Kim Hess

Kim has been physically active all her life and began her teaching career as a fitness and aerobics instructor in 1992. She has been actively involved in the field of transformational growth for 24 years and as a student of life, Kim embraces the concept of “wisdom through experience”. As her life evolved with transformational work and fitness, she found the practice of yoga to be the perfect combination of bringing the mind, body and spirit together. She continues her work of transformation using the body as a guide: physically, emotionally and energetically. She began formally practicing, studying and teaching yoga during the winter of 1999 while living in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico.

Returning to her hometown in Idaho she continued teaching while her self study grew. In 2003 she completed a Yoga Teacher Training in South Beach, Florida with Synergy Center for Yoga & the Healing Arts receiving her certification under a Yoga Alliance Registered School, one of the top schools in the nation. Her studies include Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram and Sivananda as well as Pranayama, Sanskrit, partner & pre-natal yoga and yoga philosophy. While she has studied with some note worthy teachers, she continues to believe that her greatest teachers are her students.

Kim blends together the various styles of yoga she has studied along with her personal experiences and coaching techniques to bring to life her own eclectic style of yoga; one’s own body, the rhythm of the breath and adaptation are the foundation for a well-rounded class accessible to all levels of yoga practice and all body shapes, sizes & abilities and offers unique perspectives on taking our ‘on the mat’ practice ‘off the mat’.

In addition to her full-time yoga schedule, Kim released her first book in February 2007 with the DVD with the same title following that fall; Yoga Onboard: a guide for cruisers and live-aboards. She is bringing yoga to the sailing community worldwide through seminars, workshops, as well as her book and DVD. Her CD Yoga Nidra~waves of change, was released in 2009 after many requests from students taking her yoga nidra class.

Kim’s featured chapter in Yoga & Life: From Challenge to Choice, released January 31, 2018 is a sampling of her upcoming book being released October 2018