ANDREA BROOK

International Performing Artist

Yoga Teacher / Life Catalyst

Public Speaking / Body Language Coach

ANDREA BROOK

International Performing Artist

Yoga Teacher

Life Catalyst

Public Speaker

Body Language Coach

 

 Andrea is now offering 3 classes each week in person in Chrysalis and on Zoom!

Weekly Yoga Class Schedule

Mondays 9am – Yoga Strength Training

An awesome workout to start your week. Flow yoga with push-ups and sit-ups.

Tuesdays 11am – Gentle Stretch & Strengthen

This class includes light hand weights in our standing postures to improve grounded strength, add resistance, and increase bone density. Great for seniors, women in menopause, individuals with back issues, and all students who want to improve postural integrity.

Thursdays 10:30am – Yoga with Intention

Each student sets an intention, then I design a yoga flow class that integrates those intentions to create an epic journey of physical, energetic and conscious success.

 

Email Andrea for more details. Chrysalis is located at 850 Baldwin Rd, Ojai, CA 93023. Drive past the houses to the back of the property to find Chrysalis and parking.

 

ZOOM LINK for Thursday class: https://zoom.us/j/655522353

Everyone welcome! 

 

Single Class $25, Block of 4 classes is $90, Block of 10 classes is $200 via Venmo to @Andrea-Brook-1. Venmo QR code below. Or Zelle andrea@sonicbutterfly.com

 

Monthly Yoga Class offerings, too!

 

First Monday of each month at 11am (September Class will be Sept 9): Yoga Flow Sound Bath $30

 In this wonderful and profound collaboration, the talented Alarra Saress creates a live sound bath, as Andrea leads you through a beautiful flow yoga class.

 


Fourth Saturday of each month at 10am: Sonic Butterfly Yoga

 The ascending overtones and healing harmonics of long string vibrations provide the perfect soundtrack for the yoga practice, as they transmute and sublime one’s energy to promote physical/energetic health and creative inspiration.

 

Last Monday of each month at 7pm: Sonic Butterfly Music Meditation

 This is more than a meditation, it is an opportunity to listen, to be, to transform, and love.

 

 

Donations also accepted with Zelle to andrea@sonicbutterfly.com

Private yoga classes with Andrea in person and on Zoom

I would love to work with you one time or every week to design a yoga practice just for you!

First we talk and identify what would best support you. I will then design and teach to you a practice that will set your intentions into motion. With Zoom or audio recording on your phone, we can easily record it and you can use that video/audio for the rest of the week, month or year.

Please email me directly to set up your private lesson: andrea@andreabrookyoga.com

The Oasis Within

Ojai Yoga Retreat with Andrea
Saturday & Sunday, September 21 & 22, 2024

Please join International Performing Artist & Yoga Teacher ~ Andrea Brook / Sonic Butterfly for a profoundly fabulous weekend of yoga, meditation, music, floating sound bath, community and more on her beautiful property, the Ojai Oasis, and discover a center of peace within you.

The retreat begins Saturday at 11am, settling in at the Oasis with brunch by the pool, socializing, and a quick swim.  Next is an opening meditation circle & altar building under the sister oaks, a yoga class in Chrysalis, and a floating sound bath led by Mimi Camarillo. To end our day, we go out for dinner and return to the Oasis to enjoy tea under the stars.

Sunday morning, go kayaking at nearby Lake Casitas, sleep in, or enjoy a swim. At 10:30am is Sonic Butterfly Yoga followed by a Super Sonic Butterfly Dance Party, lunch, swimming, and a closing meditation by the creek to complete our retreat at 3pm.

The Oasis Within Ojai Yoga Retreat is $375 and includes snacks & drinks, brunch on Saturday, breakfast & lunch on Sunday, as well as meditation, yoga, music, pool, and floating sound bath. Dinner Saturday night and kayaking are extra.

You can also book a private Watsu session in the heated pool with Mimi for $175 (only 2 sessions still available). Email Mimi to learn more and reserve your private Watsu session. This work with Mimi is pure heaven and one of the places where I discover the Oasis Within.

To learn more and reserve your spot: Andrea@SonicButterfly.com
Space is very limited. Venmo $150 deposit to @Andrea-Brook-1 or Zelle andrea@sonicbutterfly.com to reserve your spot.

 

The process of studying, searching, and understanding YOGA, yes, YOGA in big words, with Andrea Brook became one of the most exciting things I have ever done in my life. Not only because she put into context everything I already knew, not just because she taught me the meaning and reason behind every asana in my body and soul, not because she introduced me to the complex and yet simple world of meditation, but because I understood very soon in our practices that Andrea was not only a yoga teacher, she was, is, and will always be yoga herself.

Andrea Brook is a master of life itself, with no fear to share her wisdom and her experiences. She opened my eyes and my soul to a better perception and understanding of myself and I thank her for that.

