SomaSpace Teachers

Jacqueline Rubinstein

Director of SomaSpace & Move with Ease

Jacqueline Rubinstein is dedicated to creating space for profound healing through embodiment and awareness. She brings the wealth of knowledge and experience that she has gathered over the last twenty years training and working in creative dance, somatic bodywork, and women empowerment.

Since 2014, she has been the proud owner and director of SomaSpace, a movement arts & healing center. Through the last decade, SomaSpace has evolved into a robust community of embodiment facilitators and healing arts practitioners. Under her guidance, SomaSpace’s offerings have expanded to include not only movement and somatic arts but also sound healing, breathwork, meditation, and authentic connection workshops.

After 20 years of traditional dance training as a child and young adult, Jacqueline fell deeply in love with the innovative and life-affirming world of improvisational movement. Since achieving a bachelor’s degree in dance with a focus on choreography from Wesleyan University, she has led hundreds of creative and embodied movement classes.

Suffering from a severe concussion and a pinched cervical nerve, Jacqueline found a powerfully gentle and insightful somatic healing education called the Feldenkrais Method. She completed the practitioner training and opened her practice in Portland, Oregon in 2011.

After a decade of being in private practice as a Feldenkrais practitioner, Jacqueline craved to reach more people and to introduce them to the opportunities for more holistic, mindful living. She decided to go back to school to complete a master’s degree in the studies of Physician Assistance in order to learn more about the body and medicine, as well as expand her opportunity to teach people who might not otherwise seek out holistic care. 

By day, she serves as a Physician Assistant in cardiology, helping people recover from heart attacks and heart failure and introducing ideas of healthy living through diet, exercise, and stress reduction. And by night, she offers contact improvisation workshops, women’s circles, and clothing swaps among other special events at SomaSpace.

To contact Jacqueline: jacqueline@somaspace.us

Carlton Grew

On a humid summer day in 2000, Carlton Grew walked into Scott Kelman’s free introductory improvisation workshop. Carlton joined Kelman’s workshop simply for a new, creative experience. What he discovered led him on a transformational journey that continues today.

Originally uninterested in performance, this improvisation practice led him to perform with The Tuesday Group, the Agnieszka Laska Dancers, and to create an autobiographical piece entitled Bag of Hammers. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to guide others through their own inspiring journeys into creativity, presence, and connection.

To contact Carlton: riffline@yahoo.com

Karla Lancaster

Karla Lancaster is passionate about leading women in the sensually, embodied movement of S Factor. As a licensed instructor, Karla guides woman through body-led movement focused on sensuality, body ownership, and sisterhood. 

By removing distractions from our everyday lives, like mirrors and the male gaze, she leads her students through discovering their own sensual movement, strengthening the physical body, and gaining greater self-love and confidence. Come join this sisterhood and unlock your feminine, sensual movement!

To contact Karla: karlatamay@gmail.com

Laura Li Fong Yee

Laura Li Fong Yee has been offering sound baths and teaching yoga since 2016. Her passion and skillset is especially supportive for health and wellness professionals and caregivers. Combined with a 20-year career in nursing and a vast background of study, Laura guides from a place of gratitude, rooted in practices of breath, sound, yoga, spirituality, and meditation. She values community, communication, connection, and inclusivity, and strives to create an experience that will leave participants feeling connected, grounded, and whole.

To contact Laura: laura@crownandhearthealing or VISIT crownandhearthealing.com

Amy Terepka

Amy Terepka is a bodyworker, earth medicine practitioner, priestess, and teacher in Portland, OR. She has been an avid student of the plants and the Earth, the body and energy, for the last 20 years. She is passionate about helping individuals reconnect with the wisdom that resides in their bodies and in the consciousness of Earth, particularly with the support from the plant realms.

Amy offers a unique, holistic approach to healing through her bodywork practice, Groundwater Healing, and she runs The Golden Stone Wisdom School, a place for folks remember their belonging to themselves and the wider forces of Life, through embodied spiritual medicine, and the animistic perspective. She offers a free online community, and hosts monthly, in-person, Plant Wisdom Circles to ceremonially learn from the spirits of local, non-psychedelic plants.

