Michael "Mukti" Buck

Mukti Michael Buck is the Founder and Director of the Vedic Conservatory.

A graduate of the notable Thai schools Lek Chaya, ITM and Sunshine Schools in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Mukti regularly hosts student study tours to Thailand.

Mukti is also a certified instructor for Thai Healing Alliance International T.H.A.I. and has initiated certification to over fifty thousand students in fourteen countries.

Documenting over 1000 hours of teaching every year since 1996, Mukti’s VC curriculum is commissioned by medical associations, psychiatric institutions and top health resorts, yoga centers and massage schools.

The Vedic Conservatory’s curriculum is also nationally approved for continuing education credits by NCBTMB and T.H.A.I.

Mukti’s education also includes Valley Forge Junior Military College and The University of Miami.

Mukti’s previous professional background includes graduation from The Swedish Institute NYC in 1984, the advanced program at The Ohashi Institute in NYC in 1985, and The Anma Institute in San Francisco, CA in 1986 and in 1996 Mukti achieved Level Three Instructor status with The International Thai Therapy Association [I.T.T.A]. Mukti is a member of ABMP, a certified instructor with Thai Healing Alliance International [T.H.A.I.] and is New York and Florida state licensed. Mukti is also a certified Revelation Breathing Coach and Tratak Meditation Initiator.

At age 20 Mukti accepted TM initiation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

At age 22 Mukti received Shaktipat Transmission personally from Swami Muktananda.

At age 24 Mukti was ordained into the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya [lineage] as a Hare Krishna monastic by the renowned Sanskrit scholar A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada and was instrumental in opening several yoga and meditation centers worldwide.

The VC course conspectus is authored by Mukti, a well-known adept who is also deemed an architect of contemporary Vedic Style Yoga Massage.

In October 2007, Mukti was inducted into The World Massage Festival Hall of Fame.

Celebrated as a leader and as an accepted principal emissary of classical and contemporary Vedic Thai-Yoga Bodywork, Mukti’s talent is recognized as consummate in technique and theory and his presentations are described as seasoned virtuosity.

Demonstrated expertly and guided professionally, Mukti’s VC courses emphasize both brief and local and extended and general sequences of South East Asian styles of manipulative therapy.