Meet Our Teachers

Rosa Storer

Teaches Body Language on Mondays at 5:45pm

My love for dance started as a child and I have been dancing most of my life. Dance and movement has changed my life and empowers me to embody who I am physically, emotionally and spiritually. Music and movement allows me to release negativity from my life and in turn supports the positive emotions, thoughts and feelings I experience. Dance opens my heart and teaches me how to move with love through self care. I find joy sharing my passion with others.

Quincy Brimstein

Teaches Herbal First Aid, Sundays at noon

Quincy is a community herbalist based in Bowdoinham. Growing up exploring the woods and wild plants of coastal Maine brought forth the urge to learn more about what plants have to teach us.  As an herbalist, Quincy believes in the virtues of sharing trusted herbal knowledge with anyone who is curious to learn. Her practice is deeply rooted in connecting to the Land and honoring her ancestral cultural healing traditions. Quincy has experience mentoring adolescents and leading workshops in printmaking and herbal medicine making. She is currently pursuing Clinical Herbal Apprenticeship though the Earthwalk School of Herbal Traditions and is cultivating a local practice to provide one-on-one consultations.  She enjoys formulating herbal products for the mind, body, and spirit via her small business, Northern Muse Apothecary. When she isn't studying and mixing herbal potions, she can be found outside sketching and seeking out secret swim spots. When not in the studio, Robin can be found laughing at her own jokes, dancing, camping, canoeing in all parts of Maine, and scheming about the next adventure.

Lillian Wynne Dougher

Teaches Nourish & Restore + Sound Healing monthly

Lillian is a long time yoga teacher with extensive hours of training; she has, in fact, directed many teacher trainings, workshops, and owned multiple yoga studios. She is a continuous student and lover of the inner inquiry through yoga. In her yoga class she will deliver a wholehearted, creative practice. Her classes are inspired by Hatha, Vinyasa, therapeutic Iyengar, Ashtanga and Katonah Yoga. She artfully crafts each teaching experience with intention and intelligence, providing a cohesive structure for an eye-opening, transformative journey. Present moment awareness is at the heart of each class. 

Lillian is a Registered Nurse and mom. Most days you’ll find her outside on their farm in Pownal: Exploring, chasing after her two wildlings, chickens, geese, while gardening and trying to juggle many things at once, finding the joy and excitement in it all.

Anne Esguerra (she/siya/niya)

Teaches Body Language every Sunday morning at 11am 

Anne Esguerra (she/siya/niya) is a first generation Filipino American, who’s relationship to identity has always been rooted in the culture of her family. As a c-IAYT yoga therapist and lifelong student of art, music and dance, she has observed the threads of humanity that link us together.

Victoria Karol (she/they)

Teaches monthly: Immersive Guided Meditation with Creative Workshop

Victoria Karol is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine, with a studio residence at Avalon in Westbrook. Her primary disciplines include analog and digital illustration, sculpture and fiber arts including crochet, sewing, weaving and macrame. A first-generation American, Victoria practices the Slavic practical magicks of her matrilineal lineage and takes a special interest in folklore, fairy tales, nature, alchemy and human archetypes in her artwork. Victoria believes that everyone is an artist and that all things in life are practice. Questions or comments can be sent to victoria.karol@gmail.com, and you can follow Victoria’s work on instagram at @hottrashportland    

Eli Arlen (she/her)

Facilitates somatics classes & workshops

Eli is a personal empowerment and embodiment guide certified in Somatic Healing and Unshaming Process Work Facilitation. Through her practice, Opening To Self, Eli offers virtual & in-person sessions and group classes in Southern Mid-Coast Maine. She uses sound, movement, role play, art therapy, guided imagery and other somatic techniques to help individuals tap into the wisdom stored within. By guiding others to uncover aspects that have been hidden by shame and trauma, this work allows people to thrive from a place of true embodiment and authenticity.

Liz Kovarsky (she/her)

Teaches Yoga for Connection, Community Yoga, Body Language, Barre & Beats, and Figure Drawing

I am an artist, teacher, auntie, dancer, social worker, and lover of dogs, hot tubs and snacks especially. I'm committed to practicing embodied expression, playfulness and joy in all my classes and beyond. I have had the privilege of getting trained as a kid’s art teacher, in multimedia art-making, in vinyasa yoga, trauma-informed yoga, yoga for addiction, restorative yoga, various wisdom traditions exploring mindfulness and meditation, expressive-arts therapy, social work, restorative justice practices, harm reduction, facilitation work, and trauma therapy. 

