Meet LexyYoga teacher | chef | retreat host
I’m Alexa… or Lexy to most people. I grew up in New York City as a daughter of immigrants from St. Vincent & the Grenadines and South Korea. Almost a decade ago I made the decision to pack up my life in the city and relocate to a tiny Caribbean island called Bequia. That decision reorganized everything: how I work, how I move, how I cook, and what I believe wellness actually means when it’s not being sold to you as a subscription.
Eight years of teaching yoga and cooking professionally has taken me places no training can ever cover: mega yachts, sprawling villas, retreat centers in Morocco, and even hotel gardens in Europe. Each place has taught me something. Wild Thing Wellness is where it all comes together.
My yoga training covers 500+ hours across vinyasa, hatha, yin, restorative, and yoga therapeutics, but what shaped my teaching more than any course I’ve taken has been eight years of showing up for people in real bodies, in real conditions, carrying real things. You learn that yoga isn’t about the asana. It’s about what the asana opens up.
I teach yoga as an invitation into your body, into curiosity, into the edges of what you can hold and what you can release. My classes build strength and create stillness, often in the same session. We practice reciprocity. I pay attention to who’s in the room and I teach to that. You won’t leave feeling like you performed yoga. You’ll leave feeling like you actually did something and discovered something about yourself and your body.
I never planned on becoming a chef. As a kid I was torn between marine biologist, filmmaker, neuroscientist, and writer… never chef. But growing up, both my parents worked full-time and dinner together was a non-negotiable in our home. It was the anchor of the day, the place where everything got talked through, argued over, laughed at, and eaten regardless. Whether it was stewed oxtail or Korean BBQ, the table was where we came back to ourselves.
That early understanding of food as cultural grounding has never left me. Over the years cooking for private clients, charter guests, villa families, and retreat groups around the globe became a profession. My cooking pulls from the cultures that raised me and the places I’ve traveled through. Every menu is its own thing: part memory, part place, part whoever’s sitting at the table.
Living between Bequia, Barbados, and Brooklyn isn’t a brand story. It’s my life and it has taught me more about wellness than any course ever could. Moving through different cultures, eating at different tables, teaching bodies shaped by completely different lived experiences shifts everything into perspective quite quickly.
Travel is where compassion gets built. It’s where you learn that your way of doing things is one of a thousand valid ways, and that the world is far larger and more generous than it looks from one place. That’s the thing I try to carry into every experience I lead.
I built Wild Thing Wellness for people who want to live fully, not escape into a version of life that doesn’t have complications. The practice, the food, and the travel is all here to make your actual life better. Not to replace it.
Live well. Travel often. See the world.