Dallas has spent nearly two decades stewarding conscious communities alongside leaders in health and wellness. She founded Gaja Collective in 2025 and still personally welcomes every new cohort.
Dallas Brown is the founder and CEO of Gaja Collective, the woman-owned, licensed vocational school she launched in 2025 to help people turn a passion for holistic wellbeing and deeper purpose into a thriving profession. Under her leadership, Gaja offers accredited, science-backed certifications in coaching, meditation, Ayurveda, and yoga, supported by expert faculty and a community of more than 6,000 alumni. She named the school for the Sanskrit word for elephant, an animal that symbolizes learning, harmony, wisdom, and abundance: the qualities Gaja aims to cultivate in every student.
Her path to Gaja began in marketing for nonprofits, health care organizations, and mission-driven brands, and grew into nearly two decades of stewarding conscious communities and helping to share teachings with the power to heal and transform. Working alongside some of the most recognized leaders in health and wellness, she rose from director of marketing to executive leadership, guiding strategy, brand, product, and communications for a globally recognized mind-body wellness organization, and later serving in senior executive roles, including interim chief marketing officer, at a leading wellness education company.
Along the way she built a digital learning department from the ground up, launched an online learning platform and courses with renowned teachers, and brought long-running in-person meditation and Ayurveda certifications online for the first time, opening them to students around the world. She stewarded the creation of a coaching curriculum and methodology, led ongoing support for a global community of more than 5,000 certified educators, and helped grow an audience from 200,000 people to more than five million.
A practitioner as well as a leader, Dallas is a certified meditation instructor, Ayurvedic lifestyle instructor, Yoga Alliance–certified yoga instructor, and Martha Beck–trained life coach. At Gaja she is usually the first person a new student meets: she hosts the welcome webinars for every certification program, helping each cohort get oriented, connected, and ready to begin. Based in San Diego, California, she believes the collective is Gaja’s greatest strength: a community that learns from one another, celebrates each other’s growth, and supports every member’s pursuit of wellbeing.
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