The work has changed as I have.
I’m Andrew Rosenstock. For almost twenty years, I’ve been studying bodies, movement, touch, awareness, and the many ways people experience themselves and the world around them.
My path into this work began with yoga and meditation, eventually expanding in a nonlinear fashion into bodywork, Rolfing® and Structural Integration, movement and somatic education, craniosacral therapy and biodynamics, and many of the other approaches that have shaped how I work today.
I didn’t set out to collect modalities. One area of study led naturally into another, often because something I was learning raised new questions rather than answering all of the old ones. Over time, those different perspectives have changed what I notice, the questions I ask, and how I understand the person in front of me.
A somewhat indirect path
None of this was particularly planned.
I was working in information technology when I decided to take a one-year sabbatical. That year eventually became twelve years of living and traveling internationally—and, somewhere along the way, a very different direction for my life.
Yoga and meditation had become important personal practices. While living in places where there often wasn’t a yoga teacher, I repeatedly found myself being asked to teach. Almost accidentally, something I had been exploring for myself became something I was responsible for sharing with other people.
Teaching changed my relationship with the practice. It also raised new questions. If I was going to help people work with their bodies, I wanted to understand more about what I was actually encountering.
That led to further study, and eventually into bodywork as another way of understanding the body through touch, movement, and direct experience. One area of study kept opening into another.
I didn’t know at the beginning where any of it was leading. In some ways, I still try not to decide that too quickly—to allow the direction of the work to emerge rather than forcing it in advance.
The work kept expanding
Over the years, my studies moved further into Rolfing® and Structural Integration, movement and somatic education, yoga therapy, manual and visceral approaches, craniosacral therapy and biodynamics, meditation, trauma, nervous-system regulation, and contemporary understandings of pain and perception.
Over time, these different areas of study have become less like separate approaches and more like different ways of understanding and working with what is happening. Something that is useful for one person—or in one moment—may be much less useful in another.
A session might therefore involve hands-on work, subtle touch, movement, changes in position or orientation, attention to sensation, conversation, or simply noticing what happens when we stop trying quite so hard to make something change.
The question isn’t which modality I’m using.
The question is what might be skillful here.
The more I learn, the more interesting the questions become.
Alongside my clinical training, I’ve developed an ongoing interest in neuroscience and philosophy, particularly questions involving pain, perception, embodiment, consciousness, agency, and how we come to experience a body as our own.
These interests have made me more cautious about simple explanations rather than more certain of them.
Pain is real, but it doesn’t always tell us precisely what is happening in a tissue. Posture matters, but there isn’t one ideal position a body should maintain. The nervous system is important, but not everything is a nervous-system problem. Trauma can profoundly shape embodied experience, but that doesn’t mean every tight muscle contains a trauma waiting to be released.
Understanding can be helpful, but I don’t think we always need to know exactly why something is happening before we can work with it. There is room in this work for what we know, what we notice, and what we don’t yet understand.
My job isn’t to convince you of my explanation for your body. It’s to bring what I’ve learned into a process in which your own perception, experience, curiosity, and agency remain central.
The person outside the treatment room
Spending twelve years living and traveling internationally has shaped me in ways that inevitably find their way into my work. Today I’m part of a cross-cultural family, where multiple languages and cultural norms flow freely through our home.
Living across different cultures has made me particularly interested in language, communication, and the assumptions we bring to how we understand ourselves and one another. Things that can seem obvious or universal from one perspective often look quite different from another.
That has stayed with me in my work. I try to remain curious about the person in front of me rather than assuming that my way of understanding their experience is necessarily theirs.
Years of study, still learning
My formal training includes more than 6,000 hours of study across bodywork, movement, somatic education, yoga, meditation, trauma, and related fields, including more than 2,000 hours of yoga training.
My additional training has included Esalen Massage, meditation and mindfulness, iRest Yoga Nidra, trauma studies, visceral and osteopathic approaches, pain science, and continuing education across manual therapy, movement, and somatic practice.
Learning remains an active part of my work. I don’t regard my training as something I completed before beginning to practice. It continues through formal study, research, conversations with colleagues and teachers, and—perhaps most importantly—the people I have the privilege of working with.
You don’t need to know any of this to come see me.
You don’t need to understand Rolfing, fascia, biodynamics, neuroscience, somatics, or any of the other things I’ve spent years studying.
That’s part of what the study is for.
You can come because your back hurts. Because you don’t feel comfortable in your body. Because something has changed and you’re trying to understand it. Because you’re curious. Or because you’re not quite sure what you need.
We can begin there.