– Dr. Rudolph Tanzi –
Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

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Just like our in-person yoga 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 new big-picture concepts, approaches and practices for creating harmony and peace, accomplishing more in your life while healing what needs healing, and sharing all this with the world around you. It’s also the second of two parts, that completes your Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification.

You’ll gain a strong foundation and practical ability in movement, leadership, health and healing practices, that complements and progresses from the Part 1 training. You can take this course on its own, or together with Part 1 (click here for Part 1 info) to provide you with a complete 200+Hour Certification.

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With over 70 sessions and 28 classes, plus a comprehensive 150+Page Guidebook, we’ve designed this yoga teacher training to give you the experience of being here, together and sharing with a group. You’ll work through instruction and practice in a wide variety of topics outlined below. And we’ll share with you the common challenges, questions, and solutions that always come up in our in-person trainings, and give loads of daily practical guidance to create a structure for inspiring progress.

It can be nice to begin at the beginning, but people go through all our trainings in every order, so it’s also perfectly fine to begin right here. And you can still take part in the early-bird special by registering here, even if you want to wait until after you’ve completed Part 1 (Level 1).

Registration is Now Open to Begin Any Time

Just like all of our online trainings, you can begin whenever you like, and go all at your own pace. Also once you’ve completed the course material, it all remains yours for ongoing review and practice, whenever you want. Please understand that once a registration is made, we are not able to give refunds.

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Whether you’re new to Strala Yoga or a long-time yoga practicer or yoga teacher, looking to teach yoga or discover new ways to drop stress and bring more ease into your whole life – you’ll love this course.

Topics, Concepts, and Practices Include

– Getting Where You Want to Go From Where You Are Now
– Always, Everywhere, for Everyone Practice
– Yoga Form Breakdown, How to Practice From Here to There
– Teaching Yoga for Beginners and Various Groups of People
– Qigong, Tai Chi, and Everyday Human Movement
– Being Who You Are and Leading What You Love
– The Art of Yoga Sequencing
– The Artistry, Musicality, Composition, and Inspiration of Leadership
– Creating Connection in Every Form
– Healing, Healthspan, and Nutrition, Progress Through Practice
– Learning to Love Uncertainty, the Opportunity in Change
– Problem Solving, Finding the Best Answers for Right Here Right Now
– Case Study Method, Real World Challenges and Solutions

What You’ll Find Here

This online yoga training gives a perfect way to get ready for our in person 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training and 300+Hour Advanced Leadership Training, and also provides good ground for ongoing review and development once our time together is complete.

It’s also perfect for everyone who can’t make it to an in-person training, giving you the ability to complete a 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification online. We’ve designed this to help everyone get started and advance with your practice and leadership from wherever you are, right now.

You’ll discover in this course how to form a positive connection with yourself, and with others. You’ll learn to release stress, bring your whole body and mind into harmony, and move more easily through all kinds of challenge. You’ll also learn to accomplish more in your professional life, transform your personal life, and create your dream life.

Who Is This For

Everything we do is designed to help people move more easily from right where they are each day. So wherever you are is a perfect place to begin. This is true for all of our courses, including the online program.

Our trainings all have people from a wide range of backgrounds and experience, from beginners to long-time practicers, people looking to teach and people wanting to carry what they learn across their work, relationships, and whole life.

Our graduates are a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group of people. They range from 16 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: Over 70 instructional sessions and 28 classes, covering a wide variety of topics and uses.

Read: A comprehensive 150+Page Guidebook covering each section of the course, that gives additional direction and detail alongside of regular practice and homework assignments.

Progress: A 1-Month and Multi-Month training and practice plan. 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 with all our trainings, and we’re here to support everyone individually.

Community: During the course, you’ll have access to our private online training community, so you can connect with us and each other throughout this shared learning process. And once you’ve completed this course, you’ll access our private online community of Strala graduates worldwide. Connect with each other, and with Tara and Mike, for ongoing questions, sharing experience, and progress.

