KAREN L. BOLESKY M.A., L.M.H.C., L.M.P. has been a psychotherapist, and licensed Mental Health Counselor since 1975 with a broad scope of psychological and somatic training. In 1986 she became a SOMA practitioner and instructor. She has owned the SOMA Institute since 1986.

She studied Gestalt therapy with the Polsters, grief therapy in death and dying with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., and drawing interpretation with Gregg M. Furth, Ph.D. Her B.A. is in Fine Art and she uses drawing interpretation as a tool to enhance personal development. She learned nutrition and business in Florida by owning health food stores. Her powerful work with her clients and students, tapping their personal creativity and the capacity to manifest their vision and wisdom, is aided by her own synthesis of the creative process and knowledge of somatic education. Karen authored a case study in the book,
The Indigo Children.

"I want the student to leave with a true and deep sense of their own self, to live the work they are providing, to have a powerful experiential and academic knowledge of SOMA to take forth as a creative act."

JESSE GUERRERO LMP, has been in private practice of Soma since 2002.   Jesse began his connection with Soma when he was eight years old and his Aunt Karen took over the Soma Training.  He overcame severe asthma and many sports injuries by receiving the Soma work.  He gained intrinsic knowledge and appreciation for his bodymind which he now gives to his students and clients.  Jesse shares his knowledge, wisdom and gentle spirit that honor his Apache background with the students and his clients.  He works with his wife Saša, teaching Soma Yoga, Somassage®, and somatic movement in USA and Europe.

“I want to leave the students with the ability to find themselves in the work, to realize their own gifts and creativity that they have to offer.  Time and time again I see students graduate from the Soma Institute with extremely strong manual skills and good touch.  I want to give them a sense of their own unique capabilities, so that they may truly master the art of Structural Integration.”

SYDNEY CULVER BA, LMP, graduated Soma in 2001.  Sydney brings over a decade of personal experience and dedicated study in the healing arts, including: yoga, dance, mediation, energy work, anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology.   Her BA is in Spiritual Psychology and Expressive arts.  Sydney honors the body as the primary instrument of practical and creative life expression.  The intent of her practice is to facilitate a greater capacity for creative expression, fulfillment and connection within each of her clients.    Her grasp of the connections between body, mind and spirit create a unique unfolding within the students of their ability to embody real life changes.