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Andrew Hodges

Andrew Hodges is a free-lance musician and teacher, with world-wide experience in group facilitation.  He is currently researching intuitive group improvisation in non-musicial situations.   Andrew trained as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music.  His professional career has been wide and various including having been Head of Music in a central London school,  global sales manager for an international corporate, joint-owner of a retreat centre (Le Cotil) in Normandy, world-wide sales skills trainer, Managing Director of his own business coaching company (AHA! Coaching) and partner in a personal development company (Entracte).

He currently works as a free-lance musician based in the Gloucestershire area where he is actively involved in a variety of musical activities including violin tuition, composition and arranging, facilitating group music improvisation workshops for schools and colleges, delivering business leadership programmes which employ the medium of music improvisation.

In his role as Community Director of Sound Travels Sound Forum he is a writer, editor & business consultant for the www.soundtravels.co.uk website.  

Andrew Hodges is associated with the following Groups (e.g. institutions, schools, bands, societies etc.)

Sound Travels , Group Free Improvisers on Sound Forum , Composers on Sound Forum , Leadership Development on Sound Forum

This Author's Events

Meditation Retreat in Everyday Practical Mindfulness ("Polishing The Lens"), Andrew Hodges & Jan Wilding, Normandy, France, 15 Aug 2012

Polishing The Lens is about bringing mindfulness into your practice, deepening your knowledge and enhancing clarity of mind and awareness through experiential practice. You will be able to increase your motivation to utilise meditation in your daily experiences, both on and off your mat in order to improve your quality of life and relationships.
Like our highly successful Atma Vichara course, the Polishing The Lens retreat is based on Yogic philosophy and practices, plus other perspectives including Buddhism and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
We actively encourage dialogue and discussion and because our programmes are deliberately structured around a small group you can be assured of a highly personal and individualised experience.
This 5 day retreat is being held at Le Cotil our lovely retreat centre overlooking a large lake in Normandy and can be combined with the Sound Mindfulness Retreat which follows on from it (8th - 13th August). Here you can relax totally, clear the

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Sound Mindfulness Retreat, Andrew Hodges & Jan Wilding, Normandy, France, 22 Aug 2012

The Sound Mindfulness Retreat will allow you the opportunity to explore, lengthen &amp deepen the experience of Samadhi in your Journey towards Liberation. This is a retreat from the noise and turmoil of life. Making sound by-passes thought and fear and offers a new space for the sunlight of choice and opportunity. We will use the medium of sound to explore mindfully whatever comes, to be present and see more of the reality of each moment. You will merge with the lightness, reality and truth of the present. In doing so you will be able to explore more of your own truth. Seeing clearly you will know more certainly your pathway to happiness, creativity and purpose. In sound mindfulness you become the sound moment. Sound Mindfulness is based upon Yogic practice, buddhist philsophy and NLP and will include use of the voice and the opportunity to make sound with musical instruments. No previous experience of singing or playing an instrument is necessary. We actively encourage di

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This Author's Testimonials

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31 Aug 2011
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From: Sue Chance I’ve known Jan and Andrew for several years through yoga classes and courses, and have received much warm and loving support from them as I recovered from life’s difficulties and several episodes of depression. Changing the Light bulb was a particularly stimulating course which helped me enormously, and I was looking forward to more of the same on the Polishing the Lens retreat. I wasn’t disappointed. Daily mindfulness meditations, philosophical discussions, visualisations, karma yoga, periods of blissful silence, wonderfully relaxing surroundings and a lovely group of like-minded people, all contributed to what I feel was a life changing experience for me. It was great fun, tiring, thought-provoking, confusing, relaxing, even irritating at times. Was it Dorothy Parker who said “she runs the gamut of emotions from A to B”? Well, I felt like I’d run from A to Z and back around again for another go. Suddenly, overwhelmingly, during one visualisation session I “got it” and the root cause of so many of the difficulties I’d been experiencing was powerfully revealed. Clarity, self-awareness, release, a lens that’s a bit battered and chipped but well and truly polished. I still feel refreshed, calmer, clearer than I’ve been for years. I learned a lot about myself and others. And life still isn’t perfect but I feel that I can deal with it much better and I’m sure that will continue. I feel a sense of deep peace and quiet purpose. I am so glad I went on this retreat.

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31 Aug 2011
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Miss Gordon: Polishing the Lens gives you the necessary time and support for your own personal development. The course notes are useful and the pace of the retreat is just right with plenty of time to practice yoga, swim and relax in the hot tub alongside the personal development work. Le Cotil is situated in a place of natural beauty and I would definitely recommend the course to anyone looking to reach their full potential.

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16 Jun 2011
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"Thank you for a truly inspirational course, great content and beautifully delivered. You are a good team! I definitely would like to do more with you both. I like your style, I feel supported and also feel there is more I can learn from you both" "I am enjoying for the first time feeling whole again" "I am extremely grateful to Jan and Andrew for sharing their knowledge with us. I learnt a lot about myself, about how I teach, and what can be done to make it better. Having been able to pick the accessible fruits from this tree I am hungry for more."

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