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The Power of Yoga<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Lorna Oppedisano | Photography by Alice G. Patterson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Tiffany O Cagwin\u2019s practice is based in love. The owner of O Yoga followed this love from a tumultuous childhood, to a diagnosis of Crohn\u2019s disease in her late teens, to the ultimate realization of her calling in life \u2014 her dharma, she said \u2014 in founding her studio. Even her business model is to love people, she says, only half joking.<\/p>\n

Tiffany\u2019s journey to love, yoga and the balance the two provide wasn\u2019t straightforward or easy. But the power of yoga, she explained, is connection to the true essence of self.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nonaggressive way to go about understanding your body,\u201d Tiffany said. \u201cYou just start to find peace with yourself through your practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finding peace in turmoil <\/strong><\/p>\n

When Tiffany tells the story of yoga and O Yoga, she explains it starts with her own story, long before she discovered her passion.<\/p>\n

Early in life, Tiffany mastered a different type of peace. When her parents divorced at a young age, she learned to play the role of peacekeeper, gaining knowledge about the \u201ccomplexities of relationships\u201d that many don\u2019t realize until adulthood.<\/p>\n

Her parents shared joint custody of their daughter until Tiffany was 12. At that point, she had to make the decision of staying in Ohio with her father or moving to a farm in New Mexico with her mother, who was pregnant with Tiffany\u2019s first sibling. Not wanting to miss out on the opportunity to be an older sister, Tiffany opted to move.<\/p>\n

A few years later, when she was 15 years old, Tiffany\u2019s life shifted gears again. The young scholar had aspirations of going to an Ivy League university. But one day, she came home from school and her mother surprised her with an executive decision: going forward, Tiffany would be homeschooled.<\/p>\n

While Tiffany was disappointed that her life took that turn, and admits she\u2019s pondered the \u201cwhat if\u201d of staying in traditional education, it was during that time that Tiffany experienced her first meditative moments.<\/p>\n

Some days, she would ride her horse into the mountains, and spend the day exploring. There was no noise, Tiffany recollected, no chaos. It was the first time she had that in her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was substantial enough then as a 15-year-old to know I could feel the difference in my body, being quiet,\u201d Tiffany said, explaining that in those experiences, she learned to be simultaneously still and alert, feeling the movement of the horse and her own breath. \u201cThat was probably my first real mind-body connection, and understanding of stillness and meditation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unbalanced body<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Tiffany turned 17, she decided to return to Ohio. While working full time and attending community college part time, she started experiencing stomach pains.<\/p>\n

It was a persistent problem. Having trouble eating, she lost weight. Tiffany was down to about 85 pounds when she ended up in the hospital back in New Mexico. Her entire body was inflamed; if she had gotten there much later, the doctors told her, she could have died.<\/p>\n

Tiffany was diagnosed with Crohn\u2019s disease. For the next couple decades, it was a \u201cnonstop battle,\u201d she said, explaining that she was given drug after drug in attempts to provide her with relief. Many were experimental medications. Her health was not in balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the toxicity of the meds was also contributing to how poorly I was feeling,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a struggle for a lot of years. I lived at the doctor\u2019s office and the hospitals. I became very, very comfortable with floating in and out of those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the dramatic prognosis \u2014 \u201cThis is what it is, and you\u2019re probably going to have to have your colon removed,\u201d they told her, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what you eat. This is just the life you\u2019re facing.\u201d \u2014 Tiffany stayed optimistic.<\/p>\n

Going back to college in Ohio \u2014 now full time \u2014 she earned a degree in teaching, and led a fourth grade classroom for a year. Then she got sick, and found herself in the hospital again.<\/p>\n

Around that time, something told Tiffany there had to be another method to fight Crohn\u2019s besides the medley of drugs and long stints at the doctor\u2019s office and hospitals. She started research into alternative healing, and discovered the macrobiotic diet, a dietrooted in whole grains, vegetables and greens. It was the first time she\u2019d heard about inflammatory foods, and the idea that what you eat can control inflammation in your body, she explained.<\/p>\n

