Tiffany is a yoga and motion trainer, creator, poet and non secular seeker. She is a devoted scholar of the energetics of yoga – in particular studying how this modality can create soul-expanding alternate in our trendy lives. Tiffany’s categories use inventive flows, with a robust focal point on embodiment to problem, uplift and empower the practitioner of their follow.

Let us know about your yoga adventure

I’ll provide the cliff notes model…

My yoga adventure began about 13 years in the past. I danced up till I used to be twenty years outdated once I gave up pursuing it professionally. Right through the next 4 years I moved to London, were given a 9-5 and have shyed away from any elegance that happened within the studio. Sooner or later, I had this calling to convey motion again into my existence, however I used to be in search of one thing that wasn’t dance, and I believed, why no longer take a look at yoga?

I discovered this little hidden studio simply across the nook from my flat known as Yoga Position. I walked right into a random elegance on a Thursday evening with a trainer known as Leila Sadeghee; bubbling, humorous, an implausible storyteller. Her communicate in the beginning of the category had me in an instant enthralled – then the motion a part of the category began. I didn’t know the phrases, however I may roughly observe alongside after which my first savasana used to be an absolute shuttle! I felt a way of stillness and calm that I’d by no means felt ahead of and in that second I believed ‘I would like extra of this’. So I went the following week, and the following week and the week after that.

And that’s roughly the way it began.

I have been working towards with Leila for a couple of years when she requested me if I used to be going to take their YTT. I in an instant stated no – who used to be I to be a trainer of this factor I loved such a lot and felt I knew so little about. I used to be reluctant to mention the least, however to her credit score she noticed one thing in me that I didn’t. Leila requested me sporadically over the following 2 years when I used to be going to dive in and in the future I stunned myself and stated ‘sure, I’m in!’

I glance again now on how scared I used to be, the best way I puzzled my talent and the way perhaps I wasn’t in a position, however the degree of fortify, spaceholding and high quality of the learning used to be extra special and  utterly reworked my existence in some way that I will’t even start to describe. I discovered such a lot about myself, how I display up, how clever my frame is, a thirst for wisdom that I hadn’t had since I used to be in school, this need to truly get to grasp what it manner to domesticate a religious follow and the way infinitely huge this existence is.. And so yeah, right here I’m now.  It feels as though the ones 13 years have long past in a flash, however there’s such a lot that has took place and spread out I would want a couple of extra pages to truly dive in. In the end, I’m full of an awesome gratitude, it’s truly an honour to proceed strolling this trail.

What sort of yoga trainer would you assert you might be?

I’m closely influenced by means of my dance background and the academics that I’ve had the danger to be told from have proven me the a lot of techniques and depths through which I will inhabit and transfer my frame. So, if I have been to explain myself as a trainer I might say that;  I beg the motion to be an exploration  into the various layers of consciousness (refined and gross) that we will get right of entry to. Right into a remembrance of the capability of the frame to open up and create  spaciousness, no longer handiest in our bodily, but in addition in our emotional and full of life our bodies – you might want to say a information into uncovering the original topography of you. And thru all of that, within the centre of all of it, is a deep smartly of fierce freedom that if we will start to crack open even just a little bit has the facility to grow to be our existence.

How has your yoga advanced?

I believe as a dancer the bodily side of yoga used to be what to start with known as to me – the paintings, the sweat, the bodily tiredness, the capability to sculpt my muscle tissue, to check my power, to extend my flexibility – I used to be truly attracted to that because it felt acquainted.

However at that time I didn’t realise I used to be simply scratching on the floor of what used to be imaginable. Via my trainer Leila and different implausible lecturers (Tara Judelle, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Paula Andreewitch and Adriana Rizzolo, among others) I used to be offered to  integrative, somatic and experiential embodiment practices that moved past conventional asana and gave me such a lot of new pathways to discover.

So for some time my bodily follow become softer, extra refined;  It used to be much less about poses and that bodily prime of an intense elegance and extra about refining my interior attunement to the intelligence of my frame. Exploring other pathways into consciousness and inevitably enlargement; throughout the organs, bones and area, for instance, whilst truly deeply paying attention to what my frame wanted. Along that I started to construct a gradual day-to-day follow of mediation, mantra, prayer and the contemplative facets of the follow.

And now I’ve come complete circle in many ways. I’m discovering a large number of pleasure within the artwork of pose craft and exploring the number of asana to be had, however I’ve a brand new appreciation for it. The embodiment through-line runs by way of all of it and I believe in the end the query I’m all the time asking myself is  ‘how am I orienting myself in opposition to a deeper embodied consciousness whilst doing this or that?’. And there’s undoubtedly much less of the striving (even though it nonetheless occurs!) to succeed in a undeniable function or to fulfill a undeniable aesthetic and extra of a constant training and deep appreciation of what my frame is able to.

Has your personal follow modified because of any further trainer coaching?

I’ve had the chance to be guided by means of some wonderful lecturers who’ve proven me new techniques of being, shifting and feature impressed me no finish, however 3 honourable mentions…

I can endlessly be thankful to Leila Sadeghee and her persisted steering over the last 13 years. When you’ve got the chance to revel in a category, workshop or retreat together with her, DO IT! I will ensure it is going to be an revel in that may shift your point of view.

Additionally, by way of more than a few lecturers I used to be offered to the paintings of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Frame Thoughts Centering and wow – it’s in order that wealthy and a unconditionally other method of experiencing this frame we are living in.

And finally Frame Temple Dance created by means of Adriana Rizolo – no longer strictly a yoga coaching – however a deep dive into the facility of somatic motion and devotion as a therapeutic artwork.

