Seán Johnson is the Director of the Asheville Yoga Center. He is a respected yoga teacher, teacher trainer, studio owner, and bhakti musician who teaches internationally.

Seán is also the founder of Wild Lotus Yoga in his beloved hometown dubbed “New Orleans’ Home for Heart-Centered Yoga & Down-To-Earth Spirituality,” voted “Best Place To Take A Yoga Class in New Orleans” 22 years in a row by Gambit Weekly readers. Seán is also the founder of Soul School, an interdisciplinary yoga teacher training program dedicated to teaching yoga with skill, heart, and imagination, that he co-faciliated with Mitchel Bleier.

He has a Master’s degree from The Naropa Institute-Oakland with a focus on devotional singing and teaching chant as spiritual practice, apprenticing there with south Indian musician and teacher Russill Paul, author of “The Yoga Of Sound.” He is the co-curator and coordinator of Putumayo World Music’s yoga music series. Seán is also passionate about his Irish roots and ancestry, a pillar of his spirituality. He co-leads online Celtic Spirituality gatherings and retreats in Ireland each year with his friend, Ireland native Mary Meighan, founder of Celtic Journeys.

Since 2005 Seán & The Wild Lotus Band have merged conscious lyrics, sacred chants from the spiritual traditions of yoga and beyond, and roots, rock, gospel, and global grooves to create a universal style of cross-cultural spiritual music with listeners around the globe.

In all these roles, Seán relishes creating a playful, tender, brave space for people to open their hearts and voices, and embrace their innate creativity.