Jonathan’s yoga teaching brings together 30 years of personal healing practices such as Yoga, Meditation, Reevaluation counseling, Psychotherapy, Massage and Solo Journeys into wild places.

The work that he has done has helped him develop into a highly intuitive healer. Jonathan continues to learn from those around him and walk the path to deeper self-knowledge and healing.

Jonathan is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at 200 hours

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Jonathan began practicing yoga in the Iyengar yoga tradition in 1979. At the time he began yoga he was a member of “Walkabout” Dance Collective, an experimental dance company in San Francisco, mainly focusing on Contact Improvisation dance. “Walkabout” also promoted performance art on the artistic forefront. He was a member of the dance company for 3 years and practiced Iyengar Yoga until 1998.

In 1998 following the completion of the Foundation Teacher Training Course in Santa Monica, California, Jonathan spent 9 years in a full time yoga apprenticeship with his Yoga Master. He traveled with her nationally and internationally as lead assistant in yoga workshops and yoga conferences, co-taught the 24-day Foundation Teacher Training Course, the 10-day Advanced Teacher Training Course and the 5-day Continuing Education For Yoga Teachers Course. Jonathan co-authored the Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers Course, a Mentorship Program and co-created a Assisting Program for yoga teachers and created a yoga Sequencing Forum. His experience teaching hundreds of yoga students to become yoga teachers, assisting thousands of yoga students in their yoga postures, makes him extremely knowledgeable and skilled in posture alignment, injury assessment, pose modification, class structure, class sequencing and personal yoga coaching.

Jonathan is a dedicated practitioner of Zen meditation. He began practicing Zen in 1980 and moved into a residential Zen center in Berkeley, California where he lived for 9 years participating in twice daily meditation session and monthly 3-day retreats. In 1989 he traveled to Korea to sit a 90-day silent meditation retreat at a Zen monastery. Upon completion of the 90-day retreat Jonathan took novice monks precepts retuned to the United States and practiced as a novice monk for 4 years at the Zen school’s head temple in Rhode Island. He has participated in numerous 90-day retreats at Zen temples as well as solo meditation retreats including a 100-day solo yoga and meditation retreat in the mountains of New Mexico. Jonathan follows the teachings of Korean Zen Master, Seung Sahn (author of the books “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha” and “Only Don’t Know”)