Kia Kali

My work lives at the intersection of movement, mindfulness, and somatic inquiry — drawing from a wide range of practices and weaving them into new forms.

From an early age, theatre and dance gave me my first taste for the body as a place of creativity, expression, and homecoming. That curiosity never left. Over the years it led me through constant and diverse practices, like Actor Trainings, Contemporary, Ballet and Improvisation dance, Somatic Movement practices including Continuum Movement, Feldenkrais, Middendorf Breath Experience, Authentic Movement and Body-Mind Centering®, multiple forms of Yoga — Hatha, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Restorative, Yin, and Nidra — as well as Breathwork, Qigong, Pilates, Vipassana Meditation, Neurolinguistic Programming and Psychosomatic Ceremonies across cultures. Each shaped my understanding of the body and its intelligence.

I completed my first training as a movement teacher in 2009, studied body-oriented practices in my Bachelor at Dickinson College, and while completing my Masters I received my Somatic Yoga Teacher Certification from the Somatic Academy Berlin (2017). Since then, I have continued training while facilitating yoga/bodymind practices for individuals of diverse backgrounds, ages, and experience levels.

Alongside my regular classes and further management work, I collaborate with my partner to design special experiences for corporate events, festivals, private celebrations and conferences —more about that here— and I maintain a personal multimedia artistic practice that explores body-mind states, drawing from and feeding back into my movement work —more about that here. 

All of it — the teaching, the events, the art — grows from the same root: a lifelong devotion to embodied practices that enrich human wellbeing from the inside out.