Dr Atul Pednekar

He is a Counsellor, Motivator and a Personal Empowerment Facilitator. Coming from a Medical background his interest is especially in Holistic Healing. His belief in Lifestyle Management as a part of healing brought him in contact with the field of Yoga and Philosophy. He is a trained Yoga teacher and a Counsellor.

He is the Founder, Director of Yog Psychology Foundation; which is working towards spreading the importance of Yoga as a healing modality.

His modules of programs based on the principles of Yoga Psychology have been included as a part of the curriculum at The Yoga Institute, Mumbai, India; which is the oldest organised institute in the world, for householders.

He has also been associated with various research projects, including;

The Caring Heart Project and

The Role of Yoga in Alleviating Anxiety

He was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with AYUSH, for a research program that studied the role of Yoga on mothers of students appearing for Board exams.

He is attached as a faculty at The Yoga Institute, where he regularly conducts lectures for the teacher trainees on topics related to medicine and counselling for more than 25 years.

He was attached as a counsellor at the prestigious Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT) and Ram Ratna Vidya Mandir. He has conducted over 500 workshops on First- aid for Merchant navy cadets as also for various other groups. He has conducted various workshops on Stress Management for corporates as also social and other groups.

He has authored two books 

“IT’S ALL IN THE MIND” (on principles of Psychology and Counseling for healers and common people) and 

"INTEGRAL CHAKRA PSYCHOLOGY" (which is an international publication and elaborates on behaviour patterns and the emotional problems related with the same)

He has been the President of Santacruz Medical Social Association, which is a premium medical association conducting academic and social functions for its member doctors.