Yoga Spirit Academy

Welcome to Our Website!

Janet and Victor Parachin are the founders of Yoga Spirit Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma

They have been life partners for over 30 years. They share a love of spirituality as it is taught in all the world religions--Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam. Today they have a special interest in practicing and teaching yoga and meditation. They have lived in Chicago, Washington, DC, Virginia Beach, the Los Angeles area, and have called Tulsa "home" for the past eleven years. They are the parents of three adult children.

Janet and Victor recently opened Yoga Co-operative at The Farm (51st and Sheridan). See the "Yoga Co-operative" web page on this site.

Click here to visit Victor's blog spot for spiritual insight--Dharma Roundup

Janet W. Parachin, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D., C.Y.T., Y.R.T., and Director of Yoga Spirit Academy.

Janet has taught yoga since 2004 and has facilitated meditation groups since 1999. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher (C.Y.T.), a Yoga Registered Teacher (Y.R.T.) at the 200 hour level, and a Relax and Renew trainer. She is certified by Peak Pilates to teach Pilates Reformer and Fitness Chair classes, and certified by N.E.S.T.A. to teach Pilates Mat and Ball. She has degrees in religion, theological studies, and education and spirituality. She writes books and teaches workshops about holistic spirituality, meditation, yoga, and nonviolence as a spiritual path. Her book Engaged Spirituality (Chalice Press, 1999) is studied in seminaries, college classrooms and local congregations. She has pastored churches in the Chicago area, served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, and taught at the graduate level.

Victor M. Parachin, M.Div., C.Y.T., and Instructor at Yoga Spirit Academy. 

Victor is a certified by N.E.S.T.A. in Sports Yoga and Pilates Mat and Ball. He has a special interest in the ways yoga and Pilates can support athletic performance and he teaches regular yoga classes for athletes. He has a graduate degree in religion from the University of Toronto. He teaches meditation and writes extensively about health and wellness, self-help, and spiritual inspiration. He is the author of over a dozen books, most recently Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds (Orbis Books, 2007) and Eleven Modern Mystics (Hope Publishing, 2011).

Teaching schedules

Janet teaches regular classes in the following locations. She is also available for private trainings and workshops in spirituality, yoga, meditation and Pilates. Please call her at 918-261-9786.

Restorative Yoga / Yoga Nidra classes

from 2:30 to 4:00 pm on 

Sunday, January 8

Sunday, February 12

Sunday, March 11

Sunday, April 1

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Victor teaches the following regular classes.

Photo credit John Stemple