ABOUT
METAL MONKEY.

Welcome to Metal Monkey online,  I’m Andrea the founder, and driving force behind Metal Monkey Yoga.

With over 15 years of dedicated teaching experience in the Yoga wellness industry, my mission is to get people moving the way nature intended free from pain, with agility and ease (No matter your level, age or injuries, its never too late to move like a younger you!

My journey began with hot yoga, in my late twenties my body was broken, chronic back, pain due to poor posture in my day job.

I went down a rabbit hole developing my studies in Traditional Authentic Ashtanga yoga, countless teacher trainings, workshops & courses around the world developed my passion. Several return trips to India I accumulated over 2000hrs of teacher training at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute, Mysore. Studied Yoga philosophy, Anatomy,  Breathwork and pranayama with the great B.N.S. Iyenger.

I feel extremely blessed to have learned from the few remaining Authentic Yoga Masters.  I went on to host many workshops retreats and classes world-wide. Ten years, 1 husband and 3 children later, I’m now settled in the North-West of England.

It was a natural evolution for me to specialise in Mobility & Flexibility training as everything I had been doing in proceeding years was telling me we need to move our bodies the way nature intended. 

It became crystal clear to me that peoples sedentary lives, killing themselves for 1 hour in the gym, lack of understanding of how the human  body is supposed to move, lack of attention to basic mobility was holding so many people back and resulting in chronic aches or injuries.