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Settle your nervous system. Ignite your parasympathetic nervous system.
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Feel your best.
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Connect with your intuitive self.
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Customize and combine for your ideal season.
Biodynamic Craniosacral
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle, non-invasive form of healing that supports the body’s innate capacity for self-regulation and repair. Rooted in an understanding of the body’s inherent health expressions, BCST emphasizes creating the conditions in which the nervous system can settle and reorganize, allowing individuals to encounter their patterns, offering the opportunity to make new choices and gradually shift deeply embedded responses. This is particularly important in highly activated systems, or systems shaped by prolonged stress where forceful interventions might be perceived as threats and cause more guarding. Instead, BCST seeks pathways that gently guide the body back to a state of balance and harmony for the body to respond more coherently over time.
During sessions, the practitioner listens deeply and attentively to subtle rhythms and movement patterns within the body, including the craniosacral system. Touch is light, responsive, and the timing is guided by the body’s own organizing principles, supporting alignment, integration, and a sense of internal safety. By relieving stress and creating a safe, nurturing space, the therapy ensures that the body does not interpret the process as something forced, rather an opportunity to change, facilitating a more effective healing process.
The role of the practitioner is not to impose change, but to offer a steady, attuned presence that acknowledges the body’s current state. By acknowledging what is present, we respect the intelligence of the system as practitoners gently suggest possible pathways for improvement. In this context, change arises organically, when the body is ready, often in ways that are subtle yet deeply impactful.
BCST takes a whole-person approach, recognizing the interrelationship between physiological, emotional, and perceptual experience. While this work can be supportive for those navigating stress, trauma, or chronic tension, it is also deeply restorative for individuals seeking greater balance, clarity, and ease in daily life.
“You lie fully clothed on a treatment table. The touch is very light and attuned to your systems cues. My role is to help your system slow down enough to notice its own rhythms support subtle reorganization, and provide space where nervous system regulates. Many people experience deep rest, clarity, or a sense of reorganization afterward.”
FUnctional Nutrition
Functional nutrition is a transformative, personalized approach to wellness. It emphasizes the discovery of root causes behind health issues or helps to simply optimize your health. It moves beyond symptomatic treatment, delving into the underlying factors that contribute to a person's overall health. By focusing on individualized lifestyle and dietary changes, functional nutrition addresses a wide array of health concerns, offering a path to long-lasting well-being.
In my practice, I blend the ancient wisdom of Ayurvedic techniques with contemporary Western nutritional understanding. This holistic combination allows for a comprehensive analysis of each individual's unique goals and needs, considering factors like lifestyle, dietary habits, and personal health history. The goal is to develop tailored strategies that resonate deeply with each person's body and lifestyle.
Recognizing that each individual's journey to health is unique, some recommended changes may be significant, depending on the specific needs and goals of the person. These adjustments are designed to be sustainable and impactful, aiming to bring about a profound and positive shift in health and vitality. Whether it's a minor tweak in diet or a more substantial lifestyle overhaul, each recommendation is carefully considered to ensure it aligns with the individual's path to optimal health. I work with what you are open to changing and guide you through recommendations.
Functional Nutrition offers a framework for working with the body’s needs as they change, allowing me support your health in a way that is informed, flexible, and sustainable.
guided Cleanse
work with either a seasonal reset or deep organ system cleanse
Refine or redefine your diet
Adjust the foods you eat to help you achieve your desired results
Supporting digestion and developing healthy habits
Digestion is more than what you put in your body. nutrition comes from what you can do with it.
My approach:
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Lifestyle
Personalized lifestyle guidance to help you achieve your goals. We will work together to design strategies for your unique schedule and introduce or refine daily rhythms, habits, and practices to achieve your goals and support regulation and long-term health.
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Ayurveda
Ayurvedic principles inform how I asses patterns, tendencies, and imbalances. This framework offers a nuanced lens for understanding digestion, metabolism, energy, and systemic resilience in relation to daily rhythms, environment, and life stage.
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Herbalism
Traditional Western herbalism is integrated as a supportive element within my work. Herbal preparations, including teas, tinctures, steams, and soaks, are selected to complement our work and support both physiological and energetic processes.
Movement Session
My movement work is informed by a lifetime of dance experience across contemporary, ballet, modern and more, including formal conservatory training at SUNY Purchase and years of teaching at Peridance Center. I bring together technical rigor, anatomical understanding, and somatic awareness to address movement questions with nuance and precision. Additionally, my 10+ years performing in immersive theater as well as for a variety of choreographers has given me unique insights into presence and performativity. With these professional experiences, along with Meisner training, I aim to provide personal and practical tools enabling you to listen to your natural instincts, your alignment, and to others in a truthful and novel way.
I hold a comprehensive mat certification from Kinected and Balanced Body and have completed anatomy studies with Irene Dowd and Eric Franklin, which shape how I approach efficiency, coordination, and ease in the body. My teaching is further influenced by the movement principles of Assaf Salhov’s method Cardinal Movement ©, emphasizing fluidity, responsiveness, and clarity through technique.
Sessions may focus on refining a specific skill, unpacking habitual movement patterns, or improving overall organization and flow. The work is individualized and adaptable, supporting both dancers and non-dancers in developing a more intelligent, connected relationship to movement.
In addition to addressing specific concerns, I also offer open-form, guided improvisation. These sessions invite a deeper listening to the body, supporting embodiment, curiosity, and presence through movement. The emphasis is on sensing rather than performing, allowing movement to become a grounding practice that supports awareness, regulation, and connection to the present moment.
Wholebeing- combo session
Not sure where to start? Each modality supports a different layer of health. Combined, they support long-term vitality, ease, and adaptability.
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“Yesterday I was clever,so i wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”
Rumi
HOmemade ghee
I make ghee and can teach you ! This form of clarified butter is lactose free and celebrated for its rich nutritional profile, boasting essential fatty acids like butyric acid, and fat-soluble vitamins. Revered in Ayurvedic medicine, ghee has a high smoke point and aids digestion, supports gut health, and contributes to a balanced immune response. It's a wholesome and nourishing addition to a healthy diet.
Special Offers
Loyal Customer: Custom complementary tea blend after 10 sessions.
Referral Discount: Complementary tea when you refer a new client.
Note: Prices subject to change. Contact for current rates and promotions.
MEET YOUR Practitoner
Andrea Farley Shimota
BCST, FNC
Andrea (Andi) Farley Shimota integrates artistic sensitivity with scientific rigor in her therapeutic practice.
She completed advanced pre-medical studies at Columbia University, deepening her understanding of physiology, biochemistry, and foundational health sciences. She previously graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Purchase College with degrees in Dance and Sociology. Her academic work, including a published thesis on embodiment and social behavior, continues to inform her clinical perspective.
Andrea is certified in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (Stillpoint, RCST), Functional Nutrition (Functional Nutrition Alliance), and Pilates (Kinected), with formal training in Traditional Western Herbalism through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. She is currently completing her studies in Ayurveda (YogaVeda Institute) and maintains mentorship with biochemist and Ayurvedic practitioner Rebecca Diezel. Advanced anatomical study with Le Ballet Fou, Irene Dowd and Eric Franklin further grounds her work in structural precision.
Her years as a professional dancer and immersive performer cultivated a refined sensitivity to relational dynamics, perception, and embodied awareness, qualities that remain central to her clinical presence.
Andrea’s work is holistic, evidence-informed, and individually tailored. She carefully adapts diet, lifestyle, and hands-on therapeutic approaches to meet each client where they are, offering pathways toward resilience, clarity, and integrated well-being.