Jonathan Mead

Jonathan Mead is a movement educator, workshop facilitator, and somatic healing guide based in Los Angeles. They help people rebuild trust, safety, and freedom in their bodies through trauma-informed somatic practices rooted in ancestral movement. Jonathan's own path to this work came through years of chronic injuries, burnout, and body disconnection — learning the hard way that pushing and forcing never leads to the healing we're looking for.

Drawing on a decade of study and teaching — natural movement, Feldenkrais, qigong, breathwork, somatics, and functional movement — Jonathan has worked with over 3,000 students, teachers, and therapists. Their approach is gentle and embodied: rather than fixing the body from the outside, they guide people to listen inward, release stuck emotions, and rebuild a genuine partnership with themselves.

Jonathan identifies as queer and uses they/them pronouns. Raised in a religious environment that taught distrust of the body, they bring particular sensitivity to those who've spent years checked out from or at war with themselves. Their work is especially supportive for people dealing with chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and the long-term cost of over-functioning.