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.
He has lead yoga workshops and yoga teacher trainings nationally
and internationally. His extensive knowledge, experience and intuition
have developed him into an accomplished teacher and healer.
Jonathan is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at 200
hours.
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”)
