Vladi­mir Anto­nov was born in 1946 in Saint Peters­burg, Rus­sia. After gradu­at­ing from the Saint Peters­burg State Uni­versity as a bio-eco­lo­gist, he worked for many years in such fields of sci­ence as bio­logy, medi­cine, eco­logy. He re­ceived a Ph.D. in bio­logy. In par­tic­u­lar, he cre­ated a new ef­fect­ive sys­tem of psych­ic­al self-reg­u­la­tion based on work with the chakras and me­ridi­ans.