MY STORY TO HEALTH AND RECOVERY
About Me
Candia Andrews N.A.S.M.
(National Academy of Sports Medicine) hails from Northumberland UK where she grew up with a twin brother near the Scottish Border by the North Sea. This may account for her 15years of sailing around the world in a forty foot sloop and eventual landfall in Stuart, FL.
Candia obtained her first academic credentials from Pigier Ecole de Commerce, a leading business school in France. After graduation she landed on Martha’s Vineyard where her entrepreneurial spirit, and knowledge of sewing, led her to her first business, Fid Grommet & Co running a SailMakers Loft. The winters on the Vineyard led many sailors to St Thomas USVI and it was there she met her husband. From 1989 to 2002 they sailed around the world on a vintage sailboat Philip Rhodes; Moonshadow.
Two of her three children were born during this adventure.
When Candia finally came ashore in Stuart Florida in 2003, she launched a career in bodywork. Her first area of focus was as a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) and then she acquired many more certificates and the National Academy of Sports Medicine
designation. During her Around the World Sailing Adventure, she was in a car accident in California and experienced chronic pain from multiple disc herniations. This served as her personal catalyst, living in pain with young children, to study bodywork and heal herself and use her expertise with patients.
Candia is a self-described “LifeLong Learner” and has gone on to study fifteen additional areas of advanced manual therapies and movement re-education. She holds the following Certifications:
1. Physiokinetix Corrective Rehab Trainer
2. Master MyoSkeletal Alignment Therapist
3. Nerve Entrapment Specialist
4. CranioSacral Therapy
5. Neuromuscular Therapy
6. Myofascial Core Therapy
7. Posture & Gait Analysis - the effects of gravitational forces on the body (the root of all our undoing.)
8. Graston Tecnique & Cupping
9. Orthopaedic Total Body Balancing
10. Total Body Energetics
11. Nuad Bo Rahul (Traditional Thai Massage)
12. Ashiatsu Oriental Barefoot Massage
13. Yoga Therapy
14. Certified Pilates Trainer
15. Certified Balance Trainer
In September, she joined the Freelance Pool of Trainers at Mariner Sands CC in Stuart.
As she continues to see clients at
BodyMechanix Muscular Therapy
425 Greenwich Circle #107
Jupiter, FL 33458
772-486-5081
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