Kira began her somatic journey dancing in SF with the Erika Shuch Project and in NYC with the Tiffany Mills Company. She pursued a MA in Women's Spirituality and a MFA in Creative Inquiry from The New College of California and a MS in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy from Pratt Institute. She is trained in Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, Massage Therapy, Trager Bodywork and Zero Balancing. She has studied and practiced Authentic Movement since 1996 and is most currently studying Sound Meditation Facilitation and Psychedelic Integration. She has worked with children and adolescents, cancer survivors, impatient psychiatric populations, as well as adults with treatment resistant depression, ptsd, auto-immune conditions, and eating disorders.

Kira sees private clients and guides journeys for individuals and groups at Somatic Arts Studio in Brooklyn as well as in workshops around the country.

My own moving and healing journey began over 3 decades ago in an Iyengar Yoga class when I was 18. Holding my arms out parallel to the ground for an extended warrior pose brought me to some kind of embarrassing ecstatic crying laughing release that began to unlock the damage of growing up in a culture that values what can be seen more than what can be felt. I had fully ingrained the belief that we should judge and control how our bodies look, rather than breathe into, enjoy, love and accept our bodies as the most direct way to access life force energy and express and communicate our true selves.

Since that first Warrior Pose I have devoted myself fully to movement, and pursued a study and a practice that has grown and evolved with me through all the loves and losses of living. I am filled with gratitude for all the teachers who have guided me and continue to guide me through the ongoing process of embodiment… aimed at and leaning towards enlightenment. (Why not die trying?)

I studied and danced professionally in SF with the Erika Shuch Project and in NYC with the Tiffany Mills Company. I completed a MA in Women's Spirituality and a MFA in Creative Inquiry at The New College of California and a MS in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt Institute. I am trained in Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, Massage Therapy, Trager Bodywork and Zero Balancing. I have studied and practiced Authentic Movement since 1996. I am most currently studying Sound Meditation Facilitation and Psychedelic Integration. I have worked with children and adolescents, cancer survivors, impatient psychiatric populations, as well as adults with treatment resistant depression, ptsd, auto-immune conditions, and eating disorders. I also have 2 mostly grown kids and owned and directed a family art center in Brooklyn NY from 2007 to 2023.

I currently see private clients and guide journeys for individuals and groups at my studio in Brooklyn as well as in workshops around the country.