Final Exam and Continuing Support: To bring this course even closer to our in-person trainings, our exam process here is through video sharing of both personal practice and leading, with feedback, next steps and followup practices.

Certification: We provide a Strala 100+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification upon completion, and list your certification on our website.

If you’ve also completed our Level 1, Part 1 in this Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training, you’ll receive a full Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification on completion, which is listed on our site, and you’ll receive our formal Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training Diploma as a pdf.

Our program is credited by the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, as well as by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra.  We’re also accredited by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals, and the yoga alliances are now accepting online 200 hour certification.  Harvard, Stanford, so many top universities have long been offering really wonderful online education, it just makes good sense to learn from the top people in each field, from wherever you are.  So it’s nice that the alliances are supporting this now.

Continuing Education Credit: This course counts for continuing education and practice credit in our longer in-person trainings, including both the 200+Hour Yoga Teacher Training and 300+Hour Advanced Yoga Leadership Training.

Continuous Improvement and Updates: What we do together is always growing and evolving, and people who take our in-person courses each year always notice that it’s different (and better!) every time. The same holds for this online course. We’ll be continually improving and adding to what we share in the reading and video sessions, and you’ll have ongoing access to this course so you can review whenever you like, and keep progressing over time. This way we all get to grow together here.

Lifetime: Taking good care of yourself 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 training?

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’ve already done my 200 Hour Yoga Training, is this the same?

A: We follow a completely unique curriculum grounded in East Asian Healing and Tai Chi, address yoga sequencing as a vocabulary of movements rather than poses as end points, create connections based in Shiatsu principles for body position, inclusion, and creating a safe environment. There’s more, but hopefully this clears up fear of repeating material. What you’ll learn here is all new, and makes a wonderful addition to any previous studies.  And every year we share a new curriculum in all our courses, so always we can keep growing and progressing together.

Q: I’m not interested in teaching yoga 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 my goal is de-mystifying leading yoga 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 Trainings are all led entirely by the founders. 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.

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala. Strala is practiced in more than 100 countries, and thousands of people are leading Strala in studios, gyms, and schools worldwide. Even more Strala training graduates bring what they learn to their office, team, healing practice, and across all of life. The mission we share is to help people accomplish far more, through softening and connecting with our creativity and purpose.

Tara has authored several best-selling books including Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, Yoga Cures, Make Your Own Rules Diet, Strala Yoga, and Guiding Strala, all translated and published in several languages. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and featured in most major national and international magazines. Harvard profiled Tara‘s work in a case study, and she has spoken with students at Harvard and New York University about her experience, and approaches to creativity and leadership.

Tara supports The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the American Heart Association initiative to combat childhood obesity, as well as BOKS, which together are bringing Strala classes to more than 30,000 schools around the United States and Canada.

Tara studied classical dance with ABT Principal Rory Foster, and choreography with Paul Taylor original member and world renowned master Eileen Cropley. She is married to Strala co-founder Mike Taylor.

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, qigong, and shiatsu, for more than three decades.

In his younger years, Mike challenged centuries of reasonable and well-tested 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 complementary medicine at Oxford. After running into walls with standard medical practice, Mike left his healthcare roots and turned to mountaineering. He worked at a steel mill, joined a web company, then founded a biotech software company.

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 still climbs a few mountains in his spare time, and is married to Strala co-founder Tara Stiles.

When Can You Begin

You can begin any time, and go all at your own pace. Also once you’ve completed the course material, it all remains yours for ongoing review and practice, whenever you want.  You can click here to register and begin any time.  And please understand once a registration is made, we are not able to give refunds.

Questions

If you have any questions or need something, it’s always fine to reach us directly, using Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Open the door to a whole new way of connecting,
sharing, and growing with everyone in your life.

These trainings are an incredibly rewarding
life-long adventure of mutual support,
and inspiring accomplishment.
We’re really lucky to have this in our lives.

