Find Clarity, Restore Your Peace of Mind, and Live With Purpose With Expert Life Coaching in NYC
Transform feeling stuck, burnt out, or disconnected into clarity, direction, and a life aligned with your deepest values. Guided by a Buddhist monk and NYU Certified Life Coach.
"A 1-hour call gave me the clarity I needed after weeks of struggling." – Maya
Soken Graf
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CERTIFIED LIFE COACH
Over 20 years of study under Buddhist masters, with deep training in mindfulness, meditation, and contemplative practice.
Soken Graf
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CERTIFIED LIFE COACH
Over 20 years of study under Buddhist masters, with deep training in mindfulness, meditation, and contemplative practice.
You Can't Live With Purpose When You've Lost Sight of What Matters
You’ve achieved a lot on paper, but something still feels off. Whether it’s burnout, a major life transition, or a quiet sense of disconnection, you deserve more than going through the motions.
Maybe you’ve noticed:
- A persistent feeling of being stuck — successful by external measures, but unfulfilled beneath the surface
- Burnout and overwhelm from pushing harder without knowing what you’re actually pushing toward
- Difficulty making important decisions because you’ve lost touch with your own values
- Stress and anxiety that spill into your health, relationships, and work performance
- A sense that you’re a bystander in your own life, reacting to circumstances rather than directing them
Self-help books offer inspiration without accountability. Therapy helps you understand the past but doesn’t always build a path forward. Friends mean well, but they can’t offer the structured guidance you need. What’s missing is a clear framework for discovering who you are and aligning your daily life with that truth.
How Life Coaching Creates Lasting Change
Most people who feel stuck don’t lack ambition or intelligence. They lack clarity. They’ve built a life around expectations, obligations, and momentum rather than around their own values and purpose. The result is a growing gap between who they are and how they’re living.
Life coaching at Bodhi Heart addresses that gap directly. Rather than dwelling on what’s wrong, sessions are forward-looking, creative, and energizing. The work begins with uncovering your core values: the non-negotiable principles that define who you are at your best. From there, we develop your sense of purpose: a clear, personal direction that serves as your centre for navigating decisions, relationships, and daily life.
This isn’t abstract self-reflection. Through guided exercises, mindfulness practices, and structured accountability, you’ll build a concrete roadmap for change. Limiting beliefs that have kept you playing small are identified and dismantled. New habits and practices are established to support the life you’re building. And because this work is grounded in over 20 years of contemplative wisdom, not just conventional coaching frameworks, the shifts tend to go deeper and last longer. Clients frequently describe leaving sessions feeling energized and clear rather than drained or confused.
Bodhi Heart: Expert Life Coaching Grounded in Wisdom and Compassion
For over a decade, Bodhi Heart has helped hundreds of people from all walks of life restore their peace of mind and rediscover their sense of purpose. Unlike conventional coaching that relies on goal-setting templates and motivational techniques, our approach is rooted in genuine contemplative wisdom, delivering results that go far beyond surface-level change.
Led by Soken Graf, a Buddhist monk and NYU Certified Life Coach, Bodhi Heart bridges the depth of spiritual tradition with the practical, action-oriented results that busy professionals need. With more than 20 years of study under Buddhist masters and some of the world’s leading healers, Soken brings a rare combination of insight, compassion, and structure to every session.
Our clients include engineers, lawyers, executives, creatives, writers, and entrepreneurs — people with material success who recognize that achievement alone doesn’t equal fulfilment. Whether you’re navigating a career crossroads, recovering from burnout, or simply ready to stop drifting and start living with intention, Bodhi Heart provides the clarity, tools, and accountability to make it happen. Sessions are available globally via Zoom, making expert coaching accessible wherever you are.
Why Choose Bodhi Heart for Life Coaching?
Wisdom-Based Coaching Expertise
Soken is a certified coach and a Buddhist monk with over two decades of contemplative training. This depth of practice brings a level of insight, presence, and understanding that conventional coaching simply cannot replicate.
