about Us

I am not sure if Yoga found me or I found Yoga, I began my journey in a baggy shirt and sweatpants at the local community center in Santa Clara, CA. A dear friend of mine invited me to go. I remember vaguely hearing the word yoga here and there growing up. I remember it was a dark room. The teacher was kind. We did some movements, but mostly what stood out to me was the first time I ever tried meditation at the end of her class. At 16 years old I had never even heard of psychedelics and had no idea that the mind was capable of going anywhere but in the small corners where I felt confined and trapped. I remember that without any effort, I was on my first journey that involved colors, lights, space, and freedom from the mind of a teenager who had developed an eating disorder as a way to cope with stress in my family life. It tasted like something that I knew I needed, like nourishment, like an open field to run free in filled with soft corners and light. 

I immediately became obsessed with the health and wellness section at Barnes and Noble and was on my quest to find that sacred space that I journeyed to that one time in the dark community center room. I bought the book Creative Visualizations that had a candle on the cover of it, and it mentioned that yoga was the first step to mediation. Over the years I would drop in here and there at other community college yoga courses, one in fact had us making animal noises and rolling around on the ground. This was the time before yoga pants were invented and it was ok and also encouraged to wear your pjs. I remember walking across the quad of the community college in Santa Cruz, CA having another moment in time that everything felt open, spacious and connected. I was taking a course on Eastern Philosophy trying to find my way towards what I was so desperately wanting to know. My self, healing. This was my first taste of what an awakening felt like. My eyes widened, I saw the person sitting by the water fountain the same as me, the person that they were speaking to, as one. Suddenly what felt like I was stuck in my own little world showed me that no, we are all here together. From the ME to the WE. 

I started practicing on VHS tapes, I had a Rodney Yee AM/PM yoga class that I would play and practice in my room on the carpeted floor amongst my Red Hot Chili Peppers posters and cluttered walls of other alternative/grunge musicians at the time… until either the tape or the VCR broke down, not sure which one happened first. Yoga always seemed to make its way back to me in one way or another. I remember Rodney’s calming demeanor, amazing long black hair, and how effortless it felt for him to move with such grace. 

The next time I really fell into the hands of the practice of yoga was hovering above a rice paddy field in Ubud, Indonesia. After finishing a holistic nutrition school in Berkley, CA I started to work at an Integrative Hospital called the Institute for Health and Healing. My boss at the time was an intuitive medium and shared with me in a reading on my last week that in my travels I would find something that would direct me onto my path, and she was so sure that she said if I returned back to my job she wouldn’t hire me because I needed to find what was out there… my calling.

After traveling to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, the last part of the trip was in Bali. After landing in Ubud, I decided to take a yoga class as a way to compliment my fire dancing (the reason I was traveling in southeast asia, and also was my spiritual practice at the time). The first class the teacher told me to meditate while hundreds of mosquitos managed to nibble every inch of my legs, and said that if I was enlightened I could stop them from biting me… this wasn’t my teacher. 

So I didn’t give up, and went to the amazing sanctuary, the Yoga Barn where I found her. The teacher was authentic, funny, fun, and almost instantly what went from taking one class a day turned into two, what went from wanting to be in Bali a week turned into a month. I knew that my yearning to find out the answers to questions I hadn’t even known to ask was in this practice. My way home was through. Widya was the teacher and she was radiating light that I knew I also had within myself that was so far covered with disconnection from my body after years and years of not knowing how to heal myself, shame, guilt and just being so far away from hearing its many cries for healing. I started to learn little subtle details like what feels good, what feels challenging, where my mind goes in forward folds, and how I can meet the edge of discomfort and stay in it without getting distracted. And more than anything I began to hear and sense my own voice that was trying to make it’s way through for years. 

On returning back to San Francisco, which was home at the time, I immediately went on the search for my first 200 hour training. This was the way through. 

