by Tara Stiles | Nov 4, 2013 | Blog
Health and wellness can be tricky areas to navigate. Especially if you live in a big city - or for that matter, if you have an internet connection - you have more than enough opportunity to diagnose every "problem" and throw the entire kitchen sink at it. This kitchen sink approach gives us more than enough opportunity to get lead along for "random walks." In math, this means no directional movement happens, toward much of anything. In health and in life, it means about the same thing. We're walking in circles. Something good might happen occasionally and… by Tara Stiles | Nov 3, 2013 | Blog
Let your body move left and right of other people's center, other people's ideas about correct. It's your body, you know you best. Let your yoga move left and right of other people's ideas. It's your yoga, you know you best. Let your life move beyond other people's ideas. It's your life. It's a good one, you're lucky! -Mike About Strala Yoga Training 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… 
by Tara Stiles | Nov 2, 2013 | Recipes, Strala Training
This fantastic meal is so yummy, comforting, and leaves you feeling satisfied and warm and fuzzy without the stuffed pasta belly action. Enjoy! You’ll Need 2 cups of Rice noodles 2 heaping table spoons Almond Butter 1 orange or red bell pepper 1 cup coconut milk 1 clove garlic 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon chilly powder 1/2 table spoon hot sauce Fresh basil Now What Prepare rice noodles. cook in boiling water for 5 minutes & drain Sauce: combine all ingredients (besides basil) in high powered blender & blend Combine sauce & Rice noodles… by Tara Stiles | Oct 31, 2013 | Blog
All these rules are just rules. People trying to make it about them - their guru, their way - rather than about you. The thing is, you can always choose. You get to make everything there is out of everything you are. You are free. We're all lucky that way. This isn't just about yoga. It begins in whatever you practice, whatever choices you make every day. There's a world we create by pushing and struggling to get into something that's not our own - to force creation from the outside in. There's also a world… by Tara Stiles | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
A friend yesterday sent some thoughts my way, pondering the question of time scales. We agree that yoga should work. It shouldn't hurt people. It should only help. We can even say - if it's not working, change how you yoga! Because the yoga you make is the life you make. So the next question is, how long does it take? Does the timing depend on the severity and nature of our problems? Should we understand that yoga works very deeply, over a great deal of time, rewarding daily effort and patience? This sparks an image for me -…