Michael Buck 2007 Massage Therapy Hall of Fame Member Mukti [Michael Buck] is celebrated as an accomplished instructor's instructor in the art of Nuad Borarn, Vedic Massage, Thai-Yoga Bodywork. Mukti's October 2007 induction into The World Massage Hall of Fame heralded the completion of over 14 years of continuous traveling and teaching. During this 14 year period, mukti contracted commissions with the best yoga centers, massage schools and health resorts nationally and abroad. Teaching over 1000 hours each year in a different city each weekend, Mukti has issued initiating certificates to nearly ten thousand pupils dedicating themselves to the art of Vedic Bodywork Thai-Yoga Massage. Mukti's educational DVD's on the subject of Traditional Vedic Thai-Yoga Massage are a delight amongst his students and have received top selling status and popular acclaim nationally. Always having favored the oriental medical approach to the body art's 'meta' physics, Mukti is a graduate of The Ohashi Institute in NY City in 1985 and The Anma Institute of San Francisco in 1987. He also graduated The Swedish Institute in NY City in 1984. In 1995 Mukti received level three instructor status from The International Thai Therapy Association [I.T.T.A.]. Each year between 1996 and 2000 Mukti sponsored month long student study tours to Thailand to authenticate ancient Siamese culture and Thai Massage experience. During those years also, Mukti received over 200 hours of formal training from the notable schools ITM and Lek Chaya. He also documented receiving over 60 massage sessions during his travels to Thailand, Bali and India from the indigenous peoples representing city and rural styles.

Mukti is the founder and director of The Vedic Conservatory in Delray Beach, Florida. His most prized and significant credential is as a Vaisnava monastic from 1976-1980 ordained by the renowned Sanskrit scholar Srila Prabhupada. This lifestyle included full ashram sadhana [live in and study vows] fundamental to the Vedic culture's yogic values. Mukti traveled incessantly as a yogic monk opening meditation centers and joyfully sharing lessons from the great Vedic classics such as The Bhagavad Gita, The Srimad Bhagavatam, the Upanishads and The Chaitanya Caritamrta sutras with thousands of people. The Vedic Conservatory Bodywork courses are replete with Mukti's continuing passions centered around the sacred yogic sciences of loving service to The Supreme Lordess and Lord known as Bhakti yoga demonstrated by loving Seva [service] unconditionally to humanity.

His goal is the initiation of 250,000 students into the wonderful social contribution of Traditional Vedic Thai-Yoga Massage! Mukti is also well known as a dedicated percussionist and rythmist regularly accompanying kirtan trance dances since the early 1970's. He is also a registered and certified Rebirthing Breathing Therapist and Tratak meditation personal coach.

Mukti has been placed as a bright familiar star in the skies of Vedic Bodywork, Thai-Yoga Massage Please feel free to connect with him. Om

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