However, I individually wish to prolong the lens past formal trainer coaching and simply recognise that there are lecturers whose categories, whether or not I am going diligently each week or sporadically, have knowledgeable a side of my follow and I’m thankful to them for appearing up in the best way that they do for me and all in their scholars

What has been your greatest problem as a yoga trainer?

I imply are we handiest allowed one?!

Some of the demanding situations this is provide for me presently is comparability. And I believe it’s knowledgeable by means of the competitiveness of the yoga business, particularly in London because it’s extraordinarily saturated and likewise the yoga panorama as depicted on social media.

It’s nuanced and has many sides to it in fact, however in an international the place you appear to be required to have an “spectacular” asana follow, glance a undeniable method, be a social media skilled, copywriter, an match manufacturer, a go back and forth agent, photographer/videographer and a really perfect trainer it may be overwhelming. And a few other people appear to be doing all of it so without problems.

After which that may change into tied to ‘smartly, if that’s the panorama that we’re operating with, how do I make sure that I do all of that so I will make a dwelling and likewise really feel fulfilled in what I’m instructing and fortify scholars in the best way that I need to fortify them?’

So, when that voice will get truly loud I’ve to dig for the reality – my fact – which is remembering why I train. There’s a goal to what I’m doing and I’ve this interior guiding gentle which informs why I display up everyday after day in deep carrier to the folk that come to elegance, whether or not they simply attend as soon as or week after week. That’s the golden nugget which silences the doubt.

How do you cross about recommending yoga?

Clearly, I inform everybody who will concentrate how wonderful yoga is and that they will have to take a look at it IMMEDIATELY, ha!

But when other people have already made it into the studio and are simply beginning out I be offering other people a few choices.

Relying on their motion revel in, I might counsel that take a look at a newbies path to construct the rules and get centered consideration as they be told the typical yoga poses – it’s the sort of excellent method to get further fortify and construct the arrogance to take a standard studio elegance (a much wider dialog however I want other people discovered it much less intimidating to take a standard studio elegance regardless of their revel in).

From time to time the theory of a newbies path places other people off, so then I beg them to discover what’s in the market. I like to recommend lecturers that I revel in as a result of I worth their steering and suppose folks would get advantages as smartly. However, I needless to say everybody’s distinctive, everybody has other motivations/objectives/wants, so I inform other people to seek out the trainer that easiest serves them and what they’re in search of from their follow – take a look at other kinds, other lecturers, other studios – see what you favor and what you don’t like till one thing sticks.

There are such a large amount of choices in the market and I imagine that discovering your neighborhood is essential to making a sustained follow (as a result of that’s what took place for me. Thursday nights on the Yoga Position have been the spotlight of my week and I nonetheless have a few of the ones other people in my existence these days)

What does an afternoon within the lifetime of Tiffany seem like?

I to find this a troublesome query as a result of those all the time learn like the best day once I know there’s a messiness and a humanness to it that isn’t all the time conveyed.

Actually each day is other, whilst my weekly time table has a drift as a result of I’ve scheduled categories it can be extra correct to mention what does your conventional week seem like

Get up. Espresso. Mediate or magazine (even though on occasion both may also be changed by means of scrolling on my telephone – I’m undoubtedly a human who most probably has extra screentime than I will have to). Studio categories and purchasers interspersed with e-newsletter writing, invoicing, emails, conferences and sophistication making plans. My very own coaching, both some self-guided motion, a category or the fitness center and on occasion I sit down at the settee and do completely not anything and watch escapist television. The evenings are treasured and I ceaselessly spend them catching up with pals over scrumptious meals and a pitcher of wine or at house by myself delving right into a ebook or dancing round in my kitchen to 90’s pop, 00’s r&b and naturally musicals.

And but, all of that ceases to put across the techniques through which I maintain my inventive spirit – Speaking to pals, going to the theatre, paying attention to song that stirs my soul, writing poetry, studying poetry, mantra, studying the harmonium briefly bursts, strolling or sitting within the park.

I suppose all of that to mention that  my days can really feel extremely odd however are ceaselessly punctuated with stunning vibrant spots

What’s your favorite quote or existence motto?

One in all my favorite quotes come from Martha Graham by means of Agnes De Mille

“There’s a power, a existence pressure, an power, a quickening this is translated by way of you into motion, and since there is just one of you in all of time, this expression is exclusive. And if you happen to block it, it is going to by no means exist by way of some other medium and it is going to be misplaced. The arena is not going to have it. It’s not your online business to resolve how excellent it’s nor how treasured nor the way it compares with different expressions. It’s your industry to stay it yours obviously and immediately, to stay the channel open. You don’t even need to imagine in your self or your paintings. You need to stay your self open and conscious to the urges that encourage you. Stay the channel open.”

It strikes a chord in my memory of the chance and the utter necessity of following your middle and the passions that transfer by way of you.

What’s arising for you in 2023 / 24?

2023 has been a large yr for me with quite a lot of adjustments,  so I’m going to lean into this transition into autumn and wintry weather and harvest the whole thing I learnt from this yr and take a little time to show inward and mirror.

There are many issues brewing for 2024, and I can’t wait to percentage them with you once they’re in a position! It’ll come with day retreats, Frame Temple Dance categories, motion and writing workshops and a couple of different surprises. I’m additionally going to be sharing extra of my writing and poetry subsequent yr, because it’s about time. So yeah, there’ll be quite a lot of amusing issues taking place in 2024, all but to be introduced, however I’m fascinated by what that new yr goes to convey

In finding Tiffany

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