Meet
Holly Johnson
Virgo Sun
Scorpio Moon
Aquarius Rising
Hello & Welcome
I’m Holly Johnson a teacher, healer, and guide.
Since 2014, Aviana has been the unfolding of a vision rooted in divine feminine energy, a path of embodiment, transformation, and service. My work is devoted to helping others reconnect with their inner wisdom through movement, energy, and presence.
Many Blessings of Love, Light & Flight,
Holly Johnson
As a Teacher and Facilitator
Horses were my first portal into guiding others. In my late teens, I enrolled in equine massage therapy training and it was there that I met Jack, a rescued thoroughbred with a tragic story that involved stifle (knee) and conformation issues. Having just undergone double knee surgery myself, our journeys mirrored one another. I adopted Jack, and together we walked the path of healing and mutual transformation.
Through Jack, I began teaching. What started as guiding an eleven-year-old girl in the arena became the foundation of my facilitation style: tuning into subtle cues, holding a calm presence, and creating space for authentic connection.
In my early 20’s, while studying Equine Science at Colorado State University, I mentored in an equine therapy program for youth. Witnessing a young woman transform through her relationship with a horse confirmed my calling to serve as a guide for others.
From there, my teaching expanded beyond the arena. Serving as a yoga instructor entered my life through an unexpected nudge from Spirit, leading me to my first 200-hour training and the many other certifications and apprenticeships that followed. Alongside yoga, I studied nutritional therapy, aromatherapy, energy work, physical therapy, and more of the healing arts, all of which enriched the way I hold space today.
As a facilitator, my motto has always been: set the student up for success. I read the energy of a room, adapt to different learning styles, and provide tools for integration, so each person feels supported in their own growth and awakening.
As a Healer
My healing path began early, through moments of deep awakening that reshaped the course of my life. At 19, after pursuing my equine massage training, I found my way to Reiki energy healing. After beibg attuned to reiki, I began applying this practice with the horses I worked on, and developed a new gift of receiving intuitive impressions through sensations, images, and energetic feedback that revealed layers of their story and what was needed for balance and releasing. These experiences awakened my gifts as an intuitive and energy healer.
I went on to immerse myself in aromatherapy, Reiki master training, shamanic practices, and animal communication. I apprenticed with mentors in sacred ceremony and ritual, including drum journeying, sweat lodge (Inipi), and integration circles. Each step deepened my ability to listen, attune, and hold a healing space.
When I became an aerial yoga instructor, I bridged these gifts into human healing. In restorative aerial yoga workshops, I offered Reiki “recharges” while students rested in supported postures. These moments showed me how seamlessly movement and energy medicine intertwine.
Today, I serve as a clairvoyant and clairsentient healer, weaving intuitive guidance, energy alignment, and sacred presence. My intention is not only to help others heal but to support them in reclaiming their sovereignty, wisdom, and light.
Education
I have always remained a student at heart, continually deepening my knowledge to better serve others. My formal training includes:
Formal
- 2004 Associate’s Degree in Science – McHenry County College Crystal Lake, IL
- 2007 Bachelor’s Degree in Equine Science – Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO
Yoga & Movement
- AFPA Personal Trainer Certification
- 200 Hour Yoga Certification – Breathe Yoga Fort Collins, CO
- ZUMBA Instructor Certification Level 1 & 2 – Denver, CO
- TRX Suspension Training Certification – Denver, CO
Reiki & The Healing Arts
- Oil Essentials Training and Education – Young Living Essential Oils Denver, CO
- Reiki II, Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki – Fort Collins, CO
- Reiki Master, Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki – Fort Collins, CO
- Blood Chemistry Analysis – APEX Energetics Del Mar, CA
- Aromatherapy Certification – Institute of Spiritual Healing & Aromatherapy Naperville, IL
- Young Living School of Natural Remedies – Denver, CO
- Young Living Essential Oils Beauty School – Salt Lake City, UT
- Aerial Yoga Teacher Training Aircats – Boulder, CO
- Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner – The Nutritional Therapy Institute Denver, CO
- Apprenticeship in Shamanic & Ceremonial Practices
- Thai Yoga Bodywork Training – Soderworld Willowbrook, IL
Equine Studies
- Equine Massage Therapy Certification – Indian Creek Equine Rehab. Worden, IL
These studies, combined with over a decade of experience facilitating retreats, trainings, and healing sessions, shape the multifaceted work I offer today.
