resume, curriculum vitae and references

1. Telephone #: 1-815-708-9408
I hold a total of four degrees: my basic BA in Mass Communication from Florida
Atlantic University, an AA degree in Journalism from Palm Beach State College,
Lake Worth, Florida, and two degrees in Yoga instruction of teachers, Yoga
Philosophy and Yoga Psychology from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta
Centers and Ashrams, headquarterd in Val Morin, Canada with branches world-wide.
I was awarded the Yoga Siromani (Y.S.) and the more advanced Yoga Acharya (M.Y.
Master of Yoga).
I was four years full-time with the world-wide charity organization from which I
received the degrees: the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and
Ashrams, and spent more than three of those years as Director of that
organization's Paradise Island, Bahamas Yoga Retreat, a four and a half acre,
32-room, residential Yoga institute catering to students from all over the
world.
For over a decade I worked at the Nassau, Bahamas Tribune Newspaper, ending my
time there as one of three editors for the entire daily.
This year, I completed a graduate Harvard University Extension School course in
"World Religions" with a "B" grade.
I spent a fifth year at the Yoga organization's Chicago center as a lecturer and
teacher of Yoga and, beyond this, spent several summers at its Montreal, Quebec
center and its headquarters in Val Morin, Quebec, Canada doing the same thing. I
have continued my affiliation with this Yoga group: the International Sivananda
Yoga Vedanta Centers and Ashrams, from 1988 to the present and taught and worked
at its New York State ashram, Sierra Nevada foothills, California ashram, San
Francisco center, its Canada ashrm, its Montreal, Quebec, Canada center and of
course, its Bahamas ashram (beyond the four basic years there).
My lectures and classes also encompassed other spheres: the Roman Catholic
Church, Unity Bahamas, the Unification Church, a private time-share condominium
complex on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, an elementary school, private homes
and my own home. All this was in the Bahamas, where two of my main references
are located: Drs. Brian Humblestone (retired chief psychiatrist of the entire
Bahamas and a Yoga student of mine) and David Allen (former Harvard, Yale and
Georgetown lecturer in Psychiatry). They are both available at the Renaissance
Clinic in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. My third main reference is my baby
brother Dr. Phillip A.D. Higgins of Rockford Health Physicians.
I was the sole, live-in caregiver for both of my parents for about six years,
and an additional year for my father. I have volunteered and worked at two local
retirement and rehabilitation centers in Rockford for a total of about four
years and currently work at the institute where my father spent his final days:
Amberwood Care Centre on North Rockton Avenue.