Stephen Parker Psy.D. has been a teacher of yoga and meditation for over 50 years and is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level of the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500) as well as a Continuing Education Provider and a Yoga-chikitsa-ratna of the Indian Yoga Association. A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, he was grand-parented as a certified yoga therapist (C.-I.A.Y.T.) in 2017. He serves on the faculties of the Meditation Center in Minneapolis and the Sadhanamandir and Sadhaka Gram ashrams in Rishikesh, India. He is also a senior faculty member of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teachers’ Training Program. In 2008 he received adhikāra to provide mantra-dīkșā in the Himalayan Tradition. He has lectured on yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice and has conducted retreats in the U.S. and Canada as well as in Caribbean countries, Holland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, and India.

Dr. Parker was a licensed psychologist in private practice in St. Paul, MN from 1985 until retirement in 2013. He also served 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 has been a guest lecturer at the Peace Studies Program of the University of Innsbruck, the Indian Psychology Program at Delhi University, among others. In 2017 he published Clearing the Path, The Yoga Way to a Clear and Pleasant Mind: Patanjali, Neuroscience and Emotions. He has been a peer review editor for the Journal of Men’s Studies, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Yoga Mimamsa, and various other medical and psychological journals.