Johnny Glover
Johnny Glover has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2001. He has trained with the YTTC and Mandala Yoga Ashram. He is a certified Anytime Anywhere Meditation Teacher with Tergar International. Johnny shares practices with warmth and clarity, drawing inspiration from Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati, Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. He has been teaching yoga courses at Kagyu Samye Ling since 2003 and is a member of the British Wheel of Yoga.
Awareness & Acceptance
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 long been drawn to the insight traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He attended Mingyur Rinpoche’s Mahamudra course at Kagyu Samye Ling from 2007–2008 and later completed the One Year Foundation Training in Mindfulness with Rob Nairn in 2009, a course rooted in Buddhist psychology and the cultivation of embodied presence. Most recently, Johnny completed the Tergar International Meditation Teacher Program (2024–2025), becoming a certified teacher of Mingyur Rinpoche’s Anytime Anywhere Meditation course. This program reflects his ongoing commitment to accessible, compassionate, and non-dogmatic forms of meditation practice.
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, encouraging participants to meet themselves with awareness and acceptance, to “do what you can, as you are”, while gradually deepening into presence.
Johnny feels deep gratitude to his main teachers: Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati, founder of Mandala Yoga Ashram and a senior disciple of Swami Satyananda; and Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Abbot of Samye Ling and a respected meditation master in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Their guidance continues to inspire and inform his path.
Johnny is a teaching member of the British Wheel of Yoga, and brings to all his offerings a grounded, heart-based approach rooted in many years of lived practice. Whether teaching yoga or meditation, his aim is to support others in reconnecting with their own inner resources of wisdom, compassion, and peace.