To contact Amy: amy@groundwaterhealing.com or VISIT www.groundwaterhealing.com

Roxanna Gates

Driven by mystery, wonder, beauty, and the natural world, Roxanna has spent decades exploring the therapeutic notion of dance. As a kinesthetic visionary, dance practitioner, and Doctor of Occupational Therapy, her curiosity strives to understand the clear resonance between the science of our aliveness and our conscious experience of living.

Through conscious dance as somatic practice, Roxanna has learned to access sensation as a guide—to utilize movement, music, and space as an expressive and relational process. Dance as a therapeutic modality offers a viewpoint, a way of sensing patterns, qualities of energy, emotions, imagery, and possibilities for perspective taking, self-reflection, and holistic health.

To contact Roxanna: www.roxannagates.com

Willow Merveille

Willow is the founder of Naked in Motion. She and her team have been creating spaces for body-acceptance, empowerment, and self-compassion through Naked! Yoga & Pilates classes since 2016 in New York, Boston, Seattle, and now, Portland! She is a yoga teacher and fully-certified Pilates apparatus instructor with roughly 1,000 hours of teacher training and over 10 years of teaching experience. Her movement training includes 20+ years of classical ballet and jazz, plus a decade of theatre performance. She is fiercely passionate about improving inclusivity and accessibility in both yoga and social nudity. Specializing in a trauma-informed, “open-level” teaching style, her classes offer many physical varieties and options to make movement accessible to all types of bodies and abilities. She has learned enough relevant ASL to make classes easier for Deaf students to follow. She is currently based in Seattle and is excited to bring her offerings to Portland!

To contact Willow: willow@nakedinmotion.com

Holly Quiroz

Holly Quiroz is a certified, trauma-informed breathwork facilitator who discovered breathwork through her own journey of healing and self-discovery. After years of exploring various therapeutic and personal growth modalities, she found breathwork to be a uniquely powerful tool for helping her reconnect with herself, regulate her nervous system, and create lasting change in patterns that had kept her feeling stuck.

Drawing from over 450 hours of facilitator training and dual certification through Unity Breathwork and Breathing Space, Holly brings a grounded, compassionate, and client-centered approach to her work. She believes each person already carries an innate capacity for healing and growth, and that her role is to create a supportive space where participants can explore their inner world, reconnect with their innate wisdom, and trust their own healing process.

To contact Holly: holly@theawakenedbreath.com or https://theawakenedbreath.com/

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is the founder of Healing Tiger Reiki and a Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Sound Healing Practitioner, and Intuitive Energy Healer. Her personal healing journey inspired her to study Reiki, meditation, sound healing, and transformational practices that support people in discovering their inherent worth and a deeper sense of belonging. Using Reiki, tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and guided reflection, Linda creates authentic and transformative experiences that help people release what no longer serves them and connect with their inner wisdom, peace, freedom, and joy.

Her work is rooted in the understanding that true healing begins when we remember that we were born whole and that our worth has been within us from the very beginning. She is part of the crew that hosts Rest & Restore on the third Thursday of each month.

To contact Linda, email: linda@htreiki.com or VISIT htreiki.com

David Vega

David Vega is a Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, and Certified Breathwork Facilitator based in Portland, OR. He is driven to guide others on their own healing journey, helping them release the fears, beliefs, and patterns that keep them feeling stuck while empowering them to live with greater freedom, peace, and authenticity.

At the heart of David’s work is the belief that healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who we’ve always been beneath the layers of conditioning, fear, and protective patterns. He believes each person holds an innate capacity for healing, wholeness, and transformation within themselves, and his role is simply to help create the space for that inner wisdom to emerge.

David is also part of the crew that hosts Rest & Restore, a monthly gathering held on the third Thursday of each month.

To contact David, email: david@vegadelsoul.com or VISIT: www.vegadelsoul.com

Jogen Salzberg

Jogen Adam Salzberg is an awareness teacher and parts work facilitator with 30 years of meditation experience, including 16 years of intensive residential Zen training. His practice and teaching is inspired and informed by Chan/Zen Buddhism, Dzogchen, the Paratheatre medium of Antero Alli, parts work, Butoh and more. He also loves to play drum set, marvel at his cats, and search for/eat the best Pad Kee Mao he can find.

To contact Jogen, email: jogen.salzberg@gmail.com or VISIT: Solisluna.org