Antonio Banderas

About ANDREA BROOK 

 

Andrea Brook is an international performing artist, yoga teacher/life catalyst and public speaker.

Andrea began the incredible life practices of yoga and meditation in 1995. Having broken her back as a girl, she recognized that yoga was the perfect practice to support her in rehabilitating her back and living a dynamic and active lifestyle. Andrea began as an Astanga Yoga practitioner and started teaching yoga in 1998, after studying in Mysore, India with the Guru of Astanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Andrea returned to India in 2000 to study Integral Yoga in Rishikesh, India with Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, and then continued her studies with the world renowned Thich Nhat Hahn, to deepen her practice of mindfulness meditation. Throughout the decades, she has continued to study and practice many styles of yoga including kundalini, Jivamukti, vinyasa (flow), and restorative yoga, as well as meditation and breathing techniques, with amazing teachers all over the world. Andrea’s teaching style incorporates the wealth of her experience, and the expansiveness of her studies gives her the ability to offer each student exactly what they need to support them to cultivate the lives they truly want.

Andrea has led workshops and retreats around the world including Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, the Omega Institute, the TED Conference, and festivals including Wanderlust, Burning Man, Symbiosis, the Envision Festival in Costa Rica and so many more.

As a musician and installation artist, Andrea has toured since 2001, presenting visually and sonically stunning performances and transforming architecture and natural environments into large scale musical instruments, including the Coliseum in Rome, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Temple at Burning Man and the Grand Theater in Shanghai.

In 2013, Andrea began Sonic Butterfly Productions to unite her talents. She designed her own long-string harp, Sonic Butterfly, with 26 strings that are at minimum 60ft long and expand out on each side of the performer and over the audience. The 2 resonating chambers look like butterfly wings complete with Projection or LED Light wings.

Photo by: Marco Guerrero Leon

 

ABOUT ANDREA BROOK

Andrea Brook is an international performing artist, yoga teacher/life catalyst and public speaker.

 

Andrea began the incredible life practices of yoga and meditation in 1995. Having broken her back as a girl, she recognized that yoga was the perfect practice to support her in rehabilitating her back and living a dynamic and active lifestyle. Andrea began as an Astanga Yoga practitioner and started teaching yoga in 1998, after studying in Mysore, India with the Guru of Astanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Andrea returned to India in 2000 to study Integral Yoga in Rishikesh, India with Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, and then continued her studies with the world renowned Thich Nhat Hahn, to deepen her practice of mindfulness meditation. Throughout the decades, she has continued to study and practice many styles of yoga including kundalini, Jivamukti, vinyasa (flow), and restorative yoga, as well as meditation and breathing techniques, with amazing teachers all over the world. Andrea’s teaching style incorporates the wealth of her experience, and the expansiveness of her studies gives her the ability to offer each student exactly what they need to support them to cultivate the lives they truly want.

Andrea has led workshops and retreats around the world including Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, the Omega Institute, the TED Conference, and festivals including Wanderlust, Burning Man, Symbiosis, the Envision Festival in Costa Rica and so many more.

As a musician and installation artist, Andrea has toured since 2001, presenting visually and sonically stunning performances and transforming architecture and natural environments into large scale musical instruments, including the Coliseum in Rome, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Temple at Burning Man and the Grand Theater in Shanghai.

In 2013, Andrea began Sonic Butterfly Productions to unite her talents. She designed her own long-string harp, Sonic Butterfly, with 26 strings that are at minimum 60ft long and expand out on each side of the performer and over the audience. The 2 resonating chambers look like butterfly wings complete with Projection or LED Light wings.

Yoga Teacher / Life Catalyst

Customized Yoga Practices

Own your Practice…

Andrea creates customized yoga practices for individuals and groups to consciously, physically and energetically put one’s intentions into motion. Her classes, workshops and retreats are designed to reconnect you to your own wisdom through your body’s expressions, your emotional responses and your mind’s dialogue between anxiety and true understanding. These sessions are more than yoga, they give you the tools to live without hesitation or self-diminishment, to recognize who you truly are, and to live the life you were born to live.

Andrea has a long list of clients that include entrepreneurs, CEOs, super moms, celebrities, athletes, musicians, artists, you name it! As a multi-faceted individual who owns her own businesses, is a musician, dancer, and artist, she can relate to wide variety of clients of all ages and backgrounds.

Andrea works with clients in person in Los Angeles and Ojai, CA, and all over the world via phone & Skype to support individuals who are ready to manifest their intentions and live their lives as the fullest expression of who they are.

“The daily stresses of life melt away when mind meets body under the tender care and guidance of Andrea Brook. Andrea’s well-schooled approach to yoga bridges a perennial gap between our love affair with life’s ever complicated embodiment of emotional drama and the physical consequences. Her customized yoga practices tap into energetic conditions and provide a much needed path to the release of mental and physical congestion. Where therapy ends Andrea begins. Enjoy the journey.”

