ABOUT BUSHINDO UNIVERSITY

Bushindo: The Way of the Empowered Warrior

Your Empowered Living System. All the training and tools you need to live an optimal, empowered life.

We love personal empowerment, and have dedicated our lives to training and helping others live the most incredible lives possible. For over 30 years Bushindo University has offered the budo martial arts (Ninjutsu, Budo Taijutsu, DeCuerdas Eskrima, Bushindo Sword), personal empowerment training, spiritual awakening methods and optimal life teachings worldwide, through privates, seminars, dojos, home study courses and online training.

Doshi Richard Van Donk has now integrated all these teachings into one complete Empower Yourself system: the best of the ancient, the modern and the futuristic.

MEET YOUR TEACHER

Doshi Richard Van Donk, Soke

Doshi started deeply on the path at age 19, looking for one complete life-living system: a system where one could live all the principles and have the most awesome life possible. That search took him all over the globe, studying body, mind and spirit with many masters, to mastery level.

⚔ Began Ninjutsu studies with Soke Masaaki Hatsumi in the very early 1980s, with about 50 trips to Japan to train personally with him and other Shihan
⚔ Bujinkan 15th Dan Senior DaiShihan, ShinGiTaiIchi Award
⚔ Headmaster of the International Bujinkan Dojo Association (IBDA), worldwide since the mid-1980s
⚔ Founder of Bushindo University and the International DeCuerdas Eskrima Association
⚔ Trained with Eskrima Grandmaster Tenio, Sword Master Kancho Machida, gurus in India and Daoist masters of China
⚔ Author of over 100 books, DVDs and life-transformational courses
⚔ His Ninjutsu Black Belt Course, pioneered since 1990, is used in over 75 countries; top International Videos Award from the World Grandmaster Council (WHFSC), 1999
⚔ Has helped well over a dozen students to 10th Dan, and several hundred beyond 5th Degree Black Belt
⚔ Teaches privates, and mentors a chosen few at the Infinite Way Dojo in Northern California

VISION

The Story Behind Bushindo

The Bushindo System was founded to integrate my martial arts knowledge, my experiences of spiritual awakening, and brain-mind research, and to separate these teachings from the Bujinkan Ninjutsu System as taught by Soke Hatsumi, in which I invested four decades of study. Soke Hatsumi merged his arts into a kobudo (ancient warrior) fighting system called Budo Taijutsu. Although I have trained extensively in these fighting arts, both with him and with many other Grandmasters, my heart, and the passion that drives my life, is the integration of the philosophical and spiritual sides of the sacred temple arts.

"I am very interested in seeing how far a group of individuals can evolve ourselves as human beings."

Brain-mind research, yoga, kundalini research, sound and light activation of consciousness, meditation practices, body healing methods and alternative medicine are foremost in my personal dedication now. And so Bushindo™ as a University was born.