Expert Tara Stiles on How Allowing Ourselves to be Softer Can Bring Us Strength

The Shift with Katherine Maslen

Tara Stiles is a wellness expert, bestselling author, and the founder of Strala Yoga. The Strala approach combines yoga, tai chi, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine to help people release stress, heal, let go of negative habits, and move more easily through everyday challenges. Tara’s bestselling books, which have been translated and published in multiple languages, include Strala Yoga, Make Your Own Rules Diet, Yoga Cures, and Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, and she has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Esquire, and Shape.

Tara’s work has been used in a case study by Harvard University, she is a sought-after speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, health, and wellbeing, and she has lectured at venues that include Harvard and New York University. Tara works with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, an initiative with the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation that combats childhood obesity, in order to bring Strala classes to more than 30,000 schools around the United States.

In this episode Katherine and Tara Stiles explore:

• How Strala Yoga differs from other styles of Yoga by focusing on being kind to the body
• How Tara applies a Tai Chi Mindset to practicing Yoga
• Being vulnerable and coming back into the body with softness
• Tara’s healing journey after developing an eating disorder from trauma
• Tara’s talks about her friendship with Deepak Chopra
• Sequencing your day for flow

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