Become a Spiritual Life Coach
Awakened Academy's original Spiritual Life Coach Certification. Learn to harness your experiences and emotional intelligence to support and guide others through their spiritual transitions, and create a prosperous career doing what you love.
- 100% online & self-paced
- 650+ certified coaches in 25+ countries
- Original certification training since 2012
- 650+Certified coaches
- 25+Countries
- 125,000+5-star reviews on Insight Timer
- Since 2012Original certification training
What Is Spiritual Life Coach Certification?
Spiritual life coach certification is a structured training that qualifies you to guide others through spiritual transitions: purpose discovery, life direction, inner work, and building a coaching practice that reflects your values.
It differs from general life coaching in focus. Where traditional coaching tends to target goals and performance, spiritual life coaching works with a person's relationship to meaning, calling, and the deeper questions that drive how they live and work.
Awakened Academy's certification trains you across seven dimensions of this work: your inner foundation, the coaching craft, your dharma, creative expression, wealth, business systems, and client enrollment. Everything needed to become a practising coach, not just a certificate holder.
How To Become A Certified Spiritual Life Coach
- 1Book a discovery call
Talk with us. We'll walk through your situation, what you're called to, and whether Awakened Academy is the right fit. No pressure.
- 2Enrol and begin the 7-pillar curriculum
Start with Pillar I at your own pace. The curriculum is 100% self-paced, 3 to 18 months depending on how fast you move.
- 3Complete, get certified, start coaching
Finish the program, receive your certification, and start taking clients.
What You'll Learn in This Spiritual Life Coach Certification
Tap into your unique gifts
Discover the deep spiritual gifts you carry, then use them to coach others. Once you share what you uniquely have to offer, you can be a highly-regarded coach doing what you love and being paid well for it.
1-on-1 access to the Founder
Every certification student receives direct 1-on-1 access to Michael Mackintosh, founder of Awakened Academy, as part of the program, not just group calls. This level of founder involvement has become rare in modern coaching education.
Join a new generation of awakened leaders
Step into your greatness alongside a cohort of spiritual coaches, teachers and guides who are choosing meaningful work over the conventional path.
Real loving connection and deep support
A community where lifetime friendships are made, professional alliances are formed, and everyone feels part of a greater whole.
Genuine confidence working with clients
Our confidence-creator method gives you a self-honor that runs deep, so you coach your clients from a place of rooted steadiness instead of performance.
Be spiritual and wealthy
Spiritual people deserve the money they need to do their work without stress or worry. Join a growing circle of spiritually-grounded business leaders changing the world for the better.
Coach others while transforming yourself
Heal your own internal and external life challenges as you train, so by the time you start coaching you've already walked the path you're guiding others through.
Co-founded by Arielle Hecht
Co-founder Arielle Hecht, Higher Self mentor, meditation teacher, and author of 3 Seconds to Being Your Higher Self, shapes the certification's experiential, sacred, and genuinely fun teaching style.
Be on the leading edge
Be at the forefront of a new wave of entrepreneurs and coaches leading from a deep peace within themselves rather than hustle culture.
Reclaim your time
Designed to easily fit into busy lives. Part of the curriculum is helping you reclaim time itself so you can do more of what you love.
Live and work from anywhere
Coach clients from anywhere in the world. Build a portable, location-free practice that follows your life.
Finish what you start
Our signature system gives you the skills, structure, and accountability to bring your ideas to life, over and over again.
Learn from the pioneer
Michael Mackintosh has been teaching what's now called spiritual life coaching since 2004, before the term existed. Learn from the original source, not a derivative.
From information to transformation
Complete real-world transformation missions and gain personal experience as you learn, so the work integrates, not just informs.
Unique soul purpose framework
A holistic view that recognizes each person has a unique purpose, or dharma, that's a combination of multiple gifts. Embrace it and success becomes a natural consequence.
Course material yours to keep
Lifetime access to the training materials. Return to any module for a refresher whenever your practice needs to deepen.
Built for the long run
Integration of personal transformation, coaching framework, meditation teacher training, and business tools, combined in a way unavailable anywhere else.
What's possible at each stage
Know the core principles to help others and start making a real difference. Many students begin practicing with friends and early clients in this window.
Become an official certified spiritual life coach. Start taking paying clients with the confidence and structure of a complete methodology behind you.
Move into Advanced-level coaching. Deepen your craft, expand your modalities, and refine your unique niche.
Have your book outlined or written, and your first course built, multiple income streams alongside your one-on-one practice.
The Certification Curriculum: Seven Awakened Pillars
Most coach trainings teach a single method. We train you across the seven dimensions of a complete spiritual coaching life: the inner foundation, the craft, the business, and the dharma to do this work for the long run.
IAwakened You
Personal foundation, inner work, and the awakened lifestyle that sustains a coaching career.
IIAwakened Dharma
Discover your soul purpose, your unique why for serving the world.
IIIAwakened Coaching
The coaching craft itself: presence, transformational conversation, real client results.
IVAwakened Creator
Become a best-selling author and online course creator alongside your coaching.
VAwakened Wealth
Heal your inner relationship to money. Then build outer wealth that supports the work.
VIAwakened Business Success Systems
Packages, contracts, niche, infrastructure, the operating system of a sustainable practice.
VIIAwakened Enrollment & Sales
The spiritual approach to client attraction. A consistent stream of ideal clients.
What's possible as you progress
- You have time. Real time. Time to sit in the sun and read, or simply be.
- You're earning from your coaching, books, and courses, including while you sleep.
- Each day you do meaningful work that genuinely changes lives, and you hear it back from the people you serve.
- You receive abundance with humility and gratefulness, not anxiety.
- You wake up in health and with joyful anticipation. Every day feels like a blessing.
- Your deepest intentions manifest with surprising ease. Synchronicities and flow become ordinary.
- You have a meaningful alignment between family, profession, and spiritual growth, no compartments.
- You direct your time and energy toward your real passions, and the universe meets you there.
What graduates say
Real stories from real graduates building real lives on the work.
I left my corporate law job in Macau, bought my dream farm with a saltwater pool 10 minutes from my parents, lost 13 kg, wrote a book, found a deeply loving relationship, and started a coaching practice. Eleven changes in two and a half years. If you're serious about changing your life, this course will bring you what you need.
After 17 years as a pharmacist I mustered the courage to leave and join Awakened Academy. Three months later I'm working with 3 clients a day, feeling genuinely happy most of the time, and I finally have the freedom to enjoy life. I'm living my Dharma and it feels like a dream come true.
I'm now a successful spiritual mentor helping beautiful souls find their way back home, to their hearts. I do my sacred work full-time. I've published four online courses and guided meditations that have been played over 900,000 times. I'm the owner of my time, mentally, emotionally, financially.
Words cannot describe the shifts I've experienced and the results I've seen in my clients after completing my Spiritual Life Coaching Certification. My clients are healing at exponential rates. I'm no longer doing the work. I'm channeling, and the client solves their own problems. What gift is greater than 'physician, heal thyself'?
Going deep into my spirituality through Awakened Academy completely changed how I experience my life. I doubled my income working half the time. I started a foundation. I wrote a book. I even attracted a $100 million investor. I don't get stressed out anymore. I love my life.
My life has expanded so much since integrating these teachings. I literally wrote down what was blocking me, and within 48 hours most of the challenges sorted themselves out. A whole 6-week program flew right out of me. Curriculum, strategy, marketing. I sold the first spot the next day. Miraculous.
If you feel called, let's talk.
Book a free discovery call to see if the certification is the right next step for you. Every certification student receives 1-on-1 access to Michael as part of the program.
