about book|Andrew Barnes|Yvonne Lumsden|Contributors
About the Author
Andrew Barnes has more than a decade’s experience as a bodyworker and somatic therapist and, for the past several years, he has focused his practice on sexuality issues combining Psychosexual Remedial Therapies and counselling. He primarily works with women with histories of sexual abuse, relationship issues, body image/shame issues, vaginismus and women that just want to increase their quality of life, understanding of themselves and their sexuality.
His approach incorporates (depending on what the client needs) sexology, psychotherapy, inner child therapy, neural-net reprogramming (also known as cellular memory) and neuromuscular techniques including trigger point therapy, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), muscular energy techniques (MET), myofascial release and sexual healing therapies including Tantric, Taoist and Quadoska practices.
Andrew is completing a Master of Sexual Health at the University of Sydney, has five diplomas in various forms of massage and bodywork, and has completed courses in Quadoska spiritual sexuality and Tantra – energetic love making, Yoga, and various forms of meditation and spiritual/emotional healing and counselling.
He is in demand in Australia and internationally as a teacher of massage therapies, and is the founder and director of the Academy of Therapeutic Arts in Brisbane, Australia, which is a massage therapy training school.
He is also a qualified birth supporter or Doula, and a skin and beauty therapist. He has worked as a hug therapist and has coordinated volunteer support groups and programs in women’s rehabilitation centres, substance abuse detox units and men’s maximum security jails. In 2007, he established a volunteer massage program for the parents and carers of children at the Royal Brisbane Children’s Hospital, which is part of his newly created Volunteer Touch natural therapies community program.
In 2006, Andrew developed the Awakening Within spiritual sexuality and tantric retreats, two five-day live-in retreats for women, each level is a journey of deep healing, acceptance and opening to one's true feminine potential.
