About Us

Healing Journey SF was born in 2020, when a global pandemic created an unprecedented need for mental health and wellness services. Kate Allan and Tiffany Kuang, long-time friends and certified teachers, were spurred into action by this great need, and began offering meditation, yoga, and laughter yoga classes online, with in-person offerings as safety permitted. Healing Journey grew from there, and we have expanded our offerings to include in-person and online classes in mindfulness and meditation, silent retreats, one-on-one coaching and guidance, somatic self-healing sessions, and corporate wellness events. Through these offerings, we have witnessed our students and clients make great leaps in their personal and professional growth. We have benefitted so much from the healing practices we offer, that we have dedicated ourselves to learning, embodying, and offering these practices to anyone who needs a coach and teacher. We would be honored to be part of your healing journey.

Our Philosophy

We believe you are perfect exactly as you are, and there is always room for growth. It’s a paradoxical statement, but it’s our experience that both are true. We have very little actual control in our worlds, but what we do have some control over, and where we have the most influence is over ourselves. To build ourselves up and realize our potential, it is hugely beneficial to have coaches and teachers in our lives to offer safe spaces and remind us that we are worthy and we are already enough. You don’t have to do this alone, we are here to help and support you.

Tiffany Kuang

Tiffany is a mindset and wellbeing coach whose focus is empowering individuals to unlock their full potential. By applying proven frameworks in areas such as self-love, work-life balance, anxiety relief, and building healthy habits Tiffany has helped clients achieve their personal goals. Tiffany brings over two decades of experience in assisting individuals and teams thrive in their professional and personal lives.

Tiffany’s former career as a corporate executive leading diverse teams has given her the experience and insights needed to help clients address the challenges they face. Having gone through her own mid-career transition she has seen firsthand the power and possibility in making big changes in one’s life.

Tiffany believes coaching can be a transformational experience when it is grounded in discovering and encouraging the unique needs of the client. She wholeheartedly supports her clients in dreaming big while taking realistic steps towards meaningful change. Of utmost importance in this process is her commitment to creating a safe, loving space for her clients to journey inward and explore their own wisdom within. Her intention is to support her clients to live life to the fullest and help them lead with confidence, clarity and authenticity.

Tiffany's Education:

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology Comprehensive Training levels 1 and Level 2, from the Hakomi Institute of California

Dharma of Trauma Level 1, from Hakomi Institute of California

Certified Yoga Teacher RYT 200, from Yoga Alliance

Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher , from Laughter Yoga International

Kate Allan

Kate Allan is a mindfulness meditation guide, wildlife ecologist, and teacher, who is passionate about making mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable for everyone. She teaches the principles of mindfulness and guides mindfulness meditation, vipassana out loud, somatic experiencing, positive neuroplasticity, loving kindness, and visualization practices. Her training blends ancient Asian wisdom with our evolving scientific understanding of happiness, behavior, and the human condition. Through this lens, Kate provides a safe space and gentle guidance into ever-deepening self-awareness, wise understanding of what causes our happiness and our suffering, and compassion for self and others. She also believes these practices should be fun, and that it's hugely important to laugh at ourselves and the many absurdities in the world around us.

Kate found mindfulness the normal way – seeking a way out of suffering. Struggles with mental health, divorce, and the stress of a corporate working environment led her to mindfulness and meditation with her very first teacher, Rick Hanson, in 2013. The teachings and the peace they brought her had a profound effect – she quit her consulting job of ten years to live in monasteries, complete silent retreats, volunteer, and study the causes of happiness and suffering, through both neuropsychology and Buddhist philosophy. She studied concentration meditation and yoga at Anand Ashram and Blooming Lotus Yoga in Bali; Buddhist philosophy and vipassana meditation at the Kopan Monastery and Dhamma Shringa Vipassana Center in Nepal; completed a somatic meditation teacher training with Nishan Disanayake in Thailand; and she put her compassion training into action by volunteering to serve hospice patients and guide meditation for volunteers at the Thabarwa Nature Center in Myanmar.

As her experience deepened, so did her passion to share mindfulness with others. Her education continued with a 2-year mindfulness meditation teacher training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and she continues to work and volunteer as a meditation and mindfulness guide, empowering others on their personal growth journeys.

Kate's Education:

The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, from the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Imee Contreras.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training Program, from the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.

60-hour Meditation Teacher Training Foundations Certification, from the Yoga Alliance and Nishan Disanayake.

Mindfulness and the 16 Guidelines to Happiness, 80-hour residential course, from Kopan Monastery and Ven Carla Pearse (Lozang Tsultrim).