Slowing Down to Find Your Flow with Strala Yoga Founder, Tara Stiles

Slowing Down to Find Your Flow with Tara Stiles

In theory, we all want to slow down and live with more purpose but, in practice, the emotional and psychological barriers to changing your mindset can be incredibly challenging to overcome. On this episode, we host Tara Stiles, a global yoga, movement, and wellness expert, author, and Founder of Strala Yoga. She brings a revolutionary approach to being, moving, and healing, and offers some life-changing insights in our conversation today. Tara shares about her path into yoga and how her first experience reminded her of feelings she had as a child. You’ll also hear about the ‘Yoga Rebel’ piece about Tara that was published in the New York Times and some of the obstacles she hopes readers will overcome when they read her book. We get real about crises of spirit and talk about the conversations Tara has been having with her preschooler, and as well as the importance of teaching boundaries as a parent. We dive into how yoga is a part of her child’s life and the main thing she wants readers to take away from the book: yoga is already within you and you deserve to feel good! We hope you join us for today’s inspiring episode.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Tara’s passion to slow down and help whoever wants to slow down.
• Her path into yoga and how her first experience reminded her of feelings she had as a child.
• How integrating yoga into her ballet classes helped her to feel better.
• The ‘Yoga Rebel’ piece in the New York Times on her non-denominational approach to yoga.
• Obstacles she hopes readers will overcome: the fear of slowing down.
• How a solid yoga practice supports feeling better, getting more done, and navigating life.
• The simple moments she introduces people to so that they get comfortable with yoga.
• How Tara experiences many crises of spirit, with the biggest one coming from yoga.
• Conversations Tara has with her preschooler about microaggressions from adults.
• The importance of teaching your child to have boundaries with themselves and others.
• Why it is important to integrate the attitudes you learn in yoga to your everyday life.
• What she has noticed as a parent: when she is calm, her child is calm.
• How yoga is a part of her child’s life and she tells her mom to tell the people to have fun.
• The main thing she wants people to take away from her book: yoga is already within you, and you deserve to do something that makes you feel really good!
• The kids yoga book she did with Nat Geo: Yoga Animals.
• What dinnertime looks like in her home: eating to get through it and play again!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Tara Stiles

Tara Stiles on Instagram
Tara Stiles on Facebook
Strala Yoga
Clean Mind, Clean Body
'Rebel Yoga'

Yoga Animals

The Zen Mommy

Mom, Slow Down!