Profiles: Dr. Anthony Sharkey
Dr. Anthony Sharkey learned how to meditate when he was 13 years of age while studying martial arts. He used the practice to help himself and his friends to live peacefully in Northern Ireland during the turbulent 1970's.
He qualified in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1982. Three years after this he discovered Buddhism and decided to take a year off from his career to explore the teachings. This year lasted for 20 years. During this time he trained and was ordained into the Buddhist tradition and received the name Ratnabandhu. After Ordination he lived in a semi monastic retreat centre for 3 years where he helped organize and teach intensive meditation retreats. In the early 90's he returned to Dublin where he helped establish the Dublin Meditation Centre and initiate several residential spiritual communities. During the years of the rising Celtic Tiger in Dublin he taught several thousand people how to meditate and do yoga.
Although not practicing in a conventional Western medical context he continued to develop his healing skills as a hands on energy healer and counselor with a special interest mind - body - spirit interaction. From this emerged the establishment of the Body Mind Consultancy – a behavioral medicine practice that offered a holistic multidisciplinary approach to disease. He co-led the first Behavioral Medicine course in Ireland – this was the first of many courses teaching people with a medically diagnosed disease how to respond with total creativity to their health challenge.
He took a break from teaching meditation, yoga and behavioral medicine in 2003 and spent time since living in Northern Ireland developing himself as an artist and exploring shamanistic approaches to consciousness research. In the summer of 2005 he visited the Brazilian Rain Forest and returned with over 70 tree essences.
He returned to live in Dublin in late 2005 and currently spends his time teaching meditation and yoga, running workshops on Abundance and practicing as a Medical Doctor - specialising in the treatment of Anxiety and Depression using Accupressure(EFT), Homeopathy, and NLP.
Dr. Anthony will be teaching Meditation, EFT Techniques and other modules within the VFY Training.You can contact him at doc.sharkey@gmail.com
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