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Tara Stiles is the undisputed queen of the New York yoga scene. Owner of the sleek Strala studio in Manhattan and a global chain of offshoots — including a pop-up Strala studio in London last month — she has amassed 329,000 subscribers to her yoga YouTube channel and a client list that includes the actress and activist Jane Fonda, the model and lingerie designer Elle Macpherson and the author Deepak Chopra.

Over the past decade, the former model and classically trained dancer with skyscraper limbs has created the usual online empire via Instagram, Twitter and an app on which devotees can see her demonstrate daily yoga moves. Yet despite this, Stiles is concerned that the ancient discipline has lost its way, and that far from