Life Guidance

Where practical strategy meets the wisdom traditions. 200+ clients since 2016.

One-to-one guidance that applies India's wisdom traditions — the Gītā, the Upaniṣads, the epics — to the actual conditions of a life: work, relationships, vocation, inner life. Clients usually arrive with something specific: a decision, a transition, a pattern that keeps repeating. The work is to see it clearly and find the way through.

What Changes

Clarity about what matters and what to do next. Steadier relationships, at work and at home. Patterns recognised and set down rather than repeated. Teachings that have been admired from a distance put into practice. Work organised around purpose rather than pressure.

Background

Chaplaincy: Chaplain of Indian Spirituality at McMaster University's Spiritual Care and Learning Centre from 2022 to 2026. Four years of one-to-one spiritual care in a university setting — the discipline of sitting with another person's difficulty without flinching and without imposing. It is what separates this work from coaching, and I have presented on it to the North American Hindu Chaplains Association (Tufts University, 2022).
Spiritual training: twenty-plus years of daily practice, multiple initiations, and traditional training in the Indian wisdom traditions.
Academic training: B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion — worldviews, belief systems, the human condition; and a career spent teaching them.
Professional training: certification from the International Coaching Federation.

What Clients Say

"Meeting Dr. Raj has changed my life. It has been remarkable to witness old detrimental habits fall away one after another under his guidance. I've come to have genuine spiritual experiences regularly, and I've never felt more focused professionally or more aligned personally." — Stephen, Film Professional, Los Angeles

"Raj is an intelligent and personable coach and teacher, a very effective communicator with highly developed intuitive and empathic abilities." — Bill

Rates

Sessions are 60 minutes, online, scheduled weekly (or biweekly and ad hoc as needed). All rates in USD.

Single session — $297. Book
4-session pack — $997 ($249 per session). Book
10-session pack — $1,997 ($199 per session). Book
16-session pack — $2,997 ($187 per session). Book

Start with a Conversation

Who would you be without your current issue? Let's find out. The first step is a free discovery call — no obligation, no pitch. Book a free discovery call.

 
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