Johnny Glover
Johnny Glover has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2001. His teaching is shaped by more than two decades of dedicated personal practice, study, and experience of classical yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, and is grounded in a sincere commitment to inner transformation through awareness.
Johnny first trained as a Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Therapy and Training Centre (YTTC) in Northern Ireland, where he later qualified as a Yoga Therapist. Seeking to deepen his experiential understanding of yoga as a path of self-discovery, he went on to complete a comprehensive two-year teacher training at Mandala Yoga Ashram (2005–2007), a respected centre of traditional yogic study and practice. His time there helped integrate the physical, philosophical, and meditative aspects of yoga into a unified and lived experience.
Alongside his grounding in yoga, Johnny has been a long time practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. He took refuge with Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche in May 2003, and on the advice of Chöje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche he attended Mingyur Rinpoche’s Mahamudra course at Kagyu Samye Ling from 2007–2008.
In 2009 Johnny completed the first One Year Foundation Training in Mindfulness delivered by Rob Nairn at Samye Ling, a course rooted in Buddhist psychology and the cultivation of embodied presence, which led to the formation of the Mindfulness Association.
More recently, Johnny completed the Tergar International Meditation Teacher Program (2024–2025), becoming a certified teacher of Mingyur Rinpoche’s Anytime Anywhere Meditation course.
For over two decades, Johnny has shared yoga and meditation across a wide range of settings, including ongoing retreats and weekend courses at Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery and Centre for World Peace and Health, where he has been a regular teacher since 2003. His teaching style is quiet, steady, and inclusive. Johnny is aware of the personal transformation that meditation and mindfulness can bring about and shares the practices with an open heart, encouraging participants to do what they can with awareness and acceptance.
Johnny is grateful for the guidance from his main teachers who are Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati, founder of Mandala Yoga Ashram and a senior disciple of Swami Satyananda and Chöje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Abbot of Samye Ling and a respected meditation master in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
"Johnny Glover completed our two year Teacher Training Course at Mandala Yoga Ashram from 2005 - 2007. He is trained in both the Yogic and Buddhist traditions and the courses he proposes to give promise to be an excellent opportunity for those who participate and who want to go deeper into Yoga."
Swami Nishchalananda, Founder, Mandala Yoga Ashram.
Johnny can be contacted through his website www.jgyoga.co.uk