About Us

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Seva Yoga School ™  is based out of Pensacola, Florida and offers in-person, online and hybrid yoga teacher training classes.

Dr. Deborah Bassett holds a PhD in communication from the University of Washington, has a research background in health and wellness and is widely published in the areas of culture, communication, and health in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is an experienced registered yoga teacher at the 500-hour level and has studied a wide range of styles and specializations over three decades with expert yoga teachers in Jerusalem, Seattle, New Orleans, Delaware, New Jersey, and Florida.  

Dr. Bassett is the owner of Emerald Coast Yoga & Expressive Arts in Pensacola, Florida, the founder of Seva Yoga Alliance™  and the director of Seva Yoga School ™ . 

 Rhett began his meditation practice in a small Zen temple about 20 years ago. It didn't take him long to realize that his mind was going bananas most of the time. This realization motivated him to keep practicing in order to get to know the nature of his mind and to ultimately make it a friend. Knowing that many others experience this mental tug of war moved Rhett to have more compassion for our shared struggles. From this sense of a shared suffering grew his motivation to become a mindfulness teacher. Ultimately he hopes to help others in their journey to become a true friend to themselves. 

 The meditation tradition being taught in this program is called Insight Meditation (also known as Vipassana) and its focus is on developing a nonjudgmental awareness in relation to our present experience. 

We practice breath, meditation and asana to unite our minds and bodies in order to serve our communities in peace, with love.