In this life, Alex finds embodiment as a white-bodied woman born into a queer family in Northern Vermont.

She guides from a place of love with the intention to eliminate suffering and harm for all beings, to help each of us get free. 

This intention arises from her lived experiences of suffering and disembodiment, and witnessing the cyclical suffering of this world. For the first 21 years of her life, Alex experienced emotions as tidal waves and a persistent sense of emptiness, as if she was not home. She felt profound disconnection from her body and Self.

The journey towards herself began when she found her way into African American Studies in college. In this work, Alex learned what it was to examine and accept blindspots and biases, and how to acknowledge and transform them. She learned how to deeply listen through the body, and that her physical body and expression in this life matters. Each of our unique incarnations matter.

Black studies offered tools to come into touch with the realities of the external world, so that Alex learned to meet the realities of her mind and emotional experience with radical honesty and compassion, and the intention of change.  She learned to recognize thoughts and beliefs as effects of living in a white body in the U.S. and Vermont cultural contexts, and from there could see where supremacy had taken hold. With open eyes and the support of many beings, she began to liberate from the bindings and, slowly, apply these practices to all of her emotional + mental patterns. 

From the roots of social liberation, Alex committed to free herself from the patterns, habits and pain that caused her to suffer and perpetuate suffering.

In 2021, she embraced the worlds of Yoga, meditation and spirit, and began the process of unwinding from embodied trauma and conditioning. alex started to feel a connection to herself, and a sense of being at home emerged over months and years of dedicated work.

She is still walking this path of commitment, and finds refuge in connecting with trees, plant kin, ancestors and waters. She practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist Kagyu lineage, which this forms the foundation of her practice and teaching.

alex is rooted in trust that we each have the capacity to change, and embody our true nature of love. She holds space that is open, collaborative and invites reflection into ways we can come into right relationship with ourselves, others and the Earth.

May this be a torch on the path home to yourself.