The thread that holds my diverse areas of focus together is working for a renaissance of Earth/Human relations.
My primary profesional focus has been alternative body therapy, which is my area of deepest experience and expertise in addressing structural and neuromuscular problems with a combination of movement education, hands-on work, and exercise.

Since August of 07, I've been working to create sustainable community at "Willow Way", which is en route to becoming a Permaculture model and educational venue. This is picking up a thread I was weaving with in the late 80's in West Africa with an agro-forestry project I started while in the Peace Corps. The Finca Permanente project I started was used as a model for a $2.5 million project by the EU, and several organizations collaborated to keep up with what I started, including the UNDP, UNFAO, EU, USAID as well as the Peace Corps. I had a blast with the women in our project doing improvised theater at the "Finca Permanente" seminars for local villagers.

I have taught in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas in a wide range of healing arts; including movement education, bodywork, multi-cultural dance/theater and Permaculture (a blend of appropriate technology and sustainable agriculture). I has been a certified Aston-Patterner for over 25 years, and I'm on the Aston national faculty. Over the last 10 years, I've  developed Agua Alma, aquatic bodywork & training which supports physical rehabilitation, personal growth and planetary healing.

I have also been involved in many social and cultural service projects, such as  being the primary organizer for the Tolantongo Cross-cultural & Cross-Species Gathering in Hildago, Mexico; catalyzing the Heyteyneytah Project of the Arapaho Wind River Reservation, being the director of the Explora nature-based learning programs for children in Boulder, CO. For more information, see my resume on www.ziaparker.com

My favorite passion is developing skills for learning and  teaching direct communiction with nature. This arena is rich with new understanding, new literature and new interest. We are shedding some of our cultural amnesia, and remembering that we are human! and humans have communicated with others on our precious planet for millenia! It is only in the last blink of an eye, in terms of the evolution of life forms, that we have forgotten how to dialogue and have personal relationships of reciprocity with the elements, the plants and the animals.

Thank you Paul Hawkins, for "Wiser Earth", there is so  much to learn from each other!  The best is yet to come!