by Mike Taylor | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog
Question: How are the in-person and online trainings all different from each other? Are the 200 hour in-person programs the same as the 200 hour online training? Is the 100 hour 7 Secrets of Leadership Training similar to Part 1 in the 200 hour online leadership training? Does everything change every year? This comes up each year, as we're all looking for the best ways to keep growing. We're so lucky to be in this with you all. And we're even more lucky to be with you on a path measured not in months, but in years and decades of… 
by Tara Stiles | Oct 23, 2019 | Be, Blog, Move
Always move in agreement with yourself. Conflict and aggression inside creates conflict and aggression outside. Peace creates peace. When there is no more place for internal bullies, there is no more place for external bullies. Enjoy this FREE Yoga to Be Calm Practice The topic of alignment is an interesting one. In East Asian movement and healing systems, connection to your nature is central. So you learn to move your whole self with ease, grace, and coordination. Energy is unblocked, moving freely. Every part of you works happily and efficiently with every other part. Learning to move always in alignment… 
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 6, 2019 | Blog
We just finished up Week 1 of the Strala 200+Hour Yoga 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… 
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)…