Dawn Hopkins

Dawn Hopkins is the Founder and President of Inspiritus Yoga: Wholistic Wellness & Training Centers, an international yoga school and continuing education provider 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 women 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 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 4,000 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. What she discovered instead was the tremendous healing power of yoga. 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 The Center for Living Well (a 501C3 non-profit ) and launched her first 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training. One year later, she completed her certification 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 yoga and other healing modalities, mindful eating, retreats, yoga education and training programs, 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 purpose and calling to help others in this way.