Dawn Hopkins

About Dawn Hopkins

Dawn Hopkins is the Founder and President of Inspiritus Yoga: Wholistic Wellness & Training Centers, an international yoga school with training centers in Phoenix, Detroit, and Saskatoon, SK. She is also the Co-Founder of The Retreat Ladies: Inspired Wellness Journeys, provider of yoga and wellness retreats with programs designed to help people heal and recover from the stress and demands of daily life in a safe and welcoming community.Dawn holds an MA degree from UIUC and is a Master Yoga Instructor, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Yoga Therapist, Thai Yoga Massage and Reiki Practitioner, and Licensed Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Facilitator and Wellness Coach.Dawn has been helping people improve their health and wellness since 2002 as the co-owner/operator of Curves Ahwatukee where she helped over women achieve improved health and wellness. Her commitment to excellence earned her the Palo Verde Business Woman of the Year Award in 2007.Dawn began taking yoga classes in 1997 to counter the effects of years of athletics on her body. She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2006 and began teaching immediately thereafter. She soon discovered she also had a passion for training and equipping instructors and began training instructors in 2008 after receiving her first 500 hour master-level teacher training. In 2009, she founded The Living Well Retreats and began facilitating yoga and wellness retreats. In 2011, she co-founded a 501C3 non-profit yoga and wellness studio called The Center for Living Well and launched their first 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. One year later, she completed her training in healing emphasis yoga and yoga therapy. In 2017, she founded Inspiritus Yoga: Wholistic Wellness and Training Centers. In 2021, she co-founded The Retreat Ladies: Inspired Wellness Journeys. Dawn currently owns and operates Inspiritus Yoga and co-owns and operates The Retreat Ladies where she helps people find healing, growth, and transformation through various modalities of yoga, wholistic wellness programs, mindful eating, yoga and wellness retreats, yoga teacher training, and continuing education. She also offers private healing and wellness services and speaks and writes on wellness and yoga topics regularly. Dawn teaches, trains, and ministers to others with passion and purpose born of her own healing and transformation. She feels it is her life\'s calling to help others in this way.

Experience

1. Licensed am i Hungry Mindful Eating Facilitator

   Am I Hungry Mindful Eating Programs And Training

   Apr 2009 — Present

   Am I Hungry, developed by Michelle May, M.D, is a non-diet approach to eating and weight management that fosters connection between our mind and our body. It\'s not about counting calories or points, or choosing from a list of acceptable foods. Instead, it\'s about mindfulness and dialing in to our body\'s own internal mechanism for managing our weight.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  M.A., LAS - Economics & Secondary Education

  1987 — 1991

• Palatine High School

  H.S. Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

  1982 — 1986

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  M.A., Economic Geography & Regional Science

  1991 — 1993