It’s Time We Break Up With No Pain No Gain, and Practice Living Softly as Our Path to Inspiring Accomplishment without Burnout

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What: 3-Hour Workshop on Living Softly. This workshop gives a fist-ever inside look at Living Softly – a special chance for you to shift from the breakdown strategies of stressing and pushing to get things done, into accomplishing far more than you might have dreamed, in a way that’s fully aligned with who you are, and how you want to feel.

Living Softly is also the topic of my next book, and forms the strategy and practices that have guided my every step – from creating and sharing Strala with a wonderful community of people all around the world, to supporting my family, and living a life that feels truly inspiring and uplifting to me each day.

Where: The Manor LDN, Clifton House, Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London, N4 3JP

When: Friday 21 March 2025, from 5pm to 8pm.

What to bring: Comfortable clothes for moving, a yoga mat, and paper + pen are all helpful.

Cost: The cost for this workshop is $150, and space in this workshop is limited, please click here to register now.

Scholarships: We have all kinds of scholarships and easy installment plans available, so if you want to be here and need help, please just email Mike@StralaYoga.com.

Certification and CEC: Your degrees and hours are listed on our site, and this workshop counts for 3 hours of continuing education

Accreditation: Our Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong trainings and classes are accredited by the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association, and Strala is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Our program is also backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and the Professor of Neurology at Harvard, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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About This Workshop

Living Softly gives the breakup we all need from no-pain-no-gain, by de-coupling stress and struggle from accomplishment.

In this workshop, we’ll talk through the foundations of Living Softly, and share the practices that make it real in your life, right in the middle of all the challenges, and whatever you’re up to each day. Get ready to be fully you, achieve your dreams, and feel good every step along the way.

Here’s a secret. It’s not about just taking it easy on yourself. It’s not reshuffling priorities away from achievement. And it’s not killing yourself then taking a vacation later.

We all want to live up to our greatest potential. We want to accomplish big things for ourselves, our families, our people. And right now, the two options we’ve been given – 1) Just be less ambitious, or 2) No-pain-no-gain yourself and take a break later – both don’t work, and keep us all falling far short of our potential.

We know enough now about the science of stress to 100% say that no-pain-no-gain leads to a pileup of mental and physical health problems, as well as – we don’t accomplish as much when we’re stressed out.

Luckily, there’s a better way, that we can find together in Living Softly. This life strategy and practice is at the heart of why our global community – thousands of teachers and millions of practicers – are living such inspiring and uplifting lives.

You don’t have to give up your goals, find extra time, or take a vacation from life after you’re burned out. Living Softly means powerfully enabling your whole life through these practices, right in the middle of even our greatest challenges. I’m so happy and lucky to share this together with you here!

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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 intensive training.

The people joining our trainings, workshops, and retreats are a wonderfully diverse and inspiring group. 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.

Some are relative beginners, some are long-time practicers and teachers.  Some want to teach, and some want to progress with their own yoga.  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.

How It Works

All our trainings, workshops, and retreats have a unique curriculum that’s different from what’s covered in other intensive, 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’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.

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.

ACCREDITATION AND CERTIFICATION

Our Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong classes and trainings at Strala Yoga are accredited by the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association, as well as by the global Yoga Alliance Professionals.  You can find our ATCQA page here, for all kinds of helpful details and benefits.

When you graduate from any of our yoga, tai chi, or qigong trainings, as well as when you accumulate class hours with us on the Strala Yoga App, you’ll have ATCQA accreditation and certification, in addition to YAP.  You can also join ATCQA to access all their member benefits, and a worldwide community of practitioners.

The ATCQA has received wide recognition from the federal government and a variety of health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  It also connects us with the North American Studio Alliance (NAMASTA), which among many benefits, gives access to affordable liability insurance for yoga, pilates, tai chi, and qigong teachers.

FACULTY

Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders, and 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.

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.

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.

Resources

We have an online library of classes, retreats, and trainings with Tara and Mike, which includes weekly live classes and workshops. New videos added regularly, and always we’re here to help.

Questions

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

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