trauma in the tai chi and yoga healing practices we’ll share together here. Trauma might not be something we can heal right away. But through these practices, we create emotional and chemical change that does help, right away.

Practice: Make Hard Things Easy.  It’s possible to get where you want to go by learning to drop the stress, and move easily through challenge. In fact, it’s not just possible. The best among us – the most inspirational of any human effort – has been achieved in this way.

We’ll replace the self-limiting myth of no pain no gain, release stress and struggle from our bodies and minds, and use the principles of movement to make the impossible possible.  This becomes your way of being. It becomes how you move, how you create yourself, and the world around you.

Whatever goals you might have, how you feel when you get there is created by how you are along the way. In yoga, this is why challenges like handstands are best achieved not by practicing handstands – but by learning to move easily and comfortably in your body, through everything you do. Of course you can take a handstand by force – jumping and crashing, using muscle rather than coordination and grace. But this will never feel good. And the goal will lack meaning. We’ll have learned only to reach our goals by force, by not feeling good.

So of course there’s a better way, moving with grace and coordination, rather than by force and struggle. We learn something valuable about ourselves, moving this way. We learn that we can accomplish much more in our lives without stress and struggle than with it. We learn that we can get to wherever we want from wherever we are. And we learn that we can feel good, always.  It’s not about the handstand. It’s how you get where you’re going that creates what you have.

Guiding: how to create an uplifting and enabling experience.  Your first responsibility is to take really good care of yourself. What you have for yourself is what you have to give to others.  From here, we move through the best ways to orchestrate an amazing experience for everyone around you.  You’ll learn to lead people into their own freedom, intuition, creativity, and radiantly good health.

Connection: Touch and Support for Healing.  How to create a supportive, enabling, and healing relationship with yourself, and with others. We’ll detail the core principles of safety, alignment, and practical anatomy, and provide an effective approach for healing of both acute injury and chronic pain.

Stress, Health & Nutrition.  We’ll explore your mind-body connection, the role of stress in disease, and techniques for releasing stress and activating your body’s Relaxation Response.  We’ll also explore the microbiome, and various nutritional strategies for curing ailments and enabling optimal health.

Leadership, Work, Life.  We’ll carry our practice of being, moving and healing into how you create the life you want.

More Practice.  All of our trainings are very practical.  We’re not just talking about all of this – we’re going to do it together. So we have plenty of real class time for practice, exploration, and making what you want real in your everyday life.

Take care of yourself to take care of everyone

Your main job as a Guide or teacher is to take great care of yourself. From here you can begin to help others. You’ll sharpen your tools, your skills, and your delivery. What you are truly sharing is the experience of how you feel about yourself. We’ll dive into exploring self care through mindfulness, thoughtful movements, and clear language, opening up multiple paths for you to be of service to yourself and others.

EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Space in this training is limited, so please reserve as soon as possible. Enrollment will move to a waiting list when full.

The early-bird special is open now through April 30, 2024.  The early-bird cost for two weeks is $1,200 less than the usual cost of $3,600, so your special total is $2,400 (given in two installments of $1,200). The early-bird cost for one week is $1,000 less than the usual cost of $2,200, so your special total is $1,200 (given as one installment of $1,200).  Please click here to register now.

Installment plans and scholarship help are available, so if you need help, please just email Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Please understand that all payments are final, and this is non-refundable, except if you are not admitted this time. Admission to training is solely at Strala’s discretion.

Please click here to reserve your Early-Bird Special

About Strala

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.

It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.

In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

Resources

We have of an online library of classes and trainings led by Tara and Mike, which includes daily live video classes and workshops in yoga, tai chi, and qigong.

We also have have many online intensive, 100 hour, 200 hour, and 500 hour teacher trainings, in yoga, tai chi, qigong, shiatsu, and healing support for trauma.  These can all be helpful for specializing in the areas you want most, and also give wonderful ground for ongoing progress from wherever you are, if you’re not able to join us yet in person.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Help@StralaYoga.com.

Open the door to a whole new way of connecting, sharing, and growing with everyone in your life.

These trainings are an incredibly rewarding life-long adventure of mutual support, and inspiring accomplishment. We’re lucky to have this in our lives.

Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here.

– Tara & Mike

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A great place to connect with everyone is on our Community Board at Strala Home

Please join us for practice and sharing at StralaHome.

Download the February Strala Home Calendar.

We have our usual new every day practices for in the Practice this Week category right at the top.

You can now sync the live classes to your calendar so you have easy reminders of our together time. Just press the three little …under the class description and you can sync to your calendar and never miss a live class!

A great place to connect with everyone is right here on our Community Board at StralaHome. Please let us know your requests, suggestions, how it’s going for you and how you are feeling. We love hearing from you. Also feel fee to use this as a place to post how you are feeling, share pics of your practice, let us know what you are up to, events you’d like to bring awareness to, and things like that. It’s social media that’s positive!

We’re happy to let you know the app version of StralaHome, Strala Yoga for iphone android, apple tv, roku, and all the fancy places, has some great updates that you have been asking for including the ability to create multiple playlists of your favorite practices, instead of just one favorites list. Yay!

If you’d like some reading inspiration to support your practice this month, we are reading Everyone but Myself by Julie Chavez.

Upcoming Training & Events

Retreat – Dolomites, Italy Peaks + Forest + Flow

April 28 – May 3, 2024

This is a special collaboration retreat with our longtime friend and OG strala guide, Erin Lewis, founder of Eat Pray Move. Join us in the spectacular Dolomite region of Italy for a week of luxurious self-care, daily yoga, forest bathing meditation, spa time, and learning how to find ease and flow in our lives.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike in Geneva, Switzerland

June 29, 2024 – June 30, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

20+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike at the Farm in Rhinebeck NY

July 20, 2024 – July 21, 2024

What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training. This training gives us a special chance to be together, in a practice that people love all around the world.  We’ll share unique approaches and skill-sets that bring harmony, ease, and all kinds of happiness into our lives.  We are so lucky to share this with you all, and these times when we meet in person are truly magical.

Learn more here

Creative Writing & Wellness Retreat with Tara Stiles & Ann Garvin, Tuscany, Italy, 

September 22, 2024 – September 27 2024

Join Tara Stiles and Ann Garvin for a restorative and creative retreat in the Tuscan countryside. In our private boutique villa you will be surrounded with breathtaking views, mesmerizing sunsets, and a wonderful sense of peace – the perfect setting to nurture yourself and your creative spirit. Set your body at ease to let your mind flow with ideas – as we enjoy la dolce vita together, with just the right dose of local cuisine, culture, creativity and wellness.

Learn more here

200+Hour Yoga Training with Tara, Mike, and Sam Berlind in Berlin, Germany

November 18, 2024 – December 1, 2024

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