about Dr. Yana Castle
Yana Castle, Ph.D. is a contemplative counselor, author, mentor and certified clinical hypnotherapist with a rich and varied background in spirituality and healing. She earned her doctorate degree in Transformation and Consciousness Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she concentrated on Buddhism, psychology and a range of healing modalities, including shamanism and lucid dreamwork. She also holds a master's degree in Women's Spirituality and a B.A. in Archaeomythology.
Dr. Castle's studies and spiritual interests inspired her to live and travel extensively in Nepal and India. For more than twenty years, she led pilgrimage tours to Kathmandu Valley. Participants were guided on visits to temples and shrines dedicated to the sacred feminine in Tibetan Buddhism. Teachings from female shamans, yoginis and Rinpoches were included in the itineraries.
Dr. Castle is also the founder of Repatterning Hypnosis, a therapeutic approach to hypnotherapy that combines hypnosis with Buddhism, energy healing and imaginal methods. Her work has been featured on Channel 5's Eye on the Bay.
Along with her mentoring private practice, Yana is the author of Guardians of the Gates, An Investigation of Numinous Presence, Visions of the Divine in Dreams. She also continues to explore the oral traditions in Slavic folklore and the archaeomythology of an ancient goddess culture in Romania with her artist husband, Christopher Castle.
Dr. Castle's studies and spiritual interests inspired her to live and travel extensively in Nepal and India. For more than twenty years, she led pilgrimage tours to Kathmandu Valley. Participants were guided on visits to temples and shrines dedicated to the sacred feminine in Tibetan Buddhism. Teachings from female shamans, yoginis and Rinpoches were included in the itineraries.
Dr. Castle is also the founder of Repatterning Hypnosis, a therapeutic approach to hypnotherapy that combines hypnosis with Buddhism, energy healing and imaginal methods. Her work has been featured on Channel 5's Eye on the Bay.
Along with her mentoring private practice, Yana is the author of Guardians of the Gates, An Investigation of Numinous Presence, Visions of the Divine in Dreams. She also continues to explore the oral traditions in Slavic folklore and the archaeomythology of an ancient goddess culture in Romania with her artist husband, Christopher Castle.