Through this journey I've come to believe in the magic of creating sacred containers—whether that’s a retreat in the mountains, a ceremony with intention, or a breath-led practice in the quiet of your living room. I’m here to hold space, ask questions, and move with you toward truth, beauty, and liberation.

Hi, I’m Jin Sol

(Although some of you may know me as Rebecca) 

I’m on a mission to liberate myself from the stories I believed about who I “should” be, so that I can be who I truly am.

Along this journey, I have learned the importance of speaking my truth, opening my heart, and trusting in the Universe.

I have also experienced the powerful medicine of being seen for who I really am, and having it reflected back to me.

It has changed my life, and I hope it will change yours, too.

About me

I love learning and expanding into higher states of consciousness
and self-expression.

These days, I’m particularly
drawn to the exploration of intimacy, grief, vulnerability, and heartbreak through my lens and beyond.

Life knocked on the door,
so I chose to answer

In 2022 I was diagnosed with cancer, which was a huge wake-up call for me. I realized then that my life wasn’t a true reflection of who I was and what was important to me.

Since then, I’ve been slowly unraveling the threads of a life that didn’t fully resonate with me. I am so grateful I had to face my own death, because it has taught me how to truly live.

I have found that being witnessed in the fullness of my being is a powerful portal into meeting deeper parts of myself I never knew existed.

If you are ready to be witnessed, I would love to connect with you.

Cheers to the delicious unfolding of it all.

The greatest gift you can give yourself and the world is to allow yourself to truly be seen and heard.

In a past life…

I graduated with a degree in Photojournalism & Criminal Justice. As a food photographer & writer for Thrillist.com, I had the pleasure of eating my way around Denver for four years, all in the name of research. It was a delicious job! From there, I ventured into the world of corporate marketing. These are just a few lives that I’ve lived during my time here.

In this current phase of my life, I am blessed to work in the world of psilocybin therapy, as I explore & pursue my passions outside of that space.

Want to know more? Let’s connect.

Katie Zink (she/her) is a trauma informed, lineage rooted yoga teacher, community ritualist, and creative writer living in Portland, Oregon. She works in Education Publishing by trade and has a Bachelor of Science in Women and Gender Studies with an emphasis in Human Sexuality. 

A student of yoga for almost 20 years, Katie has completed 300 hours of Foundational Yoga Teacher Training with Audra Carmine and additional 40 hours of Meditation Teacher Training with Kimberly Novosel. 

In any Ritual Yoga experience, Katie teaches devotional embodiment as the path to liberation. Her background includes a certification in the Neurology of Equity and Inclusion with Paloma Medina and a group facilitator certification with Oregon Humanities. She’s served as a Trauma Informed Advocate and has directly supported survivors of sexual abuse as a youth volunteer and on the financial development committee. 

She enjoys writing poetry about philosophy, love, and liberation from the lens of yoga, and delicately weaves this variety of passion and knowledge across the experience of the intentional spaces she creates. Through yoga, Katie hopes to inspire a collective knowing of peace and connection.

In addition to teaching regular studio classes, Katie is the Co-Founder of Yoga for the Erotic Self and ANIMAL BODY. She also leads moon circles, women's circles, and facilitates custom workshop design.

Yoga for the Erotic Self is a collaboration with Amy Peck. It’s a multi-week, intimate immersion and exploration of sensuality and eroticism through the lens of yoga. We study the chakra system, Hindu Goddesses and the Mahavidyas, the fundamentals of Tantra yoga, among many other modalities to better understand The Erotic Self.

ANIMAL BODY is a collaboration with Jin Sol and Valerie Starr. We offer femme only single day ritual events and will soon be offering a multi-day retreat experience. We explore Goddess study, embodiment, movement, mantra, dance and somatic expression, in union with an embodied portrait session by our bespoke photographer aligned with unique themes each time.

Katie’s style of teaching has been described as deeply intentional, connecting, meditative, balancing, grounding, creative, sensual and fun:)