If you happen to’ve walked into considered one of our yoga studios and practised with Johnson, likelihood is 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 deliver the depth to our lessons and on the identical time leaving us feeling a deep sense of tranquillity.
Johnson’s lessons reliably give us new methods to progress our asana apply, however extra importantly, his lessons remind us that it’s not about our expression of a pose, it’s in regards to 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 academics from NYC, Courtney Bauer, Rima Rabbath, David Life, and Sharon Gannon, are amongst a few of the academics who’ve influenced my instructing fashion, significantly firstly of my journey.
Courtney taught me in regards to the immaculate artwork of language and detailed cueing together with bodily and energetic anatomy. Rima, David and Sharon from the Jivamukti custom taught me in regards to 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 advised 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 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 lessons are like a trial by hearth impressed closely by the ashtanga-vinyasa apply, my pilates background, with religious musings peppered in. I consider the yoga apply is the method of searching for and experiencing grace whereas beneath stress.
5. WHAT ASPECT OF YOGA ARE YOU MOST INSPIRED BY?
I’m at all times impressed by the therapeutic capability yoga has. Regardless of the way you’re feeling, for those who 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 at all times depart feeling extra elevated than once 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 health club 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
Apart from his regular instructing schedule, this October you may as well be part of johnson for considered one 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 ebook! Register through the hyperlinks above, or at your native studio.
