Kim Dyckes is an adoptee, a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, a retired Montessori teacher, and a long-time volunteer for Adoption Network Cleveland. Yoga became a way of life for Kim from the first time she experienced its healing properties in 2008, and her practice carried her through many difficult times, including a divorce and the untimely deaths of her daughter and stepdaughter.

After Kim retired from her career as a Montessori teacher in 2022, she obtained her 200-hour yoga certification at Chagrin Yoga in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and began teaching at various studios and a local assisted living facility. She quickly realized she needed to share the healing powers of yogic breath, movement and sound with those who struggle with grief and loss. She began to study this realm and now leads grief workshops at Sunshine Yoga Studio in Chesterland, Ohio, and other Cleveland area settings.

Kim understands that grief comes in many forms and often in unexpected waves. She has been in reunion with her birthmother and half siblings for over thirty years, and her interactions with them have taught her that all members of the adoption constellation experience grief and loss and that the holiday season can be particularly triggering in this regard.

Kim looks forward to sharing techniques to calm the nervous system and navigate waves of grief using breath, movement and sound. No yoga experience is necessary. The program can be accessed from a mat or a chair. This is about emotional healing, not physical flexibility.