Values-Driven Transformation
This isn’t motivational cheerleading or short-term goal setting. Every engagement is structured around discovering your authentic values and purpose, creating change that is deeply personal and built to last.
A Unique Blend of Mindfulness & Practicality
Sessions integrate mindfulness practices, reflective exercises, and contemplative wisdom with clear, practical accountability, supporting both inner clarity and tangible results in your daily life.
Your Journey to Clarity and Purpose
Step 1 - Submit Your Details
Complete our enquiry form with information about your situation and what you're looking to achieve. Our team will be in touch to arrange your initial consultation at a time that suits you.
Step 2 - Your Initial Consultation & Personalized Plan
In your first session, we'll explore where you are now, clarify what's holding you back, and develop a tailored coaching plan built around your values, goals, and circumstances. You'll leave with a clear sense of direction and what the path forward looks like.
Step 3 - Experience Lasting Transformation
Through your personalised programme of six 90-minute coaching sessions, guided exercises, weekly check-ins, and ongoing support, you'll gain the clarity, tools, and confidence to live in alignment with your values and carry that forward long after our work together ends.
Frequently asked questions
What is life coaching?
Life coaching is a forward-looking, action-oriented partnership designed to help you gain clarity about your values and purpose, overcome obstacles, and create meaningful change in your life. Unlike therapy, which often focuses on understanding the past, coaching is about building the future you want. It provides structure, accountability, and practical tools to get you there.
Who can benefit from life coaching?
Life coaching is for anyone who feels stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from what matters most to them. Our clients tend to be professionals, executives, creatives, and forward-thinkers who’ve achieved external success but recognize that something deeper is missing. You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit; many clients come to us simply because they’re ready for the next level of clarity and purpose in their lives.
How is Bodhi Heart's approach different from other life coaches?
Most life coaching focuses on goal setting and accountability. We do that too, but our approach goes deeper. Soken Graf is a Buddhist monk with over 20 years of contemplative training as well as a NYU Certified Life Coach. This means sessions are informed by genuine wisdom traditions like mindfulness, compassion, and reflective practice, not just conventional frameworks. Clients consistently describe the work as both grounding and energizing, with insights that stay with them long after sessions end.
Do I need to be Buddhist or spiritual to benefit?
Not at all. While Buddhist and contemplative principles inform Soken’s methodology, the coaching itself is focused on universal outcomes: understanding your values, finding your purpose, and aligning your daily life with both. Clients come from all backgrounds and belief systems. The wisdom traditions enrich the approach; they don’t define it.
How many sessions will I need?
Our core programme consists of six 90-minute sessions, supported by reflective exercises, weekly check-ins, and personalised guidance between calls. Some clients achieve significant breakthroughs in just one or two sessions, whilst others continue working with Soken beyond the initial programme. We’ll discuss the best approach for your specific situation during your consultation.
What does a typical session look like?
Sessions are 90 minutes and conducted via Zoom, so you can participate from anywhere. Each session combines reflective conversation, guided exercises, and practical planning. You’ll explore your values and purpose, work through limiting beliefs, and leave with clear action steps. Between sessions, you’ll have exercises and weekly check-ins to maintain momentum.
How is this different from therapy?
Therapy typically focuses on healing past experiences and managing mental health conditions. Life coaching is future-focused. It’s about creating the life you want rather than resolving the life you’ve had. Many of our clients work with therapists alongside coaching and find the two complement each other well. Coaching is not a substitute for mental health treatment.
Where is Bodhi Heart based?
Bodhi Heart is based in New York City at 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1206, in Greenwich Village. Life coaching sessions are conducted via Zoom, making them accessible to clients anywhere in the world. Whether you’re in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or another city entirely, you’ll receive the same personalised, high-quality coaching experience.
Ready to Restore Your Peace of Mind and Live With Purpose?
Stop drifting and start living a life aligned with your values. Book your consultation today and take the first step toward lasting clarity and fulfilment.
