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About Me
I’ve always been curious.
Curious about the body, about people, about why we move the way we do and what happens when we’re willing to look a little closer. I like peeling back the layers, asking better questions, and going beneath the surface of a practice rather than simply moving through it.
That curiosity is what brought me here.
I’m Axel, a yoga teacher, movement educator, and longtime student of the body. My path into yoga came through years of strength and conditioning, cycling, anatomy, and movement, but somewhere along the way, my questions started to change. I became less interested in what the body could do and more interested in what it could teach us.
That’s still at the heart of how I teach today.
My classes pull from Hatha and Vinyasa, anatomy and biomechanics, philosophy, storytelling, breath, and whatever else helps us look a little deeper. I love understanding the mechanics of a shape, but I’m equally interested in what comes up while we’re trying to get there. There’s usually more happening beneath the surface.
More than anything, I want to create spaces where people can see themselves in the practice.
Not some idealized version of a “yogi.” Not the most flexible person in the room. You, exactly as you are. Your body, your history, your questions, your joy, your weird shoulder thing, all of it.
I don’t believe yoga gives us all the answers. I think it gives us a place to get curious.
To notice. To explore. To challenge what we think we know about ourselves and maybe uncover something we hadn’t seen before.
We’ll move, breathe, sweat, laugh, probably get a little existential, and keep peeling back the layers together.
Because the deeper I go into this practice, the more I realize there’s always more to discover.
Vision
Joy
Joy, to me, isn’t just a feeling, it’s a frequency.
It’s what bubbles up when we stop performing, stop proving, and start being.
It lives in the messy middle, in the soft edges, in the tiny moments we almost missed.
Joy isn’t the absence of pain, it’s the permission to feel it all and still choose light.
It’s radical. It’s rebellious. It’s ours.
Community
Community is the whole point.
It’s why we move together, breathe together, sit in the same room and feel each other.
Because something powerful happens when we gather, We remember we’re not separate.
Not from each other. Not from our bodies. Not from this moment.
I don’t teach yoga to help people escape, I teach to help them return.
To themselves. To each other.
To that deep-down knowing that we belong. That we’re part of something bigger.
Community is sacred.
It’s what holds us when we forget, and celebrates us when we remember.
It’s the space where healing happens - collectively, breath by breath.
Growth
Encouraging growth is at the heart of my philosophy.
But not the kind of growth that’s rooted in pressure or perfection. I’m talking about growth that invites us to slow down. To soften.
To get curious, get messy, and stay open to what’s possible, even when it’s uncomfortable.
This practice is a container for transformation, not because it changes who we are, but because it helps us remember. Rebuild. Reclaim.
Growth, to me, means allowing ourselves to evolve at our own pace.
To move with integrity, not urgency.
To meet our edges with courage and our hearts with compassion.