In her own words... Alex is a somatic practitioner, nature connection mentor, community-builder, social change-maker, facilitator, visionary, song-keeper, and writer.
Unique is an understatement.
She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and holds a Master of Music in Bassoon Performance from Ball State University (2017) and a Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance from Arizona State University (2015). In 2019 she completed her four-year Feldenkrais Professional Training Program in New York City with David Zemach-Bersin. She developed her love of beauty, learning, and critical thinking from her 14 years at Cranbrook Schools, where she graduated in 2011.
Alex currently teaches forest school with Firefly Forest School and Nature Learning Community. She spent five weeks in the summer of 2020 in the Rising Earth Immersion at The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain in Chapel Hill, NC, studying arts activism, community-living, consensus process, collective liberation, decolonization, and social permaculture. She leads a backpacking trip for high-school sophomores each March in the Smokey Mountains with Cranbrook Schools’s Wilderness Expedition. During her two years in Bloomington, IN, she taught forest school at The Wild Nature Project and lived at Green Acres Permaculture Village.
Alex is skilled in fermenting, cooking, wildcrafting, fire-starting/bow-drill, resourcefulness and thrift, somatic self-care, fertility/menstrual cycle tracking, and wilderness first aid. She feels most at home barefoot in the forest, is a lifelong learner and voracious reader, and loves to sing, dance, and move. Alex grew up on stolen Anishinaabe, Potawatomi, Mississauga, and Peoria land, also known as Bloomfield, Michigan.
Official Website: http://alextoenniges.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alextoenniges