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Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish ’00
In the classes he teaches at Naropa University and elsewhere, Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish ’00 brings the mind and body into relationship, giving a unique, body-centric focus to mindfulness practice and helping to educate students on how to become fully integrated people whose bodies, minds, and hearts are all in communication. Gabrieloff-Parish is a second-year adjunct instructor in Naropa’s environmental studies department currently teaching a course on environmental justice. At Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, where he worked previously, he developed an interdisciplinary study utilizing ritual and ceremony as tools for community development, inter-cultural understanding, ecological awareness, and personal transformation. For the last seven years, he has practiced authentic movement, somatic-based mindfulness, men’s work, and contemporary rites of passage with Melissa Michaels, as a leader in Surfing the Creative International Rites of Passage Youth Camps and more recently with the Men’s Leadership Alliance. He has worked with youth of color to navigate the complexities of identity in institutions of privilege and currently hosts community classrooms and conversations in Denver and Boulder to bridge the cultures of healing, art, activism, ecology, and the sacred.