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Richard Miller
CYT-L3
San Rafael, CA, US
Level 3 Yoga Teacher Badge

Owner of

Explorations In Stillness 

Founder iRest Institute, Co-Founder International Association of Yoga Therapy, Co-Founder Institute for Psychology and Spirituality. Teaching Since 1973 in the Nondual Tradition.

Richard C. Miller, PhD, C-iRest, ERYT-500 is a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, author, researcher, yogic scholar, and spiritual teacher who, for over 55 years, has devoted his life to integrating western psychology and neuroscience with the ancient nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism, and Buddhism. He developed the Integrative Restoration – iRest Meditation Program, is the founder of iRest Institute, Co-Founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Founding Member and past President of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology. Author of Yoga Nidra, The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing, iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for Health, Healing and Well Being, The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, and Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a consultant to iRest Institute and leads international iRest trainings and nondual meditation retreats on the integration of enlightened living into daily life.

Current influences

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Awake Awareness
Jean Klein, Nondual Awakening
Ramana Maharsi, No self, No Separation
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Non-Conceptual Being
Abhinivagupta, Śaivism, Unqualified Nonduality
TKV Desikachar, Viniyoga, Yoga Therapy
Stephan Chang, Taoism
Laura Cummings, Mahayana, Zen, Clinical Psychology
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