Thank you so much everybody, we’re excited to get started with you here!

xo – Tara & Mike

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Where: EDEN*****, Breite Straße 43, 13187 Berlin / Pankow (all three weeks)

When: Monday July 27 through Sunday August 16, 2020

Schedule: Weekdays from 9am to 5pm, Weekends from 10am to 3pm. Mornings and evenings before and after-hours open, for individual and group practice + Q&A

Cost: Early-bird Special now through August 31, 2019, gives you $350 off the total.
$4,500 for complete training, $3,400 for two weeks, $1,900 for one week.
$1,900 deposit reserves your spot for all three options. The remaining amount is due by 27 July 2020.

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.  Strala is also a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

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“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

What You’ll Find Here

All our trainings and immersions have a unique curriculum that’s different from what’s covered in other 100, 200, and 500 hour programs. So what you learn here will be all new approaches, practices, and skill-sets, and makes a nice continuation from any previous studies with Strala or anywhere, without repetition.  You can begin with any program you like, including this Advanced Leadership Training, and you’ll always discover new ways to take good care of yourself, find harmony and ease in your body and life, and give this to the people you lead.

All this begins with you.  You’re always leading what have, how you are, in everything you do. It’s in how you get around a room, how you get around your life, that people follow. Much more than what you say.

And it’s wonderful, magical, when what you say agrees with what you do.  So we’re coming together here to share this as a practice.  To create the ground we all need to be how we want to be, first in our selves, and then for each other.

It’s not always complicated, but it’s also not easy.  It takes some slowing down, simplifying, subtracting the noise around us and in us.  From here we see where we are, and discover who it is we’re meant to be.  What are you good at?  What do you love?  It’s in these simple practices to find this, and grow stronger, more capable, in who we really are.

Get ready to make space in your life for inner peace, and unlock your energy for inspired creative power.

Who Is This For

Everything we do is designed to help people begin where they are, and develop the concrete 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 300+Hour Advanced Leadership Training.

The people joining our immersions and trainings are a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group. They range from 12 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.

Some are relative beginners, some are long-time practicers and teachers.  Some want to teach, and some want to progress with their own yoga.  If you’re looking to teach yoga professionally, of course it’s good to have at least two years of your own practice experience first.  Wherever you are now is a great place to begin.  We’re lucky to have this rich diversity, it makes wonderful ground for real-world learning and sharing.

You might join for your profession, for teaching yoga or tai chi, or you might join just for you.  Whatever your purpose, we have this time to share a set of holistic skills and practices, that carry across your everything you do.

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.

What You Get

Strala is moving with ease during restful and challenging circumstances alike. When you find ease in effort, your body and life become very capable and strong. You become an expert at creating space in your life for peace, creativity, inspiration, and all-around feeling great.

Helping people release stress and tension from their bodies and minds, learn to move with grace and ease through challenge, and heal all kinds of injuries and ailments is important work. You’re empowering everyone you reach to become creators of their own destiny, on the level of their health, and their whole life. It’s a wonderful thing to share.

Approaches, Practices, Skill-sets: We’ll explore practices to discover and enliven who and how you are, in everything you do, using Strala’s approach to yoga, tai chi, qigong, and meditation.  You’ll carry with you something both simple and straightforward enough to practice every day, right where you are, in whatever you’re doing.  And powerful enough to change everything.  It all begins with you.

Community: Leading up to this training, you’ll have access to our private online meet-up community, so you can connect with us and each other before our time together begins. And once you’ve completed this time, you’ll access to our private online community of Strala graduates worldwide. Connect with each other, and with Tara and Mike, for ongoing questions, sharing experience, and progress.

Certification: We provide a Strala 300+Hour Advanced Leadership Certification upon completion, and list this on our website. Combined with our 200+Hour degree, you graduate with a Strala 500+Hour Advanced Leadership Certification. Strala is credited by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, as well as Chair of Neurology at Harvard and Director of the Genetics Research and Aging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi. We’re also accredited by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Continuing Education Credit: This training provides you with 100 hours of credit for each week you complete.

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.

People are leading Strala all around the world following our trainings.  You gain a unique set of skills, for living and sharing this way of being, moving, and healing, that people love everywhere you go.

