Katherine Hypes
Hello hello, I am Katherine (she/her), a California native who's been living and teaching in Berlin, Germany. The great curveball of 2020/21 has led me to replant roots in southern California. As a guide and facilitator in restful practices, I come with a background in Hatha, Yin, Restorative and Yoga Nidra, having studied Buddhism, Daoism, Chinese Medicine and Tantra as well. My personal journey as a practitioner began in 2011 and has led me down a path of intense daily physical asana practice to a softening of the body and the artform of sleep. Later this year I will begin my training to be a certified Death Doula. I dearly miss creating in-person experiences, curating music, setting up cozy practice circles and greeting people face-to-face. I believe that the body is political and rest can be a form of resistance and that social justice work is part and parcel to the system of yoga. Since COVID, I have shifted my offering's focus almost entirely to sharing the magic carpet ride of Yoga Nidra, something I've come to understand as a ritual act of self-worship that connects us to past, present and future timelines.
This deeply intimate practice gives up a chance to practice surrendering to the unknown, bypass the cognitive tired mind and access deeper layers of the psyche, restore the body's systems and reawaken the inner sense faculties (e.g., intuition). It can be a great vehicle for inner transformation and outer action—an ancient practice that is accessible for all bodies, and a key tool for our reconnection and remembrance of the ancestral memory that we are expansive, and whole and one. My hope is to offer steady guidance, a brief space of respite, a pocket out of time to pause. My classes are a reflection of my own practice—slow, still, quiet, introspective—and offer the invitation to go within, to be held and supported, to rest, to daydream, to space out, to feel. To process and integrate. To take what is needed and leave the rest.