about adam

I am an artist, writer, teacher, and designer. Currently I’m based in the Northeastern Woodlands of the United States, in the homelands of the Piscataway and Manahoac people. I was born a Libra in 1980 and raised in a town called Reston, Virginia, a place whose artisanal suburban architecture and weave of the natural and built serves as a recurring fascination in my work.

At 21, following an ecstatic psychological crisis, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Bipolar Disorder. This event and condition led me to the somatic and esoteric medicine of yoga, a deep well of wisdom that I continue to practice and teach. My areas of focus within the yoga disciplines are beginner’s therapeutics, sound and mantra, pranayama, and ritual practice. In 2014 I published Wind Through Quiet Tensions, a memoir about my experiences healing with yoga practice, under the independent publisher For the Birds Trapped in Airports.

I currently serve as an Adjunct Faculty member at George Mason University, where I teach research strategies for artists. I teach yoga classes and workshops independently and in collaboration with Beloved Yoga in Reston. Some people have found it useful engage me in private consultation.

I make drawings and paintings. Periodically I release short essays on other artists, creative and/or spiritual practice, the tension between psychology and spirituality, and the search for belonging.

I’m working on a book of practical philosophy centered on mood and the bodymind, as well as a messy and challenging memoir that takes the territory of Wind Through Quiet Tensions and expands upon it. I talk about my writing and visual process in depth at Patreon, where you can subscribe and support the momentum of my work.

Thank you for your time and your attention.

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Statement of Creative Longing (coming soon)

My Approach To Teaching Yoga (coming soon)

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