Karen McAllister

Karen McAllister is a dharma teacher, money coach, and Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky Meditation Centre. For over 25 years, she has followed a path of deep spiritual practice as a close student of Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in the lineage of Namgyal Rinpoche. Her training has been lived and embodied, integrating meditation, retreat, community life, leadership, and service as a continuous field of awakening.

Alongside this, Karen has worked with over 150 clients, helping them untangle their relationship with money so they can show up more fully and effectively in their work and lives. She brings a rare integration of practical, behavioural, and emotional understanding of money, grounded in formal training in Economics and certifications from Deborah Price (Money Coaching Institute), as well as advanced studies with Lynne Twist (Soul of Money Institute).

Yet what most distinguishes Karen’s work is the depth of her spiritual training. Her teachers specialize in helping students transform their relationship to money, belonging, and power, not by bypassing these areas, but by meeting them directly as part of the path. Karen’s work carries the imprint of this lineage: a deep trust that nothing is outside the path of awakening.

Her teaching is rooted in a simple and powerful understanding: the places that feel most charged, money, relationship, power, and purpose are not obstacles, but gateways. She supports people to gently face and unravel the emotional complexity that often lives beneath money: patterns of fear, scarcity, self-worth, and disconnection. In doing so, what has been hidden or avoided becomes a source of clarity, freedom, and possibility.

Karen works both individually and in groups, creating spaces of warmth, honesty, and depth where people can reconnect with themselves and one another. In this shared field, money becomes more than a practical concern. It becomes a powerful vehicle for awareness, generosity, collaboration, and transformation.

Her work is also grounded in lived experience. As a founding member of Clear Sky, Karen has played a central role in building and stewarding a thriving meditation centre based on a quadruple bottom line: spiritual, environmental, social, and financial. She has served in leadership for over a decade, including as Board Chair and Director of Fund Development, bridging inner practice with the real-world challenges of building, sustaining, and resourcing a conscious community.

At heart, Karen is a spiritual seeker who has lived and practiced across Japan, Europe, Brazil, and North America. Having searched deeply, she found a path that brought clarity, groundedness, and genuine joy. She is devoted to helping others discover how that same awakening can be lived fully and practically in the midst of everyday life.

Her intention is to support you in becoming an integrated and whole human being, one who can relate to money with clarity and care, and direct and attract resources in ways that move beyond fear and greed, toward love, generosity, reciprocity, and meaningful impact.