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 11, 2019 | Blog
A friend of mine asked some good questions about guiding people who are experiencing pain and difficulty. In this case she was talking about pain in down dogs and high lunges. In more cases, we're talking about pain and difficulty, trauma and challenge, across pretty much all of life. The yoga poses are one place where we might see these things. What's hard, what hurts, what helps. How do I handle things like this in my life. And maybe the yoga, tai chi or whatever we practice can become a place to work on it. Noticing what we've got is… 
by Mike Taylor | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
We just finished up Week 1 of the Strala 200+Hour 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 tai… 
by Mike Taylor | Oct 5, 2019 | Blog
There's this question that came up in our training time here at Sundance. It comes up in every training we ever have. It's asked about yoga, and then it's asked about pretty much everything else we all do, together with each other as people. And usually it begins pretty simply, in one of two ways. a) What do I do with old people? ... or ... b) How do I lead Beginners? And from here the question always grows. Old people, young people, sick people, injured people, small people, big people, tall people, expert people, office people, school people, family… 
by Mike Taylor | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog
I heard recently from a friend in a European yoga alliance, asking about troubles they're seeing in the American YA. In case it's helpful, I'll share a bit of our discussion with you all here. It begins with a question. What do you think we can ask of a yoga alliance? What's possible here, and what's not possible? And a couple answers have come up for me, thinking about YA, as well as companies and organizations in general. 1) Be clear about what you are, and what you can do. Also be clear about what you're not and can't. 2)… by Mike Taylor | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog, Events, Events - Courses
"Strala is an elegantly simple and sophisticated way to move our breath, our body, and our whole self into the state we need, to create who we want to be: the optimal expression of ourselves." – Dr. Rudolph Tanzi – Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital - Just like our in-person trainings, this course gives everything you need get started and keep progressing, in both your personal practice and your leadership - with yoga, work, relationships, and across your whole life. This Level 2 Training takes you into all…