Alexandra Teague is the founder and principal teacher at Mudita Yoga.  She was introduced to yoga at the age of 14 when her older brother, Scott, began taking her to Kundalini classes with him.  “One of my earliest memories of yoga is my brother and I standing outside on a fire escape after class one evening.  I remember looking up in awe into a star filled sky and at that moment, I knew in every fiber of my being that all was right with the world and that I was exactly where I was supposed to be.  It was an extraordinary feeling to have at an age when typically nothing seems right."

Her empathic nature and fascination with the human body led her into the field of nursing after completing high school.  “I was fortunate to have outstanding teachers in nursing school and one in particular, my anatomy and physiology teacher, had a passion for the subject that was infectious.  I was hooked, and another seed was planted.” 

Upon graduation from nursing school, Alexandra was employed as an intensive care nurse until she moved abroad.  In South Korea she was profoundly affected by her work in a Vietnamese refugee camp teaching English, her studies of Buddhism and Buddhist practices and the birth of her son, Gerad.  It was while in Asia that she experienced her first massage and was exposed to the eastern view of health and healing. 

Knowing that she wanted to pursue work in preventive medicine and healing, Alexandra graduated from the NH Institute of Therapeutic Arts and the School of Rhythmical Massage in Germany in 1986.  It was during this time she sought relief for chronic back pain she had developed during pregnancy and childbirth. Visits with medical doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists and massage therapists gave some symptomatic relief, but it was her deepened commitment to the practice of yoga that resolved an underlying structural imbalance and has kept her pain free since.

While Alexandra has studied several different styles of hatha yoga, it is the Iyengar system she considers instrumental in her own healing.  She is a certified teacher, receiving her training at the BKS Iyengar Center, Turtle Island Yoga, White Lotus Foundation and Kripalu Center.  A rich yoga background combined with more than fifteen years healing experience as a nurse and massage therapist lay the foundation for her teaching which is clear, inspiring, humorous and compassionate.  With a warm, light hearted approach she makes the practice of yoga accessible to students of all levels and abilities.  She has taught classes, workshops and retreats full time since 1990.  Her primary teachers are Patricia Walden, Kofi Busia, Ramanand Patel, Swami Dyananda Saraswati, her students, her family and her pug, Jade.

“Now that I’ve moved away and can no longer take your classes, I realize what a great teacher you are.  I still hear your wonderful voice in my head coaxing the best out of me.  I learned so much from you about yoga, about myself.  I am eternally grateful to you and look forward to being in class with you again one day.”
--T.L.