Welcome to Evolve Yoga + Wellness!

Evolve Yoga + Wellness is a community-oriented yoga and wellness center located in the heart of St. Marys County in Southern Maryland. Evolve offers and welcomes many diverse styles of yoga as well as many mind/body and artistic modalities including Pilates, Tai Chi, Meditation, YogaDance, Zumba, Massage Therapy and Pranassage. We truly believe there is a type of yoga or movement for “every body”, regardless of age, shape or flexibility.

In addition to group classes we offer private sessions and consultations with wonderful wellness practitioners who can schedule appointments to support your individual needs for aesthetic services, skincare and energy work. We welcome local artists and musicians to exhibit their work and share their talents as well. Our goal is to create a dynamic, welcoming community in Southern Maryland with the intention of promoting and enhancing health, wellbeing and creativity on all levels.

The ancients say we are given all our breaths when we are born. If you use them all up, then what?
Pranayama, one of the 8 Limbs of yoga is the practice and art of controlling our vital life force, our breath. Practicing the proper techniques of breathing can help you become more aware of your breath and therefore benefits are physical, emotional as well as spiritual. Through practices including extension or restraint of the breath, regular practice of pranayama can work wonders in improving the overall health and the function of all the organs in the body. It can reduce stress, help control anxiety and depression, lower blood pressure and heart rate and as well help control asthma and other breathing disorders. Pranayama is also closely linked to meditation, a crucial aspect of yoga.
This workshop will explore traditional yoga movements, chair practices, restorative postures and will help to develop a breathing practice to aid you in personal transformation. You will learn the tools to improve your health and well being. This workshop is appropriate for everyone, even if you have never done yoga before. $25. CEUs available.

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Sunrise Yoga is back on the Leonardtown Wharf! Join our Evolve teachers for a wonderful 1 hour yoga practice right on river’s edge.  This class is offered to the community on a donation basis.  This year we are hoping to raise the bar and increase our outreach into the community. We will be accepting donations for both the local food pantries as well as animal shelters. We will happily receive your donations of non-perishable food items as well as items for the local animal shelters including, towels, blankets, pillows and food. Financial donations appreciated too.  Dates:  June 15, June 29, July 20 and August 17, 7:30 – 8:30 AM.  Please bring a yoga mat and water bottle.

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Concious CONNECTIONS: You’re invited to cultivate conscious connections with others and enhance your awareness. During this workshop we explore guided mediations, reflective inquiry, sharing and partner poses. Explore ways to open and be present with others. This is a wonderful way to strengthen your current practices and reconnect intimate bonds. Open to all levels and ability. Join this group practice on your own or with a partner.  $25

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Summer Cleanse and Self-Healing Immersion Workshop, Friday – Sunday, July 12-14, With Shivanter Singh and Julian Devoe

May 16, 2013

Summer is the season of vitality, which makes this time of year perfect for a gentle detox that will reset your body and mind. Detoxifying through diet doesn’t have to mean fasting. When done periodically, it is one of the best ways to maintain lasting health and wellness. Three reasons to do a gentle detox [...]

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Nosara Yoga® Weekend Retreat, October 11-13, 2013, with Don and Amba Stapleton

May 15, 2013
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Don & Amba Stapleton from the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica will be leading a weekend retreat at Evolve on October 11 – 13, 2013. Immerse yourself in a masterfully guided Nosara Yoga® experience that brings you home to a fresh and enlivening relationship with your whole self. Don and Amba Stapleton, creators of [...]

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Preparing for Childbirth? New sessions starting June 9, Sundays, 3:00 – 5:00pm

May 11, 2013

At this special time in life join child birth educator Nichole Smith as she offers support and tecahes you to take on an active role during pregnancy, labor, birth, and beyond. This 4 week series includes: 1.Anatomy and Physiology and process of birth 2.Stages and phases of Labor 3.How to cope naturally with in each stage of [...]

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Therapeutic Thai Yoga Bodywork, with Michael Sitzer, June 15 & 16, 11:00 – 6:00PM

May 4, 2013

This training prepares one with the skills necessary to offer a ‘Therapeutic Thai-Yoga Bodywork’ treatment. This course focuses on how to release individual muscles as opposed to learning a flowing sequence. There is a strong emphasis on various Thai and Osteopathic techniques, including Positional Release, and Muscle Energy Techniques. You will both learn how to [...]

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The Wonderful World of Hooping, Saturday, May 25, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

April 27, 2013

This is different from the hula hooping you did as a kid–hooping uses large, weighted hoops that are easy to use. LeeAnn Juday of Juday Performance Arts will teach you the basics of hooping and help you strengthen, tone, and have a great time! You can hoop–regardless of your age, size, fitness level, or sense [...]

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Ayurveda: Healing Principles and Daily Practices, Saturday, May 11, 1:00 – 5:00, with guest teacher Alana Greenberg

April 26, 2013

Ayurveda, Yoga’s sister science, is India’s traditional health-care system that adheres to the organic pulsations and bio-rhythms of nature. It offers common sense approaches to wellness and longevity with natural, safe and effective remedies, empowering us to maintain our own vibrant health. How? This workshop will demystify Ayurvedic Medicine by exploring its philosophical roots and [...]

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Movement, Breath, Sound and Meditation – May 18, 1:30 – 5:30

April 5, 2013

Asana (physical postures of yoga) in service of the breath, Pranayama (the yoga of breath) in service of sounds, sound in service of silence, silence in service of the connection to the source of all life.  Join Chip Guffey and Lauri Bruce, Saturday Mau 18 1:30 – 5:30, for a journey through movement, breath, sound, and [...]

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