BRYAN MELILLO

Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a classically identifiable Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. His exposure to many esoteric practices opened him to insights around the great Eastern traditions on the death and dying process. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design where he teaches painting, mask making and design. He maintains an active studio art practice.