Jonathan Reynolds has studied yoga with the White Lotus Foundation, Erich Schiffmann, Anil Vyas, Baron Baptiste, and Greenpath Yoga. His love of chanting as a devotional practice has drawn him to seek out both Bhagavan Das and Krishna Das, and Jack Kornfield has infected his meditation teaching with compassion, playfulness, and story. Each day he discovers and rediscovers the joys of tailoring his practice and teaching to whatever the present moment offers.
He teaches a style of yoga called Meditation Vinyasa it can be both physically and mentally challenging. By using vinyasa (roughly sun salutations) as yogas physical building block, we realize the breath as the building block of consciousness. Yoga as meditation allows us to experience lifes honesty by softening perceived limitations, growing in organic ways an appreciation of love, patience, generosity, and union. Both seated meditation and Sanskrit chanting are central to completing this experience.
Jonathan is also the founder of the Learning To Listen Yoga & Meditation Center a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to offering tools for conscious living, and he has written two books, Poetic Listening and Learning To Listen: Simplifying Spiritual Practice. He has also created two CDs, one for meditation, Learning To Listen: Simplifying Meditation, the other for chanting, Simplifying Sanskrit Chant: Kirtan Practice for Everyone. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, yoga, and leads retreats worldwide.