The Blessings of Aviana
Since the inception of Aviana from the Spirit realm to serve as the archetype of embodied Divine Feminine energy to traverse this Golden Age of Enlightenment with open hearts-wings, her blessings have been abundant!
When I look back now over the Aviana journey, I can see where she ignited the calling that put everything in motion which helped her to be made manifest through the cocooned womb of the aerial yoga fabric. Her conception from the cosmos began with every spark of inspiration that flooded my body with delight and illuminated my mind to flow with idea after idea of all the people who the aerial hammock could serve as I moved and swayed with the fabric for the very first time.
She was there, in the courage I needed to conjure to approach the owner of the local pole fitness studio in Fort Collins, Colorado to ask if I could install aerial hammocks to be able to share the offerings of aerial yoga. Aviana met me that day in the welcoming energy I was greeted with from the studio owner, who, it turned out, recently became curious about aerial yoga, and found my timing to be synchronistic with her intention to want to share this practice in her space. Aviana was with me the day I climbed the 14-foot ladder with my hands shaking in fear as I installed each of the rigs, she whispered to my inner being that I was on the brink of something big, to relinquish my fear of heights and grow. I was on the path now and felt Aviana expanding my wings blessing me with a budding sisterhood of support and aligning me with all that was meant to be.
She hadn’t made herself fully known yet by the name of Aviana, her image and name were not ready to take shape as she was still in her gestation period and not ready to be seen. When I was guided back to Illinois, she remained with me and continued to bless my journey with a balanced exchange of giving and receiving, of my masculine and my feminine. I put forth the focused effort required to create the first edition of Soaring with the Soul: An Aerial Yoga Guide and the first website that started to ripple my intention into the world which was met with an invitation to Indonesia to share my very first aerial yoga teacher training. This invitation that came through from the website that I had just launched merely one week prior was all the confirmation I needed to know that this was to be my path for the time being. Aviana coming into my life has been nothing short of magical.
I was invited to Bali, Indonesia for an entire month where I would share my aerial yoga teacher training with a group of nine women all from different countries. It is where the current Aviana Aerial Yoga Teacher Training curriculum was birthed into being.
Now as a whole, the journey hasn’t been one of complete ease and effortless flow, how would we learn, grow, and improve if we weren’t faced with challenges and contrast? How would we know what feels right if we do not experience what feels wrong? This is how we know where we align, where to implement boundaries, and where we need to check in with ourselves and what we are creating. It is a dance of putting energy out, receiving feedback from Spirit and reassessing where we may need to recalibrate ourselves and course correct. Oftentimes, we get caught up in our own agenda and forget to invite the co-creative process with Spirit. Looking back, I can see where I stubbornly pushed through rather than surrendered. It is part of the process we are in as a collective, we are restructuring, and it requires sacred destruction to reform like the phoenix rising.
After returning from Bali, I continued to share the practice of aerial yoga with others, but the initial name that served as the vessel for this program was not sitting right. Aviana was nearing the end of her gestation period and was gearing up to be birthed into the light. I received another invitation; this time it was to Ecuador. The invitation was to partake in a week-long tour of the Galapagos at sea to co-author a book about the tour with one of the guides on the trip. I arranged for the trip to be a month long and included a trip to the Young Living Farm, and a work-away stay at an off the grid farm in the cloud forest. I set the intention before I left on this trip that the new name that was meant to be the vessel for my offerings would be called in.
Aviana answered the call. I remember the moment, I was staying at Sacha Ji in Otavalo, Ecuador, which is a sustainable yoga retreat center where the night skies were so vivid and bright with stars that you felt like you could reach out and touch them. I was sitting with the energy of the mountain, reflecting on the beautiful divine feminine energy I was surrounded with since arriving in Ecuador and all that had transpired with my work up until that point. I knew the name need to have the sound of manifestation in it, ‘ah’ and I knew I wanted it to represent flight and the feminine. Then it was as if one of the stars dropped down into my body and gave me a burst of inspiration and clarity, I said the name Aviana out loud, and the goddess was born.
When I returned to the States, there was a new clarity around my offerings and what it is that I was to co-create with the goddess Aviana. It was another layer of the lotus flower unfurling to the light that wasn’t ready to be accessed until I had experienced everything that had led me to that moment sitting in a hammock on a mountainside in Ecuador communing with the stars.