Tara Stiles
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Tara Leann Stiles Morris, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Strala CEO |
| Website | www |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Tara Leann Stiles is an American model turned yoga instructor and founder of Strala Yoga in New York City. Stiles grew Strala from one studio based in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, New York to a global studio and training business with currently over 1,000 instructors (called Guides) leading classes in 15 countries regularly to thousands of people weekly. Strala's online classes are practiced daily all around the world by hundreds of thousands of people. Strala is the most popular class offered at CMG chain in Paris. Strala's first partner studio is Strala Seattle. Strala Singapore, Strala Barcelona and Strala Tokyo opened in 2015. Harvard did a case study on Stiles' business titled The Branding of Yoga, which uses Stiles as a case study in branding.
In 2007, Tara starred in Yoga For, the first instructional on-line yoga video series, produced by Ford Models. She was one of the first YouTube users to upload and gain a large following and the first for yoga and lifestyle content.Vanity Fair reported on a yoga video that Stiles specifically designed for Sarah Palin; the "Vanity Fair" reporter commented that "Tara Stiles has got to be the coolest yoga instructor ever." Stiles is also the personal yoga instructor to Deepak Chopra, with whom she collaborated to create Authentic Yoga for the iPhone, as well as a DVD series with Lions Gate and other projects.
Stiles grew up outside of the Chicago Metropolitan area, in Morris, Illinois. Her parents designed their passive solar home, undoubtedly helped by the fact her father worked at a nuclear plant. She has one sibling, an older brother, Chad, who is an electrician.
Stiles studied dance in Chicago, where one of her ballet instructors introduced her to yoga. A local photographer brought her to Marie Anderson Boyd, founder of Aria Models in Chicago, later acquired by [[Ford Model. Ford asked her to make short promotional yoga videos for the agency and post them to YouTube.. She took a 200-hour course to become a certified instructor, and continues to make the videos, which have drawn over twenty million views.
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