yogabodywork

Individual one-to-one sessions with andrew
"Yogabodywork is an intuitive, holistic massage process that integrates my experience as a Yoga teacher and massage therapist and bodyworker. Each session embraces the energetic, structural and psychological dimensions of being human.A yogabodywork session takes between an hour and an hour and a half. This includes consultation and assessment, massage or hands on work as appropriate and a discussion of the ways in which you can continue the process beyond the session. All sessions are fully confidential. Comfortable clothing is necessary as this is not an oil massage procedure. The process can be used to address specific health issues but will always take a holistic and integrative view of your body, mind and life circumstances".

I am trained as a Yoga Teacher and in traditional holistic massage. I have also explored and worked with many practises and practitioners in the fields of Yoga and Bodywork including Ayurveda, energy medicine and structural integration.  What I offer here is the accumulated insight of over twenty years of study, practise and living, creating a multi-disciplinary approach that nonetheless remains firmly rooted in the principle that our individual human ‘being’ is beyond disciplines or methods or any one way of seeing or being seen.

Each session lasts for an hour and a half. I currently practise from my own space near Falmouth and am available for consultations at the Scarlet Hotel, nr Newquay, Cornwall.

If you want further information or an informal chat before booking a session please feel free to contact us on 01326 375191 or email andrewandjerusha@athayoga.co.uk and we will be very happy to explain how the process might work for you.

Understanding the process

Your Yogabodywork session doesn’t come with any pre-prescribed routine and protocol.  My foundation is that the body has immense wisdom and ‘knows’ what alignment and well being feel like. During consultation, we explore how you are, here and now. Any symptoms are not treated as isolated ‘problems’ but as a part of your whole being in the world. 

Usually, the process continues with some hands-on work. I will explore areas of congestion, discomfort or pain in your body, sometimes using deep massage, at other times bringing awareness through touch and gentle suggestion. Throughout the process we work together, emphasising that this is not a passive ‘treatment’ but a joint exploration, an energetic dialogue.

Occasionally we might find that the session gears itself more towards just talking. Occasionally, we might be silent, thereby allowing the body to do the talking............Usually we are interested in posture, how your bodymind carries and articulates itself in and around the world...........sometimes I just ‘hold’ areas of discomfort, trusting that with encouragement they will release whatever appears blocked.........and sometime there’s no substitute for a good old fashioned bit of massage........In the latter stages of the process I might suggest postural adjustments or ways of moving that might help integrate our sessions into your lifestyle........throughout, I will respect your body’s memory, its intelligence and its uniqueness.

In my experience it is not possible for another to treat, cure or heal you.  Neither is not possible to truly ‘know’ another person’s experience. We are complex creatures, constantly existing in an energetic, structural and emotional landscape of being. Metaphorically, ‘yogabodywork’ simply seeks to explore.......perhaps to play........sometimes even, to dance.........Energies are like this........mercurial, creative, sensitive to permissions and prohibitions alike...............

"The session was a revelation – Andrew gently moved my limbs through their range of movement and, as my confidence grew in Andrew’s capable hands, I realised that that “range” was much greater than I had expected. The liberation of letting someone else see where there were snags or tightness in my body was both incredibly relaxing and awakening. By the end of the session, I felt like I was at a whole new level of understanding with myself."