She hired a macrobiotic chef and went all in, Tiffany remembered. \u201cI was just at that point where I was like, \u2018This is all or nothing for me. I can\u2019t keep living like this. I\u2019ve got to figure this out,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Struggle with self image<\/strong><\/p>\n

The diet helped curb the Crohn\u2019s symptoms to an extent; but emotionally, Tiffany was still reeling from years of struggles with her body image. Because of the medicines, she went through periods of extreme weight loss and extreme weight gain. Feeling like she had very little control over her own body, she began to develop eating disorders in college.<\/p>\n

\u201cI craved a lot of sugary, terrible foods with the drugs, and so I\u2019d put on a ton of weight, and then crash diet, and it started to create this cycle,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Even after she began to feel relief from Crohn\u2019s, the ingrained habits had created a deep pattern that was hard to break, Tiffany explained.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until she found yoga that Tiffany really felt she had regained control of her body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of felt like it was something I was going to struggle with my whole life, because I could see that it was never going to go away,\u201d she said, explaining her fear of consistent returns to body image obsession and calorie counting. \u201cAnd then I started doing yoga, and it almost stopped instantly with the regular yoga practice. It just became a nonissue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discovering her practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiffany stumbled upon yoga seemingly by chance. She\u2019d moved to Syracuse and had her son Caden with her first husband. It was during a visit to the hospital that someone suggested she try yoga. She\u2019d already gained some control of her body with diet; they suggested practicing yoga to deal with the chaos of life.<\/p>\n

It began with a curious Tiffany following along with basic yoga poses from a DVD in her home in Syracuse. Even with just a physical practice, she began to sense changes in her body. She didn\u2019t delve into any sort of related philosophy for years, but she still felt stronger, healthier and calmer from the beginning, she explained. Tiffany didn\u2019t want to beat up her body anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to understand how I worried the way that I did, or looked at my body that way,\u201d she said, thinking back to a time before she\u2019d discovered yoga. \u201cI was battling myself. There was no peace. There was no acceptance of just really loving who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yoga practice, along with her healthy lifestyle, has led Tiffany to be symptom-free of Crohn\u2019s for the last six years.<\/p>\n

For a while, the physical practice was enough for her, but eventually Tiffany started getting curious about the philosophical aspects of yoga. So she bought a book and began to study.<\/p>\n

She eventually enrolled in teacher training with the Himalayan Institute, a distance learning program, and it looked like Tiffany was on track to becoming a yoga instructor. The program was slated to end with a month-long trip to India, and she was ready to embrace it.<\/p>\n

But then she was offered a job in Boston. Having worked full time in administration at Syracuse University College of Law, Tiffany saw herself following that track in her professional life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just dove right back in. I saw this career path unfolding. I loved the MBA program, so I was getting really involved. It was great to be back in school,\u201d she said. \u201cAll the ambition took over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yoga was moved to the back burner.<\/p>\n

O Yoga<\/strong><\/p>\n

But then one fateful day, Tiffany was walking along on her lunch break, and saw a sandwich board promoting a yoga class. The teacher was Ame Wren, and the school was Boston Yoga School.<\/p>\n

Tiffany followed the sign\u2019s direction into the class, and she was home.<\/p>\n

It was the most nurtured she\u2019d felt until that point in her life, Tiffany remembered. Looking back, she realized that until then, she wasn\u2019t living her purpose. The heaviness of experiences life had thrown her way had encumbered and covered her. When she started practicing yoga regularly with Ame, that all changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just lit me up. There was a spark. It was this fire in me that just knew that\u2026\u201d she trailed off, her eyes sparkling, as she tried to capture the right words. \u201cThe best way I can describe it is that I\u2019d felt so dark and heavy, and then yoga started to liberate me.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the path to teaching yoga once again, Tiffany enrolled in teacher training at the Back Bay Yoga Studio in the summer of 2011.<\/p>\n

