Tawny shares:
” I was twenty two when I first stepped onto the yoga mat. During my final year of university I was struggling to cope with stress and anxiety brought on from directing my first play as part of the final project of my Masters in Drama and Theatre Studies. I had heard that yoga was good for relaxation and while I don’t remember much about that first yoga class, I do remember feeling calmer and more grounded afterwards.
That was 15 years ago.
I spent most of my 20s battling with myself, my body image, my anxiety and my own self-worth.
It’s something I still manage even now, but my yoga practice has been the light that has guided me towards my own self-acceptance. It has allowed me to befriend my body, to calm my anxious mind and to better understand what it means to be human.
Yoga for me is a deeply intimate, spiritual and personal practice of self-exploration and self-realisation that allows us to connect to our inherent nature as living beings. Yoga is a practice of awakening to our highest truth; that we are whole beings, intrinsically well-made and a part of the endless dance of life’s unfolding.
Over the years, through my training I have discovered and studied non-dual tantra which teaches this central concept:
we are a microcosm of the macrocosm, Divine Consciousness made flesh.
Awakening to our true nature is the path of yoga.
As tantra scholar, Christopher Wallis, puts it – “We seek to pierce through and break out of our mental conditioning – like a new butterfly breaks free of the cocoon of its long slumber – and live day by day, event moment to moment, from the deepest place in our being: from Being itself”.
The rich teachings of yoga create a framework from which we can explore our own human experience and this is what you’ll delve into in my classes.
I teach from the heart and from my own lived experience. My classes provide a safe and inclusive space for all to explore the practice of yoga as path to let go of self-judgment, to soften in and to come back ‘home’. ”
Tawny’s teaching style is warm and playful whilst still maintaining focus on alignment and body mechanics. By cultivating breath awareness, coupled with intelligent sequencing, Tawny invites students to let go of self-judgment, create space to feel and explore their own unique experience of being in the body. You can find Tawney teaching at our Soho centre on Tuesdays. See her full schedule at triyoga here.
