Monica T. Johnson
MIND.BODY.AWAKENED.

Qualifications and Experience

If you’re going to let someone talk you into meditating and eating differently, it’s fair to want to know who she is. So here’s the whole record. Short version first, for anyone with a life they want to get back to.

The short version

Teaching yoga since 1997. Spiritual counselor in private practice since 2002. Yoga therapist since 2016. Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor. Creator of Rest Awake Meditation and Rest Awake Yoga. Founder of Mind. Body. Awakened.

Ayurveda

Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor

Southern California University of Health Sciences

Yoga Therapist

IAYT 900-hour certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Bristol, Vermont

Yoga Teacher Training

Studied Ashtanga yoga under Derek Ireland in England, Greece, and India

Multiple 200-hour registered trainings in Hatha, Restorative, Power Vinyasa Yoga and Hot Power Yoga

Meditation

Creator of the Rest Awake Meditation, a mind-body meditation practice. Studied under master teacher Lorin Roche, PhD, author of Meditation Made Easy, Breath Taking and The Radiance Sutras. Also studied under master teacher Swami Chetanananda of The Movement Center in Portland, Oregon, author of The Breath of God and Dynamic Stillness.

Spiritual Counselor

Licensed Spiritual Practitioner, 2002

Agape International Spiritual Center, Los Angeles

Professional Practitioner Studies, Agape University of Transformational Studies and Leadership

Reiki Practitioner

Level 1, 2, and 3 Certified

London, England

Life Coach

Professional Life Coach training, Certified Life Coach Institute, 2018

Education

Bachelor of Religious Studies, Emerson Institute, 2006

Coursework completed at Agape University of Transformational Studies and Leadership, Los Angeles

Laban Centre, London (now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance)

Master’s-level coursework in Dance Movement Therapy, 1996

Experience

Yoga therapist in hospital settings, supporting patients at all stages of healing

Transitional support for people and their families during hospice care

Facilitator of the Rest Awake Meditation in alcohol and chemical dependency detox and rehabilitation centers

Dance movement therapy  for children with special needs

Mentor and facilitator of women’s groups and book studies since 1999

Meditation teacher since 2008

Personal growth class facilitator at Agape in Los Angeles and the Seal Beach Center for Spiritual Living

Co-owner of Little Yoga Monkeys, Kids’ yoga 2009-2017

Before all of this: ballet dancer, model, pop singer in Europe. Since then: student, mother and a woman who has learned most of what she knows the hard way.

None of that is on a certificate but all of it is in the room.