about Kim
Kim McGinness spent years building a successful career in the corporate world, and then did what many people only think about. She left. Not with a clear plan, but with a growing sense that there was something more aligned waiting to be found. That search took her down more than one unexpected road before she arrived at the work she does today.
Yoga had always been part of her life, a personal practice she returned to again and again long before she ever considered teaching it. When she finally went to yoga teacher training, it wasn't a career move. It was a deepening. What she found on the other side of that training surprised her. The practice she thought she knew opened into something much wider, and it was yin yoga, with its long holds and deliberate stillness, that cracked things open most.
It was at a yin yoga teacher training that something shifted. In the quiet, she heard a clear call to enroll in the Wayfinder life coaching program. What she discovered there stopped her in her tracks. The principles at the heart of Wayfinder coaching, slowing down, finding stillness, and listening to your own inner knowing, were the same principles she had been cultivating on the mat for years. Two practices, one thread.
She spent the next few years doing both: teaching yoga and working with coaching clients. And over time, the deeper pattern became undeniable. What she was really doing in both spaces was helping people return to themselves.
More recently, Kim began studying Shotokan Karate, where she has earned her green belt. It might seem like an unlikely addition to her practice, but it makes perfect sense within it. Embodiment isn't only found in stillness. It's also found in discipline, in challenge, in learning to be fully present under pressure. Karate has been another teacher, another way of understanding what it means to live from the inside out.
That understanding is what gave rise to her embodiment coaching practice, a more integrated approach that draws on everything she has learned, practiced, and lived.
Kim holds an MBA and is a certified embodiment coach with credentials from the International Coaching Federation (ACC), Yoga Alliance (RYT 500), and the Martha Beck Wayfinder program. She lives and works in Napa Valley, offering embodiment coaching and private yoga sessions in person and online.
Philosophy Statement
The Work
Real change doesn't happen from the neck up. It happens when the mind and body are working together, when your goals feel true not just intellectually but in your gut, your breath, and your bones.
That's what embodiment coaching makes possible. It's not about fixing what's broken. It's about returning to what was always there.
Kim's work sits at the intersection of coaching and practice, of inquiry and movement, of knowing and feeling. Whatever brings you here, the invitation is the same: come as you are, and trust that what you need is already closer than it seems.
