05/27/2025
I’m so proud to be an Alumni
🎉✨Congratulations to Johnnie Lou Getz, our newest 300 Advanced/500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Therapist ✨🎉
Johnnie Lou has had an incredible journey teaching and studying yoga. We are so proud of her!
Her yoga journey (in her own words is below):
After studying business / computer science in college and having a career in Information Technology, I left the corporate world and returned to my passion for natural healing.
I became certified in Yoga, Yoga Dance, Shiatsu Practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, and Master teacher of Integrated Energy Therapy.
I studied and taught yoga in the Yucatan with Baron Baptiste, in Massachusetts at the renowned Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, on cruise ships, at the top of Haleakala in Hawaii, as well as teaching at Hindu temples and yoga studios.
I also practiced Shiatsu, Reiki, and IET in New York City at the Ohashi Institute, Vassar College, and at the Zen Buddhist Monastery in the Catskill Mountains.
In 2013, I found the Jackson Yoga School of Excellence and met the owner, Deborah Perry, at a yoga class.
During meditation, I heard a voice that said, “Just wait, this is the place you’ll meet some of the most important people in your life.”
The first weekend at the yoga center had a warm and welcoming energy, and the education and depth of knowledge from the teachers and students was intriguing and captivating. Plus, I knew I had to continue coming back to see who else I could meet that would be so important to me in this
amazing yoga school.
The yoga center of Jackson had a wide range of subjects covered, so I couldn’t wait for the next weekend of in-depth studies.
I wasn’t sure if I needed or had time to study and earn another yoga certification.
But my path kept leading me to another weekend of studies at the yoga center, then another.
In 2025, Deborah said, “You have enough credits to graduate soon.”
How did that happen? I was just loving and learning each weekend, while meeting the most amazing people and here I am graduating with a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certificate and as a Certified Yoga Therapist certificate.
Thank you, universe, for leading me to Western Tennessee, the Yoga Teachers School of Excellence in Jackson, Tn., and to meeting the most inspiring and important people in my life.
Thank you Deborah for holding the space for teachers and students to share and learn so each of us can see the world and each other with light and love.