Dr. Mha Atma S. Khalsa was born on New Year’s Day in 1951 on the lower
east side (Manhattan). His family moved to Denver, Colorado, then
Albany, New York and finally to Long Beach here in Southern California
where he lived from age 9 through high school. He attended the
University of California at Berkeley during the peaceful years of 1968
through 1971, majoring in biology and environmental studies.
Dr. Mha Atma was
out of school from 1971 to 1974 during which time he traveled, studied
yoga and meditation, began teaching yoga classes, got married, moved
from the Bay Area back to Southern California, worked in a hospital, and
became a father. During that time he developed an intense desire to
help sick people get well and help healthy people learn to stay that
way. So, in the Fall of 1974, he enrolled at Los Angeles College of
Chiropractic.
He graduated in 1978 and started his practice in his
living room in 1979, moving soon to a one room upstairs office nearby.
Khalsa Chiropractic moved to its current location on San Vicente Blvd.
in Los Angeles in the Fall of 1980.
Dr. Mha Atma has
attended hundreds of hours of postgraduate seminars and workshops in
subjects such as Applied Kinesiology, Chiropractic Orthopedics, Motion
Palpation, and yogic healing. He loves his work and is deeply grateful
for the opportunity to help others find health and balance in their
lives. He and his wife, Martha, have been married since 1973 and have
three grown-up children.
In 1989 Dr. Mha Atma founded
Earth Action
Network, a letter-writing
project aimed at promoting environmental healing and social justice.
