John is a certified Anusara Yoga instructor since 2003, teaching group and private classes, workshops and retreats in the Hamptons and seasonally in New York City.  A student of ha-tha yoga since 1973 with an always growing and an ever more seriously playful devotion to the practices of yoga. A lifelong interest in human potential continues to fuel his journey.

Through his years of practice and teaching experience he is well versed in tall the levels of yoga practice, the healing arts of yoga therapeutics and support of the subtle energy bio fields through the use of Pranic Healing and Reiki.
John is also a graduate of the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy program, Pranic Healing Level III, Reiki Level II and Yoga Therapy programs. He is a devotee of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and Siddha Yoga Meditation since 1989.

In college John had discovered that the inquiry and the fullest realization of human potential, in all of its facets, was the most powerfully inspiring current in his life. Gradually he came to realize that with yoga he was flowing in that ever-deepening, more beautifully loving and inspiring current. Having first been casually exposed to yoga in 1973, by 1982 a more consistent yoga practice began to develop. He studied with various teachers and styles and eventually began teaching in 1992. Then in 1996 he found John Friend (who later created Anusara Yoga) and then the fun really started. He now serves on the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga Board of Directors, currently as Board President.

“The more full my exposure, experience and immersion in the many practices of yoga including ha-tha yoga, meditation, seva and chanting, the richer and more vibrant life is.” John is the founder and director of One Ocean Yoga in Bridgehampton, New York.

Visit teacher’s website  www.OneOceanYoga.com