"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 – Harvard Professor of Neurology and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital
Registration is Now Open to Begin Any Time
You can get started whenever you like! And once you've completed the course material, it all remains yours for ongoing review and practice, whenever you want. Whether you're new to Strala or a long-time practicer, looking to teach yoga or discover new ways to drop stress and bring more ease into your whole life - you'll love this course.
Just like our in-person 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. You can take this course on its own, or together with Part 2 to provide you with a complete Strala Online 200+Hour Certification.
With over 50 sessions and 15 classes, plus a 100-Page Guidebook, we've designed this 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.
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Topics Include
- Mindset and Approach
- Breath and Natural Movement
- Mindfulness and Meditation
- Experiential Anatomy
- Safety and Healing
- Connection, Touch, and Support
- Health and Nutrition
- Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine
- Progressive Sequencing
- Creating a Supportive Environment
- Verbal Communication and Body Language
- Leadership and Business
- Intuition, Creativity, and Inspiration
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What You'll Find Here
Whether you're embarking on the adventure of a first training, or a long-time teacher looking to discover new approaches for taking care of you and the people you lead, this online training is perfect place to begin, and advance with your practice and leadership from wherever you are, right now.
You’ll discover 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.
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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 week-long training.
The people joining our trainings 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.
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What You Get
Watch: Over 50 instructional sessions and 15 classes, covering a wide variety of topics and uses.
Read: Session-by-session notes and tips, and a 100-page Guidebook covering each section of the course, that give additional direction and detail, along with regular 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: Both during and after this course, you’ll have access to our private online community of Strala trainees and graduates worldwide. It's a wonderful way to keep connecting with each other, and with Tara and Mike, to share ongoing questions, experience, and progress.
Final Exam: For putting all this into your own language and life.
Certification: We provide a Strala 100+Hour Yoga Leadership Training Certification upon completion, and list your certification on our website.
If you continue on to complete our Level 2, Part 2 in this Strala Online 200+Hour Leadership Training, you'll receive a full Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training Certification on completion, which is listed on our site, and you'll receive our formal Strala Online 200+Hour Yoga Leadership Training Diploma as a pdf.
Our program is credited by mind-body-medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, as well as the Chair of Neurology at Harvard, and the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi. Strala is also accredited by the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association, and is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance Professionals.
Continuing Education Credit: This course counts for continuing education and practice credit, including for our longer 300+Hour and 500+Hour Advanced Yoga and Tai Chi Leadership Trainings.
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.
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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 ACTQA 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 ACTQA accreditation and certification, in addition to YAP. You can also join ACTQA 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.
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FACULTY
Strala Trainings are all led entirely by the founders. Our program is backed by mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Harvard neurology professor and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi.
Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala. Thousands of guides are leading Strala classes around the globe in partner studios, gyms, and clubs. Strala’s worldwide training and practice HQ is in downtown New York City.
Tara partners with W Hotels on FIT with Tara Stiles — a global program bringing Strala Yoga classes and healthy recipes to W properties around the globe. She collaborated with Reebok to design their Reebok Yoga lifestyle range, and 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. Tara is a sought after speaker primarily on topics of business building and health & wellness. She has lectured to sold out audiences and internal conferences around the world including Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Conference, Epsilon, Happinez, and Hay House events.
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.
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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 four decades.
In his younger years, Mike learned tai chi and other martial arts, with a practical military perspective guided by his grandfather. He later studied with Ken van Sickle, one of Cheng Man Ching's original students on Broadway in New York City. Mike also explored the medical applications of these arts, studying mind-body medicine at Harvard. After running into walls with standard medical practice, Mike took up mountaineering, worked at a steel mill, and founded a software company in the healthcare industry. Now Mike has found his way back to tai chi, as a practical everyday way to help people be safe, and transform wherever they are into a better place.
Mike is married to Strala co-founder Tara Stiles, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time. Tara and Mike live in the Berkshire Mountains with their daughter Daisy.
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When Can You Begin
You can get started whenever you like! And 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.
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