After studying Ashtanga, Tantra and Ayurveda since 1995, and blessed by her teachers Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Jois, Yogaga Rupa Rod Stryker to teach, Johnna shares what was shared with her. That is, how to live more embodied rather than in-headed. The outcome is freedom, joy, and the discovery of your highest Self. This Vinyasa practice is for those who crave the external physicality and internal forms of yoga practice leading to the walls around your heart being melted.

Practicing Ashtanga since 1995 and blessed by Guruji Sharath (L2) to teach, Johnna teaches Ashtanga yoga as a moving meditation. We will start with a dialog on Ashtanga Yoga Practice's great potential for you in our modern world, leading into energetic awareness practices, followed by an Ashtanga Yoga Practice. First Second or Third Series available. Closing with a modern take on the bhuta shuddhi meditation practice you will feel light, and centered for a grounded rest of your day. All Levels, All Styles of Practitioners welcome.

The fun party trick postures!! Think back on how freely we moved as kids: upside down, backbends, so comfortable in our bodies. We will use our yoga practice to defy the laws of gravity again! Join Johnna for a guided practice, firmly grounded in the breath and the bandhas, with stops along the way to explore the integral parts of the simplest postures that allow us to move into more the more complicated.

You will have the opportunity to work solo or with partners, balancing yourself on your hands and in new challenging positions! This workshop welcomes that childlike sense of adventure, guarantees to surprise you, make you laugh, and learn something new! All levels, all style experiences welcome. 

This 30 hour or 50 hour course (over 3-5 days) can be part of your Teacher Training Offering, a stand alone, or build toward Johnna's 500 hour Teacher Training.

From the rich heritage of her Himalayan Yoga Tradition with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Rod Stryker and I-Rest, Johnna offers a Teacher Training Intensive on Yoga Nidra.

An ancient sleep-based meditation technique, Yoga Nidra has the power to draw you to the deepest, timeless levels of relaxation where your whole being is peaceful, and your mind is profoundly calm and serene. The practice of Yoga Nidra harnesses the mystical combined powers of the subconscious, as well as your higher centers of consciousness, to gently negate patterns and habits of self-destructive and sabotaging tendencies.

Yoga Nidra is the regenerative and nurturing practice so needed for our world right now.

Some of content covered includes:

Learn the science around the value of sleep and yoga nidra.

5 Goals of Yoga Nidra

Stages of the Micro-Macro Nidra

8 - Limb reason behind Yoga Nidra

5 Koshic Model of healing through Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra's connection to Samadhi

AUM and Yoga Nidra

The Goddess

Sankalpa: Development for self and how to guide others

Practice Teach Yoga Nidra with Feedback

Multiple Yoga Nidra Scripts, and how to write your own script based on your client/students

This course will invigorate the heart mind of any seasoned teacher and spark a lifelong love of yoga nidra for all. All Levels All Practitioners Welcome.

This 30 or 50 hour course (over 3-5 days) is for those that long to know how to how to live well and potentially share this super fly wisdom with their family and/or community.

Designed to deepen your understanding of Ayurveda, Tantra, and Yoga, Ayurveda For Yoga Teachers promises to teach you how to share the science of how to live well with humans from all walks of life in yogic, therapeutic, and corporate settings.

This training is designed to enhance each trainee's existing yoga practice, daily lifestyle practice, cultivate an embodied understanding of the Ayurvedic philosophy. While this training will deepen each practitioners own experience, it seeks to be a seed that once planted can be shared. Johnna shares this living wisdom in such a way that the participants will not only practice the methodology, but also have ample opportunity to practice teach these timeless methods of healing, grounding, empowering.

Some of the content covered includes:

Tantra and the hatha yoga text Gheranda Samhita (7 goals of hatha yoga)

Meditation/Yoga Nidra - experience these rich practices as well as learn how to teach them

Ayurvedic and Tantric Worldview

Samkhya system of philosophy

Dosha - theory and application

Guna - theory and application

Subtle Dohas - Theory and guiding force brought via meditation, pranayama, kriya, inquiry + journaling

Practical Applied Ayurveda with interactive workbook, lecture, coaching sessions

Elemental Theory

Bhuta Shuddhi

This course will enliven the spirits of all who attend! All Levels All Practitioners Welcome

This 30 or 50 hour course (over 3 - 5 days) can be part of your Teacher Training Offering, a stand alone to inspire, or build toward Johnna's 500 hour Teacher Training.

Kosha means sheath or layer. The basic concept is of a covering, something that obscures true or clear illuminative wisdom and understanding. These coverings create the illusion that we are finite beings. Kosha is maya. The teaching about the koshas is called “pancha kosha,” and is first described in the Taittiriya Upanishad.

The koshas provide the seminal teachings that help us understand ourselves and our lives, shedding light on the various manifestations of consciousness. They are the basis for unconscious thoughts, actions, feelings––in short, the koshas link us to finite reality and shape all of our experience and destiny.

This training will deep dive into each of the 5 Koshas teaching the philosophy, the practices to purify/cleanse, and a deep sense of how to build asana, meditaiton, pranayama, daily lifestyle, and world view to uplift and hold the highest Self as the guide to follow. This training will teach practitioners how to guide others through the five layers and work with individuals 1:1 in order to bring yoga and its benefits to their community.

Some of the content covered includes:

The five layers and working progessively

Taittreya Upanisad and history of Pancha Maya Kosha

What the Hatha Yoga Pradipika says about human pain and how to ameliorate suffering

The connection of yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, our thoughts has on the first three koshas

How to know when one of the Koshas is imbalanced and practices to stabilize

What yoga has to say about depression and anxiety

How to build your intuition

Chakra meditations

Diagnostics to heal

The Four Dimensions of speech (VAK)

This course is part of a deeper body of study - Vedic counseling - meant to awaken the inner healer. Healing happens when we take the whole person into consideration. All Levels All Practitioners Welcome

This is a popular, recommended workshop program when hosting Johnna for the first time:

Friday Night (2.5 hours) - Intro and Tantra Yoga Meditation

Saturday Morning (2.5 hours) - Tantra Vinyasa Yoga Tejas Practice: Embolden your Inner Fire

Saturday Afternoon (2.5 Hours) - Tantra Vinyasa Yoga Prana Pranatha: Practices for inner fulfillment

Sunday Morning (3 hours) - Intro to Ashtanga Yoga and Tantra Ojas Meditation

All Levels All Practitioners Welcome.