With 15+ years as a movement instructor in studios and many of those years helping studios run and grow "behind the scenes," Alexandra is our newest team member and Studio Operations Extraordinaire. She's a movement instructor herself, but never dreamed she would be a fitness person, much less a full time instructor! Studying dance in college got her started with her interest in movement studies; she trained in ballet, modern, floorwork, partnering, and improvisational techniques and studied biomechanics, anatomy, pedagogy, movement composition, and Labanalysis at University of Idaho. To better support her body and protect it from injury, she started lifting and fell down the rabbit hole that is fitness! While Alexandra has taught dance at studios, she’s found that she prefers working with populations that are interested in movement beyond dance techniques.

Spending the last fifteen years in various studios has demonstrated to her that there’s great power in people coming together to breathe and move together, whether it’s in a yoga class or a step aerobics popup – the important thing is that we get groovin’ and find joy in it. After teaching everything from Vinyasa yoga to barre to bungee fitness to dance aerobics to aerial sling, Alexandra has found that there are endless possibilities for movement, and there’s a modality for everyone. Movement is our birthright, and our bodies carry us through life – why not enjoy the time we spend movin’, groovin’, and researching what it can do?

When Alexandra's not helping things run smoothly at Soul Healing Collective, she teaches fitness, dances professionally with local Seattle companies, and she enjoys running (mostly from her problems) and bird watching with her husband.