by Mike Taylor | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
Hi everybody, a question sometimes comes up about when it's good to take more yoga teacher trainings, and when it might be repeating what you already know. It's come up again more recently with the new Online Yoga Training, so thought I would share some answers with you all together here. And to begin there's a short answer: Each of our yoga trainings is different every year. It depends on what you're wanting from education. For some people in yoga teacher trainings, you want to gather some interesting new ideas for thought. Or maybe you want to learn how to… 
by Tara Stiles | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog
Hi Friends, My goal with Strala Yoga, a decade go and today, is to help people connect to themselves and feel better. When you feel better all kinds of awesome things happen. You start to treat yourself better, treat others better and do better in the world. In my experience, this doesn't happen with just starting a yoga practice. It matters how you practice yoga. Ease is our secret to moving in a way that tunes you in, instead of tuning you out. Ease is the foundation of East Asian arts and sciences, way before yoga poses came into the… 
by Tara Stiles | Nov 23, 2019 | Blog
Hi Friends, Chatting about how to create a life out of our passion is the single most silence and lean in topic in our In Person Yoga Trainings. It's natural to want to feel fulfilled, rewarded and happy doing what we do with most of our time. I believe, we all deserve that. I'm not a fan of up and quitting your job (if you are fortunate enough to have a secure job) to go after your passion. Although that might work in rare cases, it's very unusual and puts an extreme amount of pressure, creativity squashing pressure on needing… 
by Tara Stiles | Nov 22, 2019 | Be, Blog, Heal
Hi Friends, We’re taught our whole lives to work hard and push through the pain to get anywhere good – be it the next career level or a stronger body. It’s easy to end up in a cycle of stress and exhaustion. A shift in activities and priorities will get you on track. When we spend too much time bathed in stress, our chemical wiring gets even more frazzled and our new natural state sets to strung-out. When you’re in frazzled state, your body simmers in the stress hormone cortisol, a breeding ground for even more stress, wear and tear,… 
by Mike Taylor | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog
There's a great deal of good research surrounding the conditions and mechanisms for healing and wellbeing. And for a variety of reasons, the best of this isn't in the field of yoga. I'll share some notes below that give a foundation for good results, along with a framework for successful study, collected from the experience we've had with other researchers. Enjoy this FREE Tai Chi for the Morning Routine There are a variety of good uses for yoga, tai chi, and qigong, that include relaxation and release of stress, health and healing, treatment of injury and disease, strength and fitness,… 
by Mike Taylor | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog
I'm inspired by New York Time's reporter Katie Rosman's recent work, covering widespread manipulation and abuse by yoga gurus and their teacher-followers. So I want to keep this conversation going with you all, and I think we should keep it going together as long as it takes. It's important to understand something here, something I've heard Tara articulate so clearly for more than a decade now. This isn't just about handing out green and red cards that say please touch me or not. That's a small picture window into a big picture problem. The big picture is a culture of…