| Breathworks Mindfulness Trainer Vajracaksu |
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Vajracaksu learnt to meditate when he was twenty and has now been meditating for a little over twenty one years. At university he studied social sciences, focusing on mental health, and wrote a dissertation looking at the relationship between Abraham Maslow’s concept of self-actualisation and long term meditation practice. After completing university in London he worked as a residential social worker with adults with learning disabilities for about two years, then spent over five years working in a Buddhist gift shop. Then he went back to care work, mostly working with people with mental health problems. In 2002 he became CELTA qualified to teach English as a foreign language. He has been a practising Buddhist since 1990, and in 1997, in the context of a sixteen week retreat in Spain, he was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order (Now the Triratna Buddhist Community). In 2001 he did a six months solitary retreat in north Wales that ended up changing the direction of his life: he set his sights on moving to Istanbul. After living nearly all his life in London, in August 2003 he moved to Istanbul and has been living and working there ever since. He has been teaching meditation for about sixteen years, including about six years at London University. He’s taught in England, Wales, Cyprus and Turkey. He’s also given ten presentations at Bilgi University in Istanbul on "The Physiological and Psychological Benefits of Meditation Practice". He loves introducing people to the principles of mindfulness and helping people to realistically apply these principles to the reality of their daily lives. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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