Hi, I’m Erica.

I’m a Movement teacher. I use poses, prose, and playlists to make you feel stuff, and I eat California rolls like the world is ending, because it might be…?

I’ve spent nearly two decades teaching thousands of students in group fitness spaces—hot, loud, fast-moving rooms where people come to sweat, feel, process, and reset. Over time, I’ve become less interested in teaching bicep curls and triangle pose, and more interested in creating rooms that are physically intelligent, emotionally resonant, and a little unpredictable—spaces people have described as a cross between a Bar Mitzvah, a TED Talk, a revival, a recovery meeting, and a Denny’s staff meeting…but in a good way.

A product of divorce, a millennial, and an only child who grew up on Lifetime movies and not-so-age-appropriate conversations with adults who forgot they were speaking to a child, curiosity has always been my way into what makes us human — our flaws, desires, secrets, shame, pleasure, joy, and our grief.

That curiosity is what led to Room to Move. But Room to Move didn’t start as a philosophy. It started as a way to survive.

I lost my dad suddenly at age 20, the night before I was set to teach my very first fitness class, thus teaching movement continues to be the place where I metabolize what I don’t yet have language for, the place I become reconciled to my story. It’s how I’ve made friends with grief, where I’ve learned to celebrate my appetite, and honor the constant process of becoming.

Room to Move is where all of this comes together — through classes, writing, conversation, and learning experiences like Becoming Movable, a two-day intensive designed to help you understand what you’re doing in your body and why it matters.

If you’re interested in building a more intelligent, playful, honest, and sustainable relationship with your body — and with the body of the world — you’re in the right place.

There’s plenty of room for you.

There’s plenty of room…to move.

xx

Erica Jac