Curriculum for Week 1: Movement

Progressing to advanced capability, across every element of our Leadership Trainings

Explore: How we are in everything we do.  Taking care of yourself so you can take care of others.

Approach: Three Elements. How to create your best yoga, tai chi, healing, and life practices, through Breath, Softness, and Movement.

Softening: Our ability to soften is the beginning of everything. We’re so used to living under attack – hardening, flexing, straining – when things get hard. But we have a choice. When something is hard, you can soften. You can go easier in your body and mind. And from here, when things get hard, you’re learning to release tension, rather than pile it up. Which makes you, like water, invincible. We’ll practice this art across many contexts, and open a clear path to bring it fully into your life.

Breath Body Connection. Our movement is guided and fueled by our breath. Every inhale lifts and expands. Every exhale moves you further. This oceanic experience allows your body to go along for the ride, creating space for lightness and ease in your experience.

Feeling. Slow down and breath deep enough to feel, believe that what you feel is worth responding to, and respond. Your connection to feeling and intuition allows you to move into exactly what you need in each moment.  You’ll learn to be in alignment with yourself always, and feel good every step of the way.

Process: The Principles of Movement.  How to accomplish far more by using the movement principles of tai chi, across everything you do.  We begin with breath, connect to feeling, and move from center.  We’ll replace force and struggle with grace and coordination. With easy, whole-body-in-harmony movement, you can progress far beyond pose goals, and dive into the process of getting to know your body and mind.

Process: Responsive Movement. Once we have the structure of movement in our bodies, we can progress to Responsive Movement – a process of tuning in, self-diagnosis, and response. We learn to direct how we move precisely for what we need, unblocking energy where it’s blocked, discovering and removing the roadblocks that begin on the inside, bringing every part of us into harmony with every other part, and of course, healing on every level. When we re-open the conversation with our bodies, we can’t help but become our own best care-givers, optimally supporting all that’s unique about us, including our capacity to achieve what we dream. Amazing things happen here.

Practice: Yoga, Tai Chi, and Life. Yoga provides one vocabulary of movement that lets us connect with our bodies and minds, sense what we need, and respond. Tai chi provides a different and powerful vocabulary for new kinds of movement, to accomplish the same ends. Each moment is filled with the unexpected. When we become fluid in our movement, in our being, we’re more easily adaptable and responsive to the variety of challenges we face, and more able to accomplish what we desire.

Practice: Hard Things Easy.  It’s possible to get where you want to go by learning to drop the stress, and move easily through challenge. In fact, it’s not just possible. The best among us – the most inspirational of any human effort – has been achieved in this way. Nothing truly great has ever been achieved by working harder than needed. The impossible becomes possible only when we move gracefully, when we choose peace over aggression.

We’ll replace the self-limiting myth of no pain no gain, release stress and struggle from our bodies and minds, and use the principles of natural movement to make the impossible possible.  This becomes your way of being. It becomes how you move, how you create yourself, and the world around you.

Guiding: how to create an uplifting and enabling experience.  Your first responsibility is to take really good care of yourself.  What you have for yourself is what you have to give to others.  From here, we move through the best ways to orchestrate an amazing experience for everyone around you.  You’ll learn to lead people into their own freedom, intuition, creativity, and radiantly good health.

Healing: Touch and Support.  How to create a supportive, enabling, and healing relationship with yourself, and with others.  We’ll detail the core principles of safety, alignment, and practical anatomy, and provide an effective approach for healing of both acute injury and chronic pain.

Stress, Health & Nutrition.  We’ll explore your mind-body connection, the role of stress in disease, and techniques for releasing stress and activating your body’s Relaxation Response.  We’ll also explore the microbiome, and various nutritional strategies for curing ailments and enabling optimal health.

Leadership, Work, Life.  We’ll carry our practice of being, moving and healing into how you create the life you want.

Whatever goals you might have, how you feel when you get there is created by how you are along the way. In yoga, this is why challenges like handstands are best achieved not by practicing handstands – but by learning to move easily and comfortably in your body, through everything you do. Of course you can take a handstand by force – jumping and crashing, using muscle rather than coordination and grace. But this will never feel good. And the goal will lack meaning. We’ll have learned only to reach our goals by force, by not feeling good.

