About Raja

Raja is an ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual coach, entrepreneur, and former Silicon Valley software engineer. He bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern life, offering practical tools to help people overcome their challenges and thrive in today’s world.

After earning a degree in Economics, Raja’s personal struggles led him to a Buddhist college. Though he left after a year to pursue a more diverse spiritual path, it marked the beginning of a lifelong journey. He soon became an ordained Buddhist monk and, after eight years of intensive practice and training, began teaching and mentoring others on their path. Raja has since continued his studies with respected spiritual teachers from India, Japan, Bhutan, and the U.S.

His mission is to guide others through meaningful inner transformation - to help them discover deeper joy, happiness and purpose in their lives. His approach combines timeless spiritual practices with evidence-based self-development tools.

Raja has helped thousands of spiritual finders across the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. His close students have reported profound changes in their lives - finding lasting happiness, inner peace, freedom from addictions, and renewed purpose. Many described a deeper sense of love, beauty, and success in all aspects of their lives.

1. Raja's Mindset Coaching Method's Fundamentals

He teaches the spiritual fundamentals of mind training from the beginning to everyone. This includes Meditation and Mindfulness in the beginning and introduces his students to the Way of Compassion as they grow. He also helps his students understand and develop focus and discipline.

Goal: to develop a strong Spiritual foundation that you can build a strong practice on.

2. Inner Practices

In parallel with learning the fundamentals of introspection and mind training, Raja teaches and coaches his students to establish a consistent spiritual practice.

Goal: to build a strong spiritual practice.

3. Personal Transformation Coaching

Through spiritual exercises he guides his students through an inner journey to identify and transform the places where they get stuck. Limiting thoughts and emotions bring us a lot of suffering, and through this process one can identify them and release them and find more happiness in their life.

Goal: to identify the weeds in our minds and pull them out by their roots.

4. Healing Support

Once in a while, we may get stuck and are unable to move forward. Or hit a plateau. This is pretty normal, it happens to everyone. When someone gets stuck then Raja reaches for different healing modalities and techniques to help his students heal and move forward in their inner work.

Goal: to remove long-standing blockages and get students unstuck.

Thanks to the beautiful transformations his students went through, he decided to open up his coaching program to a wider audience.

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Raja's Story

I. Finding Spirituality

Raja has found spirit and deeper meaning in life at age 10 when he started judo. He continued his discovery at a young age through judo and kung fu. In college he picked up Japanese language and tai chi to further his understanding of Bushido (The Way of the Samurai) and the Tao. At age 21, he got a wake up call in the form of his life falling apart, which led him to enroll in Buddhist College, where he discovered deeper meaning in the form of the Tao, and different ancient scripts from ancient India, like the Upanishads and the Yoga Sutra.

As a result of this wake up call, he also studied psychology, astrology, psychodrama for years and more..., which eventually led him to learn about Meditation and Spiritual Awakening. As he likes to say: at around age 23, after reading hundreds of books on Eastern philosophy and spirituality he discovered that it sounded to him that "Enlightenment is the thing". Since then, he dedicated his life to learning, practicing and teaching meditation, mindfulness and compassion.

II. Finding Coaching

In his high school junior year, a few senior students walked up to Raja and asked him to coach the high school soccer team. This was the first time he was able to be in a coaching role without any prior experience. He enjoyed helping others improve and putting his strategic mind to work. This led him to receiving a Soccer Coaching degree from College and pursuing it as a side hobby for a few years, coaching kids as well as adults for about 7 years.

III. Spiritual Maturation

At around age 23 he decided to get serious about meditation and started a daily meditation practice by himself. This lasted for a year that lead him realizing that a meditation teacher or mentor who can guide him through the difficulties would help a lot. Soon after he started studying with different spiritual teachers from India, Japan, Tibet, Bhutan and the US. At age 25 he established his daily chakra meditation practice and having been meditating since then. He also explored different energy healing modalities over the years which he made part of his practice to help his students get unstuck as needed.

IV. Pieces Coming Together!

As a result of his spiritual experience and coaching ability, more and more people started coming to him for advice. In 2010, he naturally started mentoring spiritual seekers to further their meditation and mindfulness practice and spiritual progress. This lead to the inevitable in 2017 when he established his spiritual teachings in San Francisco and Oakland. His classes shifted online during COVID and he has been teaching online since then.

In 2024, this led him to establish his own curriculum and open his spiritual coaching program. You are seeing the result of that :)

Raja has been teaching, mentoring and coaching spiritual finders since 2010 with great results.