Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Chopra Founder, IIN Chief
Wellness Officer
Become a Chopra Certified Coach through an NBHWC-approved program
In just 21 weeks, you’ll emerge as a best-in-class well-being authority ready to help others thrive. No prerequisites required!
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Receive 90 hours of live coach training with faculty to practice coach, ask questions, and hone your craft
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Learn from leading coaching and wellness experts including Dr. Deepak Chopra
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Graduate with a Chopra certification, globally recognized as the gold standard in well-being training
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Meet the NBHWC requirements to sit for the national board certification exam
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Enjoy lifetime access to all e-learning course materials including a comprehensive coaching manual
Start date: January 2025
Duration: 21 weeks
Time investment/week: 8-10 hours
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Here's what graduates are saying:
This program made it possible for me to set up a whole new career path for myself doing exactly what I want to do – helping other people to realize their greatest potential. It empowered me to see myself as a divine light of being and to help others by seeing them as divine, amazing beings.
JAIME
Your life will change. You will make changes to your health. Be more conscious about how you’re living. Become more present. You gain patience. You evolve. And then you help others evolve, too.
ADRIANA
This was deeper than any program I’ve done before. It changed me. It explained a whole lot about who I am. The purpose statement I created in the program is now my north star. It keeps bringing me back to where I’m supposed to be.
ADAM
This is a kind, loving, space. The people I met through it are amazing. If I wanted to, I could reach out to someone if I were in their area. If I needed a new client they would help me find one. Because of these connections, I don’t have to figure it all out alone.
MING
Our Gold-Standard Coaching
Your comprehensive guide to mind-body health
Our curriculum combines NBHWC guidelines, which are the highest standards in the industry, with principles deeply rooted in ancient Vedic wisdom and modern Coaching science to create a unique Coaching model: The Chopra Coaching Cornerstones.
By immersing yourself in these teachings, you’ll act as a total mind-body-spirit guide for clients and transform lives.
Represented in this graphic are the fundamentals skills, tools, and capacities of Coaching. These are nested within each other for a reason—each skill or capacity builds on the next:
Meditation is the container that holds it all. This is what leads to the self-awareness that makes transformation possible.
Meditation, Nutrition, Movement, Emotions, Self-care, and Sleep provide the framing around the coaching model, and are all pivotal ingredients to health and wellness.
Coaching skills are next: Presence, Relationships, Questions, and Reflections. These are the strengths you will develop to help you guide others toward transformation.
At the core of it all are...
The 4 Cornerstones, which are unique to the Chopra Coaching Model. These are unique exercises you can add to your toolkit to help your clients get to the core of their being. They’re essential tools to help facilitate change and align with dharma.
Purpose
Who am I? What is my purpose?
Discovering who we are at our core is essential to moving forward. This cornerstone helps your clients clarify the archetype and legacy, leaving them with a meaningful purpose statement to guide their choices like the north star.
Meaning
How are my beliefs limiting my potential?
Our perspective shapes our reality. The Meaning cornerstone helps clients identify and shift their conditioned, limiting beliefs so they can view life through and more expanded and optimistic lens.
Intention
What do I want? What am I grateful for?
Integrating goals is key to enabling change and transformation. This cornerstone helps your clients clarify their well-being vision—and commit to achieving it through specific, consistent actions.
Shadow
How can I fully accept all aspects of myself right now?
Everyone has aspects of themselves they don’t like. The Shadow cornerstone helps clients recognize and clear their own subconscious judgments, painful emotions, and internal blocks.
Approved by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC)
A Session-by-Session Overview
The Chopra Life and Health Coaching Program is a blended online program that weaves together the Chopra pillars of health, meditation, coaching methodologies, and fundamentals, and the science behind them.
Part 1: Chopra Foundations – Your building blocks for success
Week 1 | Becoming a Chopra Life and Health Coach
- Connect with your fellow Chopra Coaches.