So of course there’s a better way, moving with grace and coordination, rather than by force and struggle. We learn something valuable about ourselves, moving this way. We learn that we can accomplish much more in our lives without stress and struggle than with it. We learn that we can get to wherever we want from wherever we are. And we learn that we can feel good, always.  It’s not about the handstand. It’s how you get where you’re going that creates what you have.

More Practice.  All of our trainings are very practical.  We’re not just talking about all of this – we’re going to do it together. So we have plenty of real class time for practice, exploration, and making what you want real in your everyday life.

Weekly Schedule and Degrees

This advanced program is designed so you can put the elements together in whatever combination works best for you.

Three Weeks : 500+Hour and 300+Hour Degree. This advanced program builds on top of our 200+Hour training, so you graduate with a 500+Hour Advanced Leadership degree. Or it can stand on its own as an advanced 300+Hour course.

Two Weeks : 400+Hour and 200+Hour Degree. This can serve as an alternative path to our 200+Hour training degree.  It can also provide a continuing 200 hours on top of your previous 200+Hour education, so you graduate with our 400+hour degree.

One Week : 300+Hour Degree and 100+Hour Component. You gain 100+Hours toward our 200+Hour degree, and if it’s on top of our 200+Hour degree, you graduate with a 300+Hour degree.  Also this qualifies as 100 hours of continuing education.

It’s perfectly fine to take all three weeks at once, or just one or two weeks at a time. As with our 200+hour program, putting these weeks together over time works well for people, so if it’s easier for your schedule, it’s just fine with us.

If you’re joining the full program, at least 270 hours are spent learning and practicing with our faculty. Outside of Intensive Hours other assignments can be done in your own time. Stay easy, have persistence and patience with yourself, and you’ll accomplish it all and more.

This is important work you’re choosing to do.
Helping people feel great helps you and the world.

RESOURCES

We have a library of classes and trainings led by Tara and Mike that’s available online, and we add new videos pretty regularly here.

In addition, we have a Strala Online 100+Hour Leadership Training available now, that provides substantial breadth and depth for carrying this approach and practice into your life and leading. It’s a good way to prepare for or review following our intensive, Ready-to-Lead, and Advanced Leadership courses, and also gives wonderful ground for ongoing progress from wherever you are, if you’re not able to join us yet in person.

Ultimately it’s not just the certificate that matters, it’s being great at what you do. We’re here to help.

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. 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.

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Last summer I was in Barcelona for some super fun adventures with the W. We went paddle boarding, did sunrise and sunset yoga, and had the treat of my long time friend, Josep, and his band play for class. The Strala girls were busy renovating their studio and it was an exciting beginning. Now it’s in full swing with super good vibes and lots of great energy. I can’t wait to visit for the first time! Check out the video of last summer!

Join me for 3 Strala classes at Strala Barcelona. Space is limited.

Saturday June 4th, 11:30 – 1pm

Sunday June 5th, 11:30 – 1pm

Sunday June 5th, 6 – 7:30pm

See you soon to celebrate!

xo

Tara

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Hi Friends!

I’m just back from Madrid and had an amazing time with the Reebok Spain team and loads of new friends in Madrid leading the Strala Experience for our Rebel Yoga night. I was super psyched and touched that the team prepared my Green Dream (aka favorite go-to smoothie of all time) for snacks for everyone.

Eating well while traveling is a challenge, but with my intense travel schedule I have my tips and tricks to make it work and I’m lucky that my body responds well and I never get sick and rarely feel tired when it’s not actually time to rest. Eating well is a huge part of that for me. Just as huge, if not more important is maintaining a happy energy. This is easy when surrounded by great people doing what we all love, and the Green Dream!

I suggest to have this in the morning (best fuel ever) and during the afternoon when / if you need a pick me up. Great stuff. Makes me feel like a super hero ready for action when I drink this.

