Biography

Thirty years ago, Jonathan was in Pittsburgh, playing American football professionally. When an injury ended his career, he felt confronted by a question we all face in its many guises: if I’m not a professional footballer, who am I?

Jonathan’s decision to seek himself outside of football began a journey which took in six years of acting with the American Conservatory Theatre, 15 years of study with Dr Jean Klein, a spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita, five years at the India School of Yoga in San Francisco, studying hatha yoga and studies with Dan Millman, author of ‘The Way of the Peaceful Warrior’.

During this time, he has taught meditation and relaxation, goal-setting, performance and self-esteem in corporate, community and college environments.

In 1998, Jonathan discovered Breema®. For Jonathan, Breema® wove together the many threads of his life, and now provides his framework for teaching and sharing. ‘Breema® answered my questions, but not how I expected. I found my identity, but I also found my existence .., and I realised that it was my existence I had been looking for all along.’

American by birth, global by nature, a deeply spiritual man with an impish sense of humour, Jonathan is a Certified Practitioner and Instructor from The Breema Center in Oakland, California