An Open Letter from Andrea Carvalho:
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Hello, it is a pleasure to meet you virtually!
Do you want to live a full and vibrant healthy life? I do! I have spent my life, turning over a lot of rocks and learning lots of tools to help me find my way to a life I truly love. I started as a reiki master, someone who does hands on healing, because I needed personally healing and nurturing. I learned western astrologer, because I needed to be able to make some sense of the chaos of life. Then I studied shamanism, seeking the magic in life. Shamanic breathwork helped me to dive deeply into, uncover and release the sorrows that lived deep inside me that kept me from living fully in the here and now. I explored natural medicine, flower essences and crystals. But it all felt like separate parts, like I was missing something. Do you feel like you are missing something in your life? I did. Does life feel dull to you? It did to me. So, I continued to dig and explore… |
Then I found yoga. Yoga had all the tools wrapped up into one very ancient philosophy, starting somewhere between 1500 – 1000 BCE. That’s a really long time ago! Which means they have had years and years and years to understand what it is to be human.
Yoga isn’t just postures it is so, so much more. It is a complete handbook of how to live a beautiful, bright, vibrant human life. Yoga helped me to calm and still my mind and when that happened, magic unfolded. I saw the beauty of my life and those around me. I experienced peace and joy in my heart. I made friends with my body, this amazing, beautiful vessel that carries me through the world and I now feel strong and supple in its container.
What this means for you, is I have a lot of tools to share with you….
Maybe you struggle with anxiety and/or depression? I have been there. Or perhaps it’s a deep unnamable sorrow that keeps you from really enjoying the present moment. Or a chronic aching in your body that prevents you from doing the things you love. Or you just feel like – well, what’s the purpose to life anyhow and life has lost its spark of magic for you. I have been there. I have been in the depth of loss, experienced chronic pain, and wondered what more there could be to life.
I have taught hundreds of students and worked with many clients one on one. When I work with you, you are my full focus. Together we uncover what works for you, maybe its movement, maybe it is working with the breath or perhaps it is creating ritual to connect with your version of the Divine. It’s about you, and your needs.
It’s all about helping you to find your way to the bright, vibrant, healthy full life you want to live.
Yoga isn’t just postures it is so, so much more. It is a complete handbook of how to live a beautiful, bright, vibrant human life. Yoga helped me to calm and still my mind and when that happened, magic unfolded. I saw the beauty of my life and those around me. I experienced peace and joy in my heart. I made friends with my body, this amazing, beautiful vessel that carries me through the world and I now feel strong and supple in its container.
What this means for you, is I have a lot of tools to share with you….
Maybe you struggle with anxiety and/or depression? I have been there. Or perhaps it’s a deep unnamable sorrow that keeps you from really enjoying the present moment. Or a chronic aching in your body that prevents you from doing the things you love. Or you just feel like – well, what’s the purpose to life anyhow and life has lost its spark of magic for you. I have been there. I have been in the depth of loss, experienced chronic pain, and wondered what more there could be to life.
I have taught hundreds of students and worked with many clients one on one. When I work with you, you are my full focus. Together we uncover what works for you, maybe its movement, maybe it is working with the breath or perhaps it is creating ritual to connect with your version of the Divine. It’s about you, and your needs.
It’s all about helping you to find your way to the bright, vibrant, healthy full life you want to live.
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More about me:
My first love is cooking. I love to prepare nourishing meals, from live, vibrant, fresh foods. I love to be in nature as well. Sometime just lying under a tree and watching Spirit move through its leaves and sometimes hiking, paddle boarding, and swimming. I’m not really an artist, but I do love to paint, bead and color. I also really enjoy watching movies!
I grew up on a farm in central California, probably where I developed my love of garden-fresh food. I moved to Oregon for college, met my beloved and moved with him to upstate New York to his family’s farm. In 2013 I moved to Washington at the base of Mount Rainier to care for my parents and support them as they left these bodies behind and began a new soul journey. While I cherish the natural beauty of the pacific northwest, I just wasn’t suited for all the rain. I wanted to live free in a wide-open space. I was still searching for my True Home. In 2021 I moved to Helena Montana, and immediately felt I had finally arrived HOME. I am delighted to say I live in the lovely city of Helena and have the deep immense joy of calling Mount Helena my back yard.
My first love is cooking. I love to prepare nourishing meals, from live, vibrant, fresh foods. I love to be in nature as well. Sometime just lying under a tree and watching Spirit move through its leaves and sometimes hiking, paddle boarding, and swimming. I’m not really an artist, but I do love to paint, bead and color. I also really enjoy watching movies!
I grew up on a farm in central California, probably where I developed my love of garden-fresh food. I moved to Oregon for college, met my beloved and moved with him to upstate New York to his family’s farm. In 2013 I moved to Washington at the base of Mount Rainier to care for my parents and support them as they left these bodies behind and began a new soul journey. While I cherish the natural beauty of the pacific northwest, I just wasn’t suited for all the rain. I wanted to live free in a wide-open space. I was still searching for my True Home. In 2021 I moved to Helena Montana, and immediately felt I had finally arrived HOME. I am delighted to say I live in the lovely city of Helena and have the deep immense joy of calling Mount Helena my back yard.
More about my training:
In 1994 I became a student of astrology, reiki and yoga. I became a Reiki Master in 2007. In 2001 I began my shamanic studies with Venus Rising, becoming a shamanic minister in 2002 and breathwork facilitator in 2011. I completed my first 200-hour yoga teacher training in an Anusara style studio in 2014 and another 300-hour training in the same style in 2021. In 2020 I began studying with Robin Rothenberg at Essential Yoga Therapy completing another 500-hour training in 2021. Currently I am enrolled and nearly complete with Essential Yoga Therapy’s Yoga Therapist Training 1000-hour training program.
In 1994 I became a student of astrology, reiki and yoga. I became a Reiki Master in 2007. In 2001 I began my shamanic studies with Venus Rising, becoming a shamanic minister in 2002 and breathwork facilitator in 2011. I completed my first 200-hour yoga teacher training in an Anusara style studio in 2014 and another 300-hour training in the same style in 2021. In 2020 I began studying with Robin Rothenberg at Essential Yoga Therapy completing another 500-hour training in 2021. Currently I am enrolled and nearly complete with Essential Yoga Therapy’s Yoga Therapist Training 1000-hour training program.
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