Jon Musgrave is a yoga teacher, manager, and founding member of Samamkaya Yoga, and has been bodyworker with a practice in Union Square since 2012. As a professional conductor and tuba player, Jon was drawn to bodywork and yoga to help manage the chronic pain and other body issues he was experiencing while making music. He uses his experiences in all the aspects of his life to help people feel more at peace in their bodies.

Jon has studied Iyengar yoga since 2011, and has focused primarily on yoga for back care and scoliosis. He was recently certified as a Teacher Trainer in Elise Browning Miller’s Yoga for Scoliosis program, and he apprenticed extensively with Deborah Wolk for 5 years. His other primary teachers are Jaki Nett and Genny Kapuler, and he has also studied extensively with Julie Brandwein, Debby Green, and Wendy Baranello. He has also studied in workshops on various topics in yoga, therapeutics, and anatomy with Karin Stephan, Sri H. S. Arun, Susan-Elena Esquivel, Bobby Clennell, Rita Manos-Lewis, and Cator Shachoy. Jon has been on the Samamkaya faculty since 2019.

In addition to massage, Jon is a long-time student of the Alexander Technique, and continues to study the technique and how it applies to yoga with Witold Fitz-Simon. He has a Certification in Therapeutic Massage from the Finger Lakes School of Massage, and has continued to study extensively, with advanced training in working with trans clients and other members of the Q community, and clients with chronic pain and trauma issues. Visit jmbodywork.com to find out more about his bodywork practice.