Teachers · Record

Chetan Parkyn

Founding-era American teacher and the Human Design System’s first mainstream author.

Legal birth name

Chetan Parkyn (legal birth name not separately documented in the public record)

Teaching name

Chetan Parkyn

Born

Birth data not published in the public record

Birth time note

Birth data not published in the public record. Chart not published.

Type / Authority / Profile / Definition / Cross

Not published

Active in the system

1993 — present

Role

Founding-era American teacher and the Human Design System’s first mainstream author

Trained by

Introduced to the Human Design System in Taos, New Mexico, 1993; documented at the October 1994 Advanced Training; certified at the first US Teachers Training, Taos, May 1997.

Country

United States (San Diego, California)

Website

humandesignforusall.com IHDS listing: Holds IHDS-listed credentials; teaches independently of the IHDS.

Teaching focus

Chetan Parkyn was among the first people in the United States to encounter the Human Design System, introduced to it in Taos, New Mexico in 1993. He is documented in Chaitanyo Taschler’s preserved archive as attending the October 1994 Advanced Training in Taos — one of a cohort that included Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Don McKinney, and Dietrie Rudat — and was one of three participants certified at the first US Teachers Training in May 1997, alongside Don McKinney and Dietrie Rudat. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, in her 2025 account, describes studying with him in San Diego as part of her Human Design education.

Parkyn is a former mechanical engineer who studied with the Indian mystic Osho before encountering Human Design. He became the first Human Design teacher to reach a mainstream international audience: his book Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be was published by HarperCollins UK in 2009 and New World Library in the USA, and has been translated into more than ten languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Russian, French, Turkish, and Greek. It remains the most widely distributed introduction to Human Design in print.

He and his partner Carola Eastwood teach Human Design together from San Diego, California. Their subsequent books — The Book of Lines (with Alexander Roberts) and The Book of Destinies — extended the Human Design framework into the I’Ching line structure and the 192 Incarnation Crosses respectively.

Parkyn has given readings and classes worldwide for over three decades and continues to teach actively. He operates independently of the IHDS, though he holds IHDS-listed credentials.

Documented contributions

• Documented at the October 1994 Advanced Training in Taos, New Mexico — one of the first American analyst cohorts
• One of three participants certified at the first US Teachers Training, Taos, May 1997 (alongside Don McKinney and Dietrie Rudat)
• Studied with Zeno Dickson in San Diego — corroborated by Eleanor Haspel-Portner’s 2025 account
• Author of Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be (HarperCollins UK / New World Library USA, 2009) — first Human Design book published by a major international publisher; translated into 10+ languages
• Author of The Book of Lines (with Carola Eastwood and Alexander Roberts)
• Author of The Book of Destinies (with Carola Eastwood)
• Active teacher for over three decades; readings and classes worldwide from San Diego, California

Primary sources

• humandesignsystem.com/archive/ — Chaitanyo Taschler’s archive: October 1994 Advanced Training photograph (Parkyn named in caption) and first US Teachers Training, May 1997 (Chetan Parkyn, Don McKinney, Dietrie Rudat certified)
• Eleanor Haspel-Portner, The Science of Human Design (2025): describes studying “in San Diego with Chetan Parkyn”
• Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be (HarperCollins UK, 2009; New World Library USA)
• humandesignforusall.com