March 30, 2017 • Advanced Yoga Training • International Rocket Yoga Training • Larry Schultz • Love Yoga • Rocket Yoga Training • The Rocket • Wild Women Retreat • Yoga and Surf • Yoga Retreats
Larry Schultz, the father of The Rocket, opened up It’s Yoga San Fransisco year 1991. His studio was one of the first Ashtanga studios in the US. Yoga was still something new at the time and many people had no idea what it really was. Who could ever believe that Ashtanga yoga would become so popular 25 years later?
One year after, on the other side of the world, a baby girl was born in the northern part of Sweden. That little girl was me, Johanna Eriksson. I grew up in a ski resort and learned how to ski when I was three years old. While I was busy skiing and playing in the snow, Larry started to change the traditional Ashtanga yoga sequencing into what we today call The Rocket.
Larry held in Ashtanga- and Rocket Yoga trainings for the next 15 years. He spread his yoga philosophy around the world and established a strong foundation of Ashtanga and Rocket teachers. I was a serious competitions skier during the same time and had no idea that I many years later would walk in Larry’s footsteps and start my own yoga journey.
I studied at the ski academy and traveled around Europe and Scandinavia for competitions in moguls skiing. When I graduate my school at the age of 20 my dream was to explore the world, learn something new and take away all the pressure. I went to Costa Rica and I started with surfing. That trip made me realize how big the world is. I opened up my eyes and I saw new opportunities in life. I loved Costa Rica and I knew that I would be back in Central America very soon.
I never got the chance to meet Larry. He passed away before I started with yoga. But Larry's ideas are still alive and his former students continue to teach and spread his yoga philosophy around the world.
I didn’t know anything about yoga when my sister one day said that she wanted to go to Nicaragua for a yoga teacher training program. I saw it as an opportunity to go back to Central America, so I said yes. I found a 200h Ashtanga vinyasa yoga teacher training with It’s Yoga Nica. I contacted them and asked if it was ok to come to a teacher training even though I didn’t had any experience at all. I got an friendly answer in Swedish saying YES!!
I went back to It’s Yoga Nica, January 2016, for a Rocket teacher training with lovely Amber Gean. Amber turned my world up side down!
Since training I have filled my days with yoga practice, surf, beach life and sun. Feeling the transformative effect that yoga has had on me I allowed my life to change and adopt Costa Rica as home.
In my world everything is possible.
I LOVED The Rocket! I met amazing people and I learned things that I never thought of.
My body and my mind felt filled with new, strong and powerful energy.
I started to spread The Rocket in Costa Rica. I taught at a studio in Tamarindo 4 days a week during the high season.
I went to Sweden in the summer 2016 to start up my own yoga business, Love Yoga by Johanna and to work at a yoga studio in my hometown. I held over 50 Rocket classes in less then 6 weeks. My students fell in love with the new creative yoga flow, the arm balance and the inversions.
I went to Sweden a second time in December 2016 to hold my first Rocket yoga workshop. It was a big success and I felt that this type of yoga events is exactly what I want to do.
My next event is yoga and surf adventure retreat in Costa Rica in May 2017. I have teamed up with, Meredith Asplundh, one of my fellow Rocket Girls that I met at my Rocket training. We are putting on a Wild Women Surf and Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica. Check it out with the link below!!
Currently I live in Costa Rica and have a surf, yoga and tours business with my boyfriend.(www.oceantourscr.com).
Email: wildyogagetaway@gmail.com
I love Larry’s Philosophy and I look forward to sharing Larry’s yoga philosophy to new people around the world. Rocket might seam intimidating and hard but remember that it’s never to late to learn something new!
Namaste,
Johanna