Nourish Your Soul: A Wellness Retreat in Costa Rica with Claudette

Claudette Evans (E-RYT 500, YACEP) with more than two decades of study in yoga, has cultivated a depth of knowledge and experience that she shares with folks every day. In her classes, she invites curious practitioners toward an experience of greater strength, sensitivity, freedom, skillfulness, and wisdom, so that they can cultivate greater connection in their lives. She is passionate about the study and practice of yoga, as well as the training and mentoring of its teachers. As a yoga student and educator, Claudette fell in love with yoga philosophy. Her enjoyment of yoga’s ethical precepts captured in the philosophy, coupled with her decades of study in Western classical voice, moved her to study the Sanskrit language, Veda Recitation, and Mantra, further encouraging her to explore how these practices, which serve to deepen one’s concentration and focus and can be used to support cognitive function and brain health. Claudette's classes create a space for self-expression through body and voice, cultivate a clarity of focus, and foster the gift of embodiment. Claudette is grateful for the many teachers she’s studied with over the years, particularly her early Sanskrit education with Vyaas Houston’s American Sanskrit Institute (ASI), where she was a teacher for ten years. Today, her main teachers are Shantala Sriramaiah, Dr. Varun Khanna, and Dr. Douglas Brooks. Claudette shares the beauty of Sanskrit, Yoga Philosophy, and reciting the Veda in weekly classes, workshops, festivals, retreats, and yoga teacher training programs throughout the Pacific Northwest, online, and around the world. Through her teaching, she aims to create experiences of joy and healing that enable people to live fully and authentically, moving bravely and boldly toward their purpose.