About the Evolation Yoga Community
We are a supportive, inclusive collective dedicated to transformational yoga teacher training
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Evolation Yoga was founded by Zefea Samson and Mark Drost, who have both been on the yoga path for many years and were active members of the Bikram yoga community and training staff. They created Evolation to provide a comprehensive, inclusive and intimate training experience for students who want to study the traditional hot yoga Primary Series, without the associated attachments.
Remove the rigidity
Fuse the physical with the mental and spiritual
Focus on the teachings – not the teacher
Evolation has grown into a worldwide collective network of teachers and studios
We are deeply rooted in the heated Hatha yoga tradition, espoused by Bishnu Gosh and Bikram Choudhury, as well as the meditation techniques taught by Paramhansa Yogananda. Evolation has expanded to also embrace practices from other traditions like flow and yin.
You can find independently owned, affiliate studios in North and South America, Australia, Europe and Asia. All share an alternative path for teaching, thinking, and living the practice that we all love.
The Evolation collective includes partners with decades of experience in hot and vinyasa yoga, meditation, kids yoga, and partner yoga. We believe there’s an opportunity to evolve this beautiful ancient system – to bridge eastern philosophies with western efficiency – to make yoga more accessible to everyone.
We help people open and run yoga studios. We also invite today’s yoga studio owners and teachers to join us in this exciting transformation to become the catalyst for change on a larger scale. Together, we can create a unified yoga platform of openness, inclusiveness, and adaptability – and we can do so in a financially sustainable way.
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*If you are a studio or teacher looking for support or are not currently associated with a teacher training and would like to be, please contact us.