Zia Parker MA CMT – Resumeskype: ziaparker emai1: ziaparker(at)zoho(dat)com >bio |
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PERMACULTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL RELATED WORK (please scroll down for therapy & wellness) Vida Verde Finca, Vilcabamba, Ecuador, Permaculture Design Certificate Course,13 day intensive, coordinator & lead teacher, Vilcabamba, Ecuador Feb 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Heartwood CoHousing Permaculture Design Certificate Course, coordinator & lead teacher, Bayfield Colorado, U.S. 2012 Johnson’s Landing Permaculture Design Certificate Course, coordinator & lead teacher, Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, 2011 Willow Way Permaculture Farm, Permaculture Design Course, coordinator & lead teacher, Boulder Colorado, 2008-12 annually. Willow Way became Boulder County’s first Permaculture Demonstration Farm. Pachamama Alliance, Facilitator Training, 2007 Transition Town Facilitator Training, 2007 Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture, teaching team for Permaculture Design Courses, 1990, 91, 95, 2005, 2006. I also received my PCD certificate at CRMPI in 1990. GreenMatrix Dance & EarthE Honors Program, Collaborator & Presenter, 7/03-05 Initiator, Heyteyneytah Project social permaculture program providing support for Stan Addison, Arapaho quadriplegic, horse-whisperer, medicine-man. Director of 20 min. video documentary. My work led to Stan being featured in Smithsonian Magazine, and in a PBS television special, and subject of a widely distributed biography.1995-2002 Facilitator of Permaculture programs for the Arapahoe people on the Wind River Reservation, Riverton, Wyoming. 1995 Black Mountain Permaculture, PDCourse on the Navaho reservation, teaching team member, 1994 & 95 Consultation on proposal design to a Permaculture project in Borneo which works with the Penan people. who are hunter/gatherers being forced into slash and burn agriculture.9/92 Permaculture Teachers Training, Santa Fe Permaculture Institute, 1991 Initiator & Director, Finca Permanente Project, Peace Corps, Equatorial Guinea, W. Africa a community agroforestry project with 1 acre demonstration site, l0 village groups, and a series of seminars for villagers. I received a grant from the Canadian Embassey in Gabon. The project was used as a model for a $2.5 million project by the EEC. 9/88-9/90 PERMACULTURE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS Beyond Slash and Burn , Whole Earth Review, Spring ’91, p. 108 Rainforest Relations, The Permaculture Activist, Spring ’91, p. 12 Equatorial Guinea, Culturgrams , Brigham Young University, ’92 Face to Face with a Leaping Tiger, first descent of China’s Nu Jiang River, The Paddler Magazine, 7/98  MOVEMENT THERAPY, MASSAGE THERAPY, ASTON-PATTERNING® & HEALTH COACHING (scroll down for Permaculture & environmental work)Starting in 1979, Self-employed in Private practice: relying primarily on Aston-Patterning® methodology for addressing structural and related problems. Work with chronic and acute cases such as back and neck pain , and long- term degenerative, congenital or neurological problems arising from traumatic brain injury or stroke. This methodology is also highly effective for athritis, multiple schlerosis and any condition resulting in compromised balance and strength; as well as musicians,dancers and athletes in performance improvement. Since l981, clientele have included top national corporations and elite level athletes, such as Bell Laboratories and members of the Olympic bicycling team, as well as average individuals with common problems. 