But because of family matters, she had to move back to Syracuse soon after, leaving the beloved yoga community she\u2019d come to call home.<\/p>\n

On a retreat to Costa Rica, she talked to Ame and another teacher, Sarah Sturges, about her predicament: she\u2019d be certified to teach, but have no yoga community once she returned to Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Ame answered: \u201cOpen a studio. Make the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah immediately agreed: \u201cYes. And you need to call it O Yoga.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiffany hadn\u2019t had any aspirations of becoming a business owner; but out of pure curiosity, when she arrived home from the retreat, she started looking into possible Armory Square real estate locations and crunching the numbers.<\/p>\n

On a weekend trip to Syracuse, she found the perfect space on Walton Street, and with no concrete business plan in mind, signed a year lease. She told some acquaintances in town she was\u00a0moving back and opening a studio. Soon word spread, and on opening weekend, O Yoga was packed.<\/p>\n

Since then, the community has grown in leaps and bounds. In 2013, O Yoga moved to its current central location at 1003 W. Fayette St., doubling in size and adding space for teacher trainings, which Tiffany offers through the Boston Yoga School. In September 2016, O Yoga expanded to a second location at 4465 E. Genesee St. in DeWitt.<\/p>\n

Through the entire journey of O Yoga, Tiffany\u2019s aim has been to show people yoga is for everyone. The community aspect of the classes offers a supportive energy from people of all different ages and levels of physical fitness. The message of class at O Yoga is that it\u2019s your own practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about trying to achieve perfection,\u201d Tiffany explained, adding that it\u2019s about inquiry and working from the outside of your body inward. \u201cYou work from the periphery to the core: physically, mentally [and] emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The importance of self-care<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with O Yoga, Tiffany\u2019s own practice has grown over the years. Very recently, she\u2019s developed a stronger desire to delve deeper into teaching and her own study of yoga. The longterm goal, she hopes, is to turn the administrative side of the business \u2014 things like marketing, accounting and social media, all of which she oversees now \u2014 to someone else, and be able to focus more on the mission of O Yoga.<\/p>\n

In November, Tiffany finished the first five-day immersion in a long program of study with Nikki Costello, a teacher in New York City. All roads have led to Nikki, she explained; many teachers Tiffany\u2019s connected with and admired have studied with Nikki.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s given me a clarity in my path that I haven\u2019t had before,\u201d Tiffany said. \u201cI\u2019m very excited. It\u2019s just a whole new depth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since her new study began, her teaching methods have shifted as well, she remarked. Initially, she was worried that a change in direction would deter people from her classes, but her students love it.<\/p>\n

For Tiffany, yoga is no longer just a physical practice. Now she uses activities like Crossfit for exercise, giving herself permission to work slower, deeper and more intelligently and effectively in her yoga practice, she explained.<\/p>\n

With the help and encouragement of her husband and fellow O Yoga teacher, Tyler \u2014 \u201cHe is the rock I stand on that allows me run the businesses and help people the way I do,\u201d Tiffany said fondly \u2014 she\u2019s also delved deeper into the practice of meditation.<\/p>\n

Yoga, Crossfit, meditation: they\u2019re all part of Tiffany\u2019s self-care, another practice by which she swears. With the schedule she keeps, Tiffany stressed the importance of carving out time for yourself, be it an hour-long massage, 10 minutes in child\u2019s pose or a session of light therapy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think sometimes when we don\u2019t rest, we don\u2019t know the power of it,\u201d she said, stressing that when you take care of yourself, you\u2019re of more service to others. \u201cThere\u2019s so much that I\u2019d love to share with people. But overall \u2014 if I could just get one message across to people \u2014 it\u2019s just to take seriously self-care.\u201d SWM <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To learn more about O Yoga, including class schedule, workshops, teacher trainings and rates, visit theoyogastudio.com<\/a>. O Yoga is located in Syracuse at 1003 W. Fayette St., 5th Floor, and DeWitt at 4465 E. Genesee St.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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