About Arthaketu

Arthaketu began his interest in Shiatsu in 2000. This came about for a num­ber of reas­ons: he had been prac­tising med­it­a­tion and buddhism for 9 years and had also began prac­tising Aikido, had tried out some tia chi and chi gung and had done a mas­sage week­end with Vajradaka. What all these prac­tises had shown him was that by relax­ing the body you effected the mind. The other thing that they had in com­mon was that they worked with the ener­get­ics of the body. It was on the Tai chi and med­it­a­tion retreat and the mas­sage week­end with Vajradaka that he found out that he could exper­i­ence the energy of someone else and effect this to help in the heal­ing process.

Arthaketu’s train­ing included work­ing with a num­ber of teach­ers includ­ing Nicola Pooley, Paul Lundberg, Daverick Leggett and Akinobo kishi. He com­pleted his train­ing in 2003 with the Yorkshire school of shi­atsu with Julie Shearn. Since qual­i­fy­ing he has con­tin­ued to enjoy learn­ing more. Reading up about vari­ous topic’s and doing vari­ous week­end courses with people like Cifford Andrews and Carola Beresford Cooke.

In 2005 he was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order where he was given the name Arthaketu. Which means ‘leader in the mean­ing’ or ‘leader in the good’. Since he has been ordained he has reg­u­larly taught on the Buddhism and med­it­a­tion courses and med­it­a­tion courses run by the Manchester buddhist centre. One of his other interests has been Aikido and for many years he prac­tised Aikido under Sensie Kolashnikov even­tu­ally attain­ing his first dan (black belt).