John Marshall High School

Lead Cultivator

Gigi Evans

Cultivate Yoga is honored to be able to connect and bring the gift of yoga to the student athletes of John Marshall High School.

The program started teaching intro style beginner's yoga, once a month in the spring of 2018 to the school's boy's basketball team. The athletes are taught different breathing meditations in conjunction with restorative and challenging yoga asanas. This aides them in optimizing the control of their bodies and breath for the desired performance in their sport. After witnessing the positive change that yoga brought to their young lives - beyond the physical gains, students began to see mental and emotional benefits and they wanted to practice more.

Feeling encouraged by the positive response, Cultivate increased class frequency and began to teach once per week.

The team has advanced to more powerful intense strength and character building vinyasa flows.

The students are taught to take the hour of yoga as an opportunity to look deep and connect with themselves uninterrupted. Their growth has inspired other teams at John Marshall such as the girl's softball team to partake in yoga as well.