This course is designed for practitioners looking to enhance the Somatic dimension of their work with clients.

Somatics is a mindful technique, which facilitates greater mind-body integration, ease of movement and freedom in the body.  This Somatic Education Unit introduces the somatic self, some somatic theory and exercises for assessing and somatically changing bodies so that they are free of the destructive effects of over contracted muscles and negative movement patterns.

Chronic muscle contraction patterns created by past experiences are unconsciously retained.  Thomas Hanna named this tendency sensory-motor amnesia (SMA).  Somatics enables the individual to use the brain to overcome SMA and the negative effects of stress, trauma and aging.  It empowers us to hear more clearly the wisdom of our bodies.

This Somatic Education short course explores the neuromuscular responses to emotional states and the knowledge and joy that emerge from the body’s renewed awareness of itself.