Hi, I’m Erica Jac.

I move bodies with my mouth. I’m a wordsmith, a thinker, a former stand-up comedian, and I eat California rolls like the world is ending. awkward chuckle

I’ve spent nearly two decades teaching 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 curating an experience that turns our shared life into something cinematic — part music video, part third-act montage in a 90’s rom-com.

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 in. Into what makes us human — our flaws, our desires, our secrets, our shame, our pleasure, our joy, and our grief.

That curiosity is what led to Room to Move.

Room to Move didn’t start as a philosophy. It started as a way to survive.

I lost my dad when I was 20, the night before I was set to teach my very first fitness class. Teaching movement became the place where I could metabolize something I didn’t yet have language for. Over time, it became how I’ve made sense of grief, identity, attachment, appetite, and the constant process of becoming.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to understand intensity — emotional, relational, physical. What it means to feel deeply without being consumed by it. What it means to tolerate discomfort, and to experience joy without bracing for what comes next.

That curiosity also led me to study eating psychology, deepening my understanding of how behavior, belief systems, and the body are constantly in conversation with each other. That inquiry shows up in every room I teach.

Because the body tells the truth. It reveals patterns to the exclusion of intellect. It reflects how we hold on, how we let go, and how we move through what’s in front of us.

I’ve taught thousands of classes and worked with thousands of students. I’ve built a reputation for creating rooms that are physically intelligent, emotionally resonant, and unpredictable in the best way — spaces where people can sweat, think, feel, and laugh at themselves in the middle of it all.

I care deeply about how people move, but I care even more about how they relate to how they move.

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, 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.