Hello Lovely, I'm Andrea.

And I'm Still Becoming the Woman I Was Always Meant to Be. I'm 59, a Mamma, a Nanna, a woman who has lived a little, loved deeply, lost people I adore, made mistakes, changed direction more times than I can count and occasionally wondered what the bloody hell I'm doing!

And after almost 60 years on this earth, I'm discovering something rather wonderful. I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to be the woman everyone else thinks I should be.

I want to be FREE. Free to dance. Free to speak. Free to change my mind.

Free to age without apologising. Free to be soft, fierce, wise, wild, vulnerable, joyful and gloriously imperfect.

Free to be ME.

And that's what all these years of searching, studying, teaching and living have really been leading me towards.

Not perfection. Not enlightenment. LIBERATION.

My Journey Has Never Been Just About Yoga…

For more than thirty years, Yoga has been woven into my life. But somewhere along the way, my curiosity, my heart and my own lived experiences carried me far beyond the Yoga mat.

Into Ayurveda, Tantra, Reiki, Goddess wisdom, embodied movement, dance, ritual, the rhythms of Nature and the extraordinary power of women gathering in Circle. I've studied ancient wisdom, explored spiritual traditions and learned from some wonderful teachers.

But I've also learned that life itself can be one of our greatest teachers.

And has life taught me a few things!!

The Experiences That Change Us…

In 2016, I lost my beautiful mum to cancer, and something in me changed forever. Grief has a way of stripping away so much of what we think matters. It brings us face to face with the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the uncomfortable truth that none of us knows how long we have here. During that time, my spiritual practices stopped being simply things I studied or taught. They became part of how I found my way through the days.

How I made space for grief. How I found moments of stillness.

How I stayed connected to something meaningful when life felt unbearably difficult.

And gradually, I began to understand devotion in a different way.

Not simply devotion to a spiritual practice, a Goddess or a tradition.

But devotion to LIFE.

To being here. To loving deeply.

To honouring the seasons of our lives, even the difficult ones.

And to having the courage to live while we can.

The Wild Woman Was Always There…

I haven't arrived here in a straight line. I've moved through my own seasons of exhaustion, uncertainty, questioning, reinvention and beginning again.

I've been the Good Girl. The people pleaser. The overgiver.

The woman who worried about upsetting people.

The woman who sometimes made herself smaller to keep the peace.

And, if I'm completely honest, there are still moments when those old patterns come knocking. But something is shifting.

As I approach 60, I feel less interested in being acceptable and far more interested in being AUTHENTIC.

I want to dance more. Laugh louder. Trust my instincts. Speak from my heart.

Take up space.

And stop waiting for permission to live my own bloody life.

Not because I don't care about other people.

But because I've realised that being kind and compassionate should never require us to abandon ourselves.

The Wild Woman isn't someone I'm trying to become.

She's the woman I'm finally giving myself permission to BE.

The Wisdom I Carry…

Yoga taught me to listen to my body. Ayurveda taught me to honour my rhythms and live in relationship with Nature. Reiki taught me the beauty of stillness and presence. The Goddesses became mirrors for the many different expressions of womanhood. Dance reminded me that freedom isn't always something we think our way into.

Sometimes we have to MOVE our way there.

Ritual taught me to honour the thresholds, endings and beginnings of life.

And Circle?

Circle taught me that women need women. Not to compete with.

Not to compare ourselves against. But to witness one another, celebrate one another, challenge one another lovingly and remind each other who we are when we've forgotten.

All these teachings have shaped me. But none of them defines me.

And that's something I want other women to experience too.

You are so much more than the roles you've played, the labels you've been given or the expectations you've carried.

Why I Created The Wild Woman Academy™

I didn't create The Wild Woman Academy because I thought women needed fixing. Quite the opposite. I created it because I believe so many of us have spent years being taught to disconnect from our own wisdom.

We've been conditioned to be good. To be nice. To be endlessly available.

To look a certain way. To age quietly. To put everyone else's needs before our own. And somewhere along the way, we've forgotten the freedom of simply being ourselves.

I believe a woman's body is not a problem to fix.

Her ageing is not a failure.

Her voice is not something to silence.

Her pleasure is not something to feel guilty about.

Her rest is not something she has to earn.

And her wildness is certainly not something she needs to apologise for.

The Wild Woman Academy is a gathering place for women who are ready to remember.

Through Yoga, Ayurveda, dance, feminine embodiment, Goddess wisdom, Reiki, ritual, sacred rest and sisterhood, we explore what it means to come home to ourselves.

Not to become perfect women.

But to become more fully, gloriously, unapologetically OURSELVES.

And you don't have to be loud, rebellious or confident to belong here.

Your wildness might be expressed through dancing barefoot in your kitchen.

Or finally saying no. Or choosing rest. Or beginning again at 60.

Or simply having the courage to admit that the life you've been living no longer feels like yours.

There are a thousand ways to be a Wild Woman.

And every one of them begins with listening to yourself.

And So, Here I Am…

Almost 60. Still learning. Still questioning. Still changing. Still occasionally getting things spectacularly wrong! But increasingly willing to be seen as the woman I actually am.

Not the perfectly polished spiritual teacher.

Not the woman who has all the answers.

Just a woman who has gathered a little wisdom along the way and loves creating spaces where other women can discover their own.

And if there's one thing I want you to know, it's this:

You are not too old. You are not too late. You are not too much.

And you are certainly not finished becoming.

Whether you find your way here through Yoga, SHE MOVES WILD™, Ayurveda, Goddess wisdom, mentoring, ritual or Circle, my invitation is the same.

Come as you are.

Bring your whole, beautiful, messy self.

And let's remember what it feels like to be ALIVE.

Welcome to The Wild Woman Academy™

LIBERATION THROUGH EMBODIMENT.