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Andrea is available to teach workshops in "Physical Intelligence", "Cancer Odyssey" and "EPI for Theatre" and for private sessions.

Workshops are available in a variety of formats: evening and weekend programs, five- and six-day retreats, in schools, business settings, and for producing entertainment based on these principles (read the review for "People Being People" for more information).

Private, couple, and parent/child "Somatic Focusing" sessions (based on the principles of "Transformation Through Movement") are always available at the teaching sites before and/or after the scheduled program.



"Your work seems to be time-released! I'm getting a surge of enthusiasm and can't believe how well things are going now. A lot of things make sense now. It's been liberating to realize my own ideals and dreams are just as just valid as anyone elses'. Thank you for the private session. The feeling of escaping from my prison was wonderful and very real, and I await the unfolding of the gifts I retrieved along the way!

Thank you, thank you thank you!"
Chris in California







Physical Intelligence
Train and Trust Your Physical Intelligence


The foundation of Physical Intelligence (PQ) is the relationship between emotions and the body. Using movement to explore emotional polarities such as the range from anger to confidence, fear to courage, greed to generosity, you can find physical antidotes to disturbing feelings. This trains the body in a way that makes you more emotionally fluent so you can react to the stresses of life with a sense of balance and wholeness and makes it easier to engage your Will.

Neuron pathways are the channels through which information travels between the brain and body. The thinking and feeling patterns that we engage in most often have the most well-developed neuron pathways. If you're a patient person, you have a well-developed neuron pathway for patience and can tolerate quite a bit before you get upset. If you tend to get angry easily, you have a well-developed neuron pathway for anger and might fly off the handle at the least provocation. If you don't have confidence, chances are you don't have a neuron pathway for its expression.

  • Train alternative neuron pathways so that when you reach a choice point, you have alternatives literally at your fingertips.
  • Personalize exercises for training your Will so that you can respond in accordance with your "best" self, often in ways other than what has become habitual.
To read more about Physical Intelligence, please click here.




Cancer Odyssey

A workshop for people whose lives have been touched by cancer,
using meditation, movement, drawing and writing
to address the emotional and spiritual aspects of healing

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is incredibly difficult and understandably brings on a range of powerful reactions.

This program unites our emotions and our coping styles with the body, mind and spirit in a way that is emotionally and spiritually healing.

Using meditation to calm and focus the mind inward, we get in touch with our feelings. After learning a simple movement vocabulary, this emotional energy is translated into physical energy and expressed through the arts, first with movement, and then drawing and writing. No arts training is necessary to do this. It's sufficient if you're able to sit, stand, walk and bring a pen to paper. In this way, an authentic expression of deep, hidden or frightening feelings are allowed to surface. You might ask, "Why? I was doing so well when not dealing with them."

"Repression of expression" can be damaging to our psyche, our physical and emotional well-being, and prevents us from moving on with our lives. This program helps us get in touch with, express and release these feelings. Once we've expressed them in some way, they're "out there," and not locked up inside. This gives us a more objective perspective, and this distance loosens the grip that disturbing feelings can have on us.

If we can learn how to train and trust our body's intelligence, and if we can give a voice to our disturbing emotions, we can find physical antidotes them. Not as a prevention of dark moods, but rather as a way to accept the feelings that come with the difficulties and challenges of a having or loving someone with a life threatening illness. This workshop can help us cope more easily, eventually to a place of acceptance, courage and inner peace.



Andrea Isaacs is known for her teaching and original work exploring the relationship between personality and movement in a way that combines body, mind and spirit. She teaches workshops in Physical Intelligence, sees private clients internationally, and is a Continuing Education faculty member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. She's been applying the theories of her work to her own journey of healing through bi-lateral breast cancer.




"This program made me feel very peaceful, relaxed, and encouraged about how to deal with negative feelings."

Cancer Survivor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute




"Having surgery put me through a lot of mixed feelings. This was fabulous and made me feel more grounded and in touch with me. Andrea is a wonderful teacher!"

Cancer Survivor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute




"I could be myself, say, do and feel all of the feelings I wanted to have. I am at peace."

Cancer Survivor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute




"Andrea Isaacs' unique skills in turning psychological principles into physical experiences has a dramatic healing effect. One can read about anger, fear, sorrow and loss, but to experience these feelings in the context of her workshop brings the individual to a depth that can not be found in mere words.

Patients who cannot find the words to express their devastation with cancer or other illnesses can find a voice in Andrea's non-verbal work.

Her program is based on non-stressful movement that encompasses the full range of emotion that all of us share when confronted with life altering illnesses. It can be the vehicle for release of these emotions when traditional methods are unsuccessful. I have seen examples of patients who had social prohibitions that inhibited them from verbally expressing their anger, being able to non-verbally express and release these emotions. I highly recommend this work for the large majority of patients who are dealing with cancer or other major illnesses."

E. Stephen Purdom, M.D., Internal Medicine
Advisory Board, Emory University School of Medicine
Board Member and retired Executive Vice President, AFLAC


To find out more about Cancer Odyssey, please click here.


EPI for Theatre


Drawing from a system that describes personality structure, this workshop helps you better understand the character you're portraying and the similarities and differences between you and your character. Translating emotional energy into physical energy, the strengths and weaknesses of different personality styles are explored through movement. This gives you a kinesthetic experience of a variety of ways of being in the world.

One of the challenges as an actor is to play roles unlike who you are naturally. This work can help you broaden your range as an actor by finding yourself and the roles you play in this personality system, and by discovering, exploring and developing the physical mannerisms to personality styles other than your own.

Understanding the relationship between personality and the body will guide you in how your character would walk, stand, sit, gesture and move through space, giving you the consistency necessary for creating a full range of in-depth and powerful characters.

For more information, please click here.





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