I have enjoyed working with the Gita Coaching and will continue to do so. He has helped me to become more organized, focused and efficient. His coaching technique is professional and powerful. I also find him to be a sincere, strict and serious practitioner of devotional service.

Vaisesika dasa ACBSP, ISKCON NA Book Distribution Minister, CA, USA

Gita Coaching helped me chart out a plan and gave me some good tools to work with to get things moving. He jump started things and helped me keep the momentum moving. He helped me paint a clearer picture of where I could go and kept me focused on how to get there - keeping me focused on my goals, not my obstacles.

He uses the same time tested principles employed by high end coaches. The principles work if you are just willing to use them. Being accountable to a coach is big impetus to get things done timely - and sometimes just to get them done in the first place.

I recommend his services to anyone who feels they are not as productive as they should be or to those who are having difficulty realizing their goals. And if you don't know what your  goals are, Gita Coaching will help you clarify them and then get you moving towards  them.

What I found was that coaching provides accountability and objectivity. We are more likely to follow through on something if we have committed to another person. You commit to your coach each week to do certain things, things that you may not even attempt, what to speak of follow through on, if you didn't  have a coach.

The coach sees things about your situation in a different way than you do, and thus can help you see how to better reach your goals (and also help you define them in the first place). In this process, the coach will help you overcome what you think are insurmountable obstacles to your goals (or maybe you don't think they are insurmountable, but you just don't know how to deal with them).

A coach helps you clarify what you want to achieve and the best means of getting there.

I think too many of us allow our lives to be run on automatic pilot and don't take more control to change what we don't like and aim for what we know we want or need. A coach helps you clarify your priorities and help you deal with past conditioning that allows past habits to control your behavior (and keep you  down, or keep you from operating at a higher level).

I teach seminars, and no matter what the topic I find that many of us feel stuck (because of conditioning) and thus think "this is just the way I am."
In most cases it's more accurate to say, "this is the way I have allowed myself to  be."

Give it a try. Akrura helped me build momentum towards a goal I wasn't taking seriously enough, and thus wasn't moving towards as quickly as I wanted.

Mahatma das ACBSP, Alachua, Florida, USA

I do not know where I would be without my Gita Leadership Coach Akrura. He is always there guiding and helping me to make serious decisions about my spiritual life. I really feel he has my interests at heart and see me for my potential. This is greatly encouraging and empowering. I am blissed and blessed to have him as my coach!

Jai Nitai dasa RNS, Vice President, ISKCON Soho, London, UK

Every time while I am coached by Akrura I feel like the time stands still and I am able to draw upon the deepest resources and wisdom from within. As a coach he not only impresses me but impresses upon me greatness and depth of my potential, so much so that I become fully sold on benefits of pursuing my own goals and ideals after every session. Areas that I have been focusing on while being coached by Akrura have been rewarded with an immense growth, fulfilment and constantly renewed awareness that there is no end to reaching higher. What a wonderful experience. Gita Coaching vastly helped me improve in these areas:

• My speech: use words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial and not agitating to others, and often quoting the wisdom literature
• Thinking as a businessmen based on moral and religious principles
• Relating to my family and letting them know that I love them unconditionally
• The importance of discipline and goal setting
• First time in my life I am using my personal mission statement
• I can speak my mind to Akrura without any apprehension, about any topic, no matter how challenging. I was never at loss with Akrura by being honest
• He gives examples of other clients progressing and assimilating his coaching in their lives
• He visited me for a few days and demonstrated care and concern
• My wife can clearly see the difference after I was coached
• Important: I feel just by being a client of Akrura I am connected to the network of people who are goal orientated. I gained a wealth of contacts.
• He helped me understand where disturbance of mind comes from
• I benefited from his years of study of spiritual and motivational literature
• I realised how hurtful is to be ignorant
• I gained better clarity and sense of direction in my life

Panca Tattva dasa, Ireland

Gita Coaching helped me prioritise my values and tasks in my area of responsibility in accounting and administration. This helped me to tackle my tasks in a way that increased my productivity while easing pressure of service. He also helped me improve my family relationships when there was a tension. He helped me see my family situation from a third-person point of view, which helped me be more empathic. I used to serve long hours and was therefore tired most of the time, which affected my service. Gita Coaching also helped me discipline myself to leave service earlier and exercise regularly. I started to actually do this and now I think, feel and work better.

