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ABOUT ALEX

Alexandra Venier Ledesma (Alex) began her yoga journey in 2001 while living and working in Miami Beach. A single moment changed everything: watching 16-month-old toddlers resting peacefully in Savasana. Witnessing such young children embody stillness and nervous system regulation sparked a lifelong devotion to the practice.

Today, Alex is a mother of two based in Rockaway Beach, NY, and a certified yoga instructor with nearly two decades of teaching experience. Her personal practice remained steady and intentional throughout both pregnancies, giving her firsthand insight into the profound physical, neurological, and emotional benefits of prenatal and postnatal yoga.

Alex specializes in:

  • Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga

  • Aerial Yoga

  • Children’s & Family Yoga

  • Children on the Spectrum 

  • Fascia Maneuvers

  • Lymphatic System Stimulation

  • Applied Neurology

Her prenatal classes prepare mothers not only physically for birth, but neurologically and emotionally — cultivating pelvic intelligence, breath mastery, nervous system resilience, and deep trust in the body’s innate wisdom. Her postnatal work focuses on core restoration, lymphatic flow, hormonal balance, and gentle reintegration of strength and stability.

Her beloved “Mommy & Me” and children’s classes nurture regulation, bonding, coordination, and joyful embodiment from infancy onward. Alex understands that self-regulation begins early, and her classes create safe spaces where both children and parents thrive.

In her aerial yoga classes, students rediscover play, decompress the spine, awaken deep core integration, and experience multidimensional movement that enhances proprioception and vestibular balance. The hammock becomes both a tool for strength and a gateway to freedom.

In recent years, Alex has expanded her expertise into fascia maneuver techniques, lymphatic stimulation, and applied neurology. Through these modalities, she helps students:

  • Restore fascial elasticity and hydration

  • Improve lymphatic drainage and detoxification

  • Regulate the autonomic nervous system

  • Support trauma release and emotional integration

  • Enhance brain–body communication

  • Return to homeostasis

Her teaching is rooted in anatomical intelligence and individualized care. Whether guiding an open-level class or advanced practitioners, Alex skillfully weaves yoga asana with nervous system activation, breathwork, fascial hydration, and subtle neurology drills.

Students can expect:

  • Safe, intelligently sequenced flows

  • Nervous system regulation and activation

  • Deep core and pelvic floor integration

  • Detoxification through lymphatic stimulation

  • Empowerment through embodied awareness

Alex’s classes are both grounding and invigorating. They strengthen the body, clarify the mind, and cultivate emotional resilience. Her mission is to guide each student back to their most regulated, empowered, and authentic self.

Through mindful movement, breath, and applied neurological principles, she helps the body remember its innate capacity to heal.

Namaste.

Trainings and Certifications:

RCY Radiant Child & Spectrum Child Yoga

200 hr Yoga certification, Astanga, Iyanger and Viniyoga 

300 hr Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, Sadie Nardini

Prenatal & Postnatal certificate from Yoga Works

Studied with Tom Myers, author “Anatomy Trains” and Dr. Eden Fromberg, OBGYN and midwife

​Fascia Maneuver Coaching by Human Garage

Applied Neurology training with Kruse Elite

 

Experience:

Club H, Upper West Side, NYC

Mala Yoga, Brooklyn, NYC

Area Yoga, Brooklyn, NYC

Abhaya Yoga, Brooklyn, NYC

Jewel City Yoga, Brooklyn, NYC

Ocean Bliss Yoga, Rockaway Beach, NYC

Harbor Fitness Gym, Mill Basin, NYC

Arise Yoga, Brooklyn, NYC

 

Children's Yoga Experience: 
 

Montessori Schools in Alexandria, Fairfax, VA and NYC, 

German School Wortspiele, NYC 

Kinderhaus, NYC

Monkey Do, NYC

Abhaya Yoga, NYC

 

Private classes for individuals and families

 

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WORK AND/OR PRACTICE YOGA WITH ME

My mission as your guide is to share heathy, mindful living and fierce self-care so that you can live all stages of life with more contentment and grace.  In doing so, you learn to honor yourself and find the balance between stillness and movement, strength and ease, multitasking and single-tasking, and engagement and relaxation.  Join me in training your body and mind for increased enjoyment and health!  Together, we will up-level your immune system and all other bodily systems so that you can live a free, active, and healthy lifestyle.  We will improve your overall wellbeing for a joyful and mobile long life with movement and strengthening asanas (ancient yoga poses) that don’t tear you down, but build you up, detox, hydrate your fascia and joints!  The primary reason why our elders end up in nursing homes is immobility.  My personal goal is to keep practicing yoga safely and with joy until my time comes. Live more in the present moment, rewire yourself to live a life of gratitude and learn to manage life stressful situations gracefully. Join me in meditation and movement; strengthen and stretch safely so you can practice yoga all your life and reap a multitude of benefits this practice has to offer. Low impact such as wear and tear on your physical body but major impact in leading a healthy, able, content and resilient life. I acknowledge, Yoga is not the answer to all of life’s ailments, but it can make our journey through the different stages of life more connected, aware, easeful, and enjoyable.  There is this saying, “Yoga doesn't make our life better, but it does make us better at life” — in any stage, I want to add!

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