Green Dream

1 Banana

1 big handful of Spinach

1 Cup of Almond Milk

Blend

Enjoy!

Travel Survival Strategy

Now onto a few travel tips. I’m on a plane a whole lot, so much that I feel just as comfortable on a plane as I do anywhere else. It’s a habit I’ve adapted with my exciting and intense schedule. I found it’s importnat for me to be able to relax and be easy and open wherever I am, whether at home base Strala NYC, in another country leading a class, giving a talk, or making new friends on the plane.

It’s part of the whole Strala lifestyle to move with ease during simple and challenging moments alike. This goes for on and off the mat obviously. The on the mat stuff is great for practicing how we would like to be in life and of course radiating light and all that getting ridiculously healthy and happy stuff. We got that down!

People always ask me if I get exhausted or tired doing what I do and I honestly answer no. It’s a big privilege to get to meet and work with as many people as I do, sharing ease, freedom, and a simple way of radiating light that works for everyone. This is about you finding your own way, not conforming to my way. When the space and freedom exists for us all to work to make our own rules that work for us, we are never blocked, sick, or exhausted. Sure I get sleepy, and when I do I take a nap.

Here are a few simple guidelines I’ve developed that work extremely well for health and happiness.

1. Engage only in uplifting and productive thoughts, conversations, and actions. Your energy is the most important component to health. More important than what you eat and how much sleep and exercise you get. I observe my friend Tao Porchon-Lynch who is 96 and radiates so much energy. She enjoys every moment and intuitively knows not to engage in anything that brings her out of a radiant state. I picked this up from her and I’m floating and buzzing in the most grounded and exciting way. It’s a big secret so there you go. Word is out. More important than green juice. There I’ve said it!

2. Eat and drink what feeds your soul. After you understand how to use and protect your energy to keep yourself radiant, you can start to color your world with healthy fuel. I bring a grab bag of mixed nuts, trail mix type stuff when I travel as a go-to. I don’t worry about packing a cooler full of food or getting controlling about what I eat on the road in any way, and that works for me very well. I love trying new foods where I am, enjoying the culture and what each city has to offer that’s special. Enjoying is more important than green juice. Enjoy what you are eating and your body will respond well.

3. Move how it feels great to move. I don’t worry about getting an hour of practice in a day when I travel. It’s just not practical and I’d become an exercise obsessed robot if I did, which I have no interest in doing. Allow yourself to move how it feels good to you to move when you make time for your movement practice, whether it’s Strala, running, walking, or something else. Move how it feels good to you to move, and let your intuition take over. I love to walk everywhere in a new city, explore new neighborhoods, especially if I have a day or an afternoon without an event. I also have a habit of rolling around on my hotel floor and getting in my practice whether at night or in the morning before I’m off to whatever the day brings.

If you’re new to practicing and don’t have a movement vocabulary of what to practice on your own, or prefer to be led, we’ve made loads of videos for you to move along and enjoy being in your body with. Stay easy and enjoy the ride!

xo

Tara

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I’m so excited to be leading the first ever, world premier, live twitter yoga session. You’ll be guided through a series of movements to open the body and mind and leave you feeling fantastic! Can’t join in person? No worries! Follow #140conf on Twitter and we’ll stay connected!

Can’t wait 4 first ever live twitter yoga session! #yoga + #socialmedia = fantastic! #140conf https://140you.me/register

Class is at 10am Tuesday, June 18th at the 92st street Y (in Tribecca)

10:00am

Exploring the State of Health, Wellness, Fitness and Food.

Hosted by Jeff Pulver and Mallika Chopra, experience speakers from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. The conference will be a platform for people to share their health and wellness journeys and connect with others who are also on a similar path. Our conference will offer a great chance to connect with Doctors / Authors and others who are actively contributing to the field of: Health, Wellness, Fitness & Food. There are a number of panels to cover some areas which are of specific interest to me including: The One Ton Panel, The Gluten Free Lifestyle Panel, The Living with Autoimmune Diseases, Living life with Fitness Gadgets and Apps.

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