 Jeremy Dee, CEO of Corporate Realty Associate

Sonic Butterfly is based on the concept of transformation, like the butterfly, re-creating ourselves into the full expression of who we truly are with all of our beauty shining. These transformational experiences are more than performances, as they engage the audience, inviting them to be participants, allowing them to transcend limitation and inspiring their truth, their creativity, their authentic self to fly.

Sonic Butterfly is an incredible addition to festivals and events. In addition to performances, Sonic Butterfly Yoga takes you on a vibrational, rhythmic, physical, energetic and conscious journey of transformation, combining the unique teaching style of yoga teacher, Andrea Brook, with the exquisite music of Sonic Butterfly. The ascending overtones and healing harmonics of long string vibrations provide the perfect soundtrack for the yoga practice, as they transmute and sublimate one’s energy to promote physical/energetic health and creative inspiration.

 

Corporate Yoga & Retreats

 Corporate Yoga:

Recognizing the incredible value of the clarity and motivation that comes from working with Andrea, her clients hire her to support their business partners and employees to create a conscious environment for success on all levels. Andrea can help your company to reduce stress, stay healthy both mentally and physically, and have a positive company ethos that grows your company as a whole and all of the individuals within it.

 

Retreats:

Andrea’s retreats are extraordinary! Each one is a transformational journey specifically designed for the participants, from CEOs of multinational companies on Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands to 24 hour reset retreats at her home in Ojai, CA. Contact Andrea to join the journey.

For over 7 years I’ve been working with Andrea, and I attribute many successes of my company to her phenomenal work. Every Monday the team looks forward to our weekly yoga practice, and the benefits are tremendous. Andrea has the ability to connect with each person and create truly transformational experiences for all, through realizing our intentions, identifying challenges that arise, and embodying the achievement of our goals. This profound work has helped us create an environment that fosters our best work and supports us in attaining the highest potential within ourselves.

Sarah Mehler, CEO & Founder, Left Field Labs

Total Back Health & Yoga for Families

 Total Back Health

Andrea understands the impact of back pain on the ability to enjoy one’s life on all levels. As a teenager, her L5 vertebrae fractured and fell inward, fusing together with her sacrum, and a web of scar tissue formed throughout her back, limiting her movement and causing enormous pain. For over a decade, she avoided physical exercise turning to drugs and alcohol to manage the pain. In 1995, Andrea discovered that through the powerful practice of yoga, she could heal her back and her life. Andrea can you support you to not only improve physically, she is dedicated to your total back health by helping you to address the mental, emotional and physical habit patterns that may cause or exacerbate the pain.

Andrea Brook and her practice and approach have been life changing. In 2014. I was involved in a collision when someone ran a red light and fractured several of my vertebrae. I was partially paralyzed. Andrea has been with me from a few days after the accident helping me to envision walking again to the present- living a vital and active life with physical integrity born of spiritual and emotional growth …and miracles.

Mela Lee, Singer, Actress, Producer 

Yoga for Families

Yoga is an extraordinary practice to support families on a multitude of levels. Andrea teaches not only the physical practice, to keep everyone healthy, flexible and strong, she also introduces and encourages intention setting, focus, compassion, understanding, communication, conscious awareness, integrity, deep breathing and meditation. The classes are led in a playful manner that is as fun as it is fulfilling for the whole family.

Public Speaking / Body Language Coach

 

Public Speaking :

As a public speaker, Andrea loves sharing her message of releasing limiting beliefs and realizing your dreams. Please watch her speech at TEDx in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, about the Childhood Paradigm:

Andrea is also a Body Language Expert and can support you to improve your public speaking for all occasions, from presentations to small groups to inspiring and motivating crowds of thousands. Our body language communicates to the audience more than half of the message. Andrea teaches how to use posture, breathing techniques, and exercises to prepare you to share your message exactly the way you intend. Andrea has supported politicians, CEOs and even couples to have their messages heard.

 

Media:

Psyche is a Performing Arts Center show written by Andrea Brook about the spirit’s journey through the human experience. Psyche is a dream, a continuous story from beginning to end.

Musicians: Andrea Brook – Sonic Butterfly, Steve Gorn – Bansuri Flute on Launch & Arrows, Chris Murphy – Violin on Dragon’s Tongue, Mikael Jorgensen – Moog & Keyboard on Psyche & Psyche 2, Chrystabell – Vocals on Psyche & Psyche 2,Dub Sutra – “Song on the Wind” , Tobias Hurwitz – “Revel” track.

