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At Dharma Coaching Institute, we empower heart-centered people to create thriving careers as Soul Purpose + Spiritual Life Coaches
We are the first and only institute that certifies Soul Purpose (Dharma) and Spiritual Life Coaches, specifically trained to guide clients into purpose, career and life alignment. Our students experience their own transformation in the process, truly stepping into their confidence, voice and message.
Dharma Coaching Institute (DCI) demonstrates the new paradigm of leadership – one that is connected to the heart, intuition, and purpose.
Our Mission
Our mission is to train world-class Soul Purpose (Dharma) + Spiritual Life Coaches who can effectively guide others to align with their true calling. We believe that the domino effect of living your purpose means others will be inspired to do so too. We empower the lighthouses who are here to illuminate their communities.
Our Community
Dharma Coaching Institute is one of the most diverse schools out there, with over 50% being people of color and a 40% international student body, as well as all three founders being people of color. Our community consists of unique, multifaceted, and heart-centered individuals across all races, gender orientation, age, ability and backgrounds.
Many of us have felt like the black sheep of our families because we’ve always asked deeper questions than most. Here, you are not alone. Our DCI community is tight-knit and many of our students have created shared businesses, podcasts, retreats and, of course, formed lifelong friendships.
The Dharma Movement: Our Backstory
How a Radical Idea Became a Colossal Movement, Creating the First Ever Dharma (Soul Purpose) Coaching Institute
Student Success Stories
“Since DCI, I have become the teaching assistant to one of the top spiritual teachers in the industry, featured as a guest on their podcast and many other wellness + spirituality podcasts, contributed as a featured teacher on a global wellness platform, launched my own podcast, and have built a coaching business that allows me to deliver 1:1 coaching, group program offerings and workshops online and in person. I have run virtual retreats and collaborated with practitioners from all over the world, including many DCI graduates!”
Lena Moxon
“Since graduating I’ve had 6 PAID clients, led monthly women’s circles related to self love, met my dream business partner and created a community with over 1,000 followers, secured 10+ PAID workshops for corporate companies, built and launched my website, and grew my email list to 400 people - all while working a full-time job.”
Kai Simmonds
“I left my corporate job in HR mid-December, and it feels so good to finally follow my highest path and commit to my coaching and healing practice full-time. Since committing fully to this work, I have currently one client in a 2 month program and have had about 10 clients for one-off coaching, as well as clients for energy healing.”
Christin Freeman
Our Vision
After the Great Resignation of 2020, more people than ever have left their jobs seeking a career path more in alignment with who they are. But the problem faced is that no one is guiding the way. This is where Soul Purpose + Spiritual Life Coaches come in.
Dharma Coaching Institute is the only school in the world that specifically trains Soul Purpose Coaches + Spiritual Life Coaches to help people first understand who they are and how that can translate into their career.
We train our coaches to help them understand where their client is on their purpose journey, then guide them with powerful tools to help them take the next step towards creating an aligned reality.
Our coaches not only work with clients one-on-one, but also host retreats, corporate wellness events, group coaching programs, online courses and beyond.
We see ourselves as the leading Spiritual Life Coaching institute that shows a new paradigm of leadership – one that is connected to the heart, intuition and soul purpose.
We believe in a world where:
- each person is honored for their unique gifts
- the days that we were stuck at a desk repeating the same day over-and-over again become a distant memory
- we support each other in embodying our passions
- we raise our children to follow their curiosities and find solutions to the world’s problems
- we live our lives as a reflection of the beautiful tapestry within our souls
- each person is completely in alignment with their sacred mission on this planet
We are here to empower our coaches to create the solutions for the world’s problems through the path of joy, service and depth.
Our Vision
Our Vision
After the Great Resignation of 2020, more people than ever have left their jobs seeking a career path more in alignment with who they are. But the problem faced is that no one is guiding the way. This is where Soul Purpose + Spiritual Life Coaches come in.
Dharma Coaching Institute is the only school in the world that specifically trains Soul Purpose Coaches + Spiritual Life Coaches to help people first understand who they are and how that can translate into their career.
We train our coaches to help them understand where their client is on their purpose journey, then guide them with powerful tools to help them take the next step towards creating an aligned reality.
Our coaches not only work with clients one-on-one, but also host retreats, corporate wellness events, group coaching programs, online courses and beyond.
We see ourselves as the leading Spiritual Life Coaching institute that shows a new paradigm of leadership – one that is connected to the heart, intuition and soul purpose.
We believe in a world where:
- each person is honored for their unique gifts
- the days that we were stuck at a desk repeating the same day over-and-over again become a distant memory
- we support each other in embodying our passions
- we raise our children to follow their curiosities and find solutions to the world’s problems
- we live our lives as a reflection of the beautiful tapestry within our souls
- each person is completely in alignment with their sacred mission on this planet
We are here to empower our coaches to create the solutions for the world’s problems through the path of joy, service and depth.
