Jon  was inspired to train in psychotherapy at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy (MIP). Endorsed to practice from 1997 and ran clinics in MIP and in Hebden Bridge until 2017. In 2007, he was endorsed to supervise and train psychotherapists to UKCP registration level under mentorship. He underwent a second psychotherapy training with Mark Forman in 2015 in the US and graduated as a Certified Integral Psychotherapist. In 2017, he qualified as an Associate Life Coach from Integral Coaching Canada and, since then, has worked in private practice.

In tandem with his professional career, he pursued my inner growth. In 1990, he trained as a yoga teacher in York under the tutelage of Diane Kendall, then the Chairperson of the British Wheel of Yoga, gaining his Teaching Diploma in 1992. Since then, he has ran yoga classes on a more-or-less ongoing basis with a three year sabbatical following the birth of my son in 1997. He ran classes in mental health day hospitals, a chronic back pain clinic, an elderly assessment unit, a junior school and at several psychotherapy conferences. Since 1992, he trained with many leading yoga teachers in varying traditions. His heart and body continue to be the most wonderful of teachers.

Between 2001 and 2007, he practiced Theravadan Buddhist meditation intensively, daily practice augmented with one ten day silent retreat per year, chiefly at Amaravati Monastery. From 2007 to 2011 he studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist meditation under the tutelage of Martin Vermasse, senior student of Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche in the Mahamudra Tradition of the Karma Kagyu lineage. He is endorsed to teach elementary Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices.

In 2009, he founded the Calderdale Yoga Centre in Hebden Bridge which evolved into a regional hub of yoga activity. Well-attended classes ran daily, catered for by eight teachers, including himself. Yogacampus, one of the foremost UK yoga organisations ran a modulated yoga teacher training programme there at weekends. He taught the (yoga-based) meditation module and also ran regular trainings in meditation from the Yoga Kula studio in Leeds. He served a 4 year apprenticeship with John Hawken, a leading teacher of neotantra, shamanism and bioenergetics beginning in 2016 and is now a member of his Paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty and, together with my wife Rose, run personal transformation workshops and retreats under the name of Shivashakti Embodied Awakening. I am currently studying and practising Classical Tantra at Tantrika Institute.