- Learn the basics of coaching and walk through the Chopra Coaching Model.
Week 2 | Meditation Foundations
- Understand our mental, physical, and spiritual health on a more individualized level through Ayurveda.
- Learn how the five elements combine to create the three doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.
- Discover your dosha and how to bring health and well-being into your life through the five senses.
Week 3 | Health Foundations
- Understand our mental, physical, and spiritual health on a more individualized level through Ayurveda.
- Learn how the five elements combine to create the three doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.
- Discover your dosha and how to bring health and well-being into your life through the five senses.
Part 2: Chopra Fundamentals – 3 sessions released weekly
Week 4 | Coaching Presence & Relationship
- Connect with your fellow Chopra Coaches.
- Learn the basics of coaching and walk through the Chopra Coaching Model.
Week 5 | Listening
- Learn the foundational skill of any coaching relationship: listening.
- Practice cultivating mindful listening skills with your peers to take your clients deeper into awareness, moving them forward into action.
Week 6 | Questioning & Soul Reflections
- Learn the art of "Coaching Reflection" to let someone feel seen and heard.
- Put everything you've learned together and offer a coaching session to one of your certification peers.
- Learn to introduce yourself into the coaching conversation, with thoughtful questions and reflections.
Part 3: Coaching Cornerstones - 12 sessions released weekly
Week 7 | Purpose – Experience
- Experience being coached through the Purpose cornerstone.
- Learn how to help your clients clarify their archetype and legacy—leaving them with a meaningful purpose statement.
Week 8 | Purpose – Structured
- Learn how to guide your clients through the same coaching experience you worked through last week.
Week 9 | Purpose – Improv
- Take the key concepts from the structured experience and learn how to blend them into a more nuanced and organic conversation with your client.
Week 10 | Intention – Experience
- Experience being coached through the Intention cornerstone. Integrating goals is key to enabling change and transformation.
- Learn how to help your client clarify their well-being vision—and commit to achieving it through specific, consistent actions.
Week 11 | Intention – Structured
- Learn how to guide your clients through the same coaching experience you worked through last week.
Week 12 | Intention – Improv
- Take the key concepts from the structured experience and learn to blend them into a more nuanced and organic conversation with your client.
Week 13 | Meaning – Experience
- Experience being coached through the Meaning cornerstone.
- Help clients identify and shift their conditioned, limiting beliefs so they can view life through a more expanded and optimistic lens.
Week 14 | Meaning – Structured
- Learn how to guide your clients through the same coaching experience you worked through last week.
Week 15 | Meaning – Improv
- Take the key concepts from the structured experience and learn how to blend them into a more nuanced and organic conversation with your client.
Week 16 | Shadow – Experience
- Experience being coached through this cornerstone.
- Help clients recognize and clear their own subconscious judgments, painful emotions, and internal blocks.
Week 17 | Shadow – Structured
- Learn how to guide your clients through the same coaching experience you worked through last week.
Week 18 | Shadow - Improv
- Take the key concepts from the structured experience and learn how to blend them into a more nuanced and organic conversation with your client.
- Learn the next steps for your coaching career.
Part 4: Chopra Pillars of Health - 3 sessions released weekly
Week 19 | Identify and prevent disease
- Learn to apply foundational coaching skills to conversations about health and well-being.
- Uncover some of the biggest warning signs of poor health and disease.
Week 20 | The 6 Pillars of Chopra Health, Part 1
- Learn how to help your clients achieve their lifestyle goals and move toward a healthier and more sustainable future through the first three pillars: Nutrition, movement, sleep.
Week 21 | The 6 Pillars of Chopra Health, Part 2
- Continue learning how to help your clients achieve their lifestyle goals and move toward a healthier and more sustainable future through the last three pillars: Meditation, emotions, and self-care.
How will I be supported?
When you register you will receive immediate lifetime access to everything you need to take full advantage of this online training:
Weekly live Q&A webinars with Chopra Educators so you can ask questions and learn from your peers.
