Check Out Michael ‘Mukti’ Buck’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Michael ‘Mukti’ Buck.

Hi Michael, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
After moving on from a life-electrifying episode and being an ordained full-time monk of the 1970s Hare Krishna Movement, I spent a small amount of time again in my dad’s highway construction company in New Jersey.

I chose to go to train in massage therapy and in the mid-1980s and completed bodywork courses at The Swedish Insti NYC, The Ohashi Insti NYC, and The Anma Insti San Fran, CA. Furthering my education, The International Thai Therapy Association ITTA awarded a level three teacher status to my practice in 1996. I began teaching courses full-time internationally after completing 17 years of private sessions in the northeast area, Philly, New York PA regions.

Around the Princeton, NJ area, to reduce their weary bodies from excessive fatigue, I offered my first class to local hard-working massage therapist colleagues in the mid-1990s. After instructing the first class, two women in their mid-forties approach me and commented that this one day Saturday afternoon massage class had changed their lives.

I became inspired and now have an induction into the world massage hall of fame, 2007, recognized as a leader in the massage education industry representing Ayurvedic style or more popularly known as Assisted Yoga Marma Point Therapy with now close to one hundred thousand initiates in fourteen countries,

The VedicConservatory is an educational mission bringing the experience and lessons of Vedic style and Southeast Asian Methods of bodywork and theory to various health centers internationally.  https://www.vedicthaicourses.com/pages/about-multi-michael-buck.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The experience has been both electrifying and not without its strength-building and determination-building energies.

The style that the VC represents has emerged as the coveted and narrow bridge between the immense yoga world and the immense massage world.

Burn-out, doubts, fears, and sorrows accompany any determined and dedicated path. Yet it is abundantly well worth the troubles. Physically, I will pass with my ‘boots on next to my peeps’. Emotionally and spiritually, the blessings could not have been more rewarding or more successful.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
All of the above!

My spirit and the spirits of the officially certified VC teachers, represent creativity and liberalness along with a significant dharma or livelihood drive to support other colleagues and, of course, bring a powerful healing modality to reduce emotional and physical discomforts.

I am the founder/director of The VedicConservatory offering both private tutorials and nationally approved courses.
I present the education for both folk and lay interests as well as for professionals. I and The VC are well known for modestly tuition-ed classes. We are also known for producing very competent practitioners as well as providing a very effective and inspiring Vedic modality.

The Vedic style of bodywork therapy aka Assisted Yoga aka Thai Massage aka Ayurvedic Bodywork aka Marma Point Therapy, is a unique and distinct initiation because what is missing in the yoga teacher’s world as well as the massage therapist’s world is confident touch and ‘one, two, three focused choreography (i.e. positionings and transitions).

What were you like growing up?
I worked with and was majorly influenced by my Dad’s New Jersey Highway construction company for my teens and later years. Brought up catholic in England [my mom is british] and central New Jersey.

After association with an amazingly close brotherhood of friends in High School, participation in ‘psychedelic research’, shall we say, I became very interested in Buddhist and Vedic meditation and cultures eventually surrendering my life to a formally ordained monkhood known as Vaisnava-ism or worship of Lord Krishna.

I am considered an accomplished rhythm having studied percussion and drumming methods since nine years old. Community drum circles are my passion. I study ufos, Sumerian culture, and any mysticism available.

Pricing:

• Tuition 3-day class with 21 CECS is $497.
• Tuition for The Vedic Conservatory 5 day class is $739.
• The 7-day class is $1008.
• private tutorial and treatments $160 p/hour all videos are nationally approved for CECS and uploaded at vedicthaivideos.com
• vedicthaicourses.com provides ample information.

Contact Info:

• Email: vedamystic@gmail.com
• Website: vedicthaicourses.com vedicthaivideos.com
• Instagram: @vedicthaibodywork
• Facebook: Mukti Michael Buck
• Youtube: vedic conservatory or mukti thai