A Four-Week Online Course to Heal the Split Between Money & Spirituality
Our Money & Spirituality course aims to finally heal what is often taboo in spiritual circles: The split we feel between money and spirituality.
What does that split look like?
Spiritually focused people may think that financial matters are ‘unspiritual’. We may even hold feelings of guilt or distrust, or an attitude of distaste about money. As with any shadow aspect, this appears in our lives in many ways through our unconscious views and behaviors, such as giving our energy to other people or causes in an unsustainable way.
Our issues around money also affect the very heart of our spiritual life: our generosity.
Upcoming Series
Generosity vs Tightness
Our tightness around money tends to show up in our spiritual life as well. It shapes our attitudes toward our teachers, their invaluable teachings, and our community. We notice it, yet we often turn away, hoping it will resolve itself.
We light up at a teacher’s words and presence, but we hesitate when a course fee is involved. We may nickel and dime each other over shared meals or small expenses, instead of embracing the opportunity to be generous. Even when we see this pattern, we put it off, allowing others to pay while ignoring our own feelings about the situation.
Through these experiences, we begin to see that working through our relationship with money is as much a part of our spiritual practice as anything else in our lives.
By integrating our views about money into our spiritual life, we also become better at bringing our spiritual aspirations into our work and everyday lives.
This course helps you bring your relationship with money to a place of peace, power, and care in your heart.
Money and Spirituality: Healing the Split
Money is not evil; it is just a piece of paper. Our views about money are often simply a projection of our shadow.
This course aims to bring our money shadow into the light and heal the split it creates within us.
You may see it as learning to
- integrate the spiritual with the material (to embrace your earning power so you can go on retreats and have interesting experiences in the world, and live with a sense of abundance in all areas).
- integrate the material with the spiritual (being OK with having money and beautiful objects in your home, while not being attached to them and remembering to keep the inner work above it all).
Loosening Our Knots Around Money
When looking at the relationship between money and spirituality, we touch on more than our patterns and behaviours around money.
All of us have some sort of knot around money. By loosening that knot, we loosen all the related shadow aspects in our daily lives and relationships. From there, we release energy for what’s important to us. This frees up energy to work on our dreams, visions, values, priorities, and awakening.
We invite you to join us and begin untying these knots. To allow yourself to break the dam of resistance, shame, guilt, superiority, privilege, and fear. To have the courage to look at your projections for what they are and be on your way to integrating the material with the spiritual (and vice versa!).
We want you to be lighter, brighter, and to give and attract the amount of money you need to manifest your purpose.
8 Common Money Knots
- You are very passionate about your work as an artist, teacher, healer, businessperson, or change agent. Yet, you seem to repel the very resources you need. Somehow, embracing the money thing feels inauthentic to your values or even evil on some level. Ask yourself: Is it truly noble to be a starving artist or martyr?
- You feel money is elusive, and you never seem to have it. Or, when it does come in, it leaves very quickly. You are looking for Prince Charming to show up and save you. Or feel that money should just come because you’re devoting your life to a worthy cause or to your awakening. You trust in the universe that the money will come, yet it doesn’t.
- You overgive and undervalue yourself in your organization or relationships. You expect others to read your mind and know how to support you, but they don’t. You feel unseen and burnt out, with health and money issues calling for your attention.
- Your family has money, but you don’t, giving you mixed experiences of abundance and scarcity. You try to help others enjoy more abundance, but feel like your efforts are rejected. Your giving leaves you feeling taken advantage of or for granted.
- You have wealth or worldly success. Yet, you feel ostracized by the very people you want to help. You don’t feel appreciated, and might even feel like an outsider in spiritual or mission-based worlds.
- You have mixed feelings about having money as a spiritual explorer. You may have come into money before knowing how to handle it skillfully, either practically or psychologically.
- You feel overwhelmed with the fear of losing money, despite having enough. Your fear of loss keeps you paralyzed and unable to make decisions that are in alignment with your heart and sense of awakening.
- You feel guilty about having money and find trusting yourselves and others to be an ongoing challenge. You don’t like the distance that money creates between you and others.
What to Expect
This course structures itself according to Clear Sky’s Five Principles. We apply these principles to help you come to a place of peace, ease, and clarity around your relationship with money. This course largely falls under the fourth principle, that “cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy,” but the curriculum follows each of the other four principles, too, as outlined below.
Session 1: Honoring your space
Metaphorically speaking, we open the door and take a look inside your financial room. For many of us, it is a room full of cobwebs, things not in their place, and dust bunnies running amok. The curtains are closed, and there is a stale, musty smell in the room. How did this room get this way? By applying principle #1, we honor your space by facing the mess and starting to clean it up. We revisit the past to see what was not acknowledged or owned around money in your family system and culture.
Session 2: Structure and routine are your friends
We look at the money habits that you currently have and write them all down. What do you need to let go of, and what new habits do you need to take on? How are you going to build them into your structure and routine? We will use the cue, routine, and reward system from “The Power of Habit” to help you work new routines around your money life. We will share apps, budget tools, and a ton of resources to help guide you.
Session 3: Communication shapes the space where we meet
We look at building gratitude and generosity practices to help overcome the fear and scarcity mentalities that take root in our beings. These mentalities are the very water of capitalism that we swim in and that promote a chronic sense of not-enoughness. We will learn to become mindful of the scarcity narrative we tell ourselves and get skillful at cutting it off with kindness and fierce discernment.
Session 4: It’s easier with others
What are your money relationships like with your spouse, colleagues, and friends? Do you end up feeling betrayed or tight around money with others, or do you stick your head in the sand and not take responsibility? We will study money and relationships through the lens of the eight money archetypes. Archetypes are powerful teachers and allies that help us see where we need to grow.
Meet Your Teacher
Karen McAllister
Karen has worked with countless clients to transform their relationship with money and help them become more effective, professional, and satisfied with their financial situation while cultivating a genuine sense of abundance. She has a deep understanding of financial challenges from practical, behavioral, and emotional perspectives. Her real magic, however, comes from over 20 years of study with her spiritual teachers, Acariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, who specialize in guiding students to transcend challenges around money, sex, and power. Karen herself embodies the fruits of this work, exemplifying what Buddhist philosophy calls the bodhisattva path.
Karen holds a degree in Economics and is certified by Deborah Price of The Money Coaching Institute as a Certified Money Coach, Couples Money Coach, and Business Archetype Coach. She has also studied with Lynne Twist from the Soul of Money Institute, completing programs such as Mastering Your Money and Transforming Your Life and Fundraising from the Heart.
Karen has applied this knowledge in her role as a founding member of Clear Sky Meditation Centre, which operates with a quadruple bottom line. She has served as Board Chair since 2014 and leads Fund Development, driven by a deep desire to awaken more fully and make the world a better place. She has witnessed the struggles of spiritual explorers and transformational change agents who want to make a difference but lack the resources to fully realize their mission. She has also seen those with resources whose generosity has been misunderstood or rejected. Her work is designed to bridge this gap.
Karen’s approach encourages you to show up as a fully integrated human being. She guides you to direct and attract financial resources in meaningful ways, moving beyond greed and fear toward love, generosity, collaboration, and reciprocity.
