by Tara Stiles | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Be, Move, Healing
Dr. Rudolph Tanzi - Harvard Professor of Neurology and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital - wrote the foreword. He's doing amazing work, and it's wonderful to hear everything he has to say. I'll copy some for you below, that he wrote about his work and our program. - In the last 20 years, we’ve made some astonishing discoveries. We know now that our neurological make up is dynamic and plastic, every day recreated in response to how we each move through our lives. We know that our genetic activity, called gene expression, is also soft-wired,… 
by Tara Stiles | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog, Be, Move, Healing
Approaching the mind through the mind can be pretty tough. Especially when things get challenging. So we can go through our body, first. And we need something more. Something that combines the simplicity of meditation with the energy of movement. Here's a practice for this. It's not yoga or tai chi, qi gong or traditional healing. It might use these forms, but it's not a form. It's just you, arising out of you. Which is what we're doing here. - Practice Being Here Begin wherever you're comfortable, right now. It can be sitting or standing, lying down or on hands and… 
by Tara Stiles | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Be, Move
Of course we can begin with a topic. It could be quantum physics or geology. Calligraphy. Poetry. Or maybe it's Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Yoga, or Taiji. There's also what we teach through how we teach. How we are. This one is important. Because how we are - the beliefs, mindset, and habits we carry with us always - might be most of what we give to each other. And there's choice. When we teach, same as when we practice, we always have this choice. We can push into an idea of correct, or ease into a feeling of correct.… by Tara Stiles | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
by Tara Stiles | Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, Be
It's not up to the world to put less pressure on you to be perfect. The world will always feel to you like you feel, in some part of you or the other. Ease off. If you feel pressure to be perfect, it's not that improvement and progress are a bad thing. We all want this in our life, it's part of being human. It's just that we misdirect it sometimes. When our idea of perfect has something to do with the endpoints and outsides of things, we wind up pointing in the wrong direction. We wind up aiming…