Bhakta Ramdas Shetty, Financial Controller, ISKCON Soho, London, UK

I have had the experience of being a client of Gita Coaching for the past few years. I find that I have been able to progress significantly in the achievement of attaining my goals through his coaching support. He has been a useful aid in my progress for a number of reasons. One of the benefits he brings to the sessions of coaching is the fact that he allows me to articulate my goals and the reasons why I wish to strive for them. This helps me to be clear about my motivation and develop the determination to keep going even in the face of obstacles. Another benefit of his style of coaching is his careful balance of reflective and progressive coaching questions. By speaking to him, in practically 99% of the cases, I have been able to come up with my own solutions to my concerns. His style of coaching is self-empowering and doesn’t nurture a culture of inappropriate dependency. I always feel I am in charge of my own pace of progress. At the same time, when necessary, he will suggest strategies for going forward, but only after having gained my permission to do so. This is rarely needed, but when needed, I am glad for the suggestions. The format of the sessions would normally consist of us beginning by setting an agenda, and then going through the issues on the agenda, step by step. I really particularly appreciate his skilful use of questions that are open-ended and illuminating. In one session, he asked me “what is the one most important thing that you would need to do in order to most realise your potential?“ This created a revolution in my consciousness, and made me realise that at the time, the most important change I needed to make was to move from my present place of residence. I am always wonderfully surprised by the way in which these questions allow clarification and progress by reminding us that there are possible avenues of action, and we can make a difference because we are always responsible for our situation, and our responses to that situation. 

By his enthusiasm for coaching, I have also developed an interest in the coaching field and I am currently looking for employment in this profession. In this regard, I also appreciated Akrura’s willingness to do research for me, and provide information on certain relevant subjects, such as time management and empowering questions. At the end of every session, he would also provide an emailed copy of what was discussed and the agreed steps for progress in that particular area. This was perhaps the most important benefit I got from coaching: the focus on practical steps forward to make my goals a reality. I would always find that the sessions ended too soon, because I would want to go on discussing for longer. Yet, I later realised that this was a blessing in disguise; there is a time for talking, and a time for action. This is an advantage that I have hopefully imbibed more and more in my daily life. I feel that I am more dynamic and proactive through the coaching experience, and more ready to respond to needs and challenges as they arise. 
                                       
Bhuta Bhavana dasa BTS, M.A., International motivational coach, presenter, author, and spiritual strategic consultant

I find the sessions very inspiring and always feel revitalised and reinvigorated upon leaving. His coaching style is firm, drilling into your head those things that need to be learned/heard and yet there is a sensitive side which listens and sympathises with your problems and then offers practical solutions and advice to resolving them. Since beginning my coaching with Gita Coaching, I have been making serious progress in my life and would not have been able to achieve my current set of goals and achievements without his help and support. I can honestly say that it has made a dramatic improvement to my life! I believe this so strongly, in fact, that I have already highly recommended his services to close friends of mine, who have begun to reap the benefits of this excellent coaching system.

I first began my coaching with Gita Coaching about 18 months ago. Ever since the start, I have felt that his calming influence and personality has been a big help and have always come away after each session with a feeling of focus and empowerment. I have enjoyed our sessions and the time we have spent together. I came to Gita Coaching in need of help, as my life was in serious need of structure and I wanted to place a lot more attention and focus on the tasks and objectives that I had set myself and to also become more goal-orientated. To be able to achieve this, I knew I would need the guidance and assistance of a coach, if I were to successfully hit the targets that I had set for myself. I had previously managed only to get so far and then would fail to reach my objectives, because I didn’t have somebody to push and nurture me, to encourage and help me to ultimately succeed. I was lucky enough to be introduced to Gita Coaching a year or so earlier and through mutual consent, we agreed to begin working together.

Our first few sessions were a good introduction to each other, seeing that our personalities were suited to work with one another and also a solid basis of what I wanted from him as a coach, but ultimately what he expected from me as a client and what we both wanted to achieve from our time together. His methods were very well-structured and we began to apply them immediately. After only a few weeks, I began to see the difference within myself. I became more focused and determined and began to hit the weekly targets we had been setting in our sessions. I am still using the techniques I learned from Gita Coaching and our sessions and have become a much more focused and determined person since spending time in his association. I would highly recommend his coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to make major positive changes in their lives.

Bhakta Christopher Smith, ISKCON Soho Patron, IT Consultant, Director, CCGS Systems Ltd, London UK

Some of Akrura dasa’s other clients include:

• Mahadyuti dasa ACBSP, President, ISKCON Soho, London, UK
• Mahatma dasa ACBSP, Alachua, Florida, USA
• Yadunandana dasa SDG, Principal, Gita College Radhadesh
• Dina Dayala dasa SNS, Euro GBC Secretary
• Dayal Nitai dasa TKG, High-School Teacher, Taiwan