Karen McAllister’s work is rooted in a simple, brave question: What happens when our inner life and our financial life are no longer split apart? As a money coach, meditation teacher, and contemplative leader, Karen supports people in healing their relationship with money so they can live, lead, and give from a place of wholeness rather than fear.

For many years, Karen has walked alongside individuals, couples, and communities who are committed to a spiritual path, whether expressed through meditation, service, creativity, or conscious relationship, as they untangle old money patterns and rediscover their capacity for care, clarity, and sufficiency. She works with people for whom inner life truly matters, and for whom money is part of their practice rather than something separate from it. Her approach is both deeply practical and deeply human, grounded in real financial skill, emotional honesty, and a profound respect for the inner life that shapes how we earn, spend, save, and give.

Karen’s work is shaped by more than twenty years of close study with her spiritual teachers, Acariya Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. Their teachings, especially around money, sex, and power have deeply informed Karen’s way of being with others. She is known for her steady presence, compassion, and integrity, and for embodying a path of practice that brings wisdom into lived, relational, and material life, what Buddhist tradition calls the bodhisattva path.

She studied Economics as part of her degree and later trained as a Certified Money Coach, Couples Money Coach, and Business Archetype Coach through the Money Coaching Institute. She also studied with Lynne Twist at the Soul of Money Institute, deepening her understanding of money as a spiritual, relational, and ethical force.

Karen is a founding member and Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre, where she lives in residential community. She is a meditation teacher and program developer with a particular focus on money and spirituality, and she serves as Lead Fund Developer, currently guiding the multi-year funding of Clear Sky’s Temple Project. This work is not theoretical for her. It is a lived practice of aligning vision, values, and material support in service of collective awakening.

Over the years, Karen has witnessed the quiet heartbreak on both sides of money: people with deep purpose and sincere spiritual commitment who lack the resources to sustain their work, and people with financial means who long to give generously yet feel unseen, mistrusted, or misunderstood. Her work exists to heal this divide, to restore trust, dignity, and mutual care between those who hold vision and those who hold resources.

At the heart of everything Karen offers is an invitation to show up as an integrated, whole human being. She supports individuals, couples, and communities to direct and attract financial resources in ways that align with their deepest values, moving away from fear and grasping, and toward love, generosity, reciprocity, and shared flourishing.