Through my work as a Rolfer™ and yoga teacher I offer education and coaching to 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 and deeply healing. I am here to help and support you on your own journey of exploration and healing.
My interest in how life works began with a 4-year Honours degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bath in the 1980s. While my children were very young and I was out of paid work, I trained to be a yoga teacher through the British Wheel of Yoga, and have been teaching yoga since 1994.
I graduated as a Rolfer in 2008 after 3 years of training at the European Rolfing Association in Munich, later progressing on to become a Certified Advanced Rolfer. I continue to research and take specialist training courses regularly with experts in their fields.
My enquiry into how we move our bodies and how we exist in the world is an ongoing process which I find endlessly fascinating. 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, injury and repetitive action on our systems. Emotional and mental health impact heavily on our posture and movement.
As well as running my private Rolfing practice in Bristol, I also enjoy teaching classes and facilitating workshops and training courses, both for complete beginners to yoga as well as for experienced yoga teachers.
If you are interested in my work, I look forward to meeting you in class or in my Rolfing practice soon.
Andrea
My interest in how life works began with a 4-year Honours degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bath in the 1980s. While my children were very young and I was out of paid work, I trained to be a yoga teacher through the British Wheel of Yoga, and have been teaching yoga since 1994.
I graduated as a Rolfer in 2008 after 3 years of training at the European Rolfing Association in Munich, later progressing on to become a Certified Advanced Rolfer. I continue to research and take specialist training courses regularly with experts in their fields.
My enquiry into how we move our bodies and how we exist in the world is an ongoing process which I find endlessly fascinating. 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, injury and repetitive action on our systems. Emotional and mental health impact heavily on our posture and movement.
As well as running my private Rolfing practice in Bristol, I also enjoy teaching classes and facilitating workshops and training courses, both for complete beginners to yoga as well as for experienced yoga teachers.
If you are interested in my work, I look forward to meeting you in class or in my Rolfing practice soon.
Andrea
"Yoga and Rolfing go very much hand in hand"
Here is a blog post I wrote for the European Rolfing Association:
Read it here.
Here is a blog post I wrote for the European Rolfing Association:
Read it here.