
TIFFANY CRUIKSHANK
OPTIMISING RESILIENCE
– A 3D APPROACH:
A WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS
05TH – 07TH SEPTEMBER 2025
ABOUT THE WEEKEND
Feeling burned out or looking to optimise your health and resilience? Then this Resilience Weekend has your name on it! Join Tiffany for a curated weekend of practices to give you the experiences and tools you need to revitalise your health and wellness using both research-based and traditional practices to get the most out of your time on your mat. This weekend will take a 3D approach to train for resilience in your nervous system, muscles, connective tissue, physiology, brain, and – most important of all – give you the tools to continue this work on your own regardless of where you practise.
Resilience implies an ability to adapt and recover quickly in challenging circumstances and this capacity for resilience is within our human design. Unfortunately, most programmes focus solely on either restorative practices or physical training, when the most impactful therapies usually involve a more complex and individualised approach.
Cultivating a deep sense of resilience means addressing both our physical capacity and physiological function as well as our mental and emotional wellbeing. Most importantly it requires a shift in perspective to override the negativity bias automations of our brain that protect us from danger but can also perpetuate the cycle of burnout.
This weekend is for you if you’re struggling with exhaustion, sleep, recovery, focus, motivation, anxiety, overwhelm, concentration, memory, or if you are looking to enhance your overall health and resilience. Whether you’re on the burnout spectrum or looking to build resilience, the inputs are the same: challenge the system to rise to the occasion when needed and make rest and recovery your superpower.
This series of workshops will involve challenging and stimulating practices as a training impulse, along with nourishing introspective practices to support recovery and optimal energy levels that allow your internal systems to recalibrate to a new baseline. Prompts will be given to guide you to individualise the experience to support your unique needs and goals. There will be flow to embody the transformation, introspective practices to guide the deeper work and a heavy dose of breathwork and myofascial release (MFR).
You’ll leave with tools to continue to support your resilience, insights on areas you can individually focus on, and a shift in perspective to how you approach your practice. All you need is some vinyasa experience, all levels are welcome.
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MENTAL WELLNESS BOOSTER
FRIDAY 05TH SEPTEMBER
7.30PM – 9.30PM
£50
With so many aspects to mental health it can be challenging to know where to begin to support our ongoing mental wellness. The research suggests everything from movement, mindset, breathwork and nervous system regulation can be helpful tools but how can we get the most out of our practice to bolster our mental wellness? We’ll explore this in a balanced mixture of nourishing flow and therapeutic restorative practices along with acupressure resources and a shift in outlook. All you need is some vinyasa experience, all levels are welcome. -
LEVERAGING STRESS AS A RESOURCE
SATURDAY 06TH SEPTEMBER
11.30AM – 1.30PM
£50
Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the enemy! In fact, when approached skillfully, stress can be a potent tool to instigate change, support energy levels and balance the nervous system. Ultimately stress can be an important friend that warns us of danger but also one that pushes us to be our best selves. Whether you’re looking to enhance performance, concentration, energy levels or motivation, this class explores ways to get you going in preparation for the task at hand. We’ll explore resources to turn stress into an asset with both stimulating and nourishing practices to help you appreciate the fullness of your life. This class uses breathwork, asana, myofascial release (MFR), acupressure and Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts to bring this work to life. All you need is some vinyasa experience, all levels are welcome. -
RECOVERY AS A SUPERPOWER: FUEL FOR A FULFILLING LIFE
SATURDAY 06TH SEPTEMBER
2.30 – 4.30PM
£50
Recovery is a critical part of your health. Whether you’re a professional athlete or a professional desk sitter, recovery practices can amplify so many of the therapeutic effects of this practice. Enhancing recovery helps us bounce back from stress, strenuous physical activity, big life events and illness. We’ll look at ways to increase the effects of yin and restorative yoga to train the parasympathetic nervous system to enhance recovery. In Chinese Medicine the introspective practices are a potent resource to fuel our lives and in our busy, modern world the small ways we support recovery can have a big impact. We’ll explore the science and techniques behind some potent breathwork and myofascial release practices, yin yoga and Chinese Medicine theory. All levels welcome. -
DECODING STRENGTH & RESILIENCE
SUNDAY 07TH SEPTEMBER
11.30AM – 1.30PM
£50
Thanks to the media, nowadays we’re all pretty familiar with the importance of strength training. From the effects of myokines on cognition, blood sugar, bones and tumors to the importance of maintaining muscle mass over our lifespan, strength training is essential to our health. It’s easy enough to lift weights and increase our strength capacity at the gym but there is so much more to strength, like our functional capacity, movement efficiency, endurance and the strength of our collagen matrix for injury resilience. This class will investigate research-based practices that you can bring onto your mat to train the capacity of both the muscle and connective tissue to help enhance performance, minimise injuries and cultivate youthfulness through our lifespan. Tiffany has worked with professional athletes across the US and brings a wealth of cutting-edge knowledge and depth of experience from her specialty in sports medicine over the past 28 years of her career. Taking a modern lens to traditional asanas with plenty of information to help you bring the concepts home with you this class is for you if you’re dealing with the last remnants of an injury, trying to enhance performance and strength, or looking to help minimise injuries and feel your best. All you need is some vinyasa experience, all levels are welcome. -
MYOFASCIAL RELEASE: A RESILIENCE TOOL
SUNDAY 07TH SEPTEMBER
2.30PM – 4.30PM
£50
Myofascial release has been a life-changing tool for both myself and the tens of thousands of patients, teachers, and students that I’ve worked with. It can be used for both tissue resilience, pain regulation, recovery and nervous system regulation to name a few. This workshop will look at the what, why and how behind these techniques then dive into protocols for the legs, hips, back and shoulders. A great way to get a scan of what’s going on in the major areas of your body as well as a potent tool to quickly shift your experience in your body. You’ll leave with a basic understanding of how to apply this work on your own and some areas to focus in on in your own body. No yoga or myofascial experience needed.
ABOUT TIFFANY CRUIKSHANK
Tiffany Cruikshank, , L.Ac., MAOM, is the founder of Yoga Medicine®, a community of yoga teachers focused on fusing science and research with traditional yoga practices to serve the medical communities with a mission to help people thrive and live their best lives.
Tiffany is also an acupuncturist with over 20 years of experience and a specialty in sports medicine and orthopedics. She created the Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine programme at the Nike World Headquarters Wellness Center and served as the Acupuncturist and Yoga Teacher at the Nike WHQ.
Tiffany’s passion is empowering yoga teachers and patients with tools to enhance their function, performance and appreciation of life. She has taught yoga for over 29 years and has trained over 20,000 teachers worldwide to understand the inner workings of the body and individualise therapeutic yoga practices.
Tiffany is also the founder of the Yoga Medicine Seva Foundation, a nonprofit that works to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation in India through efforts of education and entrepreneurship. She has written 2 books, runs the Yoga Medicine® podcast, and posts new practices weekly on Yoga Medicine® Online.
Tiffany has been on the cover of over 15 magazines and is regularly featured as an expert in prominent publications such as Prevention, WebMD, Huffington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Yoga Journal, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, OM Yoga, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, Men’s Health, LA Times, Marie Claire, and many others.
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