In this life, Alex finds embodiment as a white-bodied woman born into a queer family in Northern Vermont. She has always felt a connection to the more than human world, and knew there is more to this life than what meets the eye . With this came a deeply seeded care for justice and equality. Her curiosity is sparked by learning about how differences are the places that build bridges for connection.

This dedication to justice and restoration sprouted to Alex becoming a devoted student of Black studies, intersectionality and contemplative paths to liberation. She believes that each of our unique embodiments are on purpose and are pathways to freedom.

She offers and teach 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 is to examine and accept one’s blindspots and biases, and decide to acknowledge and transform them. She learned how to deeply listen through the body.

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 the months and years of dedicated work.

She is still walking the path of this commitment, and finds refuge in connecting with the spirits, writers and ancestors who are working to help us remember ourselves in this life. She currently practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition with teacher Lama Rod Owens, and this forms the foundation of her practice and teaching.

alex believes in the capacity of humans to heal all that causes pain, and is deeply grateful to the wisdom traditions and ancestors that offer us pathways to remember. She holds space that is open and invites reflection into the ways that we can come into right relationship with ourselves, others and the Earth.

Her work is rooted in a love of impermanence with the knowing that we each have the capacity to change.