In the event you’ve walked into considered one of our yoga studios and practised with Johnson, chances are high you walked out having skilled an unbelievable bodily problem that quieted down any ego that adopted you to your mat! We love Johnson for by no means failing to carry the depth to our courses and on the identical time leaving us feeling a deep sense of tranquillity.
Johnson’s courses reliably give us new methods to progress our asana observe, however extra importantly, his courses remind us that it isn’t about our expression of a pose, it’s concerning the steadiness we are able to discover inside these poses.
We sat down with Johnson to talk about his yoga journey, his influences, and what retains him impressed!
1. WHO MOST INFLUENCES YOUR YOGA TEACHING STYLE, AND WHY?
My lecturers from NYC, Courtney Bauer, Rima Rabbath, David Life, and Sharon Gannon, are amongst among the lecturers who’ve influenced my educating type, significantly in the beginning of my journey.
Courtney taught me concerning the immaculate artwork of language and detailed cueing along with bodily and energetic anatomy. Rima, David and Sharon from the Jivamukti custom taught me concerning the spirit of the yoga custom and making historical knowledge relevant within the modern-day.
3. WHAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MOMENTS UNDER ONE OF THESE TEACHERS?
My trainer Courtney informed me that I’m not a yoga trainer – I’m a healer. It was a profound second in how I heard these phrases. Firstly, I recoiled on the accountability of what that title carried, however then it shifted the best way I checked out providing my work. Every class, every second, is to be current in fixed service to the therapeutic within the room.
4. WHAT ARE YOU BEST KNOWN FOR AS A YOGA TEACHER, AND WHY?
My courses are like a trial by hearth impressed closely by the ashtanga-vinyasa observe, my pilates background, with non secular musings peppered in. I consider the yoga observe is the method of in search of and experiencing grace whereas underneath strain.
5. WHAT ASPECT OF YOGA ARE YOU MOST INSPIRED BY?
I’m all the time impressed by the therapeutic capability yoga has. Regardless of the way you’re feeling, should you permit the observe to take you on a journey, by merely deepening your relationship with the breath, and zooming out of the monkey enterprise of the thoughts, you’ll all the time depart feeling extra elevated than whenever you left. It’s fairly superior.
6. YOUR PERSONAL SELF-CARE RITUAL?
I do a yearly intestine cleanse/reset. Massages 2-3 instances a month. Weekly Epsom salt baths. Morning detox rituals like tongue scraping, scorching water lemon and ginger. I observe yoga, pilates and go to the fitness center to combine other ways of motion. I select my social experiences fastidiously so I don’t really feel drained. I don’t drink alcohol fairly often. I dance.
7. WHAT YOGA POSE CAN’T YOU LIVE WITHOUT?
Cut up Pose – Hanumanasana
Written by Katie Tetz
Studio Enterprise Supervisor | Ever Inspiring Author & Yoga Instructor for Energy Dwelling Australia
