Zia Parker, MA, CAP, CMT
www.vidaverde.info ziaparker@zoho.com Skype: ziaparker
**FOR HOLISTIC BODY THERAPY, scroll down.**
ENVIRONMENTAL / SUSTAINABILITY / PERMACULTURE WORK & TRAINING:
Initiator, Yupaichani Network, Five projects in Vilcabamba that serve the people and serve the Earth. see http://vidaverde.info/yupaichaini-network/
Designer, Finca Vida Verde Permaculture, Vilcabamba, Loja, S Ecuador, Sept.2012-present. Initiation of Water Retention Landscaping model on one acre at 5,500 ft. altitude subtropical zone. Designer and contractor for two Earthbag homes & gardens, including composting toilet, greywater, berm/swale, terracing, food forests. Providing the Permaculture Design Certificate Course annually from 2013 through to the present with participants from over 12 countries and 8 Ecuadorean provinces. For more info on our community and consultation projects, See www.vidaverde.info
other Permaculture Design Course Teaching
Teaching team member at Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Design course, 1991
Co-coordinated the first PDC at High Altitude Permaculture, Ward CO 92
Black Mesa Permaculture Design Course, teaching team. Navaho
American reservation, 95
CRMPI teaching team 91, 93, 95, 99
Permaculture Design Course, Coordinator and Primary Teacher
Boulder, CO 2008-2011, four consecutive years, PDCs hosted by my farm, Willow
Way, Boulder’s first official Demonstration farm. Our Herbal CSA offered
culinary and medicinal herbs and herbal products. Many workshops offered on
soil development, basic gardening, season extension, community design, etc.
Fry Creek PDC, British Columbia, Summer, 2011. Rural BC, course focused on PC
principles to help build cohesion in the community. High level of sustainability
knowledge among the participants and guest presenters.
SW Colorado PDC, hosted by Heartwood CoHousing. Summer, 2012.
Focus on high desert integrated Permaculture production systems, wild forage plants, models of community.
Initiator, Heyteyneytah Project providing support for community leader Stan Addison, Native American Arapaho quadriplegic, horse-whisperer, healer. Director of 20 min. video documentary which spawned an article in Smithsonian magazine and a PBS-TV special. PC principles and ethics worked beautifully on this project. Stan’s reputation for working with troubled youth extended far. He worked with the horses, the horses worked on the youth. Wind River Arapaho Shoshoni Reservation 96-2003
Facilitator of Permaculture programs for the Arapahoe Native American people on the Wind River Reservation, Riverton, Wyoming. 93
Consultation on proposal design to a Permaculture project in Borneo which works with the Penan people, hunter/gatherers being forced into slash and burn agriculture. 9/92
Permaculture Teacher’s training, Santa Fe , 1992
Permaculture Design Course Certificate, (CRMPI), 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 EC. 9/88-9/90
Homesteading lifestyle in rural British Columbia, 1971-1978, without amenities of running water. Wood stoves for cooking and heating.
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, EcoTourism in extreme rural China? The Paddler Magazine, 7/98
HOLISTIC BODY THERAPIES:MOVEMENT THERAPY, MASSAGE THERAPY, ASTON-PATTERNING® & Health-related Employment:
1979-present 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 or congenital problems such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis; as well as musicians,dancers and athletes in performance improvement. Since l981, clientele have included 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
Wholistic Body Therapy, TEACHING:
Aston Therapeutics I, Aston Training Center, 99-2011
Agua Alma aquatic bodywork for the body and soul
Director & Designer, 150 hour certification training, Summer, 2000-2007. 8 years of directing training program in various sites in CO and Mexico.
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 for the public: addressing structural balance and fitness (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; 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 (77-78)
Wholistic Body Therapy EDUCATION/TRAINING:
March 2001 Jahara Basics, Brasilian aquatic bodywork
1998 AquaViv Aquatic Bodywork Certification Training, Boulder, CO
1981-83 Master of Arts Deegree, Beacon College, Washington, D.C.; Wellness , Movement Therapy (double major)
l98l-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. U of CO, 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 (psychology/biology)
RESEARCH and CONSULTATION
Survey of 600 multidisciplinary wholistic facilities in 1983. (my master’s thesis) Harvard Medical School requested the results for their archives.
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 3/2001
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)
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, 2003-2018 www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
LANGUAGES: Spanish (functionally fluent), Fang (an African dialect-slight)