Alex has been practicing yoga for more than a decade. After the mountaintop experience of serving as a staffer on the Obama campaign in 2008, his friend offered to take him to the local gym’s classes. The campaign had been an emotional experience, and he didn’t know what would fill the void afterward. Yoga became a weekly, then daily, release and focus. First going to classes for the physical benefit, he learned the emotional and spiritual places the practice allowed–and sometimes forced–him to go.

After practicing with master teacher Mimi Rieger in Washington, D.C. for a few years, he enrolled in the Power of Teaching yoga program and took a sabbatical from his day job in politics. The experience was transformational. Not knowing if teaching would click, he focused on accelerating his personal practice. Now, nearly 18 months after taking a break from professional politics and beginning to lead yoga in the studio, he is teaching full-time.

His teaching style is physically athletic but appeals to the spiritually-minded. Expect a vigorous flow, arm balances, inversions, and a calming rest to still the mind.