A passionate yoga student since the age of fifteen, Andrea is a featured teacher with Yoga International and a trainer in Restorative Yoga, and Yoga. Her digital and live trainings are known across the world.
Andrea has an energetic, gentle and caring teaching style and seeks to make her classes educational, clear, fun and inclusive. Andrea is known for attempting jokes in class which are only sometimes funny, she has a passion for anatomy and finding yoga wisdom in the simple things in life.
Andrea has 18 years of teaching experience, 27 years of practice and over 2000 hours of yoga training with many senior teachers including Ramanand Patel, Francois Raoult, Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty. She has more than 18 years of continuous study with Judith Lasater who she has assisted and studied with since 2004. She has a degree in Philosophy including courses in Eastern and Indian Philosophy.
“Andrea Peloso is a dedicated teacher who I trust to offer excellent instruction. She cares deeply for yoga students and the practice of yoga.”
– Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT, yoga teacher since 1971, and author of 9 books.
Education
Andrea has close to a thousand hours of studying with or assisting Judith Hanson Lasater.
Andrea has completed a 200 hour three year teacher training program as well as 60 more hours of study with Ramanand Patel and completed a 200 hour teacher training with Francois Raoult and other guest teachers. She has also studied Vinyyasa yoga, Restorative yoga, as well as Yoga for Spinal Health, and Prenatal yoga.
She is certified from the Downward Dog Yoga Center in Vinyasa Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga, and has studied intensively with Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty. She has also studied Ashtanga yoga with Matthew Sweeney, Chuck Miller, David Robson, and Ron Reid. She is trained in yoga for pregnancy with Sasha Padron and Judith Lasater and has past initial doula training. Andrea has a love of, and interest in Ayurveda and has studied its application in Restorative Yoga with Judith Lasater, as well as completing other studies with Matthew Remski.
Andrea has a bachelor degree with honours in Philosophy including Indian and Eastern Philosophy, and a minor in Women’s Studies (inter sectionalist).