21st Century Geek
An organizational psychologist and intellectual visionary, Atma is a provocative, colorful personality whose commentary on the subjects of wellness ranges from opening yourself to compassion and empathy to the absolute need for personal discipline and courage. As a leadership mentor his methodology derives from his study in India of the ancient Vedic teachings to post-modern, high-tech, street level savvy. Atma brings a unique and cutting perspective to the little-understood world of industrial/organizational psychology.
Trained from childhood to the present, by an unusually long string of masters and experts, to become a scientist who would blend the best of western science and eastern practices and make them available to the public.
Atma is the unique product of university education (8 yrs) business experience, (20 yrs) and eastern practices and studies (38yrs). Current Resume
His expertise has been drawn on by one of the big three motor companies, start up firms, non-profits and municipal programs. He has trained Yoga teachers all over the world and given countless workshops and seminars on stress management, wellness, presentation skills, leadership training, and the history of yoga and eastern practices.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Industrial Psychology.
These are some of the events and places Atma has spoken at over the last 10 years:
- Society for Advancement of Management – Cal State University Long Beach
- LA Hackers – Los Angeles
- Ford Motor executive retreat – Los Angeles
- Film Studios – Hollywood, The Lot
- Digitaria (fka Console) – San Diego
- Yoga Association – Taiwan R.O.C.
- Australian/New Zealand Yoga teacher convention – Auckland, New Zealand
- American Vedic Association – Ojai, California
- Annual Teachers Convention – Govinda Yoga – Swansea, Wales
- International Yoga Society – Kuala Lumpur Malayasia
- International Yoga Retreat – Abentuer, Germany
- Veden Academie – Berlin Germany
- Centro de Yoga – Ceuta Spain
- Annual yoga and Vedic Convention – Dubuy, Belgium
- Annual Balkan Convention of Yogis and Vedantists – Rijeka, Croatia
- Yoga Teacher training – Zagreb Croatia (included Television interviews and talk in other cities)
- Serbian Bhakti Yoga Summer Camp – Serbia
- Vedanta Society – U.C. Irvine
- Fischer Mansion – Detroit, Michigan
- Annual Vaisnava Convention – Mound, West Virginia
- Self Discovery Center – Atlanta, Georgia
- Yoga Association – Greensboro, NC
- Stress Management Convention – Toronto, Canada
- European Yoga and Vedantic Communication Conference – Milan, Rome (in subsequent years in Belgium and Germany)
- Minds Matter Annual Youth Convention – Federal Building – Los Angeles, Ca
- LAUSD – Numerous high school speaking engagements
- Stress Management Seminars, – Santa Rosa, CA
When asked about his influences Atma provided the following:
Art |
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Van Gogh |
Mondrian |
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Alberto Giacometti |
Camille Claudel |
Egon Schiele |
Cezanne |
Chagall |
Gauguin |
DeGoya |
Edward Hopper |
Kathe Kollwitz |
Manet |
Monet |
Rauschenberg |
Da Vinci |
Albert Durer |
Titian |
Tintoretto |
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Music |
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Mozart |
Bach |
Beethoven |
Verdi |
Leonard Bernstein |
Shostakovich |
Tchaikovsky |
Wagner |
Leonard Cohen |
Prince |
Gershwin |
Sergey Prokofiev |
Michael Nyman |
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Literature and poetry |
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Shakespeare |
James Joyce |
Walt Whitman |
Thoreau |
Rilke |
Rimbaud |
Neruda |
Oscar Wilde |
Francois Villon |
Dickens |
Franz Kafka |
Lewis Carroll |
Sappho |
O’henry |
Charles Buckowski |
Emerson |
Kahil Gabrain |
Edgar Allen Poe |
Dylan Thomas |
Salinger |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
Hunter S Thompson |
Madeline D’engle |
JR Tolkien |
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Philosophy |
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Eastern – |
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Vyasadeva |
Kapiladeva |
Shankacharya |
Madhavacharya |
Ramanuja |
Chaitanya Maha Prabhu |
Bhaktivinode Thakur |
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Western – |
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Nietzsche |
Kierkegaard |
Kant |
Sartre |
Camus |
T.S. Eliot |
Orwell |
Thomas Paine |
William James |
Voltaire |
Tolstoy |
Chomsky |
McLuhan |
Foucault |
Sun Tzu (I think of him as western) |
RD Laing |
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Science and Math |
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Wundt |
Carl Linnaeus |
Claude Levi-Strauss |
Jean Piaget |
William Bayliss |
Nicola Tesla |
Georg Cantor |
Helge von Koch |
Aryabhatta |
Brahmagupta |
Euclid |
Bháscara Áchárya |
Blaise Pascal |
Newton (duh) |
James Clerk Maxwell |
David Hilbert |
John von Neumann |
Alan Turing |
Einstien (duh) |
Neils Bohr (duh) |
Max Born |
Max Planck |
Erwin Schrodinger |
Werner Heisenberg |
Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, and Leonard Susskind |
Edward Witten |
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Playwrights |
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Sophocles |
Luigi Pirandello |
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Harold Pinter |
Berlot Brecht |
Eugene O’Neil |
ibsen |
Edmond Rostand |
Chekov |
Jules Feiffer |
Jean Genet |
Goethe |
Arthur Miller |
Tom Stoppard |
Peter Weiss |
Elmer rice |
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Filmmakers |
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Howard Hawks |
Francois Truffaut |
Marcel Carne |
Fellini |
Des Sica |
Rossellini |
John Houston |
Bergman |
Antonioni |
Hitchcock |
Coppala |
Kubrick |
Jean Cocteau |
Sir David lean |
Billy Wilder |
Gilliam |
Coen Bros |
Woody Allen |
Danny Boyle |
Darren Arnofsy |
Jonathan Demme |
Blake Edwards |
William Wyler |
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Documentarists |
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Maysle bros |
Penneabaker |
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The Raymonds (american family) |
Dziga Vertov |
Joris Iven (et al – workersfilm and photo league) |
Murrow |
Wiseman |
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Graphic Novelists |
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Frank Miler |
Neil Gaiman |
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Alan Moore |
Dave Mckean |
Herge |
And the joint spirit of: |
Lautréamont, Antonin Artaud, the mood of the constructivists, the design esthetics of the futurists and the Dadaist, Guy Debord, The Fugs, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Johnny Lydon, The Germs, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Buckowski, Ministry, and Rage Against the Machine |
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Thank you. I appreciate the support. 🙂 Atma
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Thank you. I appreciate the support. 🙂 Atma
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