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We must acknowledge that the wellness industrial complex was created via racial capitalism, and hold each other lovingly accountable as we work to decolonize this community wellness space.

While I'm the owner at Electric Cottage Collective, everyone who steps through the doors is part of shaping the culture here. We all have something to contribute, so bring it! Also know that if the cost of class is a barrier to you, we sometimes have work-trade options and a fluctuating scholarship fund, so please reach out. 

Amy Mulligan

Teaches Body Language on Saturdays at 10:30am!

These days, I dance every chance I get! On almost every day of the week, you can find me with a big ol’ smile on my face dancing either Raqs Sharqi - aka belly dance - at Bright Star Studio, ecstatic dance with Portland Community Dance and others, line dance with the Merrymeeting Dance Alinement, DanceAbility format with Spark Dance Program, or most recently, Body Language at the Electric Cottage. I love it all! I love a free -form improvisational format as much as I love a fun choreo and the magic of syncing up with a group. I love that dance, in all its forms, fosters community and connection. I love that dance and movement benefit all, no matter your experience or ability.

Let’s listen to some joyful music, discover what movements feel good in our bodies, connect with each other, express ourselves through movement, have FUN, laugh it up, and werk it out!

Meghan Collier (she/her)

Teaches Yoga for Grief, Thursdays at 5:45pm 

Meghan is a Yogini, Yoga Therapist, Reiki Master, and Psychotherapist located in Brunswick, ME. She completed her 200hr yoga teacher training with Yoga Muse School of Yoga, her 300hr yoga teacher training with Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and her Reiki III with Anne Donnell. Meghan is a 900hr Yoga Therapist (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) and is fully certified with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (c-IAYT). Meghan completed her training under Wendy Black Stern and the Center for Somatic Grieving and is a 200hr Mindful Grieving Yoga Therapist. Meghan is also a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in perinatal mental health, grief/loss, and trauma, who graduated with her Masters in Social Work and a Certificate in Applied Arts and Social Justice from the University of New England.

Vanessa Bresson (she/her)

Facilitates monthly Sound Baths and monthly Reiki sessions

Vanessa Bresson is a Reiki attuned, IASH certified Sound Practitioner located in Freeport Maine utilizing and blending Sonic Embodiment Experience by way of vocal toning/singing, Tibetan Bowl Sound Massage, ringing and singing Crystal bowls and more. Vanessa blends sounds, vibration and notes intuitively on the road to invoke others innate ability to heal themselves. She moves through her creative practice partnering with beloved yoga teachers to bring nervous-system restoring sessions in class and 1:1 bespoke sessions.

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Vanessa’s path to supporting others is irrevocably intertwined with her own healing journey with music which began as a young child. The sound of her own voice became her constant comrade through thick and thin to bring her a balm for a tough world. She furthered upon exploration of her own self-healing in the early 2000s at a small Liberal Arts college in Vermont. Beginning in the curiosity of discomfort by way of her first yoga pose, these roots of exploration in spending time with herself in different ways of being and of thought grew into the building blocks of a new way of existing. She feels that we are to one another antidote and medicine and that small, loving acts of care can catalyze into new ways of loving ourselves and the world.

Robin Berntsen (she/her)

Teaches Community Yoga on Thursdays at 7:30am

Robin’s classes welcome you to come just as you are. Her classes are created with the idea that by practicing curiosity, and compassion, we can find space, ease, and  better understanding within ourselves. She intends to guide classes with tools we inherently have within us, in hopes to be able to better respond to our day to day, in an overstimulating and grind-driven world. She completed her yoga teacher training at The Breathing Room in 2019 with the intention to deepen her practice, and to hopefully one day share the joy and revelation that can come from the deep and multi-faceted practice that is yoga. Since then, she’s found herself fascinated learning about trauma and how it affects the body and nervous system. She’s gone on to learn more in her own studies including a certification of Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies, and has found herself wanting to share simple tools of movement and breath with her community to help foster the feeling of safety in our bodies, which is inherently our natural right.