Our Method
With 30+ years of collective experience, DCI brings together the best of spirituality, soul, and strategy. We are recognized by the International Coaching Federation, which is the gold standard for coaching. Our coaches receive a quality education that effectively trains them to bring this work out into the world.
Our premier program is a 6-month intensive packed with actionable and interactive weekly lessons, live Q+A and practice calls, and experiential coaching where students practice their skills in real-time. DCI combines the Eastern and Western traditions of:
Ayurveda
Chakras + Koshas
Soul Purpose (Dharma) + Spiritual Life Coaching
Human Design
Somatics + Embodiment
Feminine + Masculine Integration
Meditation + Visualization
Human Psychology + Cross-Cultural Understanding
Higher Brain Thinking
Emotional Management
Marketing + Coaching Tools
We specifically train Soul Purpose + Spiritual Life Coaches in how to help people understand who they are and how they can translate that into their career.
We help them find their inner magic, tune in, and use it – and teach them how to do the same for their clients, moving them toward creating an aligned reality.
Lastly, this is all paired with structured and grounded business tools and techniques, coaching methods, and results-oriented frameworks so you can build a successful, abundant coaching business from the ground up even if you’re new to entrepreneurship.
If you’re ready to begin your journey as a world-class Soul Purpose and Spiritual Life Coach,
Our Founders
Sahara Rose
Sahara Rose has been called “a leading voice of the millennial generation into the new paradigm” by Deepak Chopra, who wrote the foreword of her three books. She is the best-selling author of Discover Your Dharma: A Vedic Guide to Finding Your Purpose, which Dharma Coaching Institute is originally based on, Eat Feel Fresh, and The Idiot’s Guide to Ayurveda, as well as A Yogic Path Deck + Journal.
She is the host of the Highest Self Podcast, the #1 spirituality podcast on iTunes with over 30 million downloads and 7,000+ 5-star reviews. She is known for her powerful yet compassionate voice and ability to channel universal wisdom to the masses in an approachable way. She is also the founder of Rose Gold Goddesses, a sacred feminine mystery school.
A world-renowned expert in Dharma, Ayurveda, and spirituality, Sahara has devoted the last decade of her life and over 20,000 hours of tireless writing, speaking, and teaching to raise the vibration of the planet. She has empowered millions to discover their dharma so they can create conscious abundance, joy, freedom, and purpose in their lives and collectively raise the vibration of the planet.
Sahara has been featured on world-renowned media channels including the cover of Yoga Journal and within Forbes, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and NBC. As a top-ranked speaker, she’s graced the stages of Google, Facebook, and major conferences. Sahara believes in making the spiritual journey fun and relatable, and she brings her humor, wisdom, and joy to Dharma Coaching Institute.
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a world-renowned emotional health educator, award-winning author, & host of her top-rated podcast The Brave Table. Known as the queen of reinvention, and foremost speaker on grit & resilience, she has shared her thought leadership on international stages (including the Women’s Economic Forum in India, Google HQ, Leadercast Women, & Mindvalley) and in multiple best-selling books including her newest 3x award-winning book, That Sucked Now What? How to embrace the joy in chaos & find magic in the mess. Neeta has been featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC, ABC, CBS, Chicago Today, Women’s Business Magazine, LaWeekly, Grazia, Verve, Tatler Magazine and more.
Dr. Neeta sold her large million-dollar cosmetic dentistry practice, to help others find magic in their mess. As part of her own journey to becoming a leader in her field and a voice for women & women of color, she traveled across 45 countries researching human behavior, ancient eastern philosophy and therapeutic psychology. She pooled that learning along with other life experiences overcoming multiple adversities, which include being orphaned at nineteen, surviving an abusive marriage, and extensive loss, contributed to the powerful message of resilience & grit to have found several institutes, including the Global GRIT Institute, a wellness education platform for optimizing emotional wellbeing for entrepreneurs, and Co-Founder of Dharma Coaching Institute, an organization helping to train thousands to be the highest versions of themselves. Dr. Neeta lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children.
Ajit Nawalkha
Ajit Nawalkha is the co-founder of Evercoach by Mindvalley, the world’s leading coach training platform that has impacted over 150,000+ coaches and leaders (and counting).
Ajit is the best-selling co-author of go-to coach’s manuals — The Book of Coaching and The Business Book of Coaching. He is also the most positively reviewed coach trainer in the world with over 12,000+ glowing reviews for his coach training programs.
As a highly sought-after business coach with over 10 years of hands-on experience, Ajit works with some of the greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs on the planet, including Fortune 100 companies.
He is a master leadership, management, mindset, product, team and marketing coach and he’s successfully taken companies from the start-up stage all the way to the $75 million mark in revenue.
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