383: Tara Stiles - Why Doesn’t Everybody Do Yoga?
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tara Stiles (IG: @tarastiles) is the founder of Strala, the revolutionary approach to being, moving and healing. Strala teaches yoga, tai chi, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to help people release stress, let go of bad habits, and move easily through all kinds of challenge.
Tara has authored several best-selling books and is a sought-after speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, health, and wellbeing.
She has a new book coming out on December 29th, Clean Mind, Clean Body: A 28-Day Plan for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Self-Care.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The message Tara received from the universe when she was 7 years old
- Growing up with straight edge hippy parents in a passive solar home
- The love of dance and movement
- The ballet teacher who introduced Tara to yoga
- Learning the history and art of yoga
- Tara met her now husband Mike at a yoga retreat
- Making yoga relatable
- Why doesn’t everybody do yoga?
- Yoga transitioned Tara into the world of eating better
- Do you love the life you lead?
- Tara's early days of teaching yoga
- Forming a supportive community
- The meaning behind the name Strala
- Traveling the world teaching yoga and retreats
- How do you balance your own stress level & excitement?
- Being raw & vulnerable on social media when you are struggling
- Reaching out to the community for support
- The barrier Tara put between her Mike after their miscarriage
- Learning how to slow down doesn’t mean not pursuing your goals
- The epiphany moment Tara experienced on an airplane
- Everything changed after Tara's daughter Daisy was born
- Moving from NYC to Utah
- Living life at a slower pace back on the east coast
- Tara's dream to live in a little eco house with solar panels
- Creating movement through feeling
- Lessons learned along the journey
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Related links:
Tara Stiles - Clean Mind, Clean Body (book)
Follow Tara Stiles on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Rory Foster - Ballet Pedagogy (book)
Paramhansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (book)
Listen to Deepak Chopra previously on TUHP (episode #141)
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067: Koya Webb – What To Eat Before Yoga | Meditate Daily | The Best Vegan Burgers, Ever!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | We were getting the opposite of kind of people coming. |
| 0:05.2 | So the New Age people were coming with a little bit of like, |
| 0:08.4 | why are you playing music? |
| 0:09.9 | Why are you not speaking in Sanskrit? |
| 0:11.5 | Where is your guru? |
| 0:12.4 | And then I would sit there and explain to them and there'd be this conversation that I've had so many times and at the end of it it always be fine kind of you know but we were getting the people who said, yeah, I want to do yoga, but I don't want somebody to tell me who my guru should be. |
| 0:28.0 | So we were kind of this, I guess, normal in a way renegade bunch, and that kind of had its own traction. Hello and Welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 383. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:48.0 | Each week I'll bring you up conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:52.0 | And this week I have Tara St from around the world. |
| 0:53.0 | And this week I have Tara Stiles on the show. |
| 0:55.0 | She's the founder of Strala, the revolutionary approach to being, moving, and healing. |
| 1:00.0 | Strala teaches yoga, Tai Chi, and traditional in Chinese medicine to help people release stress, let go of bad habits, and move easily through all kinds of challenge. |
| 1:09.0 | Terra has authored several best-selling books and is a sought-after speaker on topics of |
| 1:14.1 | entrepreneurship, health and well-being. She has a new book coming out on |
| 1:18.0 | December 29th, Clean, Mind, Clean Body, a 28-day plan for physical, mental mental and spiritual self-care and you can |
| 1:24.7 | pre-order your copy now. I really love this conversation with Tara. I just |
| 1:29.2 | appreciate her being so open and real, sharing the ups and downs that she's been through over the years, and it just |
| 1:35.2 | makes her all that more real and relatable. |
| 1:37.7 | I know you're going to love this. |
| 1:39.8 | Highlights include the message terror received from the universe when she was only seven years old growing |
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