Tyrone “Coach Ty” Polastri is a personal mastery trainer and award-winning author of Dancing on the Edge: Moving Through Life with Power, Dignity and Effectiveness. His work centers on developing embodied competencies that help people meet change, communicate authentically, connect with others and move toward what matters. His core Edge concept offers a practical compass for recognizing tension, regaining perspective and choosing a next move with dignity.
His approach grew through years of teaching and observing how habits, beliefs and expectations influence learning and action. At his EnterSki training centers, he explored these patterns through movement, an experience that helped inspire the book. Skiing became a metaphor for a broader inquiry into how we meet the edges in our lives.
Polastri participated in Integral Transformative Practice with human potential pioneers George Leonard and Michael Murphy of Esalen Institute and later helped continue the program. He pursued further studies in somatics and leadership at the Strozzi Institute and founded the Institute for Integral Living in Tiburon, California, offering personal mastery programs, workshops and retreats.
His experience also includes sports business, curriculum development and teaching at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, and nonprofit leadership. In Lake Tahoe, he co-founded the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition and directs Team Tahoe, promoting bicycling through Bike Tahoe. Across these settings, his interest remains the development of human capacities and their expression in everyday life.
Through his writing and teaching, Polastri invites readers to discover their edges, develop their competencies and bring greater power, dignity and effectiveness to how they live.
