Today we’d like to introduce you to Evan.
Hi Evan, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My path to Flow Into Yoga has been anything but linear, but looking back, there’s a clear thread connecting all of it: a curiosity about people, a love of nature, and a desire to live more intentionally.
I grew up on St. Simons Island, Georgia, surrounded by the coast and a family that taught me to appreciate the natural world. I studied Anthropology in college, spent time abroad in Barcelona, and later joined the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Living and traveling abroad opened my eyes to how differently people can live, connect, and define wellbeing. I eventually earned a master’s degree in Sustainability Studies, always feeling drawn toward the intersection of people, place, and the environment.
Yoga had been part of my life since I was 15, but I really dove deep into the philosophy and practice while in the Philippines. It wasn’t until 2016 I completed my first 200-hour yoga teacher training on St. Simons and began teaching right away. What started as something I loved gradually became a much deeper calling. Over the years, I continued studying yoga, Ayurveda, herbalism, meditation, Thai massage, and other traditional wellness practices.
While studying Sustainability in Asheville, I was traveling around to studios and clients homes teaching yoga. It inspired me to begin Flow Into Yoga upon moving to Charleston in 2020 as a way to bring all of those pieces together. Today, it has grown beyond teaching yoga classes into wellness coaching, bodywork, and immersive retreats that invite people to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and experience the healing power of nature and community.
For me, Flow Into Yoga isn’t really about yoga alone. It’s about creating experiences that help people step away from the noise of everyday life and remember what it feels like to be fully present—to themselves, to one another, and to the natural world. That’s the work I’m most excited to continue growing here in South Carolina.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It would be a lie to say that I’ve simply been “going with the flow” while building Flow Into Yoga. There have been plenty of moments when it has felt like I was swimming against the current.
Before starting the business, I was living in Asheville, teaching about 10 hours of yoga a week while in graduate school, waiting tables, and working another part-time remote job. It was exhausting, but I was building toward something I believed in. Then, in January 2020, I officially started Flow Into Yoga. A few months later, the pandemic began. I had also just moved to Charleston and barely knew anyone, so I had to completely rethink what I had envisioned for the business. I pivoted to teaching online, which allowed me to stay connected with people from my past and begin building awareness of my work here in Charleston.
As things reopened, I returned to teaching in person and quickly remembered one of the realities of being a yoga teacher: it isn’t necessarily a lucrative profession. For several years, I continued growing Flow Into Yoga while working a full-time job to support myself, often building the business during evenings and weekends. In late 2024, I finally felt confident enough to reduce my other job to part-time and devote more of my energy to Flow Into Yoga. That decision was both a financial and personal turning point. The more fully I invested in the work, the more the business grew.
There were also more personal challenges along the way. Early on, some of my family questioned my decision to pursue a career that didn’t offer the traditional financial security of the “professional” path, especially given the years I had invested in my education and my Peace Corps experience. And there can still be a funny moment at a wedding when someone asks, “What do you do?” and I say, “I’m a yoga teacher and I lead wellness retreats.” It doesn’t always fit neatly into the boxes people are accustomed to.
But I’ve come to realize that perhaps the greatest lesson in building this business has been learning to change my relationship with difficulty. I used to look at the hard seasons and think, “This is so hard. How am I going to keep doing this?” Now the conversation goes more like, “Yes, this is hard, AND I know this is what I’m meant to be doing. How can I approach it with more ease?”
That is part of the practice of yoga. Ease doesn’t mean that something is effortless; it means learning how to meet what is in front of you without creating unnecessary resistance around it. Building Flow Into Yoga has required persistence, flexibility, and a willingness to continually pivot, but it has also taught me to trust the current rather than constantly fight against it.
So no, it hasn’t been a smooth road. But it has been deeply meaningful, and I genuinely can’t imagine doing anything else.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
At its heart, my work is about helping people come home to themselves.
I’m a yoga teacher, wellness coach, bodyworker, herbalist, and retreat facilitator, but I don’t see these as separate roles. They are different ways of helping people develop a deeper relationship with their bodies, their inner worlds, and the natural world around them.
My specialty goes beyond helping someone get into a yoga posture. I’m much more interested in what happens when we become genuinely curious about what we’re experiencing inside the posture. I teach people to slow down enough to notice the subtle sensations, emotions, patterns, and layers of experience that often get overlooked in everyday life. Through that intimate relationship with the body, I’ve found that people often become more at ease with themselves and more confident in who they are.
This is especially apparent on my retreats. There’s something powerful that happens when people are given the time and space to turn inward together. As people become more comfortable inhabiting their own bodies and expressing what they’re experiencing, they often become more open with one another, too. I’ve watched people arrive as strangers and, over the course of a retreat, find new ways to communicate. Sometimes this is through words and sometimes it is through presence, movement, or simply feeling safe enough to be seen.
What I’m most proud of is the way I show up as a teacher and leader. I naturally befriend people. I genuinely want to know them, and I think that authenticity helps people feel safe enough to trust me. That trust is incredibly important when you’re inviting someone into such an intimate journey with themselves.
I think what sets my work apart is that I’m not interested in creating another environment where people feel like they need to perform wellness or become a “better” version of themselves. I want to create spaces where people can soften, listen, explore, and ultimately feel more at home in who they already are. To me, that is where real transformation begins.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Life is hard enough. It will throw curveballs at you no matter what profession you choose, how much money you make, or how respected you are in your community. You only make it harder on yourself by trying to squeeze your square peg into a round hole.
I believe each of us is here for a reason, and I’ve found that we often recognize our purpose through spaces of ease and quiet. These are the moments that we can hear God’s whisper “Here you are. This is it.” When we force ourselves into spaces where we don’t belong simply because we think that’s where we’re supposed to be, it creates tension throughout our entire being: mind, body, and soul. And that tension makes those quieter whispers harder to hear.
So pay attention. When you feel called to try something outside your comfort zone, go for it. When you consistently find yourself feeling lit up, inspired, and deeply at home around a certain kind of place or community, stay with it. That’s your sign that you’re getting warmer to your purpose.
You don’t have to know exactly where the path is taking you. Just keep following what makes you feel more alive. Sometimes purpose isn’t something you find, it’s something you uncover, one brave step at a time.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://flowintoyogallc.com
- Instagram: @evanflowsintoyoga
- Facebook: Flow Into Yoga, LLC
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@flowintoyoga?si=fATTHRZFK-N-PM__
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