Brandy C. Adams is a U.S. Air Force veteran, certified yoga instructor (RYT-200), and Montessori educator with a Master of Arts in Education (MAEd, Montessori Education). A native of Detroit and graduate of Cass Technical High School (Class of 1997), she earned her B.S. in Political Science from Troy University in 2005. For over 15 years, she has lived and served in the Mississippi River parish region below New Orleans, where she advocates for accessible wellness practices and teaches trauma-informed yoga to underserved and marginalized communities.

Brandy is the founder of F.E.N.I.X. Yoga with Brandy, a woman-, veteran-, and Black-owned business rooted in service, healing, and empowerment. She began publishing her poetry in 2024 with Thoughts From a Pandemic Yogi, and her debut novel, Root & Flame, was released in 2025 under her independent imprint, F.E.N.I.X. Yoga Press. Her literary influences include Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Gil Scott-Heron, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker—writers whose work shapes her voice as both witness and healer.

Thoughts From a Pandemic Yogi is not just a collection of poetry and journal entries—it is a living archive of spiritual survival, radical honesty, and embodied resilience. Brandy is uniquely qualified to write this book because she lived its pages: as a single mother navigating poverty, a veteran surviving trauma, a yoga teacher offering free community classes in the Deep South, and a woman finding wholeness through breath, stillness, and sound.

Her personal healing practices—gardening and playing sound healing instruments such as singing bowls, tuning forks, and drums—infuse the work with a rhythmic and meditative pulse. With each piece, she invites readers into a space of reflection, reclamation, and deep-rooted self-acceptance.

Brandy writes as one who has lived the fire—and chosen to rise.