John is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Consultant & Health Counsellor, along with being a 500-hour certified yoga teacher. Receiving his first teaching certificate from Evolution Yoga in August 2015 was a monumental point in John's life, which came nearly 13 years after taking his first yoga class in San Diego, California while serving in the U.S. Navy.
In January 2016, he took an offer to teach the weekday 6am classes & be a part of the teacher-trainer team during a 30-day teacher training in Tampa Bay, Florida. Not only did he meet his future-wife there, but he started to expand his perspective on Hatha Yoga, including what yoga is as a science and what it meant to his life and life in the cosmic sense. This experience kickstarted a twenty-month/nine-country tour across four continents teaching, living and learning from healers and yogis.
John eventually returned to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he began extensive study in the ancient Vedic life-science, Ayurveda.
The Ayurvedic Institute, founded by Dr. Vasant Lad, BA.Ms. (1984), served John with the divine wisdom, knowledge and clinical application experience of the ancient holistic sciences including yoga, kaya chikitsa, panchakarma, herbology, marma, pranayama, meditation, the art of pulse reading and more.
After their time in Albuquerque, John & Irene moved the family to her home country of Italy where they now practice, teach and study the Holistic Arts full-time.