Early career
Corporate & creative worlds
Born in Minsk. Moved to New York at 18. I worked in corporate environments, technology, photography, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. On paper, life looked successful. Inside, I was asking deeper questions.
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The Chaos Surfer
ABOUT ME
My work begins
where insight
alone isn't enough.
Why do we keep repeating patterns we consciously
want to change?
That question has guided my work for over fifteen years.
I noticed it first in communication. Some people stay silent. Others explode. Different strategies, but the same struggle: not knowing how to express what they truly feel, need, or fear.
What looks like anxiety, conflict, physical symptoms, or feeling stuck often begins much deeper.
My work is somatic and psychological - focused on uncovering where those patterns began, and changing them at the root.
Over the past 15+ years, I've worked with entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, parents, couples, and individuals across four continents - helping them understand the patterns beneath anxiety, relationships, identity, physical symptoms, and life transitions.
And most people don't need more information. They need a different relationship with themselves.
- MASHA ĀTMAN
HOW I GOT HERE
I've never taken the straight road.
Every turn added another piece to the puzzle of human transformation.
Early Career
Corporate & Creative Worlds
Born in Minsk.
Moved to New York at 18.
I worked in corporate environments, technology, photography, hospitality, and entrepreneurship.
On paper, life looked successful.
Inside, I was asking deeper questions.
The Turn
Body Knows
My search led me beyond traditional self-development.
Through travel, yoga, meditation, nutrition, body-oriented therapy, and plant medicine traditions, I began exploring the relationship between mind, body, and lived experience.
For the first time, healing became something I could feel - not just understand.
Depth
Beyond Symptoms
Over the years I studied psychology, regression work, family dynamics, psychosomatic therapy, and ancestral traditions.
Different systems used different languages.
Yet they all pointed toward the same truth:
what we experience on the surface is often only part of the story.
Now
The Chaos Surfer Method
Today my work combines psychology, body-oriented approaches, regression work, and ancestral perspectives.
The goal isn't to remove life's uncertainty.
The goal is to help people meet it with greater awareness, freedom, and choice.
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The deeper I looked, the harder it became to believe that symptoms were the real problem.
- MASHA ĀTMAN
THE MISSING PIECE
One framework is rarely enough
Every framework explained something.
None explained everything.
The more people I worked with, the more I noticed a pattern.
People came asking for one thing:
Less anxiety.
A better relationship.
Relief from physical symptoms.
More confidence.
But the issue they wanted to solve was rarely where the story began.
That realization changed the way I approached psychology.
Instead of asking, "How do we get rid of this symptom?"
I started asking,
"What strategy created it in the first place and how can we transform that?"
That question became the foundation of my work.
Treating the symptom can bring relief. Changing the strategy creates lasting change.
Every method explains part of the human experience. None explains all of it.
- MASHA ĀTMAN
MY PURPOSE
I don't dream of changing the world.
I believe real change begins with one person.
Every unconscious reaction shapes a relationship.
Every relationship shapes a family.
Every family shapes a community.
Every community shapes the future we leave behind.
That's why this work has never been just about reducing anxiety or resolving conflict.
It's about helping people become conscious of the strategies they've been living from - through somatic therapy, regression hypnosis, and ancestral healing - many of which were never consciously chosen.
Because people who know themselves communicate differently.
They parent differently.
They lead differently.
They love differently.
And those changes don't stop with them.
They ripple outward.
That's the future I want to contribute to.
Wanna Change the World - Change Your Conditioning.
One Transformed Person Shifts the Entire Field Around Them.
- MASHA ĀTMAN
TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
Different disciplines. One purpose.
PHYSICAL (SOMATIC ) + PSYCHOLOGICAL + SPIRITUAL
Rather than relying on one methodology, I integrate somatic therapy, hypnotherapy, practical psychology & ancestral healing perspectives according to the needs of each individual - working with clients worldwide, online and in person.
Every person is different.
Their transformation will be as well.
PSYCHOLOGY
TRAINED IN
Practical Psychology
Regression Hypnosis
Psychoanalytical Psychosomatics
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Germanic New Medicine (GNM)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Emotional Image Therapy (EIT)
Recall Healing
INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS & MEDICINE
TRAINED IN
(Apprenticeship with Lakota, Mexica & Wixárika elders)
6-year Sun Dance cycle
Temazcal (Sweat Lodge)
Transpersonal Journeys with Entheogens
Spiritual Ceremonies
Spiritual Emergencies
BODYWORK
TRAINED IN
Plant Based Nutrition
Anti-Parasitic Protocols
Detox Administration
Yoga Teacher Training - India
Developed Bodywork Method
Inspired by:
Myo-fascial Release
Deep Tissue Massage
Jin Shin Do
Each of these disciplines shapes how I work with clients -
learn more about the full approach.
Life doesn't stop creating Chaos. We learn how to surf it.
You don't have to control the storm to learn how to move through it
- MASHA ĀTMAN
THE CHAOS SURFER
MY PHILOSOPHY
Chaos isn't the problem. It's the condition.
Chaos isn't what makes us suffer.
Our attachment to certainty does.
We imagine how people should behave.
How relationships should unfold.
How life should go.
When reality doesn't match the story in our heads, we call it disappointment.
In reality, we set ourselves up for disappointment long before it arrives - when we become attached to a future that exists only in our imagination.
Reality didn't betray us.
Our attachment to certainty did.
People change.
Plans fail.
Relationships evolve.
Bodies age.
Loss happens.
The question isn't whether life will surprise us.
It will.
The question is whether we'll keep demanding that reality follow our script - or learn to move with it.
A Chaos Surfer doesn't try to control the waves.
A Chaos Surfer learns to move with reality instead
of demanding that reality move for them.
To adapt instead of resist.
To respond instead of react.
To choose instead of repeat.
A Chaos Surfer isn't someone with a perfect life.
A Chaos Surfer is a person who no longer needs reality to obey them in order to remain free.
A Chaos Surfer...
01
Moves with uncertainty instead of resisting it.
02
Responds consciously instead of reacting automatically.
03
Acts from values rather than old survival strategies.
04
Allows people to be human without becoming trapped by expectations.
05
Stays vulnerable without becoming fragile.
06
Stops passing unconscious patterns to the next generation.
What Changes...
01
Emotional resilience instead of emotional reactivity.
02
Relationships with less control, guilt, and resentment.
03
The ability to say what you actually feel, need, and mean.
04
Greater freedom from recurring emotional and physical symptoms.
05
Conscious choice instead of unconscious programming.
06
Less fear of uncertainty.
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