Brandon Bergado

At 15 years old I left my home in San Jose, California to play hockey for teams all around the US and Canada. What I thought was going to be a long ice hockey career was cut short in 2019. Two major concussions within three weeks of each other forced me to let go of everything I worked for and focus on healing my brain. It’s crazy because what I thought was my biggest nightmare, ended up being the most restorative transformation I could have ever imagined. These concussions gifted me the opportunity to sit alone with my thoughts for months and discover the most powerful method of healing.
Enter Yoga and Meditation.

I was so broken at the time that I promised myself I would do anything I could to build a happy home within myself. A place where I can always come back to and never feel lost in life. To me, meditation is the best route to that destination. That is what Yoga is all about. How open can you be to accepting life changes? And can you create the awareness and discernment to interpret every thing that happens in a way where you never loose your inner peace? That’s the work that made me fall in love with this practice.

My roots in yoga started with meditation but as I got healthy, my practice evolved into asanas (postures) and inversions. I'm drawn to creative, yet challenging, movement patterns that allow you to transcend your mental and physical limitations. I believe this is where we combine the practices of meditation, mindful movement, and breath to bring the mind back to center, back to home.