About
Jonathan Relucio teaches meditation and mindfulness within social justice and trauma-informed frameworks. Based in the East Bay, he completed training at Spirit Rock, East Bay Meditation Center, and Communities Rizing. He spent a decade as a Senior Trainer for Niroga Institute, teaching in urban schools, mental health clinics, and juvenile detention centers. He co-founded AllThriveEd.org, which integrates trauma-informed mindfulness with restorative circles. He also facilitates with Rockwood Leadership Institute and serves on the Healing Advisory Council for Filipino Advocates for Justice.
Teaching focus
Jonathan Relucio's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Insight and MBSR traditions. Several threads come up: trauma-aware mindfulness that pays attention to the nervous system as part of the practice; dharma applied to social and collective suffering;. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Jonathan Relucio works with whatever shows up in the room rather than reading from notes, which is part of why these talks land as conversational instead of scripted. Short pauses, longer sits, and questions that come back to direct experience are usual. Listed specialties on the source profile include trauma, teens, LGBTQ+, in-person. The bigger move Jonathan Relucio keeps making is back toward attention itself: what's happening, how it's being held, and what gets in the way. That keeps the teaching close to practice rather than drifting into commentary about practice. For talks, schedules, and longer essays, the affiliated organization's page is where the live material lives. Jonathan Relucio's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on. Jonathan Relucio's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on.
Background
Jonathan Relucio teaches in the Insight and MBSR traditions. The teaching home is East Bay Meditation Center. From the teacher's own profile: For a decade, Jonathan Relucio taught trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and mindfulness in urban schools, mental health clinics and juvenile detention centers as a Senior Trainer for Niroga Institute. He has completed Spirit Rock's Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation Training; Communities Rizing teacher training program; and East Bay Meditation Center's Spiritual Teacher and Leadership training. Jonathan facilitates transformation in social justice movements with Rockwood Leadership Institute; integrates trauma-informed mindfulness with restorative circles for healing and racial equity as co-founder of AllThriveEd.org; and serves on the Healing Advisory council for Filipino Advocates for Justice.With over 20 years of experience in social services, community organizing, training, and leadership development, Jonathan values yoga, meditation, indigenous medicine and dance as practices for liberation that heal us from the impact of oppressive systems.Paypal: [email protected]: @JonathanRelucio In the Insight stream Jonathan Relucio works inside, the emphasis is on direct attention to body, feeling tone, and mind, alongside the brahmaviharas and an ongoing investigation of how clinging and aversion arise. Talks tend to be conversational rather than scripted, and there's room for sila and ethics to be talked about as part of practice rather than as a separate topic. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Jonathan Relucio's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography.
Lineage
Jonathan Relucio teaches as a lay teacher in the Insight and MBSR traditions. The institutional home, per the source listing, is East Bay Meditation Center, and that's where most of the public teaching schedule and any retreat offerings will be posted. The Insight lineage in the West runs through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin, Anagarika Munindra, and Dipa Ma into the founders of IMS, Spirit Rock, and the regional centers, and most contemporary Insight teachers position themselves somewhere in that broad family.
What to expect
On a class or retreat with Jonathan Relucio, the basic shape is short instruction, longer sittings, and some Q&A. The container is shaped by East Bay Meditation Center, so format details, fees, and access policies follow that organization's norms. Expect plenty of silence, less talking-at-you than you might think, and an emphasis on letting the practice do its work rather than chasing experiences. For exact dates, registration, and any sliding-scale or scholarship information, There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice.
