Juan Sosa is a Puerto Rican man who wears many hats including yoga instructor, retired social worker, meditator, gardener, cyclist, cook, father, and husband. He became a practitioner of yoga and meditation after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living, which helped him learn to manage stress using yoga and meditation. A few years later, he completed the MBSR training at UMass Worcester Medical Center. After practicing vipassana meditation with Narayan Helen Liebenson at CIMC for over 22 years, he started training to be Community Dharma Mentor. He co-leads the POC Sangha’s Friday sitting.