Andrea Spadafora
Andrea Spadafora is a licensed and nationally board-certified massage therapist, registered yoga teacher, and the owner of Yogaphora LLC, a small, intentionally-run wellness practice based in Brentwood, Missouri. He is a long-standing professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) and has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of clinical bodywork, movement education, and embodied awareness.
Originally from Salerno, Italy, where he began his career in massage therapy, Andrea relocated to the United States twenty years ago. There, he completed his American training and has since accumulated over 30,000 hours of hands-on therapeutic experience, working with a wide range of clients and conditions.
Andrea has practiced in highly regarded wellness centers in the Washington, D.C. area and in Colorado, where he served as Clinic Director and Lead Mentor at the Academy of Natural Therapy. In that role, he also taught movement therapy, kinesiology, and holistic wellness courses, becoming known for his ability to combine anatomical precision with clarity, humor, and an approachable teaching style.
Andrea also hosts Yogaphora Conversations, a long-form YouTube interview series featuring spiritual teachers, healers, creatives, and thinkers. The conversations explore embodiment, consciousness, growth, and the human experience—the same themes that inform his hands-on and teaching work.
Outside the treatment room, Andrea is a devoted father to his 10-year-old son and a lifelong student of anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and contemplative traditions. He plays drums, studies the neuroscience of movement, and reads extensively on devotional non-duality—an approach to spirituality centered on compassion, inner stillness, and the recognition of shared humanity.
Andrea’s Italian heritage remains a central influence in his work. Alongside his wellness work, he is also an Italian language tutor, interpreter, and translator.
Whether through massage, yoga, teaching, conversation, or language, Andrea’s work is guided by authenticity, presence, and care. His goal is straightforward—to help people feel more at home in their bodies, more connected to themselves, and a little more alive when they leave than when they arrived.
