Perfection, Pain, and Becoming a Yoga Teacher

Perfection, Pain, and Becoming a Yoga Teacher

Sharing this super-inspiring story from a friend in Rome Three years ago I was a CPA in Italy. I was one of the youngest girls in the country to work with listed companies (I got my bar at 28), working crazy hours, commuting 2,5 hours a day, and studying for my bar. I had a practice in meditation for 7 years but I wanted to do some exercise too, so I started searching videos on YouTube, zumba, fit box, dance, you name it. I would do them each about 5 times and then quit. Until one day I found Tara's video, I think it…
Responsive Movement and Miracles

Responsive Movement and Miracles

Your body works miracles for you all the time.  Occasionally it needs your help. Mostly this help comes when we slow down, tune in, and support our bodies to do what they do best.  It's not so much fixing or correcting or manipulating that we need - from ourselves or anyone else.  Sometimes the help we need is simply in opening the conversation with our bodies, and forming a positive connection that allows us to respond in some simple ways. Remember that much more than what moves or poses you do to target this or that problem area, it's using your breath…
Something We Can All Get Behind

Something We Can All Get Behind

Everybody told Tara never to publish our Strala training manual. The business types with the spreadsheets and powerpoints all said this was nuts. If you give it all away, how will this work for you??   It works when the work is to create a better place for us all to be. Because this can't help but be for all of us.   It begins inside. When we find harmony inside, suddenly we are more together in our individuality than we ever could be through struggling and pushing to conform. Tara and I have talked about this one a lot.…
Free Preview: Guiding Strala, Foreword by Rudolph E. Tanzi, PH.D.

Free Preview: Guiding Strala, Foreword by Rudolph E. Tanzi, PH.D.

I'm proud to share the foreword of Guiding Strala by our friend, the fantastic Dr. Rudolph Tanzi. I met Rudy at Deepak's Sages and Scientists conference years ago. He was giving his talk on his research and something pulled me to need to find him after and ask him about my experience "seeing colors" as a kid and at times when I'm unplugged from distractions. I had an intuition he could give me some insight and man I was right. Funny thing, well, synchronicity lets be honest, was I didn't have to try to hard to stand in the line…
Yoga for An Awesome Sleep

Yoga for An Awesome Sleep

Hi Friends, I feel like I've been making Yoga for Bed Time routines for-ev-ah. . well, since 2007 which is 10 years of creating the yoga for the internet. And let me remind you, 10 years ago, that was super edgy, people throwing their yoga blocks at me and stuff, scandalous. Now, it's obvious. Yoga in bed. Yoga to sleep better. Yoga to wake up better. Yoga in bed because it's amazing. Yes please! To be honest, I actually do yoga in bed most nights to work out the physical and mental kinks. My bedroom is my non-digital zone of…