YOGA & ROLFING with Andrea Newman
About Andrea
I enjoy working with people who are looking for more ease and vitality in their body and mind. The changes that both Rolfing and yoga practice can bring can be far-reaching, deeply healing and life enhancing. I am here to help and support you on your own personal journey of exploration and healing.
As well as running my private Rolfing practice in Bristol, I also enjoy teaching yoga classes and facilitating workshops and training courses, both for complete beginners to yoga as well as for experienced practitioners and yoga teachers. I enjoy working with mixed groups containing people of all ages and levels of health.
In 1999, I set up YogaUK, the first yoga website on the internet, which I still run (see button below). I create online yoga courses, including the Essential Anatomy and Physiology for Yoga Teaching online course and BWY Foundation Courses online.
My enquiry into how we move our bodies and how we exist in the world is an ongoing process which I find endlessly fascinating and inspiring. Movement is life. Developing an understanding of how we move helps us to understand ourselves better.
When we begin to explore movement we realise that this work goes much deeper than the standard understanding that structural anatomy gives us. We each have a unique body determined by our genetics, along with a life history which has left its footprints of trauma and injury, joy and meaning. Good emotional and mental health impact our posture and movement, and vice versa.
Scroll down to see my qualifications and training.
I look forward to meeting you in class or in my Rolfing practice. Go to the bottom of the home page to send me a message.
"Yoga and Rolfing go very much hand in hand"
Here is a blog post I wrote for the European Rolfing Association: Read it here.
Qualifications and training
Qualifications
Additional training
Certified Advanced Rolfer®️
ERA training, Peter Schwind
Vienna/Bologna
2018
Certified Rolfer®️
ERA Rolfing training
Munich
2006-2008
BWY Diploma Course Tutor
Faye Beddowes
Wales
2001
Teaching Yoga to Children
BWY Certificate
Swami Vedantananda
Sussex 1999
BWY Yoga Teacher Training Diploma
Ann Weston
Hertfordshire
1994-1995
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
University of Bath
1982-1986
'I am' - The Essence of Non-Duality
Rupert Spira, online 2024
Sound Healing level 1
Sound Healing Academy, London 2024
Manual therapy for lung rehabilitation
Jeffrey Burch, online 2020
Visceral Manipulation: Abdomen
Alison Harvey, The Barral Institute, Ayr 2018
Sacred Geometry
Tom Bree, Royal West of England Academy 2017
Nerve mobilisation in Rolfing
Jon Martine, ERA, Spain 2015
Rolfing movement
Kevin Frank, Spain 2015
The head and neck in Rolfing
Gael Rosewood, London 2014
Psychobiological perspectives in Rolfing
Pedro Prado, London 2013
Source Point therapy Level 1 and 2
Bob Schrei, Rolf Institute (DIRI), Boulder 2010
Introduction to Feldenkrais
Cortijo Romero, Spain 2005
I have also been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to learn from: Simone Jones, Hein Braat, Swami Shivapremananda, Howard Kent, Julie Freideberger, Philip Xerri, Jenni Adams, Patch Adams, and many more inspiring teachers.
