education & trainings.

• B.S., Managerial Economics — University of California, Davis (Minors: Global & International Studies, German)

• Professional Sequence in Editing — UC Berkeley Extension

• 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Libby Cox (July 2013)

• 50-hour Yin Yoga training with Bernie Clark and Diana Batts (November 2016)

• Unit 1 “Anatomical Foundations of Yin Yoga” training with Paul & Suzee Grilley (2018)

• 60-hour Yoga Nidra training with Jana Roemer (August 2018)

• Yoga Nidra Script Writing Course with Jana Roemer (Dec 2018–Jan 2019)

• 8-hour “Your Spine Your Yoga” online training with Bernie Clark & Stuart McGill

• ParaYoga Nidra Enlightened Sleep: 40-hour training with Rod Stryker (May 2020)

• Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine course @ Emperor’s College (Summer 2020)

• Tantra for Women: Sacred Cosmology of the Body: Series I-IV with Yoli Maya Yeh (Jan—April 2021)

• Decolonization Toolkit with Yoli Maya Yeh (June—July 2021)

• Vibrational Sound Therapy certification (October 2021)

• 40-hour Functional Anatomy with Bernie Clark (July 2024)

Katherine Hypes is a facilitator for stillness-based yogic practices (e.g., Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra) and relaxation therapy. She is a diplomat for experiencing deep rest and fostering a relationship to one’s nonwaking states of consciousness.

She interprets yoga to mean inner communion. Her slow-paced classes offer the practitioner an opportunity to explore, understand and honor their physical body and its unique anatomy. As this awareness of the physical body refines itself, the ability to descend deeper and sense the subtler energetic, mental-emotional, intuitive-wise and bliss bodies (i.e., the koshas) often follows.

Her interests rest fully in all things sleep from the mythical, cultural and philosophical perceptions of sleep, dreaming and death, as well as integrative approaches that blend the spiritual with the scientific. She values the intersectional relationship between the mystical and the quantifiable, and her classes and online offerings pay a respect to that which can be proven and measured through Western science while equally honoring the potential for that which must be experienced to be understood.

Katherine’s classes and guided yoga nidra journeys are rooted in the sincere wish to give you as the practitioner a chance to suspend yourself from time, tune in and feel. To process & integrate. To give space. To dream. Essentially, to take what you need and leave the rest.