What is Somatics?
Somatics is a mind body approach to improve our health and well-being naturally.
How you move your entire self, not just your parts is why this is a very different approach.
The practice of Somatics…
• decreases muscle stiffness instantly
• reduces pain using a natural and little known brain process
• lessens stress and tension the way our fellow animals release themselves
• and integrates how we move our entire body easily and surprisingly with little effort
There are many therapies which use the term Somatics.
Thomas Hanna, author of Somatics: 
What he created is Hanna Somatic Education as a means to greater self care with an understanding of how we can improve ourself through simple, natural movement patterns which occur throughout our body.
Through the use of unusually, easy, gentle, somatics exercises that stimulate the brain to change the output to the muscles.
Tight, restrictive muscles simply let go.
The brain can be targeted so it will change how the muscles have a hold on us.
Somatics allows us to easily have…
• More mobility
• Natural balance
• Pain free use of the muscles
So you can do freely what you want once again in your body.
Our brain’s sensory and motor cortex are developed to improve function resulting in higher integration of our body’s ability to move comfortably and functionally.
Rather than the traditional approach of exercise and stretching, somatics, reveals an entirely new approach which most physical educators aren’t aware of and are just learning.
Looking at the body to treat it with medication or surgery for pain is one viewpoint. Your physician, strength trainer or physical therapist looks at movement from a variety of viewpoints.
The way your body is looked at is based on what area you complain about or what area of your body is hurting.
This specialized way of looking at your body in terms of being tight, or weak and having pain is regarded by each professional in the various ways of looking at your anatomy from their perspective viewpoint.
Somatics, a missing element.
The missing element in all these viewpoints is simply how fundamental movement isn’t brought into the dialogue and equation of solving pain, stiffness, and our lost ability to move as we care to without negative repercussions.
Natural movement patterns exist. It’s possible to separate a movement dysfunction from say our fitness and physical performance.
Somatics is easy instead of being hard and arduous.
Being aggressive with our physical training can’t change our mobility without addressing compensations. These compensations add the possibility of increased chances of injury… as well as not solving the confinement of the binds we find our self in.
For instance, stretching, is outdated as we’ve known it. It causes muscles to re-tighten.
Instead of isolated body segments and range of motion, whole natural movement patterns are the key issue with somatics.
When you move, you move with your whole self, not in parts or segments and in particular ranges or degrees of movement as it traditionally measured.
You are a living being and moving your self around. Your entire movement is what is at stake.
Even though you can be measured for flexibility. Your strength can be normal. You can look normal, but our natural movement patterns may compensate or be inefficient or deficient which can lead to a risk of injury or hamper us in our efforts find a way out of our issues.
When you move as a whole being, your movement can be more or less than sum of your individual parts. Our entire movement competency is the starting point at what needs to be addressed.
Exercise is important but we first have to move well.
Somatics addresses how well we can move.
After we move well, then we can move efficiently to support our unique structure and its functions.
To increase our function, our brain can make the necessary changes to the muscles through a learning process via easy somatics exercises.
We change our awareness in our entire body so we can feel how our muscles coordinate their actions to serve us in a more refined manner.
Working with the brain and in this case I am talking about Somatics Exercises which are akin to brain exercise.
Rather than exercise as we know it, somatics is a way to change our muscles with the brain being the big muscle to do the job.
Exercising our brain allows us to further connections between our mind and body. How we move as a whole integrated living being… Reestablishing the connection provides us with vibrancy and effortless ease in using our self to accomplish whatever we want with our body.
Somatics helps us with the set-up to movement, so we can move more comfortably for longer periods of time.
For a deeper look into the clinical approach to somatics.
