Certified Holistic Life Coach · Los Angeles, CA
Holistic Life Coach training in Los Angeles.
Writers, producers, and post-production people between projects make up a lot of who walks into Holistic Life Coach training here. The competency-based curriculum (contracting, deep listening, powerful questions) suits a city where careers stall and restart constantly and clients want a structured way to think through what comes next.

Los Angeles cohort at a glance
- Tuition
- $6,500
- Format
- 100% in person
- In-person teaching
- 18 days · 144h
- Personal study
- ~115h
- Cohort size
- 10 students
- Credential
- CHLC
Same tuition in every city
In Los Angeles, CA
8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days
Between sessions, on average
Fixed cohort, start to finish
Private certification, not a state license
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Oct 1, 2027 – Mar 5, 2028
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 18 teaching days in 6 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Oct 1–3
- Module 2Nov 5–7
- Module 3Dec 3–5
- Module 4Jan 7–9
- Module 5Feb 4–6
- Module 6Mar 3–5
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Los Angeles venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
September 10, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Holistic Life Coach in Los Angeles?
Coaching clients here cluster around the entertainment and tech workforce — people navigating contract gaps, reinvention, and the money anxiety that comes with both. You can run sessions on video or from a rented Venice or Silver Lake room. Honest caveat: coaching is unregulated and crowded in LA, so what sells your practice is a defined niche, not the certificate itself. The training gives you the craft; positioning is on you.
If New York is where modalities are exported, Los Angeles is where many of them were first imported. The city's relationship with holistic practice goes back decades: Esalen is up the coast, the human-potential movement passed through here, and today LA holds the largest concentration of yoga teachers, energy practitioners, and somatic facilitators on the West Coast. Our Los Angeles students tend to be entertainment-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and parents — people whose sense of timing is intimate with the rhythms of attention and recovery.
For students of Holistic Life Coach specifically, Los Angeles's scene is a particularly good match: highest concentration of holistic professionals on the west coast. strong appetite for movement and somatic work. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Venice, Silver Lake, Pasadena, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
LA applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds in entertainment (writers, producers, post-production professionals), tech, healthcare, or hospitality. Many already hold a yoga teacher certification (RYT-200 or higher) and want a complementary credential to broaden their offering and stabilize their income through varied modalities. Others are healthcare workers (nurses, OTs, physical therapists) seeking a non-clinical sister practice. The LA student tends to be process-oriented, embodied, and unusually willing to do the slow somatic work that distinguishes our program.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Holistic Life Coach as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Life coaching is a goal-directed professional partnership in which the coach supports a client in clarifying what they want, identifying what is in the way, and taking specific actions toward what they want to create. The work is forward-focused (rather than dwelling in the past), client-centered (the coach asks more than they tell), and structured (clean contracts, defined arcs, measurable outcomes). It is non-clinical: clinical mental-health work belongs to licensed professionals.
What distinguishes a "holistic" coach from a purely cognitive coach is the willingness to work with the whole person — body, energy, emotion, and reflection — rather than only the conceptual mind. A holistic coach may begin a session with a brief somatic check-in, may use breath or simple movement to support a client through a stuck place, may use reflective writing or imagery as part of the coaching arc. The work is still coaching (forward-focused, goal-directed, client-centered) but the toolkit is broader than talk alone.
The Holistic Life Coach curriculum in Los Angeles: 18 in-person days.
Eighteen days from your first question to a coaching practice with your name on it.
- Teaching days
- 18
- Teaching hours
- 144h
- Cohort size
- 10
days, 7h each
in the room
in your Los Angeles cohort
| Day | Theme |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 · Days 1–4Presence | |
| 01 | What coaching is, and what it asks of you |
| 02 | The coaching mindset and the art of presence |
| 03 | Deep listening and reflecting back |
| 04 | Powerful questions that spark awareness |
| Chapter 2 · Days 5–8The session | |
| 05 | The coaching agreement and the discovery call |
| 06 | Trust, safety and the client's values |
| 07 | From insight to action |
| 08 | The complete session and the GROW model |
| Chapter 3 · Days 9–13The whole person | |
| 09 | The whole person, every dimension of a life |
| 10 | The body in the session: awareness and breath |
| 11 | Emotions, stress and sensitive moments |
| 12 | Reflective and creative tools |
| 13 | Life transitions and career change |
| Chapter 4 · Days 14–18Your practice | |
| 14 | Your niche and the clients you serve |
| 15 | Launching your coaching business |
| 16 | Ethics, legal scope and professional growth |
| 17 | Real sessions with volunteer clients |
| 18 | Final assessment and certification |
Signature moment of the program
When Holistic Life Coach cohorts run in Los Angeles.
LA cohorts run on a tri-annual cadence (January, May, September), with year-round consistency thanks to the climate. The summer cohort tends to attract more entertainment-industry professionals between projects; the September cohort attracts more career-changers timing their pivot to a fall start. Every in-person session is a full day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; there are no evening classes.
Who this Los Angeles cohort is for.
Career-changers and wellness practitioners who want a serious, competency-based coaching foundation that complements other holistic skills.
Where your Los Angeles training leads.
- Open a private holistic coaching practice (CHLC)
- Specialize in career, transition, wellness, or relationship coaching
- Combine coaching with NLP, hypnosis, breathwork, or energy work
- Map your next step toward a professional coaching credential, if you want one
$6,500 for the full 18-day Holistic Life Coach program in Los Angeles.
Same tuition whether you study in Los Angeles or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Los Angeles cohort.
Tuition and financing details$6,500
144h of teaching · 18 in-person days
Holistic Life Coach: questions students ask first.
- How to Become a Life Coach in the U.S.: 7 Steps, Costs and TimelinesHow to become a life coach in 7 steps with the cost and time of each: niche, training ($400 to $16,000), practice hours, credential, business, first clients.8 min read
- How to Start a Life Coaching Business: Structure, Pricing, ContractsHow to start a life coaching business in 8 steps: entity, $600 to $2,500 startup costs, the 7 agreement clauses, packages vs hourly, discovery calls.10 min read
- Life Coach License: Do You Need One, and What the Term Really MeansNo U.S. state licenses life coaches. What 'life coach license' really means (business license, certificate, ICF credential), the 3 lines a coach cannot cross.9 min read
Holistic Life Coach certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Holistic Life Coach in Los Angeles.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Holistic Life Coach cohort starting in Los Angeles, CA. Free, online, one hour.