When you’ve walked into one in every of our yoga studios and practised with Johnson, chances are high you walked out having skilled an unimaginable bodily problem that quieted down any ego that adopted you to your mat! We love Johnson for by no means failing to deliver 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 apply, however extra importantly, his courses remind us that it’s not about our expression of a pose, it’s concerning the steadiness we will discover inside these poses.
We sat down with Johnson to speak about his yoga journey, his influences, and what retains him impressed!
1. WHO MOST INFLUENCES YOUR YOGA TEACHING STYLE, AND WHY?
My academics from NYC, Courtney Bauer, Rima Rabbath, David Life, and Sharon Gannon, are amongst a few of the academics who’ve influenced my instructing type, notably at first of my journey.
Courtney taught me concerning the immaculate artwork of language and detailed cueing at the side of 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 instructor Courtney instructed me that I’m not a yoga instructor – 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 way in which 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 apply, my pilates background, with non secular musings peppered in. I consider the yoga apply is the method of looking for and experiencing grace whereas beneath strain.
5. WHAT ASPECT OF YOGA ARE YOU MOST INSPIRED BY?
I’m all the time impressed by the therapeutic capability yoga has. Irrespective of the way you’re feeling, in the event you permit the apply 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 go away feeling extra elevated than if 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, sizzling water lemon and ginger. I apply yoga, pilates and go to the gymnasium 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?
Break up Pose – Hanumanasana
Apart from his regular instructing schedule, this October it’s also possible to be a part of johnson for one in every of his therapeutic workshops – shamanic journeying & previous life therapeutic.
Impartial Bay studio October 9, 2022. View occasion right here.
Bondi Seaside studio October 22, 2022. View occasion right here.
These intimate workshops are restricted in area so don’t wait to e-book! Register by way of the hyperlinks above, or at your native studio.
Written by Katie Tetz
Studio Enterprise Supervisor | Ever Inspiring Author & Yoga Trainer for Energy Residing Australia