Claudette Evans, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Teacher Training Staff Member

Practicing Since: 1999 // Teaching Since: 2009

What to expect in Claudette’s classes: Claudette has a genuine passion for meeting students where they are, helping guide them toward an experience of greater strength and freedom, while allowing them to discover the wisdom that lies within their own bodies. You’ll find Claudette’s classes infused with her warm, integrative, and creative spirit, along with explorations in mantra and vibration. Her enthusiasm and curiosity are catching, and it’s clear that her teaching draws on her own love of physicality and mental engagement. Through a deft weaving of precise alignment, thoughtful insight, and a great sense of humor, Claudette’s classes create space for self-expression, clarity of focus, and the sheer joy of movement.

Main Influences/Styles/Traditions: Anusara, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Sanskrit. She also has been strongly influenced by Douglas Brooks, Christopher Hareesh Wallis, Christina Sell, Sianna Sherman, Amy Ippoliti, Ross Rayburn, Jason Crandell, and Meghan Currie.

Claudette Evans is also an instructor in the 8 Limbs Grounded Wisdom Teacher Training Program. She is a self-described yoga nerd, and has been studying for more than 20 years, and teaching for more than 12 years. Before coming to yoga, she shared her gifts as a performer, an athlete, a nonprofit arts administrator, and an event producer, co-founding a national conference on community service and citizenship.

Following a car accident in 2008, she began yoga teacher training to help heal her body, and was lucky enough to be mentored Catherine Munro, Denise Benitez, Elizabeth Rainey, Douglas Brooks, James Boag, and Dr. Katy Jane, among many others.

Claudette came to Sanskrit through of her love of chanting and philosophy. In 2010, she began her studies with the American Sanskrit Institute and eventually entered ASI’s Apprenticeship Program with Zoe Mai in 2013, completing her training in 2014. Claudette enjoys studying classic texts, including the Bhagavad Gītā and the Yoga Sūtra-s, and the grammar and philosophy found within. She continues to expand her knowledge of yoga through the study of Āsana, Sanskrit, Mantra, and Philosophy, and teaches Sanskrit and other offerings that help take curious and devoted yogins beyond the mat to further their practice via weekly classes, workshops, yoga teacher training programs, and retreats around the Pacific Northwest and around the world through her online offerings.

I’ve been taking the intro series in Capitol Hill with Claudette and I’m in week four out of six. I am now more knowledgeable about my body. True instruction comes from a space that allows growth and everything about my experience here has been the most holistically fulfilling because I was taught to come from growth instead of perfection. As a person who lives too much in my head, I recommend this place as a means to learn to build a well-rounded balance. I am looking forward to a long practice in this venue and I’m grateful for what this studio catalyzed and then nurtured.

A.S., Intro Series Student