HeyJaredTara Stiles
Here, you'll find reflections and practices of softness, grounded in the healing arts, as a response to the current culture of stress we are all bathing in.
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Time Flows When You Practice Softness (opens the original)
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They say, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” Even cooler, we can practice: “Time flows when you practice softness.”I’m writing from Metzingen, Germany, where I’m staying in the apartment connected to Yolie, our Strala partner studio. My longtime friend and Strala Guide Anna Rampf created this place. As Anna said years ago, when we were first building together, we don’t have to build community. Community reveals itself.<div class="subsc
The Power of Softness (opens the original)
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I Practiced Not Fixing Everyone This Weekend. (opens the original)
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If you’re an over-helper, or maybe a recovering over-helper, this is for you.For years I’ve been guiding people to connect with themselves, find the value in softness over rigidity, and most importantly, not just believe what I say, but find the evidence, results, and trust in themselves through the experience of practice.Tara Stiles is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subscr
After 20 Years of Leading Yoga, It’s Not Really About the Yoga (opens the original)
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I’d love for these essays to be a conversation. If something here connects with you, you’re always welcome to share your experience in the comments.In one of our recent Strala trainings, a regular event I have led multiple times a year for decades now, I noticed a dramatic shift in how people are feeling. It reminded me that, yes, of course I am leading yoga and helping others lead yoga through our Strala focus on softness, but what I’m really doing is my best to guide people, individually and a
Did You Win? (opens the original)
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I had a dream the other night that made me rethink one of the most ordinary questions we ask kids.My kid had her third football game, and we’ve all been conditioned to ask the following, and often only, question about that game: Did you win?That night I had a dream. James Clear from Atomic Habits was there...And at some point, dream-me apparently decided to proclaim: “Life isn’t about winning or losing, and if you think it is, you’re a moron.”<d
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