Around 2018 Evie arrived at a yoga studio hoping to find a sustainable way to move her body. As a former physician, a wife, the mother of five children and a volunteer in the community, she had experienced some stressors that contributed to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis. While medications and traditional therapies led to frustration, once on the mat permission language such as “where you are is where you are supposed to be,” and “trust in the process” seemed to be just what the doctor ordered!
Craving a deeper knowledge of yoga, Evie completed the 200-hour YTT at Yoga Den in Jacksonville in 2021. Having trained as a physician in western methods of healing it was easy for her to consider that sharing the wisdom of an eastern practice such as yoga would be a way to honor the early calling on her life. She began teaching mind-body classes at a local studio and has since pursued an additional certification in Yoga Nidra and has studied methods for teaching beginning yoga students.
As Evie’s body has healed, she has enjoyed expanding her own yoga practice to include the yin type of practices along with the yang of mixed levels of vinyasa and hot power classes. She strives to create an authentic atmosphere of community and calm in her classes, providing an invitation to journey inward, connect to breath and body, and observe the mind. Ultimately, she encourages students with the messages that altered her life, to make the practice their own and to honor where they are, for that is where they are supposed to be.
