Eric Dōshin Atkins
Meditation Guide | Reiki Master Shakuhachi Performer
Eric Dōshin Atkins’ journey has been shaped by two worlds that often appear separate, yet deeply influence one another: the relentless pressures of modern business and the lifelong search for inner peace, clarity, and meaning.
For nearly 35 years, Eric worked inside demanding corporate and entrepreneurial environments spanning technology, telecommunications, real estate, solar energy, and luxury outdoor living. His career included leadership, consulting, sales, and project management roles with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and BOXX Technologies, along with numerous startups and large-scale initiatives.
During his years at Hewlett-Packard, he managed an advanced broadband infrastructure initiative connected to the system that became TimeWarner’s Roadrunner Service—helping shape the early evolution of nationwide internet connectivity. He later led complex turnaround, scaling, and development efforts across multiple industries, including a large Smart Homes revitalization initiative involving Sears & Roebuck and several multi-billion-dollar corporate partners.
But beneath the titles, projects, and constant movement, Eric experienced what countless people inside organizations endure every day: pressure, uncertainty, burnout, loss, cultural collapse, financial instability, and the emotional weight of trying to hold everything together while continuing to perform.
Two events profoundly altered the direction of his life. In 1995, the tragic loss of his best friend and roommate initiated a deep existential search for understanding and meaning. A few years later, he witnessed the dismantling of the employee-centered culture he had loved at Hewlett-Packard—a realization that exposed how quickly identity, stability, and purpose can disappear within systems people devote their lives to building.
Those experiences led Eric toward Zen and Suizen (Blowing Zen) practice—not as a hobby or philosophical curiosity, but as a direct response to suffering and the search for a deeper ground beneath the instability of modern life.
Eric has spent nearly 30 years immersed in the ongoing study and practice of Zen, Suizen, meditation, breathwork, contemplative disciplines, energetic awareness practices, and restorative modalities centered on nervous-system regulation, presence, sound, vibration, and inner stillness.
Over the decades, Eric has trained under respected Zen and Suizen Masters including Shakuhachi Flute Root Teacher Stan Kakūdo Richardson (Grandmaster at Mujūan Ryū) and Heart Teacher Masayuki Koga (Grandmaster at the Japanese Music Institute of America), while continuing to explore and integrate a wide range of contemplative, vibrational, meditative, and therapeutic approaches aimed at restoring balance within the body, mind, and spirit.
His path has also expanded into healing arts and embodied disciplines beyond Zen practice alone. Eric became a second-generation Usui Reiki Master Teacher, following in his mother’s footsteps in the practice of healing through life force energy. He is currently studying the Taoist martial art of Tai Chi Chuan under Grandmaster Thomas Gohring, a 9th-degree black belt, as part of his continuing path toward deeper embodiment, balance, discipline, and energetic awareness.
Eric does not view spiritual practice as an escape from the world, but as a way of meeting life more honestly and compassionately. The spiritual therapy programs offered through BizZennists Consulting emerge from that ongoing journey—a synthesis of lived business experience, contemplative practice, restorative modalities, and a sincere desire to help others reconnect with themselves amid the pressures of modern life.
Today, Eric’s work through BizZennists focuses on helping individuals reconnect with themselves physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually through practices designed to calm the nervous system, cultivate awareness, and create space for healing and renewal. Drawing from decades of business experience alongside nearly 30 years of contemplative practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, frontline workers, caregivers, creatives, and individuals navigating burnout, grief, transition, overwhelm, and inner searching.
His approach is grounded not in abstract spirituality, but in lived experience—walking through difficulty, learning from it, and returning with greater compassion, deeper understanding, and something useful for others making that same journey.
Eric carries a simple conviction: peace is not found by avoiding hardship, but by moving through it with awareness, compassion, and presence.