Biography

Education	Education University of California, Los Angeles, 1975-1978 Master of Arts (1991) Dance Ethnology University of Washington, 1967-1969 Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology Seoul National University, College of Music, 1959-1963, Bachelor of Arts National Classical Music and Dance Institute of Korea, 1955-1963

University education	Trinity College, Hartford CT, 1995-2000 Visiting Associate Professor, Theater & Dance Department: Improvisation, Asian Theater & Dance, Movement & Meditation Department of Religion: Shamanism, Myth, Art and Shamanism, Experiencial Shamanism (Freshmen Seminar) Music Department: Music and Mystic Path of AsiaWomen's Studies Program: Women and Healing University of California, San Diego, 1983-1986 Visiting Lecturer, Music Dept.: Movement and Sound Improvisation. University of California, Irvine, Nov.- Dec. 1983 Lecturer in association with Jerzy Grotowski, Drama Deptment University of California, Los Angeles, 1975-1978 Visiting Lecturer, Dance Department: Dance of Korea American Society for Eastern Art, Summer School, 1973-1974 Lecturer & Performer, Music and Dance of Korea University of Washington, 1967-1969 Far Eastern Department, Lecturer: Korean Language Ethnomusicology Dept, Lecturer: Korean Music and Dance Northwestern Nazarene College, Idaho, 1966-1967 Visiting Artist, Asian Academic Institute, Lecturer & Performer: Korean Court & Folk Music and Dance National Classical Music and Dance Institute of Korea, 1963-1966 Teacher: Korean Court Dance, Art History of Korean Music & Dance Chung-Ang Girls High School, Korea, 1963-1964 Teacher: Kayakeum (Korean classical stringed instrument)

Business activitities	Initiated Shaman, Speaker, Lecturer, Master Class, Workshop Leader, Performance. International Conferences: Universities, Institutes, and Healing Centers, 1981-present Shamanic Trance Dance & Ritual, 1981-present Performing Artist, Solo Dancer: Korean Classical Music & Dance and Dance Improvisation, 1966-present National Classical Music Institute, 1963-1966 Court Musician (Korea's first woman Court Musician)

Lecture and course	2001: Ethnomed(Institute for Ethonomedicine), Korean Shamanism, Munich, Germany (Rituale Der Heilung), Shamanism Workshop, at Napoli, Ventotene, Biella, Italy 2000: International Conference, shamanism at Garmaeschi, GermanyPerformance and Workshop, at Milan, Biella, Sardegna, Italy. 1999: Performances and Workshops, at Zurich,Switzerland; Milan & Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; and Frankfurt, Germany 1998: Iinternational Conferences, at Pavia,Italy; Alpbach, Austria; and Hamburg and Glonn, Germany, Lecture, Performance, & Workshops: "Shamanism and Healing" 1997: The Nun's Circle; Global Re-Visioning of Women in Sacred Practice, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 1995: Celebrating the Feminine Sacred, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 1994: International "Energy Healing" Conference in Basil, Switzerland,University of California at Los Angeles 1993: International Shamanism Research Conference, Hungary, Asia Society in New York, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 1992: Berlin University, Germany, Gottingham University, Germany 1990: LA Art Festival; Lecture in Asian Spirituality and Art

Publications	Lecture & Performance, "Shaman's Initiation," Carlton College, Minneapolis MN "Sacred Mountain of Asia" published by Shambala, Interview with Lauren Deutsch "Initiation into Ecstasy: an Interview with Hi-ah Park, Korean Mudang," Shaman's Drum, by Nina Otis Haft, cover story, winter, 1991. "Visionary Voices: Women on Power," Interview by Penny Rosenwasser, San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1992 Several articles in German, Italian, and Korean. Expecting to publish a book, Shamanism, Healing and its related Arts.
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