Let's Practice Together with Jonathan Relucio - Sunday, November 16, 2025
Description
Let’s Practice Together:
Fierce Compassion for Difficult Times
with Jonathan Relucio
Sunday, November 16th from 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
About the Session:
In these turbulent and uncertain times, compassion is both a refuge and a source of strength. The practice of turning inward toward what feels difficult—with awareness and kindness—allows for more skillful responses in how we show up with others at home, at work, and in community. When we honor our grief, anger, and pain, our presence deepens, creating the conditions for wise and courageous action.
In this session, we will cultivate compassion for ourselves and for all beings, and connect with Quan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, along with other beings of fierce compassion who can guide and support us in meeting suffering with love and strength. As Thich Nhat Hanh teaches, “Compassion arises when we see ourselves in the other — not as separate, but as one continuous stream of being.”
About the Series:
These times call for us to expand our individual and collective capacity to navigate uncertainty, instability, and complexity. By practicing deeply together, we strengthen our ability to meet these challenges with resilience and presence.
Throughout 2025, we will gather one Sunday a month online as a community of curious practitioners to explore the timeless wisdom of the Buddhadharma and mindfulness/Insight meditation. In each session, we will cultivate presence, deepen our meditation practice, and engage in shared reflections and inquiry. Together, we cultivate a collective heart-mind-body—a living, interconnected field—spacious enough to hold and transform whatever life brings our way.
Let's Practice Together offers a space for meaningful dialogue—an opportunity to ask questions, explore personal and collective experiences, and learn from one another. We welcome sincere and committed practitioners of all levels and backgrounds to join us on this collective path of discovery and connection.
Sessions will be recorded and shared with all registrants. During the session, practitioners who don't wish to be recorded may offer their questions and reflections in the chat.
Dates and Teachers for 2025:
Sundays from 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
December 7 with Nimali Jayasinghe
Reciprocity Contribution:
We gratefully welcome donations of any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your donation at registration directly supports Braided Wisdom's ability to continue cultivating spaces of healing, learning, and collective care. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to contribute.
Additionally, we invite you to engage in sacred reciprocity with our dear teacher Jonathan by offering dana, a gift of heartfelt generosity in gratitude for his wisdom, which supports his continued sustainability and helps keep these ancient, liberatory teachings alive.
You're welcome to donate directly to Jonathan in the following ways:
PayPal: https://paypal.me/
Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/JonathanRelucio
Setting the Container:
We request participants attend the whole program to respect the container of the group and the teacher.
At Braided Wisdom, we strive to cultivate an online space that supports connection, presence, and collective care. While we invite participants to have their cameras on to help nurture a sense of community, we wholeheartedly honor that there are many reasons someone may choose otherwise. We encourage you to meet yourself where you are, and if any needs arise around this, you’re warmly invited to reach out to us at info@braidedwisdom.org.
Please note, there is a possibility the session may go over 15 minutes. It would be great if you can stay, and we understand if you need leave at 11:30 am PT.
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About Jonathan Relucio
For a decade, Jonathan Relucio taught trauma-healing yoga, meditation, and mindfulness in urban schools, mental health clinics, juvenile detention centers, and Palestine refugee camps as a Senior Trainer with the Niroga Institute. He completed East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership (STL) Program and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness, Yoga, and Meditation Training (MYMT), and is grateful to teach at both centers. Jonathan also facilitates transformation in social justice movements as a trainer and coach with Rockwood Leadership Institute; integrates wellness and organizing through his work with the Healing Advisory Council at Filipino Advocates for Justice; and co-founded AllThrive Education to promote healing and racial equity.
He is currently part of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders cohort (2025–2027) and serves as a teaching assistant for Braided Wisdom. With over 20 years of experience in community organizing, social services, training, and leadership development, Jonathan values and integrates Buddha Dharma, yoga, restorative justice, Indigenous medicine, dance, martial arts, and Filipino culture in liberation work. He loves soulful underground dance music, DJing, and being in the water.
Nimali Jayasinghe
Moderator
Zoom Link:
An email with the Zoom Link will be sent out the day before, the morning of, and five minutes prior to the program beginning. Please search for info@braidedwisdom.org and check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the Zoom Link.
You will need to sign-in to your Zoom account before clicking the zoom link, and be sure the name on your zoom proflie is the same one you used to register for the program. We can only admit those who are on our attendance list. Thank you for understanding.
This program registration is for the Let's Practice Together: Fierce Compassion for Difficult Times with Jonathan Relucio, Sunday, November 16 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.