by Mike Taylor | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog
Enjoy this FREE Shiatsu for Lower Back Pain When you convince people they aren't good enough, in so many ways, it's the beginning of manipulation, control, and abuse. For example, by cleverly pushing people to follow imaginary rules of "alignment" and manipulate one disconnected part of your body at a time into a made-up idea of "correct" - you can quickly convince people that they are much worse off than they ever knew, because wow, suddenly they can't even do the simplest of things! Combine this with the reality that when so many of us first approached yoga, we were… 
by Mike Taylor | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog
I ran across this sign on my first trip to Wyoming, and my first time seeing bison up close. They're very, very big. Big enough that the message is so obvious it's funny, which is why I took the picture. But, it's also obviously here for a reason. Because obvious isn't always obvious. Still, some things seem that way. Over-the-top obvious. For example, it's obvious that tickling bison behind the ears isn't a good idea. Although I was tempted. It's obvious that jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, also not a good idea. I come from a Navy family. … by Mike Taylor | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog
Question: How are the in-person and online trainings all different from each other? Are the 200 hour in-person programs the same as the 200 hour online training? Is the 100 hour 7 Secrets of Leadership Training similar to Part 1 in the 200 hour online leadership training? Does everything change every year? This comes up each year, as we're all looking for the best ways to keep growing. We're so lucky to be in this with you all. And we're even more lucky to be with you on a path measured not in months, but in years and decades of… 
by Mike Taylor | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog
Every time and every place we get together with people, this question comes up. "I need more peace, more ease in my life, so I'm here. Seeing where I've been so much a stress and no-pain no-gain kind of person. Seeing how I can find another way, and how good it feels when I do. But, does all this mean I can only do strala? If I love other things and those other things are the old me, do I have to give it up?" There's a big answer here. It goes right to the foundations we share with tai… 
by Mike Taylor | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
We just finished up Week 1 of the Strala 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training here at Sundance, and wanted to share a bit with you all from the first section of this course, focused on foundations for practice. Since what we do draws on the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi, across the practice forms of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and TCM, many of our practices began with tai chi, and expanded from here into yoga and the rest of life. Each morning we went for a group hike, which began a daily focus on one of the foundations of…