by Tara Stiles | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
"Hoping for a future where people stop trying to do yoga poses & start reconnecting with their whole selves." Tara recently shared this on Facebook. It makes sense to a lot of people, this idea of getting into all of you - not just a few poses - by feeling. No worry about other people's rules, no rigid ideas about "correct" ways to do things. Just using your yoga to practice what you want in your life. Although, Tara's writing did confuse a few people. Stop doing poses? You're telling us to stop doing yoga?? How come you do… 
by Tara Stiles | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
Hi Friends, I hope you are about to settle into a great weekend of winding down summer and settling into your fall. I recently handed in a project I've been working on for a while, and finishing up a few tail ends on other things and getting myself organized and settled so the rest of the year can unfold with ease. I took a bit of time to clean out a bunch of things in our house that needed to be done that had been literally piling up month after month. I went through it all, sorted and packaged everything… by Tara Stiles | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
So you want to stand on your hands? Ok here's the secret. It has three parts. 1) Drop the pose goals, and get into your body. Rolling around in cat-cows, relaxing, and getting every inch of your body to move - just by moving your hips - will be more valuable to you than years of jumping up and down trying to stick the pose. 2) Stop trying to get your feet to go from the ground to the sky. It's easy to focus on the extremities, your hands and feet. They cover the greatest… by Tara Stiles | Aug 25, 2013 | Blog
Do you want to heal? Look at how stress moves in your body and life. If stress is going into your body and making a home in you, your body will play defense like a pro, but will have a tough time healing. Find a way to reverse that direction. Stress will come. Find a way to keep it moving on out, and let your body shift from defense to healing. Your body is a pro here, too. It will even tell you what it needs. You just have to listen. Tara and I get to see how people… by Tara Stiles | Aug 24, 2013 | Blog
Have you ever tried to force someone you know to be more flexible? Have you ever tried to force yourself to be more flexible? It doesn't work so well, does it? This holds the same whether you walk into a meeting and try to force everyone to go your way, or you go to war with your tight muscles. Force is typically met with equally forceful resistance. No matter how strong you are, there is always something that will push back. You might win occasionally, likely by accident. More often, you'll break something, in your relating with other people,…