Delara Tiv - Teachers
Meet Delara
Delara Tiv is an Advanced Certified Rolfer® and movement educator whose work explores postural organization in gravity, fascial relationships, and the perceptual processes that shape how we inhabit and move our bodies
With a background as a professional dancer and teacher, her work bridges therapeutic bodywork, movement education, and contemplative practice. Drawing from her experience in dance, structural integration, and yoga, Delara helps practitioners cultivate a deeper perception of movement, alignment, and breathing, allowing them to move with greater efficiency and awareness.
She has worked internationally with dancers and athletes, including touring with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater as a Rolfing therapist and movement educator, supporting dancers in recovering from injuries and refining their quality of movement.
Alongside her clinical work, Delara is actively involved in training, mentoring, and educating yoga teachers, sharing her approach to practice, movement, and pedagogy with the next generation of practitioners. She continues to deepen her expertise through ongoing study in Barral osteopathy and the Neijing tradition of Chinese medicine.
An eternal student by nature, Delara has been practicing yoga for over two decades. She continues her study of the yogic wisdom teachings that inform the practice, including Sāṃkhya, Vedānta, Tantra, Ayurveda, and Vedic chanting, while maintaining a while maintaining a committed daily sādhana.
Having completed the Advanced A and B sequences of Ashtanga Yoga, she guides practitioners across the full spectrum of practice, from complete beginners and those navigating physical limitations, recovery from injury, or periods of fatigue and stress, to practitioners who have developed the preparation required to explore more complex asanas within the method.
Her personal path with yoga began in 2003 during her university studies and professional dance training, where the practice initially served as a means of cultivating balance amidst the physical and mental demands of that period. In 2009, while living in Madrid, she encountered the Ashtanga Vinyasa system through Borja Romero and experienced the profound impact that a consistent daily practice can have on every aspect of life.
Over the years, she has had the privilege of studying with several respected teachers who have influenced and shaped her practice and development as a teacher, including David Garrigues, Richard Freeman, Gregor Maehle, Rolf Naujokat, Linda and Gerald Diss, and John Scott. She continues to practice with, assist, and demonstrate for David Garrigues, whose guidance has been particularly influential on her path.
Delara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Geography and Spanish Literature from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. After many years traveling internationally as a dancer and living abroad, she now resides in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Grateful to have found a place to take roots, she founded Ashtanga Yoga Vevey in 2018 and continues to share her work through teaching, therapy, and ongoing study.
