Certified Yoga Teacher

Yoga pioneer Holiday Johnson, has been teaching for 45+ years and offers personal instruction for all ages and abilities including weekly classes, monthly Wisdom of Yoga workshops and annual retreats to Hawaii's island of Kauai.

Trained by master teachers from the international yoga community, with a classical Iyengar-style Hatha yoga foundation, Holiday's unique student-based teaching style emphasizes individual need over conforming to systems, and she is known for seeing — and helping her students to see and address-physical and emotional blocks that impair their well-being. Holiday offers insights from her many years of teaching, study, and practicing yoga and meditation, helping to make students more at ease with their lives.

Holiday advocates for her students' success, helping them get the most benefit possible from yoga with the goal of reaching a harmonious balance between spirit, mind, and body. Her fun, energetic approach helps students learn to enjoy all aspects of practice, including the challenges, and encourages a practice that allows each person's inner wisdom to surface so their body may function fully from head to toe.

CENTERING: Meeting Herself through Yoga
At first seeking — as so many of us do — just physical relief, at age thirty Holiday quickly found her whole life so enhanced by yoga practice that she became a passionate advocate, determined to share the gift of yoga with everyone.

EXPANDING: Widening the Path for Others
Through equal parts learning and teaching, Holiday and a small collective of equally committed teachers established a yoga presence in businesses and gyms all around the greater Portland area. Holiday's enthusiasm for sharing yoga led to the expansion of Portland State University's program to hundreds of students, and she boldly initiated classes in private and public community programs, in every new gym in town, and in corporations such as Nike and Mentor Graphics.