Jessica Turken brings over 18 years of experience integrating a range of bodywork and somatic techniques in a unique approach that relieves stress, unwinds tension, and promotes deep relaxation, self awareness and healing.
Jessica began dance training at the age of eight and became a professional ballet and modern dancer working with various companies and groups around the country. She then began to teach Pilates, Gyrotonics and yoga after using those approaches to help heal chronic injuries sustained from her dance career and also trained with Carol Thaler in Richard Heckler's Lomi Bodywork, another integrative approach incorporating Deep Tissue, energy balancing, and breathwork. She later became a certified Trager practitioner and has also been trained in Ohashiatsu, Acupressure, Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, DreamBody Process Work, and has a liberal arts degree centered in Somatic Education and Dance Therapy from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
While living in New York City, Jessica worked primarily with professional artists of all kinds and created Emotional Process Work for Actors while on the faculty of the Caymichael Patten School. She then moved to the Bay Area after meeting her life partner Deane Juhan and together they created a series of transformational workshops called Balancing Self and Society: Joining the Healer and the Artist Within which they taught in the US and Europe.
Jessica now sustains a private practice in the Bay Area and immensely enjoys being on the YogaKula faculty working individually with all ages and backgrounds.
