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This Tai Chi Chuan intensive training is a step-by-step guide to learn and progress with the Classic Tai Chi Chuan Sequence, both for practice on your own, and together with a group.
You can take this course as the foundation for your own tai chi practice, or as preparation for the comprehensive Strala Online 500+Hour Advanced Teacher Training for Tai Chi and Qigong. Please click here to register.
Create harmony on every level of your life
As with most things tai chi, this begins very simply. How you are in one place is how you are in every place.
How do you move across a room? What kind of relationship do you have with yourself? When you run into challenge do you uncover the best way forward, or push through to get it done? The pathways you follow in your work and relationships, your physical endeavors, your health and wellbeing, your whole life, are all unavoidably consistent. You are always the same.
There’s a very simple outcome to this idea, written into the foundations of tai chi. You can practice who you are, and how you’d like to be, first where things are simple. From here, when things get harder, more complex, you have something better to work with. It’s in your wiring. It’s you.
One of the great things about tai chi is its sustainability. You can be better when you’re 40 than you were at 20, and again at 80 than at 40. It’s this way simply because it trades self-depleting practices for ones that replenish and last. And it’s an effective antidote to the no-pain-no-gain way of living not only because it sounds better. It also works better.
The Classic Tai Chi Sequence gives the daily foundational practice you need, to see clearly where you are, and go where you want to go.
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Who Is This For
Everything we do is designed to help people begin where they are, and develop the practices that carry us where we want to go. So wherever you are is a perfect place to begin. This is true for all of our courses, including this introduction to the Classic Tai Chi Sequence.
Our community is a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group of people. They range from kids in school to over 80. They’re from dozens of countries worldwide. They are entrepreneurs and chief executives, professors and librarians, scientists and researchers, studio owners and fitness instructors, yoga teachers of every style, psychologists and physiotherapists, life and health coaches, doctors and lawyers. They are moms and dads, daughters and sons, and lifelong friends.
What You Get
Watch: Everyday Qigong Practice to open the gates in your body and mind for a fulfilling tai chi practice, detailed instruction in the Classic Tai Chi Chuan Sequence divided into 6 manageable sections for practice, and the complete sequence given slowly for practice of positions, and again for practice of flowing with your whole body in harmony.
Read: 45+Page Study Guide detailing the foundations of tai chi and qigong, how to learn and practice the classic sequence, how to stay safe along the way, and how to create a practice that is both healing and empowering on every level of your life.
Detailed session notes to guide every practice session both while you’re learning, and for many years to come.
Structure: This workshop follows a watch : read : practice : review path for learning, which combines instructional videos, detailed practice notes for every session, a written study guide, and daily practices to create a 30+hour workshop experience, just like our in-person courses.
You can follow this workshop through 7 sessions, over the course of a few days or a week, to gain the philosophical and usable ground for practice in qigong and the classic tai chi sequence. And you can return for months and years to come, to keep progressing with the foundations and applications of tai chi across your whole life.
Progress: Everybody learns in their own way, at their own pace, and this training is yours to go through in your own time. We follow an adult-learning model in all our courses, and we’re here to support everyone individually. Also once you complete everything, it’s all still here for you, and you can keep coming back whenever you need it.
Continuing Education Credit: 25 hours of practice credit, including application to our 500+Hour Advanced Teacher Training in Tai chi and Qigong, as well as our 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training and 300+Hour Advanced Leadership Training.
Continuing Education Registration: Document your completion of this workshop and continuing education credit hours in a sharable profile on our site. This profile records all your educational programs, hours, and degrees completed here, so if you’ve already completed some of our online or in-person trainings, you’ll find everything in one place here.
Lifetime: Inspiring and uplifting leadership – creating the space for ground-breaking achievement in your own life and the lives of the people you lead – is the practice of a lifetime. When you learn to release stress, find harmony in your body and peace in your mind, heal what needs healing, and accomplish challenge with ease, you have something amazing to share.
Common Questions
Q: Can I call my class Strala after taking this Intensive?
A: Yes of course, once you’ve completed this training, you can join Strala Home for continuing education. It’s our way of sharing, growing, and progressing together in these skill-sets, practices, and approaches, for connecting and helping. As long as you’re here, you can use the name Strala Yoga as your class title. Often teachers and care providers also keep going each year or every few years, with another online or in-person training here. Always what we share is new each year, so you’re never repeating hours, and everything builds toward a more advanced degree and certification. Please click here to start with your Strala Home classes, we’re so happy for this place to keep supporting each other and practicing together each week.
Q: I’m not interested in teaching tai chi or qigong, but I want more ease in my life, is this for me?
A: Absolutely. We all deserve to feel better, and bringing sustainable ease into your life is a perfect reason to join in. Fair warning, once you start walking around embodying ease, folks are going to start asking you to show them how you’re doing it. We’ve had quite a few scientists, moms, school teachers, actors and performers join these programs for personal reasons, and end up sharing yoga in creative ways with those around them. A big part of our goal is de-mystifying leadership, in tai chi, qigong, and yoga alike, as something for a select few. Just like cooking, once you know and love the recipe, it’s impossible not to share.
You can always email us any questions through info@stralayoga.com.
FACULTY
Strala courses are all led entirely by the founders. Every member of our faculty has more than 20 years of practical experience, and between 4 and 10 years of advanced education at top institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and University of Edinburgh. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.
Mike Taylor is the resident healer and co-founder of Strala. Named “Best Mover” by MindBodyGreen, he’s practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques, including tai chi and qigong, for more than three decades.
In his younger years, Mike challenged centuries of martial traditions in hundreds of competitions, by applying unruly imagination to a world where rules were unbreakable. As he got older, he continued on to medical applications of the mind-body connection in university. Mike studied mind-body medicine at Harvard, and alternative medicine and psychology at Oxford. After running into walls with standard medical practice in the U.S. and England, Mike left his healthcare roots, took up mountaineering, worked at a steel mill, and later founded a software company in the healthcare industry. Now Mike has found his way back to health care done right, helping people let go of stress in their bodies and minds, and become their own best caregivers.
Mike is married to Strala co-founder Tara Stiles, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time. Tara and Mike live in Brooklyn with their daughter Daisy.
When Can You Begin
Registration is open now, the cost is $495 for this course, and you can always begin any time you like. Also once you’ve completed everything, it’s all still here for you. Whenever you need it, just keep coming back for more.
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About Strala
Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.
It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.
In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts, from your psychology, chemistry and neurology, to your chromosomes and even gene expression. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.
Questions
If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Mike@StralaYoga.com.
Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here.
– Tara & Mike
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We need a practice that’s practiced always, in all the hours, in all the places, that carries us into a world where we are sustainable, connected, harmonious, and at peace in our selves. This is how we get there together.
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