Instructors
Johanna Marsan
Johanna is a lifelong meditator and practitioner of yoga. She is a student of Integral, Sivananda, Iyengar, and Yin Yoga. She is a Registered as an Experienced 500 Hour and Prenatal Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and is Certified in Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark.
Johanna was greatly influenced by her mother Jane, who while pregnant with her, became a certified Transcendental Meditation Teacher by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1974 and tried her best from that point onward to live a yogic lifestyle.
By the age of 5 Johanna was taking adult yoga classes with her mother and was taught the Transcendental Meditation Technique for Children. She moved to Iowa from Florida at 8 years old, to a large Transcendental Meditation Community, practicing yoga and meditation regularly. At age 17, she qualified for and was taught Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Advanced Meditation Technique, the TM Sidhis.
At age 19, Johanna became interested in healing body work and became certified in Reiki. She continued her studies in Ayurveda, an ancient vedic healing system, and graduated with a certificate in Ayurvedic Massage Therapy from Maharishi International University. She spent the next few years going to college at Maharishi University of Management, while also working at The Raj Ayurvedic Clinic.
In her early 20's Johanna was discovered to have a Deep Vein Thrombosis as a result of a childhood accident, during her recovery, she relied heavily on her yoga practice to maintain her strength and flexibility without over-stressing her body.
Years later after a successful career in software development and a move back to Florida, Johanna took the opportunity and followed her dream of becoming a Certified Yoga Teacher and Certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher at Pose By Pose Yoga School. She then completed her Advanced Teacher Training at Yogi Hari's Ashram where she fully immersed in Sampoorna Yoga, a direct lineage of Sivananda Yoga, becoming a RYT500 Certified Yoga Teacher. Johanna loves to keep expanding her knowledge and experience and has since been certified in Yin Yoga by completing Yoga Teacher Training with the famous Bernie Clark.
Johanna was co-owner of the Yoga Co-op of Citrus in 2020, owner of Lake Hernando Yoga in 2021 & 2022, and is now offering Classes and Yoga Teacher Training through Veda Lila School of Yoga.