by Mike Taylor | Oct 9, 2026 | In Person, Strala Training
Discover your astonishingly good-feeling path to empowered life, work, and wellbeing! Please click here to reserve your Early-Bird spot now What: 20+Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training - Create Community This is a whole new training that brings the tremendous potential of softness, mobility, and harmony into your own practice, leading, and life. Building on the foundations of my new book, Living Softly, which brings together stories and experiences from our community over the past two decades, alongside the four foundations of softness: Mobilize, Breath-Body Connection, Harmonize, and Unweighting. We'll explore how softness isn't weakness, but a powerful way to accomplish… 
by Mike Taylor | Aug 30, 2026 | Blog
Please click here to learn more about tai chi and get started now . . . I never imagined I would teach tai chi. My dad wanted to be a teacher, he was an MIT PhD who started as a researcher, and moved into management when he was older. He worked at a company called Bell Labs, around the time that Penzias and Wilson discovered noise from the earliest time of our universe. They used a huge horn-shaped antenna we would drive by, any time there was a family visit day at the office. My dad - his name was… 
by Mike Taylor | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog
Please click here to learn more and register for your early-special now . . . Hey everybody, Tara and I are working each day on this new course for trauma, anxiety, and stress, and I wanted to share some more of it with you here . . . in case something is helpful for you right now, or might be helpful for the people you're helping. Yesterday we were going through some of the themes that are common in tai chi and qigong, that line up with different stages and contexts for trauma and stress. We talked about things like… 
by Mike Taylor | Mar 3, 2026 | Blog
Please click here to learn more and register for your early-special now . . . Hey everybody, 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… by Mike Taylor | Feb 23, 2026 | Online, Blog, Strala Training
Early-Bird Registration is Now Open Please click here to register now We all need a path that moves us from isolation to harmony, imbalance to balance, from abuse, trauma, and depleting life challenge, into safety, transformation, and sustainable wellbeing. We need a way to move away from what suppresses and dis-enables us, toward what awakens and empowers us, to be fully who are, how we want to be, and and what we want to create in this life. Tai chi, and very much qigong as well, gives us this path - and not just in a philosophical sense. Tai chi…