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Yebuny Brings Sacred Commerce to Canada! We are happy to announce that our very own Yebuny Johnson is bringing Sacred Commerce to Canada! Under her new venture Heartwood Consulting and in partnership with Erin Ross of Get That You Matter, Rob Sinclair of Conscious Brands, and Corinne Ann D Cornish of The Inner Realms, Yebuny […]

Celebrating the 5th anniversary of Dharma Merchant Services Do you know what March 1st is? It’s not Groundhog Day, not April Fools’ day, not St. Patrick’s day. It is the 5th anniversary of Dharma Merchant Services! That’s right, it’s been 5 years since we hung out our shingle as a business. The idea for the […]

Dharma Field Trip: Creating Enlightened Society I was honored to attend a talk on “Creating Enlightened Society” by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche with the Dharma team. My first impression as I was welcomed into the incredible Grace Cathedral was that I was coming into a sacred place full beauty and openness. I wondered what it would be like […]

Introducing Nicole Stasio Our good luck with off-the-charts employees has continued with bringing Nicole Stasio on board. If you’ve had a support issue recently, Nicole is the loving, competent, funny and extremely helpful person that solved your problem. Nicole has astounded us with her ability to learn quickly, maintain grace under pressure and continually reach […]

February’s Being Game: Being an invitation to love “Being an invitation to love” was our February Sacred Commerce game. Despite its soap opera-sounding quality, playing this game was not only super fun but was quite the opposite of the drama you might expect! Sacred Commerce teaches that “being an invitation is… a request to participate, […]

SF Green Film Festival – March 2012 The San Francisco Green Film Festival begins next week, March 1 with a slate of films that will intrigue you, enlighten you, maybe even anger you a little, but ultimately inspire you. Join them on a week long cinematic journey which will take you into the depths of […]

Co-Founder Alexia Marcous featured on Entrepreneurs For a Change Dharma co-founder Alexia Marcous’s interview with Lorna Li is featured on Entrepeneurs for a Change. Take your socially responsible business to the next level by practicing sacred commerce. Alexia Marcous is the co-founder of Dharma Merchant Services and she’s passionate about bringing work-life balance into focus and […]

This Month’s Being Game: Awakening! This month our Sacred Commerce practice reaches for the stars with being Awakening! We asked our Dharma Dream Team to weigh in on what Awakening meant to them.  We’re thrilled to share their answers… Awakening can be tricky in my experience because the more I want it the more I […]

Dharma is Among the First Benefit Corps in California Dharma Merchant Services was privileged to become one of the first California companies to register as a Benefit Corporation. “Benefit Corporation” provides a new legal structure to registered S or C Corps that allows companies to legally expand their purpose beyond exclusively maximizing shareholder value. Benefit […]

Featured Merchant: Voyager This month we’re proud to feature Voyager, owned by successful entrepreneur Robert Patterson.  We have the good fortune of working with Robert at two of his other ventures: Revolver and Ken Ken Ramen. The Voyager Shop is a wonderful example of a growing theme in the conscious business world: collaboration.  The shop […]