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04 Jan.

Spanda Karika Series with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma)

January 4, 2016 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
$55.00

Spanda Karika
with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma)

Mondays: January 4 – January 25, 2015
7:15pm – 9:00pm

$15 suggested donation per session
$55.00 for all four sessions.

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Join Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) for a four-week course on the “Spanda Karika.”  For this class, Stoma would like to use two texts by Mark Dyczkowski,  “Doctrine of Vibration” and “The Stanzas of Vibration.”  These books can be purchased at Amazon.com or other online booksellers.

Stephen (Stoma) Parker PsyD, E-RYT 500 was initiated in the Himalayan Yoga tradition by Swami Veda Bharati and was given the initiate name Stoma in 1971. Among the first teachers certified by the Himalayan International Teachers’ Association, H.I.T.A., he began teaching hatha yoga in 1974. Stoma is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour level of the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500). A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, he serves on the faculties of The Meditation Center in Minneapolis and the Sadhana Mandir and Sadhaka Grama ashrams in Rishikesh, India. He is also a senior faculty member of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teachers’ Training Program. He has lectured on yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Carribean countries, Holland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, and India. In 2004 he helped originate and teach the first course on yoga in an American medical school at the University of Minnesota Academic Medical Center. In 2007 he took 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 1985. He also serves as Adjunct Assistant School Professor of Counseling and Psychological Services at Saint Mary’s 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 Veda’s definitive scholarly work on the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali and he has been a peer review editor for the Journal of Men’s Studies, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and the International Journal of Yoga Therapy

Event Details

Date: January 4, 2016 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Time: 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:
Organizer Name: The Meditation Center
Phone: 612-379-2386