Dr Stephen Parker was initiated in the Himalayan Yoga tradition by Swami Veda Bharati and was given the initiate name Stoma in Among the first teachers certified by the Himalayan International Teachers Association HITA he began teaching hatha-yoga in During that time he also studied Sanskrit with Swami Veda and South Asian languages and culture for his BA at the University of Minnesota Stoma is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the hour level of the Yoga Alliance E-RYT A member of the International Association of YT he serves on the faculties of the Meditation Center in Minneapolis and the Sadhaka Gram ashram in Rishikesh India He is also a senior faculty member of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teachers Training Program He has lectured on yoga meditation yoga psychology and spiritual practice in the US and Canada as well as in Carribean countries Holland Italy Austria Hungary Lithuania South Africa Korea Hong Kong and India In he helped originate and teach the first course on yoga in an American medical school at the University of Minnesota Academic Medical Center In he received preliminary vows of renunciation from Swami Veda and the Shankaracharya of Karvirapitha Stoma has been a licensed psychologist in private practice in St Paul MN since He also serves as Adjunct Assistant School Professor of Counseling and Psychological Services at Saint Marys University of Minnesota and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis MN He teaches on the faculty of the Introductory Workshops of the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis In addition to authoring journal articles and book chapters Dr Parker edited volume two of Swami Vedas definitive scholarly work on the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali and he has been a peer review editor for the Journal of Mens Studies the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry the International Journal of Yoga T and Yoga Mimamsa He is also the author of Clearing the Path The Yoga Way to a Clear and Pleasant Mind: Yoga Neuroscience and Emotion published by AHYMSA publishers and distributed by Lotus Press.
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Dr Stephen Parker was initiated in the Himalayan Yoga tradition by Swami Veda Bharati and was given the initiate name Stoma in Among the first teachers certified by the Himalayan International Teachers Association HITA he began teaching hatha-yoga in During that time he also studied Sanskrit with Swami Veda and South Asian languages and culture for his BA at the University of Minnesota Stoma is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the hour level of the Yoga Alliance E-RYT A member of the International Association of YT he serves on the faculties of the Meditation Center in Minneapolis and the Sadhaka Gram ashram in Rishikesh India He is also a senior faculty member of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teachers Training Program He has lectured on yoga meditation yoga psychology and spiritual practice in the US and Canada as well as in Carribean countries Holland Italy Austria Hungary Lithuania South Africa Korea Hong Kong and India In he helped originate and teach the first course on yoga in an American medical school at the University of Minnesota Academic Medical Center In he received preliminary vows of renunciation from Swami Veda and the Shankaracharya of Karvirapitha Stoma has been a licensed psychologist in private practice in St Paul MN since He also serves as Adjunct Assistant School Professor of Counseling and Psychological Services at Saint Marys University of Minnesota and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis MN He teaches on the faculty of the Introductory Workshops of the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis In addition to authoring journal articles and book chapters Dr Parker edited volume two of Swami Vedas definitive scholarly work on the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali and he has been a peer review editor for the Journal of Mens Studies the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry the International Journal of Yoga T and Yoga Mimamsa He is also the author of Clearing the Path The Yoga Way to a Clear and Pleasant Mind: Yoga Neuroscience and Emotion published by AHYMSA publishers and distributed by Lotus Press.
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