Sonic Butterfly, designed by Andrea Brook, is a long-string harp with at minimum 60ft long strings that span out over the audience to create a full sensory experience.
“For many years, I had the great pleasure to perform with an amazing ensemble of musicians and artists, and I am deeply grateful to all of them. These songs are born of those collaborations and are delivered here anew in my own voice, my own expression, as a solo long-string performance that is a meditation of depth and intimacy, of my becoming… Sonic Butterfly.” ~Andrea

Feed Your Soul Records has teamed up with Andrea Brook, international performing artist and yoga teacher, to bring consciousness to the dance floor.

Elevate is a divine mash-up of electronic dance music and spiritual, sensual, spoken vocals, that will move your body and spirit.

Take a tour of the chakras! Chakra Beats explores each chakra musically, rhythmically and consciously. Listen as a mediation, during yoga, and a tool to better understand the chakras.

“This album is so many things in one. Mesmerizing vocals on top of really unique tracks. This is guided meditation that truly moves you!”

“The daily stresses of life melt away when mind meets body under the tender care and guidance of Andrea Brook. Andrea’s well-schooled approach to yoga bridges a perennial gap between our love affair with life’s ever complicated embodiment of emotional drama and the physical consequences. Her customized yoga practices tap into energetic conditions and provide a much needed path to the release of mental and physical congestion. Where therapy ends Andrea begins. Enjoy the journey.”

 Jeremy Dee, CEO of Corporate Realty Associates

 

 

 

 

“Andrea Brook and her practice and approach have been life changing. In 2014. I was involved in a collision when someone ran a red light and fractured several of my vertebrae. I was partially paralyzed. Andrea has been with me from a few days after the accident helping me to envision walking again to the present- living a vital and active life with physical integrity born of spiritual and emotional growth …and miracles.”
 
Mela Lee – Singer, Actress, Producer

 

 

“Andrea has the wisdom, compassion, understanding, insight and humor of all the spiritual masters. Her ability to get to what is going on for you based on conversation and intuition and then translate that into your personal practice in that moment in order to move beyond any resistances physically, mentally and/or spiritually is a blessing. My practice with her always leaves me with such grace, openness, ease and gratitude. She is an absolute blessing to this planet and a gift to her clients. I recommend her so highly, there are no words to acknowledge my trust and faith in her private sessions.
 
Todd Simon – Cranial Sacral & Hypnotherapist
 

 

“Working with Andrea is a great experience on so many levels. Most beneficial to me is her ability to remain non-judgmental… a difficult quality to find. She is objective and can see things as they are, unfiltered. When these qualities combine with a tailor made yoga practice, the benefits are unique. Andrea helps me to gain a more clear vision of who I am. As Carl Jung would say, ‘Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.’”
Luis Castañeda – Restaurateur

 

“During the few years that I had the great privilege of studying with Andrea Brook, I believe my relationship with myself deepened on all levels: to this day, there are so many occasions, almost daily, where I am aware that some thought, philosophy, mantra, body position or smile, is directly connected with the huge learning that occurred during my Yoga sessions! I am deeply grateful for these opportunities and welcome the chance to pick up where we left off, with Andrea always able to reach inside, able to trust her instinct and offer her profound wisdom: little gems, that will allow me to understand at a new level and/or release an area that is stuck so as to be able to empty out and have a chance to refill! Namaste to all!”
Deborah Lazarow – Mother

 

“Insight is a powerful tool. Andrea took me on a journey for several years by connecting my mind with my body through yoga. I was always amazed at how we would discuss topics within my inner-world and then she would provide a sequence of postures to work on what I was feeling. I always gained insight — and after a few years, I was more flexible and advanced at yoga then I ever thought possible. She is gifted.”
Rob Tonkin – CEO and Founder at Marketing Factory Inc.

“Andrea is such a wise, intuitive and inspired woman. She does create safety in times of scary changes. She inspires honesty, patience, calmness and clarity.  It is a magical, creative and revealing process to have her as a teacher and coach. There is lightness and profound knowing without judgment in her advice. She magically transforms spaces, situations and people with her gifts. She is always in my heart as a heaven-sent, beautiful loving and  powerful artist, spirit and soul.” 
Bellé Flora – Skype Client from Italy

“I have been going to Andrea for private yoga instruction for only two months now, but I already feel worlds better.  I am recovering from half a dozen major spine surgeries and lumbar spine trauma that dates back over 20 years.  There have been points where I literally couldn’t make it out of bed, and whole months when it was difficult to leave the house.  It’s wonderful to be active again, and I can feel my body opening up more day by day.  I look forward to more work with Andrea, and I am certain that her experience and unique intuition will continue to be a valuable took in my recovery.” 
Philip J Asquith – Owner of Ojai Olive Oil

“WOW WOW WOW. I am still buzzing from the AMAZing energy and practice that was created for us over our magical weekend. I feel so very blessed to have been a part of this. Looking forward to future encounters with you all!!” 
Christine Gump, Owner of Lucky Star Wellness