RAISA PUNKKI
MA, SEP, CPT, RYT-500
Teacher, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner,
Dance artist and producer
Founder of punkkiCo and IdaFlow LLC.
Business partner at Peak Performance Pilates SF
Raisa Punkki is a San Francisco based movement educator, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) and dance artist who was born and raised in Finland. While living in Europe she worked and studied to learn several genres of dance and movement practices including classical ballet, contemporary dance, Butoh, jazz, boxing, Yoga and Pilates, so she could better understand the moving body.
In Europe she worked at various universities, theaters and dance companies. After moving to San Francisco in 2003, she began studying Pilates under guidance of late Jennifer Stacey, MS, with whom she became a business partner in 2005. That same year she founded the punkkiCo dance company.
After decades of teaching and helping people with various conditions she felt a need to be able to even better assist her students and clients when they go through traumatic events in their life. She began studies at Somatic Experiencing®, a body based trauma release method. After she graduated from the three year certification program, she continued her studies under founder Peter Levine, PhD and SE® touch skills specialist Kathy L. Kain, PhD. Raisa is applying her skills in nervous system regulation to her teaching.
Raisa Punkki is also a Yoga teacher, RYT-500. She is trained though Integral Yoga Institute in Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and Stress Management. Currently she is studying in Advanced Yoga teacher training. Raisa teaches private Yoga sessions online, at her studio in downtown San Francisco and group classes at Integral Yoga Institute SF.
Raisa Punkki constantly tries to broaden her range of experiences so she can better help, find and capture significant moments in life. Collaboration is a key element for her when she teaches, guides her clients in exploration of life or making art. For her, the strongest form of connection is the nonverbal communication that happens beyond words.
For Somatic Experiencing® and movement sessions in-person and online contact Raisa at idaflowllc@gmail.com