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 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'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, produced by Ford Models.
Vanity Fair reported on a yoga video that Stiles specifically designed for Sarah Palin; the "Vanity Fair" reporter commented, "Tara Stiles has got to be the coolest yoga instructor ever."