Håkan FriedelI have a BA in Culture communication at the University of Stockholm. Major in Comparative Religion special field Japanese Buddhism, and minor in Social-anthropology.My father grew up in Nazi-Germany during the 30s and survived the War. My family stil live under the shadow of the war, even it is over long ago. At a very young age I began to question all the negative feelings I harbored and how I lived my life. Later I could find gratitude for the family trauma that became a condition for my early urge to study spiritual methods for inner wellbeing and made me travel around the world to seek the masters.I met Moriyama Roshi in Japan who accepted me as his deshi, his close disciple, and trained me at his Zen temple Zuigakuin for three years. Later I returned and stayed another five years in Tokyo, studying martial arts and healing arts for various teachers.
For more than 45 years I have practiced and taught meditation. Thru my lectures and workshops, I have introduced more than fifteen thousand people in the corporate world to meditation.Today I am a blackbelt holder in jodo, judo and iaido and aikido.Usually I return to Japan twice a year for practice.I am also a member of the professional group at the Imoto Seitai Traditional Manual Therapy Education and Development Center in Tokyo. For the last thirty years I have been doing treatments and developed my own style of treatment from Swedish massage, shiatsu and seitai techniques. From the information of my hands in contact with the client I read the character of the person and their life-situation, to be able to understand the true cause of stress in their life.I have a license to work as an assistance nurse in psychiatry.I received Bodhisattva ordination from Moriyama Roshi and have been a member of Esoteric Shinnyo Buddhism for almost thirty years and have passed thru the four levels of esoteric training. I am ordained to the second level of priesthood in Shinnyo Buddhism.
In Stockholm I have founded a Shinnyo center, being one of the cornerstones. Read More Read Less