Want to stand on your hands with ease? This workshop will get you there!
Where: Strala Home Base in New York City, at 632 Broadway on the 6th Floor (between Houston and Bleecker Street)
When: Saturday 16 January 2016, from 1pm to 3:30pm. Doors open at 12:30pm.
Cost: $40. Please understand that reservations are not refundable.
Click here to reserve your spot!
Have you tried all the techniques but it’s just not working? Or you can do the handstands, but it feels like it takes too much stress and strain? Or maybe you’re just thinking handstands aren’t for you, but still curious? You’re going to like this workshop!
You’ll make the shift from just collecting new techniques, to a holistic way of being in your body and mind, that makes handstands – and everything – a whole lot easier. You’ll get to know your body extremely well – right-side up, up-side down, and every-which-way. From here, you’ll become incredibly capable at working easily with everything you’ve got. From here, handstands – and all kinds of challenges – just won’t be that hard any more.
This workshop is open to everybody! Our classes all have long-time practicers next to relative beginners, and everybody gets to move easily from right where they are. You’ll get strong, let stress go, and accomplish tremendous challenges with ease. You’ll also feel free, creative and intuitive, and get healthy and happy from the inside out!
What you’ll learn and practice
- Several ways to move easily into handstands, without jumping or forcing
- How to never fall
- How to stay safe and prevent injury
- Body mechanics and optimal position for making challenges easy
- How to develop the kind of strength, flexibility and mobility needed for easy handstands
- How to understand and use your whole body when moving into challenges
- Explore playfully and have fun
Strala Yoga moves slowly, without endpoints. The most important place you can be is right where you are! You learn to use your breath, connect to feeling, and lead natural movement from your center, in a way that makes challenges easy.
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FACULTY
Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala, the movement system that ignites freedom. Thousands of guides are leading Strala classes around the globe, and Tara partners with Sports Club/LA and Club Med Gym, making Strala classes the first branded yoga program to be available at major gym chains.
Tara is the designer and face of Reebok’s first yoga lifestyle range, and authored three top-selling books, Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, Yoga Cures, and Make Your Own Rules Diet. She has been profiled by The New York Times, Times of India, The Times (UK), and is regularly featured in most major national and international magazines.
Tara supports The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, President Clinton’s initiative to combat childhood obesity, bringing Strala classes to 20,000+ participating schools. Strala’s flagship studio is in downtown New York City.
Tara studied classical dance with ABT Principal Rory Foster, and choreography with Paul Taylor original member and world renowned master Eileen Cropley.
Mike Taylor is a guide, resident healer, and co-founder at 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 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. He worked at a steel mill for a while, joined a web company, and then founded a few more.
Now Mike has found his way back to health care done right, helping people let go of stress in their bodies and minds, become their own best caregivers, and get happy! Mike climbs a few mountains in his spare time.
Strong Body
Calm Mind
Ridiculously Happy
Strala Yoga is a revolutionary approach to guiding feeling and movement, which gets people radiantly healthy, free, creative, and happy.
Strala was created by Tara Stiles, drawing on her background in classical ballet and choreography, as well as her long-time personal practice in yoga. Tara trained with American Ballet Theater choreographer Eileen Cropley, and began her yoga study in the 1990s with her ballet teacher, Rory Foster of ABT.
The science and movement of Strala is also guided by Mike Taylor. Mike studied mind-body medicine at Harvard, and complementary medicine at Oxford. He has practiced Eastern movement and healing, including tai chi and qi gong, for 30 years.
Get inspired, connected, and free. It’s going to feel good!
