About Andy
Andy is a registered physiotherapist, yoga therapist, breath-work teacher and biodynamic craniosacral therapist specialising in the treatment and management of post traumatic stress.
Based in the Sunshine Coast of Australia he has extensive therapy based experience having worked in various settings such as hospitals, yoga schools, neurological care units, military outpatients, university clinics and private practice.
Founder
Andy is a registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist (PACT), physiotherapist, yoga therapist (IAYT) and breathwork teacher (Vedansha institute of Vedic science -India) specialising in the treatment and management of post traumatic stress. Based in the Sunshine Coast of Australia he has extensive experience having worked in various settings such as hospitals, yoga schools, neurological care units, military outpatients, university clinics and private practice.
He specialised in post graduate manual and adjustment based physiotherapy at Curtin university and Otago university where he was a teaching faculty member in the school of physiotherapy (NZ) in the mid naughties. But he moved to Australia when he cottoned on how gorgeous the Sunshine Coast weather is, whilst being especially attracted to the tranquil vibe of the hinterland.
He went on to study traditional Chinese medicine and Japanese acupuncture, trauma release exercise (TRE) and teaches "Beyond Breathwork" meditation retreats, Raja yoga, Cranioga (www.cranioga.com) and Biodynamic craniosacral therapy.
He is a senior tutor for the international Body Intelligence organisation and wrote their post graduate manual on "The use of intention & non-doing" which he teaches internationally. Andy is also one of the Body Intelligence post graduate tutors for the "Brain in depth" and "Immunity" seminars. In 2022 Andy published his first book with Singing Dragon titled "Intention & non-doing in therapeutic bodywork"
Andy runs a full time health clinic in the northern Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia where he also teaches restorative yoga classes and cranioga seminars for most of the year....apart from when he can't stave off going bush.
My Vision
It inspires me to witness the physiologic and psychologic shifts in people when they re-orient their perspective from trying to change this or that, to one which is intimate with the vitality of change itself.
When individuals no longer merely exercise and diet to get healthy, but instead wake to their inherent health enough for exercise and diet to begin to be more of an option than a chore.
My Story
For a good while I have been involved in helping people to re-establish their health, but I first needed to come to terms with what 'health' actually meant as a felt-sense reality, rather than the opposite of disease.
I have at times been blown away by the inherent potential most individuals have when they too realise the vitality of this felt-sense.
Yet, I have also become very aware how such potential is often buried by life's undigested experiences and encouraged to remain dormant by the incorporation of multitudes of imposing interventions and techniques, which (ironically), were supposed to help reclaim their wellbeing.
As a result I have been motivated to develop a process which helps to access and promote the expression of an individuals health, whilst relinquishing dependency on never ending intervention.
The result is a process I call Cranioga.
Resonance & Resource
The cranioga process helps with the transformation of patterns which restrict the expression of health within a persons system.
There is an embodied 'knowing' that grows amongst those who access their wider resources and are able to relinquish reliance on mechanical interventions and techniques over time .