Alex Bradham

I began to really practice yoga during the pandemic as an attempt to release stress and escape everything going on. At the time, I was a recent high school graduate and new college student trying to find a sense of normalcy in an increasingly confusing and closed-off world. Waking up early and walking the 30 steps over to the 7AM class at my college gym was very difficult but, in the instances where I made it, so rewarding. It was often just myself, the instructor, and maybe one other person, making the lessons highly individualized and the environment a place where I could grow in whatever direction that I chose. I quickly came to love how the practice of yoga offers endless opportunities for growth, always offering new poses, variations, or fuller expressions. These recurring challenges have taught me humility, resilience, openness to constructive criticism, and how to find power and strength in failure. My hope as a teacher is to be able to share these lessons with my students, helping them to grow in similar and distinct ways.