Kim U-Ming is a coach, integrative energy medicine therapist, and teacher working in the field of executive coaching and holistic therapy. She is of Portuguese, Chinese, and South Asian ancestry.
Her family immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from England in 1970.

Years later, Kim was born in Vancouver. Born sensitive, Kim has shared her intuitive gifts with others since childhood. She has completed extensive and rigorous formal training in the fields of coaching, psychotherapeutic and healing arts, both within Western and holistic disciplines.

Being naturally intuitive, Kim’s education in meditation began in her childhood and progressed into formal meditation as a teen with explorations in Buddhism and Advaita. Following years of study, Kim became an ordained Buddhist in 1995 in ceremony through His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche, and has since been fortunate to have received personal instruction from some of the most respected teachers in Buddhism. Her Dharma name is Pema Yangchen. Kim’s traditional Christian background has been enhanced through the addition of the Kagyü Buddhist teachings.

In addition to her formal training, Kim has engaged in a broad range of global meditation activities, including Vipassana retreats, time in monasteries in the Himalayas, Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center in California, retreats in Indian ashrams, retreats with the Dalai Lama, Thrangu Rinpoche, and other masters in the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyü lineage, as well as visits to pilgrimage sites around the globe, including Muktinath, Prasanthi Nilayam, and the biblical sites of Turkey.
Alongside her Buddhist education, Kim began to practice qigong, an ancient Chinese health system of healing and energy medicine used to cultivate health and mindfulness. She has studied with Grandmaster Liang and Master Lin. In 1995, Master Lin invited her to take over her ancient qigong lineage.

Kim is thankful to have been gifted with the support of many master teachers of mindfulness and enlightenment. In her work, Kim draws on these complementary channels of therapeutic and meditative training jointly with her education in religious studies from Harvard Divinity School, which allow her to work both across and in combination with various traditions.

She offers a non-traditional, non-judgmental, holistic approach to success and wellbeing.

She has cherished the privilege of working with a diverse range of clients including artists, physicians, educators, business magnates, athletes, celebrities, and an assortment of wellness teams. Not limited to, Kim has specifically been sought out to help address affairs in the fields of spiritual crisis and awakening, working through meditation and altered states, with gifted and highly sensitive individuals, trauma sufferers, those questioning their beliefs, and those experiencing intense synchronicity in their lives, in addition to more common day to day concerns in the business, interpersonal, and intrapersonal realms.

In her spare time, Kim may be found sharing quality time with loved ones, engaging in one of her many hobbies, enjoying the outdoors, or curled up with a good book and her dog, Augustus.