Kira Charles, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, has been practicing the Feldenkrais Method® for over 20 years. She has completed Master Practitioner training with Mia Segal, Dr. Feldenkrais’s first assistant. She has also studied with Dr. Chava Shelhav and is a graduate of Dr. Shelhav’s Child’Space® Method Training.

Kira Charles during Feldenkrais session

Kira has been a staff practitioner at both professional Feldenkrais trainings and Child’Space trainings and an adjunct faculty member of the New York University Continuing Education Department. She was an organizer of the New York Feldenkrais® Clinic where she mentored recently graduated practitioners working with low-income clients.

At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she participated in research to design effective therapeutic strategies to facilitate recovery of hand motor control in people with stroke. She taught for the New York City Department of Parks for over ten years and currently teaches at the West End Health Club. She has developed seminars on more comfortable public speaking as well as special movement programs for trauma survivors. and people suffering from TMJ. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan and is on staff at Child’Space NYC.