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The Childhood Paradigm: Andrea Brook at TEDxSanMigueldeAllende

1,438 views · Published 7 January 2013 · 12:17 · Indexed 16 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Andrea Brook discusses how patterns which are rooted in childhood experience must be undone in order to successfully change one's life with intention.

Andrea Brook is an international yoga teacher, spiritual counselor and performer (www.yogagirl.com). Andrea first discovered the remarkable tool of yoga as an Astanga practitioner and studied in Mysore, India with Guruji, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, in 1998. Andrea returned to India in 2000 to study Integral Yoga in Rishikesh, India with Swami Vivekananda Saraswati. She also had the great pleasure to study mindfulness meditation with Thich Nhat Hahn, and has studied many styles of yoga with amazing teachers from all over the world. Andrea has been teaching yoga since 1998 and has lead workshops and retreats around the world including the Omega Institute, the TED Conference, and festivals including Burning Man, Wanderlust, Lightning in a Bottle and the Envision Festival in Costa Rica.Andrea's Yoga & Earth Harp workshop is a unique and moving yoga & music workshop under the strings of the extraordinary Earth Harp, the world's largest stringed instrument.
Andrea is also an international performing artist. She has been touring internationally with MASS Ensemble (www.massensemble.com) since 2001, as a musician, dancer, the voice and writer behind the spoken word elements of the show, and Associate Director of MASS. She performs with one-of-a-kind, musical instruments that transform theaters, architecture and natural environments into large-scale musical instruments and musical landscapes. Andrea and MASS have presented visually and sonically stunning performances around the world, including at the Temple at Burning Man, the Coliseum in Rome, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Grand Theater in Shanghai, and a 9th Century castle in Italy.  Andrea has lead MASS teams across the globe to inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds to recognize their full potential and live their dreams.

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