Tiffany Sankary, Feldenkrais Practitioner

I’ve done 2 workshops, 2 classes, and 1 private session with Tiffany. I’ve been able to take valuable lessons from her and the Feldenkrais approach that add to my personal movement practices. The slow, careful movements have helped me to explore how to comfortably move in ways which are normally uncomfortable — or inaccessible! She’s shown me that engaging my muscles slowly + deliberately — and then letting them flow back into their natural position — can give me insight into my most habitual patterns of movement. From this I’ve started to see which habits are useful and which drain my energy. Learning how to slowly approach tense points — but back off from them as soon as I sense strain — has helped to relieve a lot of tightness in my neck and knees. I’ve also realized that my yoga practice need not be limited to yoga — I can play with all sorts of techniques to develop my mind & body!

Tiffany worked with me for four years in the East Bay. Now, whenever she’s in town I make sure to set up an appointment. Working with Tiffany changed my sense of my physical self. I’m now more aware of how I move and how I am still. I remember my very first session, and how I felt as though I was experiencing underwater hypnosis. Calm and supported, I grew!

I have taken a class with Tiffany — From Anxiety to Harmony — and also a number of one on one sessions. Working with Tiffany and experiencing Feldenkrais was so interesting, particularly the way it helped me to understand and experience the phenomena of the «body mind», that is our body has a mind of it’s own plus interacts with our thinking mind. I came to learn how there is a circular relationship between the habits of the body and the habits of the mind. It sounds perhaps abstract to someone who has never done Feldenkrais? I think it is something best experienced in order to be understood fully. Working with Tiffany was an awakening. I highly recommend Tiffany, she is very skillful and a wonderful and gentle presence.

I am grateful for the opportunity of having Feldenkrais sessions with Tiffany. Tiffany is very creative in her approach and she has an amazing ability to bring knowledge, patience and sensitivity to each session. I feel very comfortable and I can deeply relax and trust each experience, so every time I work with Tiffany I am connecting more deeply with myself. After each session, I’m more free in how I move– more aware, embodied, and aligned. I highly recommend Tiffany as a wonderful Feldenkrais practitioner.

I was first interested in trying Feldenkrais lessons because I wanted to learn what it would feel like and how it would benefit me. Working with Tiffany has been terrific. She really knows the body and I felt myself completely at ease during my sessions — she has a gentle touch and really encouraged me to be aware of what I was experiencing. It was really neat feeling the shifts in my body both during and after the session. Afterward I found myself feeling noticeably more more balanced, kind of like how I feel after having acupuncture or doing gentle yoga. It gave me a greater awareness of how I hold my body and how I move. If you are ever looking to try Feldenkrais, Tiffany is your practitioner for it!

I first encountered Tiffany at the Oakland YMCA — I had seen «Feldenkrais» on the schedule there, and after looking up the strange word in Wikipedia, I figured it might help my sore back. While lying down on a blanket in a darkened room with strangers might seem strange or intimidating… Tiffany put us right at ease. The group class consisted of her talking calmly and helping us notice things about our bodies («Is your right hand lying differently on the floor from your left hand?»), and then moved on to gentle motions with a sustained emphasis on awareness. At the end of my first class, I felt taller and calmer, and as I continued taking classes for the next few months I saw great improvements (my spine was straighter, I didn’t wake up with so many aches in my back and hips, I was way less clumsy).
I eventually let my Y membership elapse, but I missed Feldenkrais — Tiffany was my favorite teacher there, so I looked her up, and am now taking one-​on-​one lessons with her. Rather, I’ve only had one so far, and it was AMAZING. I literally had to adjust the rear-​view mirror in my car, because I was sitting so much taller after the lesson. She is a fantastic teacher, and what someone hippier than I might call «an old soul».
Note — I wrote this when Tiffany was in California, but I’m sure she’s just as good in Mass!