Somatics

"As we grow,our bodies and our lives should continue to improve, right up until the very end." (Thomas Hanna)

       Building on the foundation laid by 
Moshe Feldenkrais, Thomas Hanna's groundbreaking work completely redefines the body's potential for withstanding decline.

      His gentle program for the mind and body proves once and for all that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time-chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatique and at times, even high blood pressure-need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, "Replacing Sensory-Motor Amnesia with Sensory-Motor Awareness. 

      What is Sensory-Motor Amnesia?

   The Sensory-Motor Amnesia system is a mechanism fundamental to all human experience and behavior.  Sensory-Motor Amnesia is the unfortunate result of specific adaptations made by the central nervous system in response to what happens to us during our lifetimes.  Be it illness, injury, stress or habitual patterns, these all affect the entire somatic system and its roots are in the center of the human body. Imbalance in the sensory-motor system creates imbalance throughout the entire body.  What we once did, we can no longer do and what we once sensed, we know longer sense, that is the motor control and sensory awareness of Sensory-Motor Amnesia.

    This imbalance can be changed!  What has become a learned response, can be unlearned and reversed through a Somatic process of remembering, of what has been forgotton. 

   Somatic movements are designed to effectively reprogram the sensory-motor system by opening the doors of perception to your own unconscious habits and patterns.

     The good news of Somatic Exercise is that most people simply do not have to become captives of age or injury. Once learned, this lifelong program can help almost anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a fifteen-minute routine once a day.

    For information on classes and bodywork, please go to the contact page.