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Upcoming Events, Trainings and Retreats
In Person
Strala Yoga at Effingham Academy of Gymnastics
Effingham, Illinois
September 12, 2026 - December 20, 2026
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Online 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Tara and Mike
Online Any Time
April 5, 2026 - March 31, 2027
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200+Hour Training with Anna Rampf and Julia Kupke
Metzingen, YOLIE Studio
April 23, 2025 - November 15, 2026
Learn More and RegisterLiving Softly
Accomplish more with less tension.
Living Softly, the new book from Strala co-founder Tara Stiles, grew from more than two decades of practicing, teaching, and exploring the ideas at the heart of Strala’s longtime theme of softness.
What began with a simple question, Is there a better way than pushing harder?, has grown into an approach for moving through work, relationships, challenges, and everyday life with less tension and more of yourself available.
Living Softly is coming March 2027 – PRE-ORDER NOW
And come practice with us today on the Strala Yoga app.
“Less tension. More vitality. Living Softly offers a practical path to the kind of wellbeing that lasts.”
―Frank Lipman, MD, longevity and functional medicine pioneer, author, and educator
“Living Softly is Atomic Habits for women and everyone else who’s tired of pushing through life.”
―Ann Garvin, Ph.D,, USA Today BestSelling Author, Bummer Camp
“The peace we hope to see in the world begins with how we care for ourselves and one another. Living Softly is a timely invitation to practice both.”
―Arndrea Waters King, co-author of What is My Legacy and co-founder, Realize the Dream movement
Strala Online 500+Hour Advanced Teacher Training in Tai Chi and Qigong, 2026
Whether you’re just beginning or looking to begin again, this training gives the foundations, skills, and practices you need, to have the extraordinary benefits of tai chi and qigong in your own life, and to share this meaningfully with others as a teacher. It’s your way to feel better, and do better, in everything you love.
When: This training begins on Saturday January 3, 2026, and once it launches you can get started any time throughout the whole year, and go all at your own pace. Also once complete, everything remains yours to use a resource for ongoing practice, whenever you want.
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About Strala Yoga
Strala Yoga 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 Yoga is practiced in more than 100 countries, and thousands of people are leading Strala Yoga in studios, gyms, and schools worldwide. Even more Strala Yoga 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.
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Trauma, Healing, and How We Got Here…From Falling to Thriving
After talking with so many of you this last weekend, I wanted to share some more with you all now. Tara and I have been working on a new course, to help through trauma, anxiety, and stress, and so many questions are coming up.
In qigong and tai chi, there’s an idea about transformation. It says . . . Never suffer a bad position. Change it.
And then it gives us concrete practices, to make this real, for real life. It’s a big promise. And with trauma, it brings up some questions. Is making where we are into something better, possible? Is healing possible? And, how do we do this? How do we help ourselves to heal, find balance, feel better, and even, to thrive.
I hope you’ll join Tara and me in this new course, Healing and Teaching Support for Trauma and Stress, with Tai Chi and Qigong. There’s an early-bird special right now to help, and always if you need more help with being here, that part is easy, just let us know.
Strala Yoga x American Tai Chi and Qigong Association
We have exciting news! Our Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong classes and trainings at Strala Yoga are now all accredited by the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association.
This means from today on, when you graduate from any of our yoga, tai chi, or qigong trainings, as well as when you accumulate class hours with us on the Strala Yoga app, you’ll have ATCQA accreditation and certification, in addition to YAP. And for everyone right away, all past and future graduates, as well as all of you here on Strala Home, you can join ATCQA to access all their member benefits, and a worldwide community of practitioners.
This means we as a community are even more supported to focus on public health and wellbeing. We have always believed these practices work best when they extend beyond the walls of gyms and yoga studios. This is your sign to take what you learn in your Strala Trainings and work with people where you feel called. Hospitals, senior centers, community centers, schools, after school programs, the possibilities for you are limitless.
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Strala Online 100+Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Strala has been sharing yoga with hundreds of thousands of kids in schools, studios, and homes all around the world, including through our partnerships with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and BOKS.
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“Strala Yoga is an elegantly simple and sophisticated way to move our breath, 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
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One of the things I like about her is her ability to make yoga accessible to people who might be scared of it or think it might be too esoteric. Jane Fonda named Tara the New Face of Fitness.
And there's no better guide than my dear friend Tara Stiles. Get your Strala on to simmer in the good, healing, and soulful work.
Strala is a powerful and revolutionary approach to self-care that decreases our stress burden, supports what’s right with our bodies, and leads to astonishing levels of both health and fitness.Our sense of connection to our true inner self comes naturally with the easygoing process of Strala Yoga. This is the yoga revolution that readily brings spiritual practice into our everyday lives.
