Richard C. Miller, Ph.D. (born 1948) is a clinical psychologist

Clinical psychology

Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...

, author, researcher and yogic

Yoga

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...

 scholar. He is the founding president of the Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI), co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, Senior Advisor to the Baumann Institute, and was the founding president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Marin School of Yoga.

Professional background

For over 40 years, Miller's primary interests have included integrating nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga

Yoga

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...

, Tantra

Tantra

Tantra , anglicised tantricism or tantrism or tantram, is the name scholars give to an inter-religious spiritual movement that arose in medieval India, expressed in scriptures ....

, Advaita, Taoism

Taoism

Taoism refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao , which is the mechanism of everything that exists...

, and Buddhism

Buddhism

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 with Western psychology. In addition to his research and writing projects, Miller lectures and leads trainings and retreats internationally. Among his mentors, he credits T.K.V. Desikachar and Jean Klein

Jean Klein (spiritual teacher)

Jean Klein was a French author, spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita . Several of his disciples went on to become spiritual teachers themselves, including Eric Baret, Francis Lucille, Jean-Marc Mantel, Joan Ruvinsky, Richard Miller and David Ciussi...

.

Miller worked with Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

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 and the United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 studying the efficacy of iRest Yoga Nidra. The iRest protocol was used with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2010, Eric Schoomaker

Eric Schoomaker

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, Surgeon General of the United States Army endorsed Yoga Nidra as a complimentary alternative medicine (CAM) for PTSD and chronic pain.

Miller and his organization have iRest programs in the military (active duty and veterans), homeless shelters, prisons, hospice

Hospice

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s, senior facilities, universities, chemical dependency

Substance dependence

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 clinics, Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

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and cancer outpatient clinics, as well as yoga and meditation studios.

Published works

Books

• Miller, Richard. Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Sounds True, 2005 and 2010. ISBN 9781591793793
• Gomukasana, in American Yoga, Barnes & Noble, 2003. ISBN 9780760745588
• The Search for Oneness, in Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? Storey Publishing, 2004. ISBN 9781580175098
• Welcoming All That Is: Yoga Nidra and the Play of Opposites in Psychotherapy, in The Sacred Mirror: NondualWisdom & Psychotherapy, Paragon, 2003. Prendergast, Fenner & Krystal (ed.). ISBN 9781557788245
• Opening To Empathy, UMI, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990
• The Theory and Practice of Yoga Nidra, Anahata Press, Mill Valley, 1985
• Langhana and Brhmana, The Institute of Yoga Teacher Education, San Francisco, 1980
• The Book of Internal Exercises, with Stephan Chang, Strawberry Hill Press, San Francisco, 1978

Journal articles

• "The Power of Mudra", Yoga Journal, Sept/Oct 1996
• "Beginner’s Yoga Column", Yoga Journal, 1995
• "The Breath of Life", Yoga Journal, May/June 1994
• "Longing For Liberation", Journal of IAYT, Vol. 4, 1993
• "The Therapeutic Application of Yoga on Sciatica: A Case Study", Journal of IAYT, Vol. 3, 1992
• "Psychophysiology of Respiration: Western and Eastern Perspectives", Journal of IAYT, Vol. II, 1991
• "Working With The Breath", Yoga Journal, September 1989
• "Suffering According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", Yoga Journal, July 1986
• "Breath and Movement", Yoga Journal, July 1984
• "Yoga and The Blind", Yoga Journal, January 1978

Audio presentations

• Sounds of Silence: Chants to the Divine, 2010
• Resting In Stillness: The Practice of Integrative Restoration – iRest, 2009
• The Final Teachings: Awakening to Your True Nature: Healing and Awakening through the meditative practices of Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra, 2009
• Your Path, Buddha’s Path; Healing and Awakening through the meditative practices of Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra, 2009
• The Principles and Practice of Ujjayi Pranayama, Audiocassette Tape Set, Anahata Press, 1999
• The Principles and Practice of Yoga Nidra, Audiocassette Tape Set, Anahata Press, 1999
• Non-Dual Meditation, Audiocassette Tape, Anahata Press, 1998
• Pranayama, Breath of Life, Audiocassette Tape Set, Anahata Press, 1998
• The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, Audiocassette Tape Set, Anahata Press, 1998