Hi, I'm Alexe.

I’m an only child, but I grew up in a big, loud Irish family surrounded by fierce, loving women (my dad wasn’t around much) — my aunts, cousins, my mum — and lots of tea. Their strength, laughter, stories and no-nonsense warmth shaped me more than anything else.

As a little girl, I lived in my own world and loved the alternative. Dyslexia turned school into a foreign language, so I spoke through movement: singing, dancing, acting… anything that let my huge feelings spill out without needing perfect sentences. Creativity wasn’t a hobby; it was how I survived. It was how I made sense of the world and found freedom in my emotions.

Fast-forward.

Despite a serious knee injury in my teens, I built what looked like a dream career. I became a performer, event producer, stage manager and co-founder of one of London's first alternative movement schools. Long before pole fitness became mainstream, we were introducing pole dance, embodiment and sensual movement to thousands of women, helping redefine what movement could look and feel like.

We were also among the first to bring AntiGravity® Yoga to London, running over 200 classes a week and working with incredible brands including Nike, Adidas and Stella McCartney. Our classes were held everywhere from David Lloyd and LA Fitness to luxury venues across London before we finally opened our own home in 2012, where the academy grew into one of the UK's most respected dance schools.

Creating was always my favourite part. I loved designing new experiences and classes, and some of the concepts I created—like Bikini Bootcamp and Stretch It—are still found in gyms across London today.

Alongside this, I built a career as an international production and event manager, creating and delivering large-scale immersive experiences for prestigious brands including Harrods and Rolex. From transforming iconic venues such as Sky Garden and Kew Gardens into fully realised worlds, to producing award ceremonies and stage managing countless live events, I loved bringing ambitious creative visions to life. Those years taught me how to craft experiences that don't simply entertain people—they immerse them, move them and stay with them long after they've ended. I still return to this world today, and as Universal Movement and House of Serpents continue to grow, I hope to create even more immersive experiences that blend creativity, storytelling and transformation on an even greater scale.

When I wasn't running the academy, I somehow found time to organise concerts, festivals and immersive productions. I had a wonderfully rock-and-roll lifestyle, working in London's alternative circus scene as a performer, choreographer, producer and manager. We performed in some of the city's most iconic venues and festivals, including Glastonbury. Life was hectic, chaotic, creative and unforgettable.

My career wasn't just what I did.

It was who I was. 

From the outside: glitter, yes. Success, yes.

Behind the scenes?

I was a walking battery on two percent charge.

I didn't really understand what self-care was. In fact, I probably would have laughed if you'd suggested slowing down. I was far too busy being busy. Work came first. Everyone else came first. I pushed my body beyond its limits for years, ignoring every warning sign it tried to give me.

Alongside the career highs were several unhealthy relationships. In 2014, I finally found the courage to walk away from one of them, leaving my flat and my old կյանք behind. Looking back, I wasn't just leaving a relationship—I was beginning to leave behind the version of myself I'd spent years becoming.

That one decision created a ripple that slowly became a tidal wave.

The biggest—but best—wave of all arrived in 2017, when I became a mum.

Soon afterwards I moved to France, my partner's (now husband's) home country, while trying to keep running the London academy from the other side of the Channel. My daughter was one of those magical babies who believed sleep was entirely optional. (We later discovered she has a sleep condition.) At the time, though, nights blurred into days, days into months. I shuffled around like a zombie, pouring from a cracked cup until—snap—I realised that if I didn't start looking after myself, there would soon be nothing left of me to give.

Eventually, in 2018, I had to let the business go—the thing I had built from nothing, the place that had been my identity for fifteen years.

Handing it over cracked something open in me.

And it wasn't just the business.

Old friendships slipped away. I went from leading a huge team, teaching thousands of students and living a wonderfully busy social life… to silence. I was completely lost and no longer knew who I really was.

Just me, a tiny sleepless human, and the deafening question:

Who am I now?

That's when Yoga Nidra found me.

One twenty-minute guided recording in the dark changed everything.

Something inside me unclenched for the first time in years. My nervous system remembered what safety felt like. That one practice became a daily lifeline and, slowly—very slowly—it began stitching me back together.

Around the same time I started paying attention to the Moon.

Tracking the lunar cycle brought a rhythm back into my life that I didn't even realise I'd lost.

Then life shifted once again.

My dad was diagnosed with throat cancer.

We'd had a difficult relationship growing up, but during the last six months of caring for him we softened and healed our relationship. When he passed away in 2019, my heart broke open in a completely different way.

I eventually threw myself into studying.

Moonology.

Astrology.

Medical astrology.

Cyclical living.

Psychology.

Embodiment.

Everything I'd been searching for suddenly started fitting together.

My intensity made sense.

My sensitivity made sense.

Even the patterns of burnout and healing I'd experienced throughout my life made sense.

It felt as though the sky had handed me a map back to myself.

I became obsessed with learning. If I felt a course could deepen my understanding of people, the body or human behaviour, I wanted to study it. Chakra Dance, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, circle facilitation, embodiment, medical astrology and countless other modalities all became part of the journey.

At the same time, I continued exploring sensual movement, eventually creating my own movement systems, including Routine Dynamics™, inspired by the relationship between the five elements and the body's natural way of moving. Before long, I was designing classes again—but this time with a completely different intention. The first was a Deep Rest Dark Moon Ritual, a practice I still guide today.

From all of that, Universal Movement was born in 2021.

I started noticing patterns everywhere.

The rhythm of the Sun.

The rhythm of the Moon.

The rhythm of our bodies.

The rhythm of the seasons.

Then came the moment that changed everything.

What if we could actually live the stars through the body?

That was my eureka moment.

I continued studying medical astrology and spiritual traditions, but it took several more years before all of those pieces came together to become what is now the Universal Movement Method™.

It was never meant to be another wellness programme.

It became a philosophy for living.

A practical way of understanding ourselves and learning how to live in harmony with the rhythm of each season. Every season brings its own emotions, lessons, focus and connection to different parts of the body. Over the course of a year, we have the opportunity to visit every part of ourselves, allowing lasting transformation to unfold naturally.

A way of life that, I believe, is already written in the stars.

I designed it with leaders, practitioners and changemakers in mind because I know what it feels like to be the one holding everyone else. Some of the most extraordinary people spend their lives supporting others but rarely have a space where they themselves can be supported.

In many ways, my own journey has been preparing me to create that space.

It's the method I want my daughter—and the next generation—to grow up knowing.

That there is another way.

Over the years I've slowly pieced together every part of this world. I had imagined 2026 looking very different.

Instead, at the beginning of the year, my mum was diagnosed with cancer.

Everything paused.

There was only one place I wanted to be—by her side.

The launches were delayed so I could spend as much precious time with her as possible. She passed away in May 2026, leaving behind an immeasurable space in my heart, but also a deeper understanding of why this work matters.

The Temple Gardens is dedicated to her.

To the woman who first taught me to rise.

Now, I'm here to help you do the same.

To remember who you are.

To trust your own rhythm.

To discover that there is another way to move and live.

Today, Universal Movement has grown into a community of teachers, healers, leaders, practitioners and changemakers—a place designed to help you step into your power and become the person you are becoming. Because when you learn to truly care for yourself, you become better able to lead, love, create and care for everything and everyone else.

My hope is that wherever your journey begins, you'll discover what took me many years to learn:

That your body already holds incredible wisdom.

That nature has always been your greatest teacher.

And that perhaps the life you've been searching for has been quietly written in the stars all along.

Much love,

Alexe

Gemini Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo Rising · Manifestor 2/4

MY MISSION