3 Practical Skills assessments with direct feedback on your Coaching from program faculty
Interactive peer cohort groups to help you share your learnings.
Practice coaching sessions to give you real experience and feedback.
Interactive participant group sessions where you’ll discuss the content of the open sessions.
Teacher tools and resources so you can graduate with everything you need to succeed.
Closed Facebook Group just for your cohort to get to know each other
Monthly online group meditations to connect with peers and educators around the world in the stillness of meditation.
You’ll receive lifetime access to all modules, sessions, recordings, and resources.
Becoming a Certified Chopra Coach Is More Than Earning A Credential
The personal changes you will make during the training will allow you to embody the traits of a skilled, confident Mind-Body-Spirit Coach
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Chopra Mind-Body-Spirit Coaching
Program Details: 21 weeks
Build your professional confidence by learning to artfully deliver the four cornerstones through practice client coaching. Gain expert guidance from mentor coaches with videos, live calls, and community interaction, and learn how to start or grow your business and turn your skills and passion into income.
Upon purchase you’ll receive lifetime access to:
- 21 interactive sessions with world-renowned health and wellness experts
- Our Health and Meditation Foundations courses
- Downloadable manual of all course content
- A bonus package valued at over $2,500 including our Business Kickstarter Course
- Weekly live Q&A webinars, office hours, peer cohort groups, and interactive group sessions
- Practice teaching sessions, live Practical Skills assessments, and teacher tools and resources
- Monthly online group meditations
Learn from the best: Meet the teachers
Chopra Life and Health Coaching Certification Program is led by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Chopra Educators.
Dr. Sheila Patel, M.D.
Medical Advisor
Chopra Global
Pete Kirchmer
Director of Chopra Coaching
Roger Gabriel
Lead Meditation Educator
Chopra Global
Mary McEvilly Hernandez
ICF-PCC, NBC-HWC
Lead Coach Mentor
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Frequently asked questions
What can I do with this certification?
Chopra Coaches work in a variety of sectors and professions – they are active corporate wellness, education, across health care settings, start their own businesses as professional coaches, write books, lead retreats, and open wellness centers, to name a few.
What is the difference between this certification and IIN's HCTP?
Chopra Coaching is a life and health coach training rooted in the consciousness-based philosophies of Deepak Chopra with an emphasis on the Chopra Coaching Cornerstones of Purpose, Intention, Meaning and Shadow. IIN’s flagship program, HCTP, provides more than 95 faculty in over 75 different health and wellness topics, exposing students to many different aspects of health, wellness, and nutrition.
What does it mean to be a National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) accredited program?
Starting May 2023, the Chopra Coaching Certification Program is a National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) accredited and approved program. All NBHWC Approved Programs minimally meet the required standards in the areas of instructional hours, practical skill development and assessment, and faculty qualifications in the instruction of the competencies related to the practice of health and wellness coaching. Graduates from the May 2023 Chopra Coaching Certification Program qualify to pursue and apply for the NBHWC National Board Certification Examination and have the opportunity to earn the designation, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). Graduating from the Chopra Coaching Program does not include the NBC-HWC designation; you must complete the NBHWC requirements, application steps, and sit for the certifying exam to achieve this designation.
What if I can’t attend the scheduled webinars live? Are they recorded?
Yes all webinars are recorded and added to your learning platform following the session. Note, watching recorded webinars does NOT count towards accumulating the synchronous hours required to apply to sit for the NBHWC National Board Certification Examination.
Can I become a certified Chopra Coach but not follow the requirements of the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching?
Yes! NBHWC requires that you attend most webinars live. Watching recordings does not count. For your Chopra certification, you may watch recordings of sessions and do not need to attend live.
How can I pay tuition? Do I have payment plan options?
You may pay your tuition in full or select from monthly payment plan options, personalized to you.
