Sura Kim

Sura Kim, who teaches simply as Sura, is a meditation coach and trainer based in the Seattle area who also spends part of the year in Hawaii. She came to meditation from finance: a chartered financial analyst, she worked at Goldman Sachs, in technology investment and in institutional sales in New York before the pressure of that life led her to a daily practice. She later left the city to study meditation in rural Asia, and long personal retreats in British Columbia shaped the method she now calls Sura Flow. She is also a Reiki Master and yoga teacher and holds an executive coaching certificate from Georgetown University.

Sura Flow is a short, heart-centred practice in three steps, relax, listen and intend, that works with imagination, the body and personal energy rather than trying to empty the mind. She frames it as bringing a feminine perspective to meditation, welcoming emotion, desire and self-expression. She set out the approach in her book Sura Flow and founded the Meditation Coaching Alliance, and through her LIBERATE programme she trains coaches, therapists and teachers over eight months online, with in-person retreats in Washington State. She also coaches executives one to one and has spoken at TEDx.