99-2011 Aston-Patterning® Faculty 9/88-9/90 (Peace Corps: Equatorial Guinea, West Africa) 3/86-9/90 Wellspring Clinic, l628 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302 6/83-3/86 Biofeedback & Stress Management Group, Boulder, CO 9/79-11/83 Colorado Back School, Franklin Medical Building, Denver, CO TEACHING Agua Alma aquatic bodywork for the body and soul Director & Initiator, 150 hour certification training, Summer, at Alpine Springs in Boulder, CO, Strawberry Park, Steamboat Springs, CO, Tolantongo, Hidalgo, Mexico 2001-2007 The Body: forum for Deep Ecology Work; Tirtagangga Art Event, Bali Sept 02 Aston® “loosening” ; Extensionist health seminars, Lavena village, Taveuni, Fiji 2000 Aston® Therapeutics I, offered by the Aston® Training Center, 4-day intensives, prerequisite for AP certification training, Boulder, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01; 03, 04, Portland, 99; Aston® Fitness Training: a system to address structural balance and fitness in one. (88-present, ongoing) The Body…Soul Journey through the life stages: via movement, drawing, rhythm, touch and dance. (Winnipeg, 92; Boulder, CO, 93-95) Moving Feelings:improvisation of body, rhythm, and voice. (92, 93) Aston® Fitness for Seniors (86-88; spring 93) Functional Negotiation: An Intro to Aston-Patterning® for physical and occupational therapists, Franklin Medical Building(5-week classes, 3/84-3/87) Boulder Memorial Hospital 6th Annual National Symposium on Chronic Pain. What is Aston-Patterning®? For health-care professionals. Vail, Colorado. (3/84) Introduction to Aston-Patterning®, guest presenter, weekend workshop for physical and occupational therapists, Hilltop Rehabilitation Center, Grand Junction, CO (3/85) Aston-Patterning®: for the public. (5 week classes, ongoing ’83-’88) Making Sense Out of Stress, a class in functional efficiency for employees of Bell Laboratories, Westminister, CO (7/83) Massage as a Second Language: hands-on massage skills for everybody. Boulder, CO; Anchorage, AL; Laramie, WY; Kelowna, British Columbia (various classes, l979-l986) Bodymind Workshop: tools for creative release; body, voice, and vision. Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia; Laramie, WY; EDUCATION/TRAINING March 2001 Jahara Basics, Brasilian aquatic bodywork 1998 AquaViv Aquatic Bodywork Training, Boulder, CO (series of three intensives, four days each) 1981-83 Master of Arts Deegree, Beacon College, Washington, D.C.; Wellness , Movement Therapy (double major) 198l-82 Aston-Patterning® Certification, Aston® Training Center, Mill Valley, CA (series of 4 month-long intensives) 1986 Aston® Fitness Training (month-long intensive) 1992 Myo-kinetics (myofascial manipulation: 2 month-long intensives) 1998-1999 Aston® Faculty Training 2000-’01 Aston® Arthro-kinetics (manual release of tissue surrounding bone and joints: three 2-week intensives) 9/83-6/84 Biofeedback Technician Training Program. University of Colorado, Wardenburg Health Service May l979 Postural Integration Certification, Boulder, CO l977-78 Boulder School of Massage Therapy, Massage Certification Program, Boulder, CO l976-77 Selkirk College; Diploma Registered Nursing Program Castlegar, British Columbia (did not complete program) l969-71 Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO RESEARCH AND CONSULTATION Survey of 600 multidisciplinary wholistic facilities in 1983. (my master’s thesis) Harvard Medical School requested the results for their archives. Program design and staff training to establish a Back School at Stanley Lake Chiropractic Clinic, Westminster, CO (Fall, 1984) Movement analysis, research project. Bio-psychology Lab, University of Colorado, directed by Ed Wilson, M.D (Spring 1985) DANCE/THEATRE FACILITATION AND PERFORMANCES The Initiation. Dancer and musician in ritual-theater performance 3/1 Arts-ability performance with wheelchair-bound and “walker” performers. Dancer/musician. 3/98 Finca Permanente Teatro de Vescinas (Neighborhood Women’s Theater ); formed to explore ourselves, and sustainable agriculture methods, Evinayong, Equatorial Guinea, 88-90 Catastrophy and Restoration: an on-stage rendering of Boulder’s bioregion via dance, theater, poetry, song. (Co-director, Spring 89, I applied and received a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission) HOLISTIC BODY THERAPY Related Publications: Tips from observing your footprints in the snow…and from Aston-Patterning®, Snow News, Forum of the Rocky Mountain Masters Ski Series, 2/00 Agua Alma, Aquatic Bodywork for Body and Soul, The Healing Path Magazine, 3/04 OTHER Musical Missions for Peace, President of the Board, 2003-2017 LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent), Fang (an African dialect-slight) |
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